Comments on: New Exploration computer drawings! http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/05/18/new-exploration-computer-drawings/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:51:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Robin Capper http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/05/18/new-exploration-computer-drawings/#comment-36780 Robin Capper Thu, 24 May 2007 12:53:07 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/05/18/new-exploration-computer-drawings/#comment-36780 Although a Pastafarian I do fear for our national icon, the New Zealand Kiwi (Apteryx), after reading the FSM Gospel. I hope NASA don’t try the Kiwi Motivation Test…. Save the Kiwi (Apteryx) from the Flying Spaghetti Monster Kiwi Motivation Test http://rcd.typepad.com/personal/2007/05/save_the_kiwi_a.html Although a Pastafarian I do fear for our national icon, the New Zealand Kiwi (Apteryx), after reading the FSM Gospel. I hope NASA don’t try the Kiwi Motivation Test….

Save the Kiwi (Apteryx) from the Flying Spaghetti Monster Kiwi Motivation Test
http://rcd.typepad.com/personal/2007/05/save_the_kiwi_a.html

]]> By: Astrolink [Global Edition] » Linked by His Noodliness | Latest astronomy news in 11 languages http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/05/18/new-exploration-computer-drawings/#comment-36779 Astrolink [Global Edition] » Linked by His Noodliness | Latest astronomy news in 11 languages Wed, 23 May 2007 20:04:14 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/05/18/new-exploration-computer-drawings/#comment-36779 [...] Last week I linked to some new NASA images of the Exploration vehicles, and commented how one looks like the Flying Spaghetti Monster… and now that post is linked from the FSM main page! [...] […] Last week I linked to some new NASA images of the Exploration vehicles, and commented how one looks like the Flying Spaghetti Monster… and now that post is linked from the FSM main page! […]

]]> By: Buzz Parsec http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/05/18/new-exploration-computer-drawings/#comment-36778 Buzz Parsec Wed, 23 May 2007 05:43:27 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/05/18/new-exploration-computer-drawings/#comment-36778 Hmm... If I remember correctly, a lot of the snarkieness of the original S.M. post wasn't actually BA's, but that of various other contributors jumping to false conclusions based on little or no evidence. Such as she probably wasn't wearing a seatbelt, or alcohol or drugs or speeding may have been a factor or other such innuendo (turned out she was a passenger, not the driver.) Now a bunch of people (the same ones?) are jumping to conclusions about BA's motivations for the SM fund. How about applying a proper degree of skepticism and actually look at the evidence before drawing a conclusion? Isn't that what this blog is all about? To try to draw this whole diversion a little bit back towards the topic at hand, what about a decent health care system that covers people like Shannon so she doesn't have to worry about funding her own surgery and rehab after surviving such a traumatic accident? How many hospitals could the Constellation program fund? And how many flights to the Moon or Mars could the war in Iraq fund? (I personally feel that if we got our priorities straight, we could easily fund both health care and space exploration.) Hmm… If I remember correctly, a lot of the snarkieness of the original S.M. post wasn’t actually BA’s, but that of various other contributors jumping to false conclusions based on little or no evidence. Such as she probably wasn’t wearing a seatbelt, or alcohol or drugs or speeding may have been a factor or other such innuendo (turned out she was a passenger, not the driver.)

Now a bunch of people (the same ones?) are jumping to conclusions about BA’s motivations for the SM fund. How about applying a proper degree of skepticism and actually look at the evidence before drawing a conclusion? Isn’t that what this blog is all about?

To try to draw this whole diversion a little bit back towards the topic at hand, what about a decent health care system that covers people like Shannon so she doesn’t have to worry about funding her own surgery and rehab after surviving such a traumatic accident? How many hospitals could the Constellation program fund? And how many flights to the Moon or Mars could the war in Iraq fund? (I personally feel that if we got our priorities straight, we could easily fund both health care and space exploration.)

]]> By: NASA drawing resembles FSM at Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/05/18/new-exploration-computer-drawings/#comment-36777 NASA drawing resembles FSM at Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Mon, 21 May 2007 20:35:00 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/05/18/new-exploration-computer-drawings/#comment-36777 [...] Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy Blog [...] […] Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy Blog […]

]]> By: John Powell http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/05/18/new-exploration-computer-drawings/#comment-36776 John Powell Mon, 21 May 2007 16:31:39 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/05/18/new-exploration-computer-drawings/#comment-36776 NASA built it, now Doctor Octopus has to re-program it to hunt down that pesky Spider-Man! NASA built it, now Doctor Octopus has to re-program it to hunt down that pesky Spider-Man!

]]> By: Christian Burnham http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/05/18/new-exploration-computer-drawings/#comment-36775 Christian Burnham Mon, 21 May 2007 12:11:47 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/05/18/new-exploration-computer-drawings/#comment-36775 I'd like to point out that it would have been just as great to help Shannon out if she were a creationist Biblical literalist. There should be no religious test for compassion. Shannon's religious beliefs or lack thereof are of no importance whatsoever to her medical needs and should be of no concern to us. I’d like to point out that it would have been just as great to help Shannon out if she were a creationist Biblical literalist.

There should be no religious test for compassion. Shannon’s religious beliefs or lack thereof are of no importance whatsoever to her medical needs and should be of no concern to us.

]]> By: The Bad Astronomer http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/05/18/new-exploration-computer-drawings/#comment-36774 The Bad Astronomer Mon, 21 May 2007 05:04:39 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/05/18/new-exploration-computer-drawings/#comment-36774 eewolf, you're pretty much much dead on target there. People do seem to be ascribing motivations to me that aren't there, or at least making assumptions that are unwarranted from the available evidence. eewolf, you’re pretty much much dead on target there. People do seem to be ascribing motivations to me that aren’t there, or at least making assumptions that are unwarranted from the available evidence.

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