https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/15/the-bad-astronomer-phil-plait/ Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:05:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/15/the-bad-astronomer-phil-plait/#comment-538091 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:05:05 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/15/the-bad-astronomer-phil-plait/#comment-538091 have read a heck of a lot of science since 1962 (was 13), so am entitled to vent my rage.. in favor of science and against censoreship or anti-science. As in Carl Sagan counting out 90% of USA citizens as anti-science. Of course have written sci-fi; am a generalist, but mostly astronomy.
Hoping that Venus Express will debunk … Carl Sagan! Cause no proof has been good for the super-greenhouse since 1978, when Pioneer witnessed lots of sulfur (volcanoes).
Deuterium (HDO) is 120 timmes too prevalent; temperature 350 C higher than Mercury AVERAGE heat; 167 super-volcanoes but how many are active? Moreover, continuous lightning can explain Venus’ slight glow (Patrick Moore)? and whole-atmosphere circum-navigation in 4 days is 60 times swifter than ultra-slow rotation of -243 days. Reduction in atmosphere, hydrogen escapes, radioactive Argon, nothing goes towards Sagan’s theory. All in favor of mine: titanic impact, so powerful it still makes the massive atmosph crazy with ‘ergs’ — a 2000 mile wide moon is only force that can modify rotation of Venus, while it almost totally breaks up the crust. Under that crust is a fantastic amount of GAS. Only way to have a hundred bars of ‘air’.
The great proof of my catastrophe? Venus producing 10 to 15% energy more than it receives from Sun. Or heat decreasin a bit – like 5 degrees a century. Pettit-Nicholson bolometrics can help us, since 1922, to ascertain heat imbalance, maybe. And pardon my English, it’s my second language. Only 99% bilingual. But am sure of my ‘statictics’ and know all the fuss with Sagan, Rasool-de-Berg, Velikovsky, Hoyle and Drake among others. Thanks for lending an ear. Am 60 but lover of all science. Oh! & the real proof on Moon walking: The hated Soviets sent 3 robots (1970-1976) that brought back a pound or so of regolith, glass beads and cinders. The same darned thing all the Apollos came back with. No big rocks of course… P.M.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/15/the-bad-astronomer-phil-plait/#comment-538090 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:39:33 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/15/the-bad-astronomer-phil-plait/#comment-538090 I’m usually the first caller into the show each episode, I challenge any listeners to beat me to the phones.

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