Astronomy questions

Always remember that Kepler and other early astronomers sold their skills in astrology and alchemy to finance their research. Today various governments and militaries fund the research. World Bank, with pop support from Scientific American magazine, is keen on financing researchers who “prove” global warming is caused by people (I think its the violent sun). Why the World Bank? Who knows. Nobody wants to talk about this aspect of science.

Tonight on radio…Ken Croswell: author of Alchemy of the Heavens. A look at 20th century discoveries of the Milky Way galaxy including star~streaming, halo populations, steller chemical abundances, etc…Book offers some stories of women fighting tooth~n~nail to get into astronomy a mere 50 years ago.
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Its on tonight (early morning) radio show–Coast to Coast Genocide with George Noorey (well thats what I call it) Formerly hosted by Art Bell. Sometimes they have some interesting stuff.