How to Peep the Perseid's Peak 58
The Christian Science Monitor has a short piece with some tips on watching the Perseid meteor showers, which will peak over the next few evenings. MSNBC also has a good suggestion if you'd like to watch the show but can't because of weather: watch online, courtesy of NASA and the Slooh space telescope. I hope the skies will cooperate so I can see them from darkest Maine.
Re:a waste. (Score:5, Insightful)
The CSM is the last place that anyone should be heading for news.
Yes, let's toss out the teachings of Roger Bacon, advocate of the scientific method, and his fellow Franciscan monk, William of Occam. The astronomers Kepler, Galileo, and Coppernicus would have to go; mathematicians John Napier, Blaise Pascal, Rene Descartes, and Leonhard Euler too. If they go, then physicists like Faraday, Marconi, Babbage, Volta, Maxwell, Joule, Hertz, Kelvin, and Planck will have to as well. Ditto folks like Gregor Mendel, Louis Pasteur, and George Washington Carver, Freeman Dyson, Kurt Godel, and Donald Knuth,
Gee. The world would be a poorer place if we ignored the scientific contributions of these people just because you have a problem with their religious beliefs.