Comments on: unAstronomy

By: folcrom

folcrom — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 01:50:21 +0000

Every-one that has ever lived is full of crap.
It’s a part of our anatomy.
That’s why we have bowel movements.
To empty out the crap.
Folcrom.

By: That Guy

That Guy — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 09:18:09 +0000

How much can it possibly explain? Yeah, I’m a… person who isn’t going to break 1 & 2 but you catch my drift. Uncyclopedia was spawned from 4chan as well (/vg/ is behind it, that’s why it’s more sophisticated than Dramatica which decidedly came from /b/)…

By: Michael Lonergan

Michael Lonergan — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:52:56 +0000

I have always wondered about the men that play with long hard shafts, some with great width, in the dark night, usually by themselves… Maybe that’s why my wife left me.

By: The Centipede

The Centipede — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:57:38 +0000

4channer. That explains a lot.

By: That Guy

That Guy — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:46:50 +0000

Centipede: Oh well. I’m still right… 4chan stuff ftw! (Since that’s where Phil’s DOOOOOOOMED poster comes from!)

By: Quiet Desperation

Quiet Desperation — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:55:11 +0000

Anybody who took this seriously for anything more than five seconds needs to turn in their skeptics license, or go out and level up their Skeptical Attribute a bit. OK, I’m feeling chariatble on a Friday off. Ten seconds.

— George Carlin was funny. But that was some time ago. Now he’s just an angry old fool.

Yes, but that in itself is also funny.

By: The Centipede

The Centipede — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:38:15 +0000

Hmmm. It would sort of make sense if human evolution is accelerating, because our environment is changing more rapidly than it’s wont… and I’m not talking about AGW, I’m talking about basic lifestyles, urbanization, so on and so forth. Human evolution accelerating to try and catch up with environmental changes intentionally created by humans themselves… hmmm, no, still too inefficient. I welcome the day when we can cast off the weaknesses of meat and bone and drive our own evolution without having to worry overmuch about mundane animal things like eating.

METAL IS BETTER THAN MEAT!

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:32:21 +0000

All the confusion…screw it, I’m going to feng shui school.

By: DennyMo

DennyMo — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:34:47 +0000

Gary, got a citation on that “accelerating” comment? I’d be interested in reading more about it.

By: Bad Albert

Bad Albert — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:08:37 +0000

I love the news headlines on their homepage:

“Scientists discover lightning on Venus; Conservative group concludes that there must be gay people there for the lightning to hit”

“After failing to respond in the form of a question, television game show host Alex Trebek suffers a heart attack”

“Cluster bombs best-selling toys this Christmas”

By: Hiatas

Hiatas — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:05:24 +0000

What?? But… but… then that means that Star Trek isn’t real!

By: Richard Smith

Richard Smith — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:28:04 +0000

From the page:
In reaction, the few reaming Astronomers

Ow! Ow! Definitely an “s” missing ‘twixt “st” there… You and your big telescopes!

By: Ken S

Ken S — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:46:10 +0000

Pretty amusing.

George Carlin was funny. But that was some time ago. Now he’s just an angry old fool.

By: Coucherias

Coucherias — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:31:32 +0000

I think the term “7th heaven” comes from Islam: At the sixth heaven Gabriel brought Mohammed to the verge of the seventh. The archangel said that he himself could go no further. This, the seventh heaven, was the last frontier between god and man and Mohammed was ushered into the place described as the abode of God almighty.

http://www.sol.com.au/kor/15_02.htm

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:18:03 +0000

Ah, satire, thy game is perversion,,,or maybe inversion,,,

I will note that recent genetic research seems to indicate that human evolution is accelerating,,,well, it’s about dad gummed time!!!

I just hope it really is EVOLUTION and not DEVOLUTION. HAnging out with a bunch of naked, anti-intellectual apes is not my idea of fun. Neurotic fear of the unknown is a very animal thing to do and we should be(evolved) beyond that by now,,,but then again, the Gift of Prometheus may not have illuminated everyone equally.

Gary 7

By: The Centipede

The Centipede — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:58:36 +0000

This is true enough, or perhaps I’m just a walking, talking stereotype.

> EncyclopediaDramatica is ten times better, amirite?

No, you’re not. Uncyclopedia can at least occasionally reach the point of keen satire, whilst Dramatica is only really good for “WOW WE CAN USE BAD WORDS LOL WE’RE FUNNY LIKE GEORGE CARLIN!!one”

By: Tom Woolf

Tom Woolf — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:20:36 +0000

C’mon – don’t post these items before I’ve had a chance to drink some coffee (6 scoops per pot)… I thought it was that doofuspedia, or creationpedia, or whatever that site was you blogged about recently.

I did notice that the link to Intelligent Astronomy had no entry – I think my brother and I will need to discuss the proper entry.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:01:58 +0000

I’d like to know how the word got out.

We’ve been keeping that secret for hundreds – nay thousands – of years.

Someone’s going to pay.

By: John Paradox

John Paradox — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:56:32 +0000

Is the humor in the ‘Alice’ reference too obscure?

(‘six impossible things before breakfast’ is from THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, ironically enough)

J/P=?

By: Kirk

Kirk — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:44:17 +0000

Is this guy one of the George W. Bush science advisors? Much of his content seems similar to the current administration’s attitude.

By: cletus

cletus — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:37:31 +0000

I was disappointed that the linked article on “Intelligent Astronomy” went missing. The concept boggles the imagination…..

By: DennyMo

DennyMo — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:52:44 +0000

“Just like Alice in Wonderland, astronomers need a number of impossibilities to make the impossible possible, for example, black holes and dark matter.”

Although spoken tongue-in-cheek, this one statement pretty much sums up the stumbling block many religious folks have with science. If your study of astronomy doesn’t exceed “Curious George Gets a Telescope”, “Stardate”, “Star Gazer”, or an occasional glance at “Sky & Telescope”, all the astronomical technobabble sounds like pure fantasy.

Of course, if you change a couple words in the sentence, the converse is also true: “Just like Alice in Wonderland, Christians need a number of impossibilities to make the impossible possible, for example, an omniscient and omnipotent God.”

To those whose familiarity with Christianity starts and ends with “7th Heaven”, televangelists, and some incomplete information on the Crusades and Inquisition, it all sounds like silly fantasy.

By: mike burkhart

mike burkhart — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:23:24 +0000

Are you sure he said astronomer and not astrologer many confuse the two

By: DLC

DLC — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:41:11 +0000

It was you evil astronomers (see, the name has “ass” in it . . .) that caused the removal of the beloved planet Pluto from the list of “Real” planets and forced the poor, misbegotten body into the nether-realm of “Dwarf Planets”!
How can anyone believe in Astronomy when it denies the perfectly reasonable quantum chi gravitational extract theory !?
How could anyone possibly trust someone who spends their nights looking up at the sky and pretending that the things they see move in the sky due to the entirely unproven theory of revolution, in denial of the ages-old belief that the earth is the center of the universe ?
Next you’ll be telling me that such long-practiced and clearly effectual practices as Homeopathy, Reiki and Acupuncture don’t have any effect beyond that of the placebo!
Right! it’s War to the End!

(the preceding was written as a lame attempt at humor)

By: Freiddie

Freiddie — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:25:50 +0000

I read a few lines or so, then stopped because it was too insane.