Mike Meynell
Mike Meynell
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RE: Trip to the University of London Observatory

As it’s 11 million light years away, he said it is probably the most distant individual star we will ever see I did wonder about this... the thing is...

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RE: Rosetta - Philae landing on Comet 67P

Philae is alive!!!! Really wasn't expecting this - 40 more seconds of data so far, apparently. Amazing stuff.

7 years ago
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RE: AR12345 Inverted

Inverted is definitely better. It gives a more 3-dimensional quality to the image that you don't get with the "normal" image.

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RE: AR12345 Inverted

Extraordinary levels of detail in this image... the inversion works really well to highlight the spicules and other surface features. Great stuff.

7 years ago
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RE: The Red Planet by Professor Carolin Crawford - 8/6/15

No, that's incorrect... you need to book for this lecture. You should have received an email from us on 20th May detailing the process... but please ...

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RE: The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia, data and graphs

The older it gets its mass becomes approx. 0.75 solMass! I’m calling it Bills’ Law. Hmmmm... Not wishing to rain on your parade, but... The host st...

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RE: Galaxies die by stangulation

Yes, interesting stuff... though it would have been much bigger news had the opposite case been proven. Have to say, had I not read the article, I wo...

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RE: Flamsteed Debate

But back then – 25, 30 years ago, or 100 years ago, or 300 years ago before we discovered Uranus – was there any evidence pointing towards the existen...

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RE: Flamsteed Debate

But we can do it in other ways, i.e. by starting from a degree of belief that we either increase or decrease depending on the new information (includi...

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RE: Flamsteed Debate

...Bayesian probabilistic theory... Great stuff. This is more like it. I'm amused (again) though to find that Thomas Bayes was a Presbyterian minist...

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RE: Flamsteed Debate

All I am saying is – if it’s something that can be put through a scientific process – whether or not we have the technology this year or this millenni...

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