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Age Of Most Pulsars Is Now A Mystery

Posted by chrisd on from the street-signs-of-the-heavens dept.

Guinnessy writes "A pulsar that has been viewed by the Very Large Array in New Mexico for the past ten years, is only 65,000 years old not 107,000 years as astronomers previously thought. The new results suggest that the main techniques that astronomers use for measuring the age of pulsars is completely wrong. There's a press release about it the NRAO's web site."

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  1. Scientists get it wrong shocker! by Lord+Hugh+Toppingham · · Score: 1, Funny
    I wonder how long it will be before the American public gets so fed up with these "scientists" who seem to be constantly getting it wrong that they cease to pay any attention to them at all.


    First we get 'global warming' then other scientists disagree, and say there will be another ice age. Then the NASA morons cannot even get a simple thing like a mars probe to land, then they launch that hubbard space telescope which didn't work.


    Scientists these days are just stupid and lazy. I blame the terrible state of America's education system.