If work and holiday stress have got you standing on your head, then do NOT go to the 83rd Carnival of Space, the antipodean edition hosted at AstroBlog. It’ll only make things look topsy-turvy.
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December 16th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
If they’re standing on their heads, aren’t they already oriented correctly to go to the event?
Hair. Split. Done.
December 16th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
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December 16th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
From the Carnival: “we antipodeans get to see Orion without all that white stuff making our toes fall off“.
This is, of course, wrong. We don’t see Orion. We see the Saucepan instead.