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Why Milankovitch Cycle Theory Is Like Astrology

June 22, 2018

Sometimes a hunch proves to be unworkable. The Milankovitch Cycle theory has too many complications. It’s time to give it up. In the 1920s, Milutin Milankovitch, a Serbian astronomer, mathematician and popularizer of science, had a bright idea. Knowing that certain orbital cycles drift over time, he wondered if they could influence the earth’s climate. […]

Origin of Life

OOL Cells Are DOA

June 21, 2018

NASA throws money at origin-of-life (OOL) studies that are doomed to failure, and at education programs to tell students that futility is good science.

Physics

Van Allen Belts Protect Earth from Solar Wind

June 11, 2018

Geophysicists are still puzzling over how the earth's magnetic field and Van Allen radiation belts protect the surface from deadly particles in the solar wind.

SETI

What Is It About Space Aliens that Makes Evolutionists Go Nuts?

June 10, 2018

Week after week, month after month, year after year, evolutionists speculate about imaginary friends they have never seen.

Origin of Life

NASA Titillates Public Again with Fake Mars Life

June 9, 2018

Which is worse: NASA making hyper-exaggerated claims about life on Mars over the decades, or so many media reporters falling for it each time?

Solar System

What’s Pluto Been Dune? Making Young Sand Dunes

June 4, 2018

Sand dunes were surprising enough on Titan, but et tu, Pluto? and young, recent dunes? Scientists couldn't believe their eyes.

Physics

Dark Matter Hunt Comes Up Empty Again

June 1, 2018

Physicists face a philosophical quandary. Something they deeply wish to believe in does not appear to exist.

Solar System

Earth Is a Safe Haven

May 23, 2018

Recent news articles show how mechanisms protect earth's inhabitants from a hail of bullets overhead.

Cosmology

Far-Out Cosmic Ideas Taught as Science

May 21, 2018

Secular cosmology is where the words cosmic and comic become interchangeable.

Solar System

Europa May Be Another Geyser Moon

May 15, 2018

A re-assessment of data from the Galileo spacecraft appears to confirm suspected eruptions from the surface of Europa, Jupiter's icy moon.

SETI

NASA Resurrects SETI

May 11, 2018

SETI has had no success since the 1950s. It lost government funding in 1993. It still has had no success. Why is the government throwing tax dollars at it again?

Astronomy

Star Formation Theories Fail to Shine

May 10, 2018

Big things are wrong in astrophysics, say several news articles.

Solar System

Mars Is Not a “Life-Friendly” Star Wars Planet

May 5, 2018

The new Mars InSight lander that launched this morning will be digging for geology, not life. Most likely, as before, it will find lifeless dirt and rock.

Solar System

After Cassini, Titan Still a Problem for Long Ages

May 3, 2018

The scientist who predicted a global ocean on Titan 35 years ago is still baffled over why Cassini did not find it.

Solar System

Did Earth Get Its Water from Meteor Squirt Guns?

April 28, 2018

You can't just fire bullets at pumice and claim that Earth got its oceans that way.

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