Starship Asterisk*

Nitpicker, you're picking nits that aren't there. Fairall said that, in 10,500 BC, the vernal equinox was in the modern constellation-boundaries of Virgo. Period. That false statement, for which Ed Krupp, as well, is quoted, is what I was answering. Is a point 2/3 of a degree of ecliptic longitude d...

If you want to discuss how we can determine where the NCP was in the distant past, that's one thing. But why start out with a reference to a pair of scientific frauds? It just gives the impression that your interest lies not in the science and math, but to supporting some sort of historical signifi...

First, if anyone wants to say that my previous post, or this one, contains “pseudoscience”, then I invite them to actually specify a statement in the post that is “pseudoscientific”, or demonstrably incorrect. Here’s a recent graph, from astronomer Jaques Laskar, showing how the precession-rate has ...