Re: B.S. media hype surrounding Deep Impact


"RichA" <none@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Even so-called, scientific organizations
> are not immune from it. Check out the term,
> "fireworks" used below. While the term may be
> a somewhat apt metaphor for what the comet is doing,
> it is not the connotation that the public would assign
> to outgassing seen in the Hubble shot. Why must science
> always build up unrealistic expectations in people?
> The facts of the mission are interesting enough without the
> fanfare.
>



ya ...the media could make it totally unimportant..most really don't give a
***. That is the naked truth.

The CBC is the only news organization that handles these things "properly".
The whole idea is to generate
"curiousity" amonst a mostly brain dead society. If the schools can't do
it, the media may as well give it a shot.


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