Comments on: Aliens, chapeaus, or psilocybin? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/04/27/aliens-chapeaus-or-psilocybin/ 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. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:11:39 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: eigenvector http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/04/27/aliens-chapeaus-or-psilocybin/comment-page-1/#comment-84863 eigenvector Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:54:35 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/04/27/aliens-chapeaus-or-psilocybin/#comment-84863 Sort of related: Early one dark winter morning headed east on the 10 freeway paralleling LAX I saw a shiny flying object high up and to the extreme east of my position. Hoping for a flying saucer (my first) I realized it was a jet reflecting the sun coming up behind it. But then a miracle happened (well, OK, if you study physics it seemed miraculous) it instantaneously disappeared! It had flown westward into the earth's shadow! Simple explanation, but impressive to see happen! Sort of related: Early one dark winter morning headed east on the 10 freeway paralleling LAX I saw a shiny flying object high up and to the extreme east of my position. Hoping for a flying saucer (my first) I realized it was a jet reflecting the sun coming up behind it. But then a miracle happened (well, OK, if you study physics it seemed miraculous) it instantaneously disappeared! It had flown westward into the earth’s shadow! Simple explanation, but impressive to see happen!

]]> By: Kol http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/04/27/aliens-chapeaus-or-psilocybin/comment-page-1/#comment-84902 Kol Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:45:18 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/04/27/aliens-chapeaus-or-psilocybin/#comment-84902 I'm surprise that no one noticed that the poem suggested that I got lesions. I’m surprise that no one noticed that the poem suggested that I got lesions.

]]> By: Kol http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/04/27/aliens-chapeaus-or-psilocybin/comment-page-1/#comment-84901 Kol Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:38:07 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/04/27/aliens-chapeaus-or-psilocybin/#comment-84901 @ Ronn Blankenship Aw, man! If only someone else could claim that edit... I mispledded by axitent. @ Ronn Blankenship

Aw, man! If only someone else could claim that edit…

I mispledded by axitent.

]]> By: Jarrad http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/04/27/aliens-chapeaus-or-psilocybin/comment-page-1/#comment-84900 Jarrad Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:26:59 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/04/27/aliens-chapeaus-or-psilocybin/#comment-84900 Look at it a different way, if you think of the middle of the 'object' as see through and not as a reflective solid, it actually just looks like a poop smear on the lense :S Look at it a different way, if you think of the middle of the ‘object’ as see through and not as a reflective solid, it actually just looks like a poop smear on the lense :S

]]> By: Matt Ridout http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/04/27/aliens-chapeaus-or-psilocybin/comment-page-1/#comment-84899 Matt Ridout Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:03:36 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/04/27/aliens-chapeaus-or-psilocybin/#comment-84899 Live in croydon and saw no giant mushrooms... Live in croydon and saw no giant mushrooms…

]]> By: EmRodi http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/04/27/aliens-chapeaus-or-psilocybin/comment-page-1/#comment-84896 EmRodi Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:22:38 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/04/27/aliens-chapeaus-or-psilocybin/#comment-84896 I love the Doctor who reference this early in the morning. =D Also, I love how tabloids blow everything out of proportion or just plain make up nonsense. If I took a picture of a UFO, and really believed it was an unusual phenomena, the last person I would want to give the photo to would be a tabloid. I once read from a tabloid cats lived on Neptune. Neptunian cats. Well...as far as I know Neptune is gaseous and doesn't have a rocky surface for cats to walk on. xD So they'd be floating around? I love the Doctor who reference this early in the morning. =D
Also, I love how tabloids blow everything out of proportion or just plain make up nonsense. If I took a picture of a UFO, and really believed it was an unusual phenomena, the last person I would want to give the photo to would be a tabloid.

I once read from a tabloid cats lived on Neptune. Neptunian cats.
Well…as far as I know Neptune is gaseous and doesn’t have a rocky surface for cats to walk on. xD So they’d be floating around?

]]> By: Nigel Depledge http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/04/27/aliens-chapeaus-or-psilocybin/comment-page-1/#comment-84898 Nigel Depledge Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:37:52 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/04/27/aliens-chapeaus-or-psilocybin/#comment-84898 Sir Eccles said: "People are missing the bigger picture here, THERE WAS A TOURIST IN CROYDON!!!!!!" Good point, sir! I suspect the tourist simply got lost on their way somewhere else. You know, Staines or somewhere. BTW, Eccles, why are you here? Sir Eccles said:
“People are missing the bigger picture here, THERE WAS A TOURIST IN CROYDON!!!!!!”

Good point, sir! I suspect the tourist simply got lost on their way somewhere else. You know, Staines or somewhere.

BTW, Eccles, why are you here?

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