Comments on: Shuttle, Ham and AiGs

By: joker

joker — Sat, 31 May 2008 11:59:32 +0000

Actually, I’m all for taking that evil Creation “science” museum / theme park Ken Ham guy up into Near-Earth orbit ….

…. I’m just not so keen on them bringing him back!

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Well the bad ken Ham’s started togo into space already as at least Ken Ham’s little brain is already off the planet!

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With a name like Ken Ham its just a pity the fool ain’t Jewish!
Then that’d be ironically in-apt

Okay I’m out, next up to the plate in the “Ridicule the bad ken Ham” contest is …

By: joker

joker — Sat, 31 May 2008 11:52:36 +0000

Headlkined the BA :

Shuttle, Ham and AiGs

So that must be ham (plus pork & bacon?) are going to be made in outer space aboard the shuttle by AiG ..

…. AI – G *creases brow * … AIG ..?

Hmm.. Now does that stand for Articifically Intelligent Girls? Must be! Robot girls a la the female terminator only nicer .. wait for it, wait a sec They’re shooting ‘Porkies’ in space!

Must be!
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Or .. erm .. not as the case may be.

By: Steven Charles Raine

Steven Charles Raine — Sat, 31 May 2008 11:44:48 +0000

THX Ronn Blankenship

Hmm .. nothing more reported yet that I’ve seen either. Hmm .. maybe I was mistaken – sorry.

*Shuffles feet. Looks down – tail between legs. *

THX too Ronn Blankenship again for this one :

You better hope that the elephant isn’t lifting its leg for some other purpose when the sun passes by, or it will be getting awfully dark and cold soon . . .

Honest to the cosmos, I really did laugh aloud at that! Classic!

By: John Paradox

John Paradox — Sat, 31 May 2008 09:48:19 +0000

Howie
Well, at least it’s Ken Ham, Astronaut who will pilot the Shuttle and not Buzz Lightyear who is going up as part of the ‘crew’

Did you see this article?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-9956563-52.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

hmmmm…

J/P=?

By: Ronn Blankenship

Ronn Blankenship — Sat, 31 May 2008 08:46:33 +0000

[Steven Charles Raine asks about Theta Scorpii.]

If it had brightened enough to be seen through the clouds here tonight we might all be in trouble.

That said, I haven’t seen any other reports yet about anything unusual.

By: Steven Charles Raine

Steven Charles Raine — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:57:50 +0000

Arghh . Threbolds was supposed to stop at the end of :

What’s happened to Theta Scorpii tonight?

D’oh! Sorry folks – yet again.

By: Steven Charles Raine

Steven Charles Raine — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:56:24 +0000

Off topic sorry – & posted elsewhere too – so apologies agian -
but I’d like to spread this news quickly to amateur and professional astronomers juston the chance that something spectacular could be happening here :

Is something up with Theta Scorpii (or Sargas) tonight??

It strikes me as having become noticeably brighter – maybe brightened by about half a magnitude … & its not listed as a variable star either! Mind you, I could be wrong .. but it does look very different to me.

See details in my (again off-topic – sorry) post on the GLAST thread …

Anyone care to confirm / refute / explain .. ?

By: Pleco

Pleco — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:50:53 +0000

@2 “I’d make the other guy change his name.”

Unfortunately, if the two of them come in contact, they would annihilate each other, resulting in a fantastic release of energy (dark energy from you-know-who), possibly destroying a city. Now, if the meeting could be arranged at that craptastic museum for the scientifically challenged, then perhaps the building could be destroyed. But we would lose an astronaut. Decisions, decisions…

By: Ken B

Ken B — Fri, 30 May 2008 14:12:12 +0000

Kevin Conod:

Ken Ham, Mark Kelly and Garrett Reisman are all from New Jersey!

Uh oh, we’re all in trouble now! I’ve seen how people from New Jersey drive!

By: slang

slang — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:55:03 +0000

"Evil Ken Ham" is the person most responsible for popularizing piglet-raping, as a simple search in the most popular search engine will show. OtherRob already had the other Ham reference.. the brave little chimp (*tips hat*).

By: Doc

Doc — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:49:02 +0000

Don’t you people know anything about *real* astronomy? There is no such thing as gravity. The reason that things orbit the discworld, and the force that holds the disc to the elephants and the elephants to the turtle, is *animal magnatism*.

Sheesh!

By: KaiYves

KaiYves — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:41:06 +0000

Reminds me of Mik Kanrokitoff from Tintin.

By: spokelig

spokelig — Fri, 30 May 2008 09:10:43 +0000

That homework assignment is easy – there is no gravity, it’s all intelligent falling. Therefore, astronauts stay in orbit around a circular earth because it’s the will of a higher intelligence!

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39512

By: Ronn Blankenship

Ronn Blankenship — Fri, 30 May 2008 09:07:22 +0000

Dorfl asked:

“Yay, Discworld homework! Do you have to account for the gravity from the turtle that’s holding up the world?”

Oh, that’s too easy. I will just ask the Librarian to get me the answer from L-Space….

Shouldn’t gravity on the disk change at certain times since one of the elephants has to lift a leg to let the sun pass by?

You better hope that the elephant isn’t lifting its leg for some other purpose when the sun passes by, or it will be getting awfully dark and cold soon . . .

By: Nasikabatrachus

Nasikabatrachus — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:55:13 +0000

“@Jewel – I don’t know if it was in Phil’s book or Michael Shermer’s, but the old lady who said “It’s turtles all the way down!” said it best.”

But if it were turtles all the way down, wouldn’t the infinite gravity of the infinite mass of the turtles create a black hole? Or does there have to be a critical density of infinite turtles?

Now my brain hurts.

By: Some Canadian Skeptic

Some Canadian Skeptic — Fri, 30 May 2008 05:32:44 +0000

Phil, I’m disapointed. You could have had a “Ham it up” pun for the title of this post.

I forgive you this time.

By: Hugo

Hugo — Fri, 30 May 2008 04:44:57 +0000

The Flat Earth I was thinking of is a cartoonish, rectangular 2D map of the world – not something awesome like Pratchett’s Discworld.

Like if I stetched out a map of the world from an atlas onto a sheet of A4 paper, so that it’s a rectangle. I don’t go for that whole ‘platter’ thing. In fact, I think I got this idea out off of a cartoon.

Meh. Orbit this!

By: OtherRob

OtherRob — Fri, 30 May 2008 04:34:47 +0000

JB, I think it was in one of Stephen Hawking’s books. A Brief History of Time?

By: DingoDave

DingoDave — Fri, 30 May 2008 04:04:08 +0000

Buzz Parsec wrote: “I’ve noticed when I meet up with people with the same name, one of them is always the evil twin of the other one, so if you say “the good Ken Ham” and “the evil Ken Ham”, everyone will always know which you mean.”

They could call this mission ‘Operation Nemesis’.

By: JB of Brisbane

JB of Brisbane — Fri, 30 May 2008 03:24:27 +0000

@Jewel – I don’t know if it was in Phil’s book or Michael Shermer’s, but the old lady who said “It’s turtles all the way down!” said it best.

By: Evolving Squid

Evolving Squid — Fri, 30 May 2008 02:35:06 +0000

Around a disk or a square the distribution of mass you see changes with time; sometimes a corner or an edge is closer, sometimes farther, so the gravity you feel changes.

But you could orbit a disk in the same plane as the disk, as long as the disk was more-or-less circular…

By: Dorfl

Dorfl — Fri, 30 May 2008 02:12:27 +0000

“Yay, Discworld homework! Do you have to account for the gravity from the turtle that’s holding up the world?”

Oh, that’s too easy. I will just ask the Librarian to get me the answer from L-Space….

Shouldn’t gravity on the disk change at certain times since one of the elephants has to lift a leg to let the sun pass by?

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:58:54 +0000

Bah. Here I came all the way to BA HQ for more info on these magnestar thingies and maybe a passionate gushing about the new Phoenix picture (with the crater in it) and nothing! NOTHING!

/will wait patiently
//Tired of waiting, maybe wiki..no…Hungry Hungry Hippos!

By: Buzz Parsec

Buzz Parsec — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:25:58 +0000

That ate my link to a picture of the stamp… trying again:

http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/geysers/geyserstamp.html

By: Buzz Parsec

Buzz Parsec — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:24:51 +0000

I’ve noticed when I meet up with people with the same name, one of them is always the evil twin of the other one, so if you say “the good Ken Ham” and “the evil Ken Ham”, everyone will always know which you mean. There is probably an evil Buzz Parsec floating around in space somewhere, and an evil Bad Astronomer… Ooh, wait, wouldn’t the opposite of a Bad Astronomer be a Good Astronomer?

Also I don’t think anyone here actually believes the evil Ken Ham thinks the earth is flat. We’re just enjoying some trash-talk. As to sending him to the Moon with a ruler to measure the regolith, wasn’t that all deposited by the flood?

On a totally unrelated topic, I just bought some old computer components on Ebay (an old VAX CPU and some memory) which arrived in a box with about 50 postage stamps on it. (Aren’t you supposed to soak such boxes in a bucket of water before opening them?) Most of the stamps were 30 year old 8 cent stamps in blocks of 4 stamps, all different! Pretty bizarre. One set was about the centennial of the National Parks, and featured Old Faithful erupting. In the middle of the steam cloud (and this was verified by a coworker) is Homer Simpson. , 2nd stamp. Homer is much more obvious on the actual stamp than on the picture on the web. I think Mark Twain, Snake, and maybe a bunch of other Simpsons characters are also in the cloud. A fount of paradeiola.