Yes, lets get them all out here... Ill start off...

Nearly every news article about anything astronomy related claims that the new discovery will be a key to unraveling the mysteries and fate of the universe! Wow! Thank you captain obvious! So why exclaim it like its some big cosmic question that has been answered?! Anything we discover helps us understand the universe better, therefore its fate, therefore its beginning, therefore everything.

Come on, I know you have some.

LAter
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That's journalistic hype. The actual astronomers tend to be more realistic about the significance of their discoveries.

I really dislike it not to be able to have free online ability to use a powerful telescope to view things I'd like to see. As an ameture it would be interesting to use a large telescope once in awhile to see more things than my little one does. Other than that I think I get to see many images of what astronomers view and for that I'm grateful.

Media reports that stress or report only the extremes of a probability range (thus inflating expectations), then blame the astronomers when things happen exactly as the astronomer said that they expected.

Eg:
Astronomer: "I expect that this asteroid will miss us by a wide margin, but at this stage there's a tiny possibility that it will wipe out life on Earth in a few years. We'll know for sure in a week or two"

Reporter: "Astronomer says asteroid could wipe out life on Earth!!!"

Later...
Reporter: "Once again, an expected asteroid impact has fizzled. The astronomer who raised the alarm is unavailable for comment."

Media reports that stress or report only the extremes of a probability range (thus inflating expectations), then blame the astronomers when things happen exactly as the astronomer said that they expected.

Eg:
Astronomer: "I expect that this asteroid will miss us by a wide margin, but at this stage there's a tiny possibility that it will wipe out life on Earth in a few years. We'll know for sure in a week or two"

Reporter: "Astronomer says asteroid could wipe out life on Earth!!!"

Later...
Reporter: "Once again, an expected asteroid impact has fizzled. The astronomer who raised the alarm is unavailable for comment."

Personally, I find myself irritated about the so-called comet/asteroid discoveries claimed by the so-called comet/asteroid discoverers using their commercial CCD cameras using commercial software to enhance the digital images of their digital photos they have taken thru their commercial telescopes (I could site many examples)........Yet even though they are given credit for their discovery with a comet/asteroid named after them, discovering comets is not much fun anymore because it's so commercialized...compared to the early days in amateur astronomy when comet discoveries were made visually thru a telescope or using a typical basic photographic camera...........For the most part now adays, you're dependant on the capability of the commercial CCD camera and telescope to do all of the work of comet/asteroid hunting.....In fact it's even an automated CCD camera/telescope process at many observatories. They should name or re-name comets or asteroids after the telescope or CCD camera manufactuer.....Not the guy who sits in his chair reading a magazine and smoking a cigar or pipe for 20 minutes while the camera/telescope catches the comet or asteroid.......

Atta Boy :)

Yeah, using technology to discover stuff is just plain cheating.
When I was a boy, I'd find comets by standing on a hilltop, sketching the sky in the sand! You wouldn't find me cheating by using a pencil and paper to sketch with.

And don't get me started on that Galileo fella and his magnifying doohickey! Bloody cheaters! If you don't see it with your own bare eyes, you can't be called a discoverer in my book!

Are you speaking for yourself when you say the word "Cheating"? I don't believe the word "Cheating" appears in the previous text.......I don't see it, do you? I think you need to redefine your own values when it comes to word "discovery" and how it is used in the context of subject matter that may or may not apply to you.....I don't think I've seen a comet or asteroid in the sky recently or even in the past named "Comet Pete"......If I did, I'd certainly petition the international astronomical council who verify's the naming of comet/asteroid discoveries and have them reconsider naming it something more appropriate.........I guess you'll enjoy making some real scientific contributions in the fast food industry someday, certainly not in this forum..........

Atta Boy