On Aug 27, 9:08*pm, Wayne B wrote:
On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:42:27 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch

wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08...ic_ray_first_r...
Oooops, they were not funded to find this.
Of course, almost any physicist who has looked at particle tracks in
cloud chambers would have known this was true decades ago. *Cosmic
rays are the main source of "noise" in cloud chambers. *Even worse,
charging not only nucleates vapor droplets but stabilizes them against
evaporation as has long been known, a phenomena known over a hundred
years ago.

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More he

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07...osmic_ray_gag/

Interestingly enough, science editor Nigel Calder, is also the author
of several excellent books on the maintenance of marine systems - *(on
topic).

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_tc_2_0?rh=i%3Astripbooks%2Ck%3...

or

http://tinyurl.com/3mlsr3r

Really? It is the same guy?