15 Days from Hoopla/Madness, and more "proof" of life beyond Mars!!

I spoke this morning with some people who have observed some workouts and practices....
basically all good news, except I am sure not going to say more than that in this blog or anywhere publicly -- for a couple reasons......
I figure if the folks at Bradley wanted info out about their sessions, then they'd send out a news release -- so it's just common sense to keep this off the boards and blogs. There are more super, secret, private channels as some of you know...

Anyway -- the methodical, word by word scrutiny, dissection, and stalking that anti-BU people use to analyze and attack every positive word said anywhere about BU makes you wonder if they have any time left in the day for anything positive or is their whole life negative??
And given how many times the BU-bashers have been so boneheadedly wrong about statements like buyouts, player defections, firings, and recently more crap about players in trouble and all but gone -- that nonoe of there rumors ever seem to turn out to have any truth at all about them....
I guess I am stunned those same folks would spend so much time searching to find something they can cite -- even a tiny misspelling or grammatical error, or whatever......

I have seen people who even claim they read it all and save endless "screen shots" of this blog and other posts just so they can have something to whine about later.
What the hey?? Why would someone be so obsessive as to save "screen shots" of what someone else says on the internet just to have something to argue about later on??

Lately the hit count on this blog has zoomed as folks must be posting links on other message boards (the "Stats" feature of this blog even tells me which message boards are "referring" viewers) that send people here......but some of those are clearly on a mission to attack BU and they never rest in digging for something to wail about.
They never find anything though and look pretty silly trying to argue that was Jim Les that had Joe Stowell "fired" (ps- he was NOT fired).
As much time as they put into it -- you'd think they'd actually find something that's worth disagreeing about -- but they never do!

Odd how message boards have been around 15 or more years now and they still keep quoting only perhaps a benign comment or two about Tyrone Cole Scott half a decade ago as the only fault they can find in anything said by the Bradley Braves fans!!
Geez-- as much fun as some have had with one TCS comment I guess I should post some intentional hogwash occasionally so they can play with it for the next 5 years...
so here goes.......
"all of Tim Jankovich's recruits will end up in the NBA"....surely Terrence Johnson, Sead Odzic, and Kellen Thornton are on the way (yes, I know Kellon is arguable -- but he never played for PM!).

Then, there's those who say you cannot be positive about a single player or team because that'll be putting too many expectations on them and pressuring them too much thus causing them to fail! I had no idea a mere comment on a message board or blog had the kind of power to cause a talented player to completely fail!
Maybe that's why those guys trash players....maybe they think the opposite is true, too...if you trash a kid you lay the groundwork for really low expectations then the kid will be a superstar!!

Anyway -- suffice to say we will be seeing the Braves sooner than most years on October 15....
Bradley has some talent returning....three guards, Andrew Warren, Sam Maniscalco, and Dodie Dunson are among the top 5-10 returning players in many stats, including scoring, 3-pt pct, assists, and defensive stats.
Then Taylor Brown is not only the #1 returning rebounder in the entire league, he's also among the top 4 returning scorers in the league.

The Blue Ribbon Guide that's just out - realizes this and honors Taylor Brown with 1st Team All Valley status....Other preseason guides likewise honor Maniscalco and Warren with preseason awards......
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=16402


Yet another guy has found a planet that is just like earth and just has to be the place for us to go when this planet gets too hot!!

Have you read these articles??
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/09/gliese-581g-habitable-planet-/1

But here's what they are not telling you -- so better read up before booking your trip to this Goldilocks planet...

--first the data that even tell humans of its existence is pretty thin..mostly just soft evidence consisting of wobbling of the star or really minimal light variations from the star hinting of something passing in between......but they think that there might be a planet orbiting this star (Gliese 581) at a distance where it's "not too hot and not too cold". This zone they call the "Goldilocks zone" since Goldilocks' porridge was similarly not too hot and not too cold. (Maybe we can try to live on Goldilock's porridge??)
But of course there's no possible way to know if there's water, oxygen, or even if there's other people already there ruining that planet worse than we're ruining ours.

--all you need to do is a little digging and you'll quickly and easily find that this planet Gliese 581 is not at all like our sun. It is a RED DWARF star. It's sun does not produce much heat or light, so for this planet to be warm enough it actually has to be a lot closer to that star than earth is to our sun - generating a lot of problems like radiation that would cause serious problems to all life, or the possibility of Venus-like cloud-shrouding that would boost temps to 1000 degrees.
Also some data hints that the same side might be always facing their "red-dwarf-sun" ...meaning one side could be pretty hot and the other side pretty cold.
The more and more real facts you hear, the more you realize how far from reality the news reports are about this planet -- and it doesn't sound so good after all.
It's probably even worse than living in Creve Coeur or Leroy!

But remember from my other blog -- if it's too cold, there's a scientist here on earth who has an idea that we can warm it up by slamming asteroids into it!! So let's get planning!

--Also, Gliese 581 is more than 20 light years from earth -- and even if we could send you there at 10 to 100 times the fastest possible speed any object has ever been sent out into space (roughly 1/1000th the speed of light), it would take at least 20,000 years to get there. But by then you'd be long out of food and dead so nobody'd care.

And predictably the press takes this scant info and runs with it claiming that this planet is habitable!! They simply hear and read into this and then print what they would like to say not anything close to the truth or facts (kinda like some message boards!)
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/roughsketch/2010/09/hi_new_planet_gliese_581g_welc.html

It's like finding mountains on Mars then jumping a light year to the conclusion that since people live in the mountains here on earth -- then this must prove there's a habitable place on Mars that is currently supporting life -- edging us closer to proof of life elsewhere!!! Weird.......

So some newspapers prompt their artists into producing an "artists rendition" that looks as comfy as earth itself!!
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/roughsketch/bylynettecook.jpg


But the scientists must bear some responsibility for what is obviously a violation of common sense and something akin to letting a few facts fly through a meat grinder and then post what's left as proven truths!!
Many of these scientists have motives such as wanting to get their name attached to something, a planet, a star, or something!
Or they want sooooo hard to believe there is life out there, that they are so inclined to believe any hint of any evidence to say that there IS!! Even though science mandates an inherent skepticism that says we need to see some facts and evidence first --
We should never believe life exists elsewhere simply because of such BS reasons as...
--because I feel it
--because I'd hate to think we're all alone (yup - this comes from a scientist!)
--because there's so many stars out there it has to be true
--because nobody's ever proven there isn't life out there
--and then the one we hear most often, if it happened here by chance and accident (which of course isn't the way it happened and no science can explain yet how it did happen) then surely it can happen elsewhere given the vast number of chances...(this might be called the wishful thinking theory or the fairy tale theory along with Goldilocks).

Anyway -- I present in the following paragraph every single bit of evidence yet discovered and offered that supports the existence of life elsewhere besides earth...

....nothing...........nothing despite we've been diligently searching for it for the better part now of 75 years....
if you find any evidence you are free to present it -- there are some real scientists waiting to see it and study it....
Even if yuo want to present something in the realm of flying saucers or little green men in New Mexico -- keep in mind that doesn't prove they are from another planet!