RE: Sunset over Southern Indiana
March 14, 2013 at 8:46 pm
(This post was last modified: March 14, 2013 at 8:47 pm by orogenicman.)
Indeed:
![[Image: size_of_earth_3.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.rayfowler.org%2Fblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsize_of_earth_3.jpg)
The size of the sunspots in my image are about the size of Neptune.
The size of the sunspots in my image are about the size of Neptune.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
