Comments on: Friday web weirdness roundup

By: Hugo

Hugo — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:03:41 +0000

“Woman says NASA probing husbands ashes ‘ungodly’.”

How long before someone sues NASA for disturbing a scared Indian Moon burial ground?

By: Natasha Yar-Routh

Natasha Yar-Routh — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:44:27 +0000

Well hopefully third time is the charm for SpaceX. There will be a lot of pissed of relatives if their loved ones ashes wind up somewhere in the Pacific.

By: Frogmarch

Frogmarch — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:41:34 +0000

and I’m referring to a possible future industry, where ashes are flown into space or the moon…really green

By: Frogmarch

Frogmarch — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:33:42 +0000

So Quiet_Desperation, you think that no fossil fuels will be used in the production of these Rich-Tosspot rockets?

By: Chip

Chip — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:13:03 +0000

On the older Bad Astronomy board, one of the funnier (though at the time exasperating) Mars rock-shape interpreters, not directly associated with Charles W. Shults III but a supporter of his shpiel, was the obsessive poster who continually revealed so-called “tiny observers”.

He/she would take Rover images off the NASA website, run them through filters and Photoshop tools to create a kind of ionized effect and then return it back to its somewhat original though compressed state, blurrier and much the worse for wear. This new image would create spurious shapes in the landscape and anything that remotely resembled the shape of a human being was defined as a tiny Martian observing the Rovers!

Its sad that they kept doing this nonsense rather than simply be amazed by the wonderful real images of Mars from Spirit and Opportunity!

And then there was the notorious “Piper” who saw tiny cities on the moon by greatly blowing up Apollo mission images of lunar soil off website sources.

By: The Centipede

The Centipede — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:53:36 +0000

But of course there’s still snake-oil salesmen and wahoos. If there weren’t, skeptics wouldn’t have anything to predate on and their population would collapse, leading to extinction. Predator-prey relationships are all about sinusoidal stability.

By: Quiet_Desperation

Quiet_Desperation — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:48:58 +0000

FrogMarch, when did liquid oxygen, hydrogen, aluminum and ammonium perchlorate become fossil fuels?

I don’t think anyone is saying “peek” oil.

“Peak” oil, maybe…

By: Quiet_Desperation

Quiet_Desperation — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:43:36 +0000

Ya know, if they keep sending people’s ashes off into space, eventually the mass of the Earth will be so eroded that it will seriously affect our orbit. This must be stopped now!

Eh, we get so much dust incoming we could never counter it all.

By: Quiet_Desperation

Quiet_Desperation — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:42:48 +0000

The skeptics of the 1600′s were sharp as well… right up until the fire reached the stake to which they were tied.

By: Doc

Doc — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:42:40 +0000

Ya know, if they keep sending people’s ashes off into space, eventually the mass of the Earth will be so eroded that it will seriously affect our orbit. This must be stopped now!

By: Mike Evans

Mike Evans — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:14:25 +0000

HEADS UP!

I just removed an unauthorized paper poster from our bulletin board.
It promotes “scientific exploration” dot “org” and an event called “Emerging Paradigms at the Frontiers of Consciousness & UFO Research”
It’s scheduled for late June in Boulder, Colorado, which is why I mentioned it here.
The poster uses phrases like “time to turn the page,” “new understanding,” and laughably, “a new reality.”
The sponsoring organization calls itself “The Society for Scientific Exploration”
“Science … as exciting as it was meant to be.”

Do you know about these guys?

By: Frogmarch

Frogmarch — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:47:22 +0000

I think sending someone’s ashes to the moon is a great use for fossil fuels…….did someone say peek oil?

By: Sili

Sili — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:51:25 +0000

Re old sceptics: somewhere we have letters from some family members who emigrated to Illinois in the 19th century (my father’s father’s father’s mother’s cousin, I think – I really should look that up …). Anyway, I was very pleased to read a letter from 1900 talking about the upcoming new century. So happy to see that people could count back then – unlike now.

By: www.actionforspace.com

www.actionforspace.com — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:18:34 +0000

Maybe the woman on Mars scooped up all the fossils