Ken Ham Has Pissed Off Buster The Atheist Pug.

Winner announced for the Golden Tinfoil Hat Award! The votes have been counted, and from the numerous worthy science-deniers and conspiracy theorists, one has risen to the top!

Watch as NASA Test-Fires the RS-25 Rocket Engine

NASA test-fired an RS-25 rocket engine today, 08/18/2016 at the Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis in Mississippi. The RS-25 is one of four modified space shuttle main engines that will help lift the huge SLS rocket off the ground assisted by two solid rocket boosters.* The RS-25 engines are fueled by liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. Combined, the four RS-25 engines on SLS will generate 2…

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It’s jelly time! Gently pulsing jellies are beautiful to watch, but don’t let these unassuming invertebrates fool you. Their graceful trailing tentacles and oral arms are covered with stinging cells for snaring prey.

The 363-foot-tall Apollo 12 Saturn V rocket rolls out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at Cape Canaveral, September 8, 1969. (NASA)

NASA test-fires booster for the Space Launch System (SLS) that will carry crew & cargo for the Mission to Mars! Take THAT, conspiracy theorists and flat-earthers!

Iridology: More Woo for Profit!

SDHoS would like to thank Austin James for bringing this to our attention.

Iridology (also known as iridodiagnosis or iridiagnosis) is an alternative medicine technique whose proponents claim that patterns, colors, and other characteristics of the iris can be examined to determine information about a patient’s systemic health.

Origins

Proponents of iridology attribute its development to Ignatz…

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Successful Launch of Orbital ATK’s Cygnus Spacecraft

Successful Launch, #FlatEarth crowd!

At 11:05 p.m. (EDT) on March 22 the Atlas V rocket successfully lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

  Included in the 7,500 pounds of cargo aboard the Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft are numerous science payloads to support experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science.  (more…)

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Missed SDHoS Movie Night LIVE: Pseudoscience Debunking Theater 3000? No problem! PSD3K vid recorded here!

Project finished. Using 2 6SN7GT tubes. It can use plug-in coils from the original Knight Radio kit. (Thanks to a socket found at a recent hamfest)

Religious Fundamentalist Ken Ham Battles US Constitution on Twitter

Religious Fundamentalist Ken Ham Battles US Constitution

This morning, Ken Ham, of Answers in Genesis, took to Twitter to release a barrage of tweets insisting that public schools have the right to plan and execute school trips to his newly-opened Ark Encounter biblical theme park which teaches, among other things, that the Earth is no older than 6,000 years and that evolution is false.

It seems that Mr. Ham is blissfully unfamiliar with the…

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