Comment Mod parent up! (Score 0) 256
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Interesting that you bring that up. Of all the potentially credible sources whom the author could have picked, why did he select a "professor" from the University of Phoenix? How about Rutgers? Harvard? UC Berkeley? SURELY the author (writing for The Seattle Times: Winner of Eight Pulitzer Prizes as displayed prominently at the headline of the article) could have found a professor at a real, not-for-profit university who would put in his two or three cents. Or even someone from a reputable community college. But a bona fide diploma mill? And before anyone tries to nab me on the guy being an "agent for NASA," who went undercover, I want to see some facts because he more than likely was not employed by NASA. Something really doesn't add up here.
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Old man, maybe you're the only one here who's been around enough to run across this?
There was a manual written long ago on how to pull off hit success.
The astronomers are the indirect object, putting the 'comprised of' descriptor onto the direct object, which is the Nebula.
Umm, excuse me. ESO astronomers is NOT an indirect object. ESO astronomers is the subject of have been which is a linking verb. Just so that you know, linking verbs don't have DOs or IDOs. They have predicate nominatives and predicate adjectives. Comprised of silica and alumina dust is a phrase that is used adjectivally and is intended to modify nebula. However, since the phrase was placed in the front of the sentence, at best, it is dangling. As the phrase is placed now, it modifies astronomers. Whoever modded up the parent needs to go back to grade school.
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