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Saturday, October 20, 2012

Questions for Monday, Oct 22


Each is worth 1 point.

1.     What exactly was on my t-shirt on Friday, Oct 19?
2.     What does the word for what’s on my t-shirt mean in English?
3.     Approximately how many stars can be seen with the unaided eye at night time?
4.     What is the name of the pseudo- science that uses these things on my t-shirt and how do they use them?
5.     Give me two reasons why this pseudo-science is not real science and does not work.
Good Luck,
Mr A

20 comments:

  1. 1. Star constilations were on your shirt.
    nb

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  2. 3.matters where you are located,no matter how clear the night skies may be, the unaided human eye can only see stars down to about the 6th magnitude. The brightest stars are termed as 1st magnitude and the greater the number, the dimmer the star. Hence the number of stars the unaided eye sees varies.

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  3. 3. You can probaly see about 10000 avay from the city, keeping in minde the thing i posted before

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  4. 4. Horoscopes/zodiac/ star signs
    AKA astrology

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  5. 5. It is a pseudo science because there are no evidence to support astrology, also there is no mechanism by which stars can affect people and events on earth

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  6. 1. a pic of the constellations that can be seen at night

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  7. 3. on a clear night away from city lights you can see from 2000 to 3000 stars

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  8. 4. astrology uses the star's and constellation's positions to 'read'your future

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  9. 5. one reason is that conclusions in astrology are derived from different methods, there is no fixed approach. Another reason is that astrology has no theory to explain how it works, it doesnt work because astrology has been scientificaly tested and has always failed

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  10. 2. a group of stars forming a pattern

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  11. 4)astrology
    they use ephemeris tables and draw a map of a chosen set of celestial bodies for a given time

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  12. 5)Because the output of Astrology are statements of an unquantifiable nature

    Because it fails controlled experiments...

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  13. 2)A configuration of stars as seen from the earth

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  14. 3. 2000 at once, however there are 6000 in total which can be seen (not at once)

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  15. 4. Horoscopes, using the stars to tell someone's future/fate.

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  16. Mr A, for question 2 do you mean the definition of the word or the meaning?

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  17. Well done everyone!
    In order from quickest to post the correct answers. Neha you get 2 points for numbers 1 and 4. Diti you get 3 points for #2, 3 and 5. The rest were too slow!
    Mr A

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