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Re: Big Full Moon and Perigee Spring Tides
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2011 Mar 19, 02:20 -0700
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2011 Mar 19, 02:20 -0700
An article from S&T about some of the exaggerated claims regarding the Full Moon today:
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/home/118265299.html
It makes a simple, excellent point: "When it comes to science stories, if you don't know it in numbers, you don't know it at all".
There's also some good advice on "frantic aunts" forwarding brain-dead emails.
-FER
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