LDS Cautions Against Lunar-Based Eschatology

[Formaldehyde]

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A cheap lens will do that. To increase resolution, a lens has to disperse the light, like a prism, and then you need another lens to bundle the light again to get a sharp picture. And for a lens to do that, it is going to cost ya, because we still lack cheap methods to do so, since the cheap methods lack precision and the surface of the lens needs to be just perfect for a clear picture.

I had a cheapo reflector telescope made out of cardboard and plastic when I was a kid, but the main mirror was the real deal that was perhaps 2.5" in diameter and over 1/2" thick at the edges. I set it up to look at a full moon one night that attracted a bunch of neighbors. They kept looking inside to find the photo they thought they must be looking at instead of the real moon!

I also missed the lunar eclipse due to cloud cover...

 

[El_Machinae]

He's light-years ahead of the airhead they've got doing articles on the eclipses and now this Mars thing. She's very fond of the word "earthlings" and has numerous inaccuracies, typos, grammatical errors...

And no, I'm not being picky. Quite a few other people commenting there are also complaining.

Yeah, Bob Macdonald is good. He's probably my goto when I'm recommending how one helps explain a science story for the interested (but lay) person.

Heck, it's only in my field where I don't benefit from his stories. Even in the fields I attend out of lay interest, he's of benefit.

 

[BvBPL]

To be fair 25% of Americans don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun. With that in mind you've got to expect to find large enough groups of people in America with all sorts out incorrect and silly beliefs, especially when it has to do with the moon, sun, or other parts of the solar system.

Heck, do you know how many people in North America think that astrology actually works? Or that the earth is 6000 years old?

People are stupid. You'll find them everywhere, not only in America. And I have no idea how many Europeans don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun, and I'm sure it's not 25%, but even if it's 5% - that's a lot of friggin uneducated people walking around believing stupid stuff like this.

So what you are saying is that Americans know how stupid we are, but Europeans don't know how stupid they are.

Pretty clear to me who the bigger fools are.



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[gay_Aleks]

To be fair, we spend a good chunk of our history shooting at each other, so I'm not sure how we can blame the Americans not knowing science or something.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Or some Canadians. This writer (I hesitate now to call her a journalist, given how sloppy a job she does) mentioned the "Goldilocks zone" in her article about Mars, figured nobody would understand what that meant unless she explained the plot of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", and she even got that wrong.