Of course, but Don was a scientist. Shouldn't his first thought to be to call our galaxy a spiral galaxy?
Our galaxy does not even look like a lens. Lenticular galaxies don't have spiral arms.
Why would he say the complicated word "lenticular" unless he meant the scientific category? No one uses that word in common speech. It's pretty much only used to refer to the scientific category of lenticular galaxies, which are quite a bit different from spiral galaxies, and our spiral galaxy is considered a very average spiral galaxy.
Don says:
This makes no sense. We aren't in a lenticular galaxy. No one ever looks at a picture of the milky way from the side and says "Hey, that looks like a lens! Downright lenticular I'd say!"
Firstly, if someone thought it looked like a lens, they probably would just say it looks like a lens, not use the archaic latin term that coincidentally also happens to be a specific scientific category of galaxy.
Secondly, it doesn't look like a lens.
Thirdly, pretty much everyone is aware that we live in a spiral galaxy. How could Don, being a physicist and very interested in UFOlogy and cosmology, miss this fact? How could Don, being a physicist/UFOlogist, be unaware that there is a specific scientific taxonomy that places our galaxy thoroughly outside the lenticular category?
It looks like a flat out error but given his education why would he make that kind of error? Why would Ra support him on it?
He makes the error again and again, like 6-7 times.
Our galaxy does not even look like a lens. Lenticular galaxies don't have spiral arms.
Why would he say the complicated word "lenticular" unless he meant the scientific category? No one uses that word in common speech. It's pretty much only used to refer to the scientific category of lenticular galaxies, which are quite a bit different from spiral galaxies, and our spiral galaxy is considered a very average spiral galaxy.
Don says:
Quote: I'll call the lenticular galaxy that we are in the major galaxy
This makes no sense. We aren't in a lenticular galaxy. No one ever looks at a picture of the milky way from the side and says "Hey, that looks like a lens! Downright lenticular I'd say!"
Firstly, if someone thought it looked like a lens, they probably would just say it looks like a lens, not use the archaic latin term that coincidentally also happens to be a specific scientific category of galaxy.
Secondly, it doesn't look like a lens.
Thirdly, pretty much everyone is aware that we live in a spiral galaxy. How could Don, being a physicist and very interested in UFOlogy and cosmology, miss this fact? How could Don, being a physicist/UFOlogist, be unaware that there is a specific scientific taxonomy that places our galaxy thoroughly outside the lenticular category?
It looks like a flat out error but given his education why would he make that kind of error? Why would Ra support him on it?
He makes the error again and again, like 6-7 times.