Comments on: Obameidolia http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/08/obameidolia/ 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 08:45:12 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Martian Madness « The Skeptical Teacher http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/08/obameidolia/comment-page-2/#comment-180475 Martian Madness « The Skeptical Teacher Mon, 04 May 2009 23:52:32 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/08/obameidolia/#comment-180475 [...] Under ordinary circumstances, pareidolia provides a psychological explanation for many delusions based upon sense perception. For example, it explains many UFO sightings, as well as the hearing of sinister messages on records played backwards. Pareidolia explains Elvis, Bigfoot, and Loch Ness Monster sightings. It explains numerous  religious apparitions and visions. And it explains why some people see a face or a building in a photograph of the Cydonia region of Mars. [...] [...] Under ordinary circumstances, pareidolia provides a psychological explanation for many delusions based upon sense perception. For example, it explains many UFO sightings, as well as the hearing of sinister messages on records played backwards. Pareidolia explains Elvis, Bigfoot, and Loch Ness Monster sightings. It explains numerous  religious apparitions and visions. And it explains why some people see a face or a building in a photograph of the Cydonia region of Mars. [...]

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By: Arabbible http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/08/obameidolia/comment-page-2/#comment-153680 Arabbible Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:22:41 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/08/obameidolia/#comment-153680 Looks like Sarah Palin :) Looks like Sarah Palin :)

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By: Sir Gallahad http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/08/obameidolia/comment-page-2/#comment-134147 Sir Gallahad Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:37:54 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/08/obameidolia/#comment-134147 Well, the bidding ends in under an hour and it's up to $207.50.. hilarious. Well, the bidding ends in under an hour and it’s up to $207.50.. hilarious.

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By: ecallaja http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/08/obameidolia/comment-page-2/#comment-133966 ecallaja Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:05:24 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/08/obameidolia/#comment-133966 Looks more like Pee Wee Herman. Looks more like Pee Wee Herman.

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By: PICTURAPixel - Bloco de Notas » O verdadeiro Obama bronzeado foi parar no ebay. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/08/obameidolia/comment-page-2/#comment-133691 PICTURAPixel - Bloco de Notas » O verdadeiro Obama bronzeado foi parar no ebay. Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:10:20 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/08/obameidolia/#comment-133691 [...] O Vitor viu o Obama torrado aqui… [...] [...] O Vitor viu o Obama torrado aqui… [...]

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By: Obama’s Sober Hope, Bush’s Cowboy Certitude, and the Legitimizing of Positive Ambiguity - Plasma Pool http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/08/obameidolia/comment-page-2/#comment-133654 Obama’s Sober Hope, Bush’s Cowboy Certitude, and the Legitimizing of Positive Ambiguity - Plasma Pool Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:07:17 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/08/obameidolia/#comment-133654 [...] Obama’s intelligence is one that concertedly rejects the cult of the cowboy, one that disdains the notion of conviction as an unalloyed virtue. His retrospectively vindicated opposition to dumb war in the face of supposedly airtight evidence for launching it has proven a victory not just for Obama, but for the legitimacy of ambiguity itself as a space for positive thinking in the making of serious decisions by individuals and societies. With the discrediting of certitude undergirded by the hyperspecific comes the complementary embrace of an ineluctably abstract, indefinable hope—a hope we have espoused, often reluctantly, because the sober and steady hand of the man who has become its global symbol checks its pesky quixotism. [...] [...] Obama’s intelligence is one that concertedly rejects the cult of the cowboy, one that disdains the notion of conviction as an unalloyed virtue. His retrospectively vindicated opposition to dumb war in the face of supposedly airtight evidence for launching it has proven a victory not just for Obama, but for the legitimacy of ambiguity itself as a space for positive thinking in the making of serious decisions by individuals and societies. With the discrediting of certitude undergirded by the hyperspecific comes the complementary embrace of an ineluctably abstract, indefinable hope—a hope we have espoused, often reluctantly, because the sober and steady hand of the man who has become its global symbol checks its pesky quixotism. [...]

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By: Groak http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/08/obameidolia/comment-page-2/#comment-133576 Groak Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:24:03 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/08/obameidolia/#comment-133576 Looks like a bagel to me. Looks like a bagel to me.

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