Posted on 12/01/2014 6:50:42 AM PST by Heartlander
Single star systems comprise an estimated one quarter of the star systems in the Milky Wa Galaxy, while the other three quarters of the star systems are comprised of two or more stars. So our Sun is fairly commonplace, except that most of our galaxy’s stars are the smaller Class M red stars rather than the larger yellow star we have.
Bill Nye is rather unremarkable himself, so he should know unremarkable when he sees it.
The problem here is that Bill Nye is a member of the more recent phenomenon of leftist “Pop Scientists” who have a very powerful effect on the youth. Go over to Reddit or Imgur and read all of the “science” posts by young people purporting to be justified in their positions because the likes of Bill Nye and Neil de Grasse Tyson said so.
Sociocultural scientists like Nye are doing nothing but making the dumb dumber and infuriating those who are actually studying the sciences. I don’t have a degree in meteorology or astrophysics, but I can tell you that global “warming” is a bunch of bunk and global “climate change” has been happening since this planet spun into existence. The fact that Tyson and Nye support these pseudo-scientific theories tells me enough about them to discount them as credible in anything relating to sciences except maybe as high school science teachers.
Remarkable in the sense that it created a stable environment for life — not too big, and not too small, at the right age, etc. And our solar system with Jupiter, our moon, and the Milky Way galaxy, etc.
Interesting article. I would want to know what percent of star systems in the MW are single star G size.
As far as I can tell, an excellent and accurate article.
1. The amount of hydrogen contained within. Beyond massive. Beyond comprehensible for that matter. And this star is only one of multi-billions. And there is enough for the process to continue for billions of years.
2. A photon generated by the act of fusion takes almost a million years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface. Just...damn.
You’re a science-denier if you don’t believe Bill Nye.
Pretty large exception there.
“Pretty large exception there.”
The Sun is one of the G Type Main Sequence stars which make up about 7.6 percent of the star population in the Milky Way Galaxy.
““Pop Scientists” who have a very powerful effect on the youth. Go over to Reddit or Imgur and read all of the “science” posts by young people purporting to be justified in their positions ...”
There are some here who have been watching the History and Discovery Channels too long; the seem to have the exact same positions on history as those young people on science.
Popular Science actually devoted a cover to this twit saying he was on a mission to “save science”. Not read that magazine since. Like save it from what?
Makes me really miss Mr. Wizard, and Jack Horkheimer.
> Like save it from what?
From people like you and me who do are not supplicants to the goddess of global warming and her ugly twin sister atheistic evolutionism.
The only thing I have ascertained from watching those channels lately is that Chumlee is an idiot and I have decided to stop watching lest my IQ drop too much.
Yes the Nye and NDT circle***k.
It is so bad that a post on Reddit of a photo of Nye as a kid is slobbered over.
You are likely safe from an IQ drop because you already have learned something about the discussion. Unfortunately, the younger crowd is very likely highly deficient in learning due to the very poor state of education in the US - and with Common Core and New Math about to get a whole lot worse ...
Isn’t Bill Nye the guy who dresses like The Riddler? With the question marks all over his suit?
No. That's Matthew Lesko. Book salesman. Though, he may be a better scientist than Bill Nye.
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