aldo - Slashdot User

Comment Re:i call bullshit (Score 1) 193

by aldo on Sunday June 03, 2007 @06:06AM (#19369653) Attached to: Wreck of Australian Warship HMAS Sydney Found?

What is it with Slashdot and pseudo-scientific stories lately? I know Slashdot editors can't spell, I know they can't keep track of how many times they post a story, but I surely hoped they'd have the basic scientific literacy needed to spot this as purest bullshit....

Astronomers Again Baffled by Solar Observations 299

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday May 05, 2007 @05:28AM from the back-to-the-drawing-board dept.

SteakNShake writes "Once again professional astronomers are struggling to understand observations of the sun. ScienceDaily reports that a team from Saint Andrew's University announced that the sun's magnetic fields dominate the behavior of the corona via a mechanism dubbed the 'solar skeleton.' Computer models continue to be built to mimic the observed behavior of the sun in terms of magnetic fields but apparently the ball is still being dropped; no mention in the announcement is made of the electric fields that must be the cause of the observed magnetic fields. Also conspicuously absent from the press releases is the conclusion that the sun's corona is so-dominated by electric and magnetic fields because it is a plasma. In light of past and present research revealing the electrical nature of the universe, this kind of crippling ignorance among professional astrophysicists is astonishing."

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