Misc

New York courts reject personhood lawsuits for chimps.

Series of videos of comet ISON.

"“The comet’s story begins with the very formation of the solar system,” said Karl Battams, an astrophysicist at the Naval Research Lab in Washington, D.C. “The dirty snowball that we came to call Comet ISON was created at the same time as the planets.”"

Another assertion contradicted by evidence yet presented as fact.

"ISON circled the solar system in the Oort cloud, more than 4.5 trillion miles away from the sun. At some point a few million years ago, something occurred – perhaps the passage of a nearby star – to knock ISON out of its orbit and send it hurtling along a path for its first trip into the inner solar system."

Astronomers have a a good grip on the galactic orbits of nearby stars. They know whether one passed close a few million years ago. Tell us which star and how long ago. They can't know whether it orbited the sun before.

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