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Tag Archives: DA14
Interstellar Comet Borisov
Most comets orbit round the Sun, so the arrival of an interstellar comet, C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) is a highly unusual event A new interstellar object has been discovered passing through the solar system. Discovered by Ukrainian amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov … Continue reading
A Bit of a Close Shave
A comment yesterday by RdM drawing attention to asteroid 2019 OK which passed 70,000 km (less than twice the distance of geostationary satellites) from the Earth last week jolted me sufficiently to get me to try to re-activate the orbital … Continue reading
High Speed Supernova Ejecta
ZeroHedge: Unlike “international terrorism” or “man-made global warming” which are purely human-made concoctions driven by political agendas, the threat of asteroid collisions with the earth is very real, and provides a very serious basis for international cooperation on the common aims … Continue reading
A Theory of Snow Ages
I must be perverse. I always seem to end up thinking what nobody – or hardly anybody – else thinks. For example, when a fireball exploded over Chelyabinsk on 15 February 2013, on the same day that asteroid 2012 DA14 … Continue reading
Certainty
A couple of days ago I was referring to my copy of Smoking: The Cancer Controversy by Sir Ronald Fisher, published in 1959. The book opens with a letter he had written in 1957, which begins: Your annotation on “Dangers … Continue reading
16: 16: 16: 16
Lots of perceptive comments in response to yesterday’s proposed Esthwaite Experiment to determine the curvature (or lack of it) of the surface of the the Earth. I think that the experiment is good in principle, but needs some more careful … Continue reading
Lone Gunmen
There seem to be, very broadly, three accounts of the Las Vegas shooting emerging. In the first one, favoured by the mainstream media, it was all the work of a lone gunman, Stephen Paddock. In the second one, favoured by … Continue reading
One Way To Count Las Vegas Gunmen
Continuing with Las Vegas, there is – in principle at least – one way to determine whether there were multiple gunmen involved. It is that much of the shooting consists of prolonged bursts of gunfire. And each of these bursts … Continue reading
Redefining the meaning of “Epidemic”
One of the odd characteristics of our times seems to be that, rather like in Alice In Wonderland, words increasingly mean whatever people want them to mean. So now “gay” means “homosexual”, and “liberal” means more or less the opposite … Continue reading
Celebrity Smokers Will Be Targeted
Hat tip to Vlad for this Daily Mail article: Picking up another habit, Jeremy? Clarkson, 57, is demolishing ten packets of nicotine chewing gum per DAY as he battles to quit his 43-year smoking addiction. The TV presenter announced he … Continue reading
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