Someone pinned the thread and I have to read through four pages - will take some time.


In the meantime let's have some fun with JMcC:

"January 20, 2013 posting ... !!!!!!! ... THIS JUST IN ... IT IS TOO EARLY TO CONFIRM BUT SOME INITIAL DATA SUGGESTS THAT COMET C/2012/S1 HAS AT LEAST ONE COMPANION AND POSSIBLY UP TO SEVEN ... WHEN SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPENS ONE HAS TO BE VERY CAUTIOUS BUT AFTER EXAMINING THE DATA THAT I HAVE SEEN I WOULD SAY THAT IT APPEARS TO BE REAL ... FURTHERMORE ONE OF THE POSSIBLE COMPANIONS APPEARS TO BE AT ABOUT TWO LUNAR DISTANCES (HALF A MILLION MILES) AND HAS NOT FORMED A COMA FOR SOME ODD REASON ... IF THE OBJECT IS ORBITING THE NUCLEUS OF THE COMET AT THAT DISTANCE IT IMPLIES THAT THE NUCLEUS OF THIS COMET IS POSSIBLY AS BIG OR BIGGER THAN EARTH ..."
[link to www.jmccanneyscience.com]
Sorry for the caps, but this is the original formatting of the quote.

JMcC came to this shocking conclusion after watching a video posted at Spaceweather:
[link to spaceweather.com]

Can you find the companion(s)? Look at the 8 o'clock position - the little bright white dot following the comet.

What an idiot someone must be to mistake a hotpixels for companions?
What an idiot someone must be to publish the "shocking evidence" with only one source and without doublechecking?

And this guy tought orbital mechanics - no surprise Cornell fired him.



After the astronomical community had some fun with JMcC he tried to backpadel:
(For easier commenting I break the JMcC quote into pieces.)

"January 23, 2013 posting ... this just in ... it appears that there was a hoax initiated to entrap me and others posted by none other than SPACEWEATHER.COM ... this known gov NASA mouthpiece posted on their page a link to a video with apparent companions to comet C/2012/S1 ...
The wellknown paranoia of JMcC. Well, except him and some doomtards nobody else took the hotpixels for companions.

"i have access to other much better data than the spaceweather.com hoax link AND as a result i posted a very cautious note stating exactly that"
And as usual JMcC don't reference his source of "better data".
And dear JMcC, where can one find this "very cautious note" - or do you mean your caps text quoted above. If this is a "very cautious note", you have some issues with your keyboard.

"and that this had to be taken with a large grain of salt and had to be confirmed"
Yes, with looking carefully at the video, looking for other sources and doublechecking - before publishing it at your site.

"later spaceweather dropped the posting"
Ooops - it's still there: [link to www.spaceweather.com]
And there: [link to www.spaceweather.com]
And there: [link to www.spaceweather.com]
And there: [link to www.spaceweather.com]
James McCanney: You are a liar.

"BUT then the disinfo crew jumped on other pages to slam me stating that i was starting a HEAVENS GATE type rumor referring to the spaceweather.com hoax video ... HMMMM ... it was spaceweather.com who posted the link to this hoax video"
And you are the idiot who made "companions from it" - or did Spaceweather anywhere claim, that the video shows C/2012 S1 had companions?

"and note that in my posting i never mentioned spaceweather.com NOR did i ever mention any specific video nor link to any video and especially i did not reference the hoax link noted in the spaceweather.com posting ... i simply stated i had seen data ... and there is other data that i have seen that is far better than the hoax video they posted but i remain skeptical and NOTE I DID NOT POST ANY DATA KNOWING HOW IT COULD BE MISCONSTRUED ...
Stammering, stammering, stammering ...
Is the above the justification for your idiocy?

"you see how the disonfo crew works ... disinfo has its form of operation ... this was obviously a trap set to try to ensnare me and to try to mock my success informing the public about this comet ... but as with all their efforts now more people will come to my web site and will learn first hand the lies and deceit and immense efforts they are going to try to damage my name and work ... jim mccanney"
LOL

"look at my posting of January 20 regarding data i have seen ... NOTE NOWHERE DO I REFERENCE ANY LINK OR DATA THAT WAS ORIGINALLY POSTED ON SPACEWEATHER.COM !!! "
Right, as said before: you never reference any data - somebody could have the idea to verify your claims.
[link to www.jmccanneyscience.com]


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