Comments on: MarsBQ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/02/marsbq/ 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. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:29:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Todd W. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/02/marsbq/comment-page-1/#comment-115077 Todd W. Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:09:09 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/02/marsbq/#comment-115077 BBQHB (BBQ Hoax Believer): That was clearly done on a soundstage in Hollywood. Space is a vacuum, and a flame like that could not continue once it leaves Earth's atmosphere. GWB (our current <s>king</s> Pres.): Give that man a job at the Pentagon. With a weapon like that, who needs nucular bombs! Now we'll finally get that Obama bin Laden. What? It's Osama? Oh, right. Him. Heh heh heh. SECI: The Search for Combustible Life? BBQHB (BBQ Hoax Believer): That was clearly done on a soundstage in Hollywood. Space is a vacuum, and a flame like that could not continue once it leaves Earth’s atmosphere.

GWB (our current king Pres.): Give that man a job at the Pentagon. With a weapon like that, who needs nucular bombs! Now we’ll finally get that Obama bin Laden. What? It’s Osama? Oh, right. Him. Heh heh heh.

SECI: The Search for Combustible Life?

]]> By: PG http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/02/marsbq/comment-page-1/#comment-115053 PG Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:37:46 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/02/marsbq/#comment-115053 Angle problem aside- look at the spatial coherence of that flame! Angle problem aside- look at the spatial coherence of that flame!

]]> By: redx http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/02/marsbq/comment-page-1/#comment-115046 redx Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:14:57 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/02/marsbq/#comment-115046 Exploding BBQ matter has mass and is effected by gravity, clearly it only looks like the angles are wrong, because we are only shown short segments of the line and they simply appear to be straight. If they were shown from enough away, the correct trajectory, including the trans-lunar slingshot, would be more apparent. Of course, that orbital path is covered by international patents, and would open the author up to significant personal liability if it's use was fully disclosed. Exploding BBQ matter has mass and is effected by gravity, clearly it only looks like the angles are wrong, because we are only shown short segments of the line and they simply appear to be straight.

If they were shown from enough away, the correct trajectory, including the trans-lunar slingshot, would be more apparent. Of course, that orbital path is covered by international patents, and would open the author up to significant personal liability if it’s use was fully disclosed.

]]> By: Dave Hall http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/02/marsbq/comment-page-1/#comment-115038 Dave Hall Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:13:03 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/02/marsbq/#comment-115038 And that was just with lighter fluid. Imagine what Roger Fox could have done with some liquid oxygen! And that was just with lighter fluid. Imagine what Roger Fox could have done with some liquid oxygen!

]]> By: Erin http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/02/marsbq/comment-page-1/#comment-115033 Erin Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:58:53 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/02/marsbq/#comment-115033 I agree, the angles are perfect, clearly this comic is scientifically sound. You're such a nitpicker! By the way, this comic totally reminds me of you, Phil: http://www.stonemakerargument.com/3.html I agree, the angles are perfect, clearly this comic is scientifically sound. You’re such a nitpicker!

By the way, this comic totally reminds me of you, Phil:

http://www.stonemakerargument.com/3.html

]]> By: C http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/02/marsbq/comment-page-1/#comment-115029 C Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:25:12 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/02/marsbq/#comment-115029 Angles? What if Mars is overhead in the cartoon? What if they're on the equator when they're having their barbecue? And what if suddenly there's a huge shift on Mars, and the Polar Lander is now facing toward earth? Huh? Huh? Angles? What if Mars is overhead in the cartoon? What if they’re on the equator when they’re having their barbecue? And what if suddenly there’s a huge shift on Mars, and the Polar Lander is now facing toward earth?

Huh? Huh?

]]> By: Gerry Williams http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/02/marsbq/comment-page-1/#comment-115028 Gerry Williams Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:20:59 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/02/marsbq/#comment-115028 If you liked the Foxtrot cartoon, you'll probably get a kick out of a recent La Cucaracha series: We Join the Mexicans to Mars Press Conference in Progress - with Lou Dobbs La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz http://www.gocomics.com/lacucaracha/2008/08/20/ http://www.gocomics.com/lacucaracha/2008/08/21/ http://www.gocomics.com/lacucaracha/2008/08/22/ http://www.gocomics.com/lacucaracha/2008/08/25/ http://www.gocomics.com/lacucaracha/2008/08/26/ http://www.gocomics.com/lacucaracha/2008/08/27/ http://www.gocomics.com/lacucaracha/2008/08/28/ http://www.gocomics.com/lacucaracha/2008/08/29/ If you liked the Foxtrot cartoon, you’ll probably get a kick out of a recent La Cucaracha series:

We Join the Mexicans to Mars Press Conference in Progress – with Lou Dobbs

La Cucaracha
by Lalo Alcaraz

http://www.gocomics.com/lacucaracha/2008/08/20/
http://www.gocomics.com/lacucaracha/2008/08/21/
http://www.gocomics.com/lacucaracha/2008/08/22/
http://www.gocomics.com/lacucaracha/2008/08/25/
http://www.gocomics.com/lacucaracha/2008/08/26/
http://www.gocomics.com/lacucaracha/2008/08/27/
http://www.gocomics.com/lacucaracha/2008/08/28/
http://www.gocomics.com/lacucaracha/2008/08/29/

]]> By: Tim Froehlich http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/02/marsbq/comment-page-1/#comment-115025 Tim Froehlich Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:54:11 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/02/marsbq/#comment-115025 Wow Phil. After just getting back from a summer term final in microcontrollers, that just made my day! Wow Phil. After just getting back from a summer term final in microcontrollers, that just made my day!

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