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I remember two movie-linked cereals being really good – C3P0′s (the one that was out with Jedi, not the kind made years later) and the Batman cereal (first movie). They were pretty much the same, some kind of sweetened corn puffs.

Cracked me up too!

Well, I had a visceral response so I guess it’s good art.

As for best cereal growing up, Apple Jacks owned all.

Anyone remember a 1970′s sugar ceral called Moonstones? It involved a trio of aliens mining the moon for delicious moonstones, and now you can eat them (the ‘stones,’ not the aliens) in your cereal bowl! The cereal pieces were shaped like stars and crescent moons, and the aliens were a male captain overseeing another male and a female. I don’t recall if they had a robot or other mascot. One morning, I ate three or four bowls in rapid succession and promptly threw up. Ah, memories…

Does anyone remember the 3 Cocoa Puffs kids who preceded the Cuckoo as the spokespeople for that cereal? When I was about 5, General Mills ran a contest to name them. I won 3rd prize, a Lionel train. Woot!

Anytime a YEC references actual science, you can be sure they’re misinterpreting it. They’re generally unwilling to do the most basic research, or even find sources that support their claims. The only people they’re fooling are other YECs.

Link 1 there is a non-starter for their argument because there are far more sophisticated ways to determine distance than just magnitude.. if that were the sole measurement then the sun would be “further away” during an eclipse.

Their interpretation of Link 2 is likely some ham-handed attempt to cast doubt on the efficacy of radiometric dating. The wikipedia articles on those subjects contain enough factual information that you can catch most of the YECs’ mistakes, or outright lies, just by reading them. Sometimes, though, they’ll try to jargon-bomb you into thinking they know what they’re talking about, at which point you may want to check the articles on pandasthumb.org or talkorigins.org.

I don’t understand your saying “Space dust exists which makes the universe seem larger than it should,” and then linking to an article that says nothing of the sort.

The dust makes the universe appear dimmer than it should, but this in no way effects the distance or age of these objects, and I’m not sure how someone would get that impression. Radio emissions aren’t affected by dust.

1. Space dust exists which makes the universe seem larger than it should. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080515-galactic-dust.html

2. Nuclear reactors are may be under the mantle. http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080515/full/news.2008.822.html

The linked article said nothing about the universe being smaller than it previously had appeared, nor did it have anything to say about the age of the universe. IANAA, but as far as I know magnitude isn’t really the preferred way to measure the distance of these objects from us. A quick search tells me that we still have to in some cases, so perhaps there are some objects that are closer than we had previously thought, but it doesn’t necessarily follow that the universe is any smaller. Either way, the universe could be way smaller than we’ve measured while still supporting a 4.7 BYO Earth.

For #2, how would possible fission reactions in the mantle make the observed age of the Earth younger?

BaldApe’s a one percenter!

The rabbit is for the cereal Trix, the one on the left is Frankenberry, and in the middle of the couch is Count Chocula. All are from sugar cereals made by General Mills (IIRC). I’d dig up some of the commercials, but youtube seems to be having problems at the moment.

Of the rest, the only one I could recognise was the tiger (Tony), albeit it seems like I should recognise the rabbit(? hare?). The other two are complete mysteries to me. (So is, for that matter, this Quisp character that’s being mentioned.)

Thge deck of cards, dartboard, and Kiss (a real vinal album on the floor) are all pretty funny too. I wasn’t able to make out the picture(?) on the wall next to the dartboead. And it’s too bad they were all drinking usaian bud, better known as polluted water, instead of beer.