SPACE: No Bologna or Baloney

Posted by Maggie on August 6, 2022 in General News

The first entry to this weekend’s SPACE post has earned the ^^above^^ ultimate *facepalm* for the crafty and clever timely joke played on his scientific peers and his social media followers. I chuckled. It’s a hilarious prank and it proves it’s still ok to have a sense of humor in the face of the humorless #WOKE era…

USAToday: Scientist’s tweet shot of ‘distant star’ is actually slice of chorizo

A noted French scientist has apologized after tweeting a photo of a slice of chorizo claiming it was a deep-space image of a “distant star” snapped by the James Webb Space Telescope.
Étienne Klein, a physicist and research director at France’s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, shared the spicy Spanish sausage shot on social media last week, applauding the “level of detail” it provided.
“Picture of Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun, located 4.2 light years away from us. It was taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. This level of detail… A new world is unveiled everyday,” he posted on Twitter Sunday – to his more than 91,000 followers…
“I feel compelled to clarify that this tweet showing an alleged snapshot of Proxima Centauri was a form of amusement. Let us learn to be wary of arguments from authority as much as of the spontaneous eloquence of certain images,” he wrote as translated by Google…

Agreed, and that includes “THE SCIENCE” we’ve been force-fed for over two years regarding COVID and now the foolish PC handling of Monkeypox. And don’t get me started on the even more NON-argument from “authority” of “climate change”.

EL PAÍS: James Webb telescope reveals spectacular image of Cartwheel Galaxy

Ed Browne: Huge Sunspot Region Facing Earth Develops ‘Beta-Gamma’ Magnetic Field

Eva Botkin-Kowacki: How worried should we be about solar flares and space weather? NASA’s heliophysics experts explain how space weather forecasting works, and why geomagnetic storms seem to be more disruptive than ever.

Katherine Hignett: Incredible moment two neutron stars collide captured in world-first video

VIDEO: Russia’s Space Agency head threatened to abandon U.S. astronaut Mark Vande Hei in space … Time to cut any/all ties with Russia’s Space Agency. I knew back when’ we discontinued our NASA Shuttle program and signed on and paid Russia’s missions to ISS it would not be long before the Russians started this crap.

VIDEO: Former NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine reveals new technology and exploration being developed on the International Space Station and reacts to stunning images of galaxies 13 billion lightyears away.