Comments on: Moon Nebulae

By: CR

CR — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 05:09:01 +0000

As long as we’re degenerating to bathroom humor, a related page at that site is http://www.heptune.com/poop.html

Maybe wait til after eating to read about it, though. Or avoid it altogether. Whatever.

By: Space Cadet

Space Cadet — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 23:45:04 +0000

Thank you, Bad Astronomer, for boldly taking us where no bad astronomer has gone before.

By: Will. M.

Will. M. — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 19:44:17 +0000

“I can safely expirate next to the campfire.” Perhaps you mean I can expel flatus next to the campfire, flatus being the latin for gas generated in the stomach or bowels, a causation of flatulence (Merriam Webster’s 11th. Collegiate Dictionary). Expirate is more at to die or the escape of carbon dioxide from the body protoplasm, (as through the blood and lungs by diffusion), also a termination. This posting can be considered a pendantic outgassing but in no way meant to be pungent…

By: Kaptain K

Kaptain K — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 17:46:00 +0000

Inert, but…flammable!!!

By: Tim G

Tim G — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:49:00 +0000

ioresult: I seem to recall some comedian making jokes about the inability to do both simultaneously.

Don’t think of it as an abnormality. Think of it as a talent.

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 13:14:34 +0000

Gee, I didn’t know farts were mostly inert gases!!! Tanks for that info. Now I can safely expirate next to the camp fire,,,

GAry 7

By: ioresult

ioresult — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 12:36:22 +0000

Tim G: it happens to me all the time! Is my anatomy abnormal?

By: idlemind

idlemind — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 08:11:48 +0000

So is this analogous to the formation of planetary nebulae?

By: Caxtonia

Caxtonia — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 07:14:50 +0000

I now challenge any grade-school child to tell me science is boring

By: Kuwaiti Demon

Kuwaiti Demon — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 06:11:51 +0000

This is my reward (or punishment?) for reading your page early in the morning, BEFORE HAVING BREAKFAST!
Oh well, skipping the most important meal of the day shouldnâ€™t matter to the larger affairs of the cosmos :-/

By: Tim G

Tim G — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 05:56:51 +0000

Phil, Iâ€™m really disappointed.

That web page did not answer the question as to why we cannot pee and fart simultaneously.

By: Melusine

Melusine — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 03:36:48 +0000

You know, I’m thinking this blog entry would have been better suited for tomorrow considering all the comments I heard today regarding 666. The Houston Chronicle had the AP article Apocalypse now or later â€” 6-6-6 is up-But don’t worry, online gambling sites bet we survive
in the main section today.

I suppose I should feel comforted that Tim LaHaye feels June 6 isn’t a problem:

It’s not the date June 6 that’s worrisome, but the signs in our society of the approach of the 666 antichrist, said the Rev. Tim LaHaye, founder of a self-named ministry and co-author of the best-selling Left Behind series of apocalyptic novels. And even though LaHaye said Tuesday isn’t the date of the apocalypse, his Left Behind Web site promotes his new book The Rapture with an ominous “06.06.06 Will You Be Ready.”

Hot air indeed!

My phone number prefix is one digit away from 666, so I do know of people who asked the phone company to change their numbers, and they did. I don’t know if SW Bell will still give into that sort of paranoia.

(Aha! See, there’s an evil filter system here already!)

By: Melusine

Melusine — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 03:33:24 +0000

I suppose I should feel comforted that Tim LaHaye feels June 6 isn’t a problem:

It’s not the date June 6 that’s worrisome, but the signs in our society of the approach of the 666 antichrist, said the Rev. Tim LaHaye, founder of a self-named ministry and co-author of the best-selling Left Behind series of apocalyptic novels. And even though LaHaye said Tuesday isn’t the date of the apocalypse, his Left Behind Web site promotes his new book The Rapture with an ominous “06.06.06 Will You Be Ready.”

Hot air indeed!

By: Bronze Dog

Bronze Dog — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 03:06:49 +0000

Not everyone has such unclean biological functions.

By: Blake Stacey

Blake Stacey — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 00:43:51 +0000

For those of us feeling the limits of our classical, liberal-arts education, “Even Yoda farts” might just prove the best replacement yet for “Even Homer nods”.

By: Merovingian

Merovingian — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 23:45:20 +0000

This takes “Too Much Information” to a whole new level.

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 22:59:42 +0000

Frank, we waited weeks to turn on the STIS camera on Hubble after it was installed, to make sure all the air had leaked out, as well as giving time to any materials that leak out gases slowly when exposed to a vaccum. After waiting years to launch, and finally getting it up there, waiting longer was torture. But at 2500 Volts, better to be safe!

By: frank

frank — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 22:56:09 +0000

Outgassing is something those of us who have ever been involved with satellite operations have had to think about. For example, you donâ€™t want to turn on a high voltage power supply until outgassing is completed, or you might have problems with arcing.

Wait, that page isnâ€™t about outgassing considerations during early orbit operations?

By: Max Fagin

Max Fagin — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 22:35:58 +0000

I didn’t need to know any of that. Please stick to astronomy from now on. Please?

By: Rob Knop

Rob Knop — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 22:35:31 +0000

This reminds me of discussions of gaseous outflows I had with a friend in grad school who was working on high-mass protostars (where there were also gaseous outflows).

-Rob

By: Melusine

Melusine — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 20:53:50 +0000

Umm, so one bit of advice is to take some moments of your day to release the “captive,” as they refer to them, so your beloved will sleep soundly at night in bed. And stay away from cabbage.

Illuminating link…. (-8~

By: kingnor

kingnor — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 20:31:56 +0000