Althouse: Get some perspective.

March 14, 2007

Get some perspective.

On the sun and the moon. (Play the video!) (More here.)

13 comments:

Fitz said...: This constant reference to Ann Coulters “real” sexuality is something I see constant reference to in the GLBT blogosphere. I don’t like it much because I think she is a beautiful women & people are to harsh in criticizing women’s looks – but accusing them of really being a man is way over the top.

Lots of such references appear in the GLBT world about multiple inferences as to people’s sexual identity/true nature. I believe this serves the cause in as much as it works both as a weapon & feeds the ego’s of the gay world by a “we’re in the know, secret club, gaydar” type sentiment.

This seems to be part of the power of the term “homophobia” – It is both a accusation of bigotry while at the same time calling the accused “real” sexuality into question.; 3/14/07, 9:16 AM
Peter Hoh said...: Dude, get some perspective.; 3/14/07, 9:17 AM
MadisonMan said...: Yes, Ann Coulter is what I think of when I see a shrunken Moon transitting the Sun, too.; 3/14/07, 9:18 AM
Ann Althouse said...: LOL. And I'm not just typing LOL. I'm actually laughing.; 3/14/07, 9:30 AM
Fitz said...: Sorry Ann - wrong comment box!

madisonman- funny stuff, really!

To add something to what I detracted.
I have a Celesrone C-90 spotting scope. The Moon looks incredible through it. All the craters & the sea of tranquility ..beautiful stuff; 3/14/07, 9:44 AM
Ann Althouse said...: Yeah, but don't take it down, Fitz. It's the funniest thing yet today. Even funnier than that "brainiest witticism" I just linked to on Instapundit.; 3/14/07, 9:45 AM
Bob said...: Did you see these NASA photos of a pair of volcanoes erupting on Jupiter's moon Io?

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/09mar_alienvolcano.htm

Be sure to scroll down to see an animation of why Io has so many eruptions. :); 3/14/07, 10:10 AM
Crimso said...: How about the hydrocarbon seas on Titan? Weird wild stuff (and can we please not freak out over the word "hydrocarbon" in this context?).; 3/14/07, 10:27 AM
Smilin' Jack said...: This is bogus. Look at the diagram on the linked page. The two spacecraft are a million miles ahead and behind the Earth on Earth's orbit. The radius of the Moon's orbit is only a quarter-million miles. Simple geometry shows that the Moon can never come between these spacecraft and the Sun.

Worst NASA fake since the Apollo "landings."; 3/14/07, 12:03 PM
Tibore said...: Crimso,

Just don't pull a Velikovsky and confuse hydrocarbons with carbohydrates. ;)

Carbohydrate seas... the scourge of the Atkins dieters... :); 3/14/07, 12:46 PM
Hazy Dave said...: Hey, smilin' jack, LOL at your tinfoil hat.; 3/14/07, 12:52 PM
Tibore said...: Hehe! Didn't even notice Jack's comment.

There's a plotting tool available at http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/where.shtml that gives a better representation of Stereo A and B in relation to the Earth and the Moon at any given time on any given date.; 3/14/07, 1:00 PM
Anonymous said...: Is this a setup?

Althouse links to some boring NASA astroporn. Good for 3 comments, max.

Fitz parachutes in with Ann Coulter, creates Dada moment. Hilarity ensues.

If this is an accident, it proves once again that somehow Althouse can never lose.; 3/14/07, 1:13 PM