Starship Asterisk*

Andy: I Agree! But I do not think this negative point about the alternative hypothesis renders the photographs of star trails by themselves as positive evidence for the rotation of the Earth about its axis. In fact, your point is implicitly appealing to other evidence distinct to the photographs of ...

As many, many, others, I am a huge fan of Astronomy Picture of the Day, and greatly appreciate the effort of bringing to the worldwide online community a wealth of fascinating astronomical knowledge accompanied with mouth- (and mind-) gaping photographs every day. I only wanted to comment briefly on...