Comments on: Popeidolia

By: More than coincidence ? « The e-Astronomer

More than coincidence ? « The e-Astronomer — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:02:29 +0000

[...] than coincidence ? This flaming pope thing has been all over the internut, including at Ye Bad Astronomer, but I suddenly twigged what it was reminding me [...]

By: Lyle Gaulding

Lyle Gaulding — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:49:04 +0000

When a memorial flame for the French unknown soldier was re-lit after the occupation, a photo showed a vaguely skull-like image in the flame. Really, why are images like this any more significant than ‘pictures in clouds.’

By: Summer

Summer — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:02:52 +0000

Stop, drop, and roll JP!

By: M

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:32:32 +0000

Tragic Floo Powder accident?
TMNT-film-esque blue-ghosty Splinter attempt?

Emperor Palpatine’s big comeback?

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:34:59 +0000

Maybe the flames are like the flames that guarded the Israelites during the Exodus. That would make them holy, and this bonfire, looking like the Pontiff, would be holy, as well. Maybe not.

By: Harold

Harold — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:33:42 +0000

I heard on a news report yesterday that this image was actually taken in 2001 or 2002, well before the Pope died in 2005.

I see Samurai Licoln…or is it Wayne Gretzky?

By: Blake Stacey

Blake Stacey — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:53:42 +0000

I found a LOL version, too.

By: StevoR

StevoR — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:47:39 +0000

For the curious :

Hell crater is a 31 km astrobleme (or in plain speak – meteorite crater – the Moon, incidentally, has no meteors as it has no substantial atmosphere!) found on the South West / 3rd Quadrant, below the Mare Nubium or Sea of Clouds; lat 32 South, long. 8 West . Itâ€™s named for Father Maximilan Hell – Iâ€™m pretty sure …

Source : Pages 54 & 55, Atlas of the Universe, Patrick Moore, Philips, 1994.

By: James Hammond

James Hammond — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:35:13 +0000

Bah! You’re all wrong. It’s clearly Dilbert’s boss, facing right.

If it is JPII, he’s apparently waving only a single finger at the camera. Perhaps Hades is not to his liking.

–James

By: Marzia

Marzia — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:39:08 +0000

I can’t find the appropriate image, but I assure you that it’s Ishikawa Goemon from Lupin the third!

By: StevoR

StevoR — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:53:30 +0000

* Hell on Earth – which is, naturally, far more real and evidence based than any fictional hell elsewhere. Except for the crater on the Moon of course!

Incidentally, I think I’m remembering correctly when I say that was named after astronomical priest Maximilan Hell …

There’s also Utopia on Mars (a bit plain really; one of the Vikings landed there) & Valhalla on one of Jove’s moons – Callisto I think ..

there was a Beer continent on some old Mars maps pre-robot explorers mapping…

By: StevoR

StevoR — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:48:02 +0000

Expletives typos!

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“If I were the kind of Gullible that so â€œthinksâ€ then Iâ€™d say its a great sign from God that Pope John Paul II is receiving the merciful godâ€™s furious divine punishment for severely worsening the lives of billions of fellow guillibles around the planet humiliating women, forcing millions of extra deaths through AIDs and creating hell on Earth for so

*_many people_*

via unwanted preganancies, homophobic-misogniyst- &-any-faith-but-catholism bigotry, STD’s, lifelong guilt over being natural biological creatures, ad nauseam .. ”

—-

is what was supposed to be there …

Please Phil Plait, O Great Bad Astronomer, sir, please can we have some more ..
…editing capaibility here that is!

By: StevoR

StevoR — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:42:09 +0000

Koala’s from Easter island … Nah!

Australia if you please (or rather if tehKoala pleases!) is where they live.

If I were the kind of Gullible that so “thinks” then I’d say its a great sign from God that Pope John Paul II is recieving the merciful god’s furious divine punishment for severely worsening the lives of billions of fellow guillibles around the planet humiliating women, forcing millions of extra deaths through AIDs and creating hell on Earth* for so through unwanted preganancies, homophobic and misogniyst and any-faith-but-catholism bigotry, ad nauseam ..

Clearly the Pope is in hell and his (doubly) demented, still crippled figure has appeared in the glow of hellfire (a.k.a. normal chemical combustion plus photoshop) as a grim warning for all catholicxs to abandon their destructive faith and embrace Empedocles Fire elementalism or some other equally archaic, obscure cult.

But, alas, I’m not that kind of guillible o& so can only regret that :

1) The Pope died and is just plain old dead. He’s NOT there at all just as he wasn’t before his birth and thus is NOT receiving the divine punishment many (like me) would beleive he deserves.

2) That so many people will somehow think such pareoidalia is actually supernaturally “real” that the “ghost” of the Pontifus Maximus is actaully inthe flames &

3) that the one disease JP II didn’t get before his death was Tourettes syndrome! Coz that woulda been funny!
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* Hell onEarth – far more real and evidnece based than any fictional hell elsewhere. Except thecraterobntheMoonof coyurse!

By: Scepticon

Scepticon — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:27:55 +0000

>>You CAN pick and choose what has meaning – if you didnâ€™t nothing would have any meaning.>>

I can’t disagree with that, filtering out the meaningless from the meaningful is something that we have to do just to function.

But I must take issue with the rest of your comment, Religion isn’t necessary. Arguably a sense of purpose in life is, but religion does not have to be the place we get it.
Also I don’t think I’ve heard anyone say dumping religion was easy for them.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:50:25 +0000

Why would god force the pope to continue to be all hunched over suffering from osteoporosis in the afterlife?

By: Luis Sanchez

Luis Sanchez — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:28:51 +0000

A few years ago some sensationalist media reported (in Mexico) that on some particular date (I belive it was december 12th), the sight of the Virgin Mary would appear inside the microwave ovens (don’t even ask me why she would choose a microwave oven).

Unsurprisingly enough even my neighbors claimed their own sightings. Of course my conclusions were that they hadn’t clean their ovens for a while, with ample oportunity for pareidolia in the multiple spots of their ovens.

By: Science After Sunclipse

Science After Sunclipse — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:29:49 +0000

Travolta Seen in Hell…

‘Nuff said:

Thanks to Displaced Aussie via Bad Astronomy (where people are saying that the fire photo was doctored).
……

By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:21:43 +0000

>>> How do you pronounce pariedola anyway?

I pronounce it “pair-a-DOLE-ee-a.” How’s that for phonetics?

Jen:)

By: Sailor

Sailor — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:39:18 +0000

It is clearly Pope John Paul II, and obviously he is burning in hell. This is a message, don’t be a Catholic, or you, too, will burn.

By: Quiet_Desperation

Quiet_Desperation — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:21:24 +0000

>>> How do you pronounce pariedola anyway?

nÅn’sÄ•ns’

or, alternately

stÅ«-pÄd’Ä-tÄ“

By: Sticks

Sticks — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:02:14 +0000

ToSeeked

By: Kevin F.

Kevin F. — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:57:48 +0000

I’m waiting for someone to find something in the image of Richard Hoagland….

By: stogoe

stogoe — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:48:50 +0000

It’s not Londo Mollari, it’s Krusty the Klown.

By: SpikeNut

SpikeNut — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:19:56 +0000

Nah, can’t be Londo. The profile in the flames is smiling, and Londo doesn’t smile anymore. Not after what he did.

By: Ray M

Ray M — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:13:21 +0000

has: Yes, I know it was the Daily Mail, and that made the comments even more extraordinary. Miraculous, even