Thursday, January 10, 2013  Science No Longer Thinks There's
Cheese There  There isn’t a redeeming website attached to the
Gawker tree.  Of course, this is what happens when you have a
bunch of under-educated 20-somethings trying to educate
themselves through the Internet.  Today’s io9 website, which
seems to deal mainly with science fiction they get wrong, deals
with actual science...which they get even wronger. It can be so
tough to understand science without Lt. Cdr. Data explaining it
to you, it seems.  Today’s real science piece is so short, the
Czar can quote it in its entirety:    Perhaps this was painted
by Richard Bizley, and probably it is for sale on his website.
Beyond that, though.  The creation of the moon is hardly a
disaster; in fact, it is necessary for life on earth as we know
it. Perhaps for the pathetic loser-types on io9, that is bad
news.  Okay, she then gets the basic concept right: a planet the
size of Mars hit the early, smaller Earth and busted out a huge
chunk of debris that coalesc