Comments on: For the bored antiscientist

By: Dwatney

Dwatney — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:24:01 +0000

To me, it looks like a cyberman from Dr. Who.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:33:24 +0000

Laugh Out Loud.

Literally, that’s what I did when I read that.

Snark is good.

By: JoeyJoJoJr

JoeyJoJoJr — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:59:27 +0000

Bill @5 – They already have, it’s called the Creation “Museum” in Kentucky.

By: Bill White

Bill White — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:16:49 +0000

Mars isn’t the only planet with a face. A picture you had a week or so ago on Kuiper Crater has a head in the center. Looks like The Creature from the Black Lagoon, or something, with a cell phone up to his right ear!

By: IBY

IBY — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:59:13 +0000

You forgot one more thing, data and quote mining is tough too! ^_^

By: MadScientist

MadScientist — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:31:59 +0000

Hahaha; that’s a great ad, BA! I’d go buy a puzzle … if I had any money.

By: davidlpf

davidlpf — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:10:42 +0000

Sucked into the puzzle dimension and can’t get out.

By: Professor Cosmoquack

Professor Cosmoquack — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:14:22 +0000

I’m not really quite syrup what just happened. I was so engaged by the actual picture of the puzzle as I could not force my mind to veer over and read the article. But I must just say. I for one, love puzzles. As a puzzle of fact, I am working on a 4 dimensional model that spins (not on its own power unfortunately) and maintains its own measurable zones of simulated relative time.

And calling Earth blue is like calling a blue gum ball blue. Yeah, its blue. But suck on it for an hour and it becomes white. So the gumball isnt really blue. However, if you choose to argue that the blue gumball is indeed Blue, I recommend you suck on it. (thats dedicated to Phil)

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:37:29 +0000

@amphiox: Oh yes. He missed the fact neither Venus, Mercury or Uranus fits his data. Neptune’s Dark Spot did fit until it vanished and reappeared in the northern hemisphere proving that interdimensional geometry is hard.

But still, cool coincidence.

By: amphiox

amphiox — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:03:22 +0000

“One thing about the book that did strike me was his observation that major features of the planets are on or about 19 degrees from the equator of the planet’s equator. Its true Hawaii, Olympus Mons and the Great Red Spot are all about 19 degrees away from the equator. Pretty interesting coincidence that he says is a result of “Inter dimensional geometry (whatever that means).”

He’s cherry picking his “major features”. Wouldn’t you say that ice-covered Antartica counts as a “major feature” of blue planet earth?

By: amphiox

amphiox — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:00:27 +0000

Funny thing is, even in the hi-res, to me it still looks a little like a face. A face drawn by Picasso on drugs.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:36:20 +0000

I must say, that’s a pretty cool puzzle.

I actually read his book about the monuments of Mars back before the new high resolution images came in. It was well written but definitely a flight of fantasy.

One thing about the book that did strike me was his observation that major features of the planets are on or about 19 degrees from the equator of the planet’s equator. Its true Hawaii, Olympus Mons and the Great Red Spot are all about 19 degrees away from the equator. Pretty interesting coincidence that he says is a result of “Inter dimensional geometry (whatever that means).

By: Molly

Molly — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:43:01 +0000

@Todd W

I really would be interesting. I really haven’t done a lot of research as to what other avenues are being looked at in Autism research, but I did appreciate that this article addressed some of the major facts that discredit the vaccine link.

It is also really nice to see that research into other factors is still prgressing. That is my biggest concern about the whole anit-vax issue, that it is diverting precious funding down a dead end.

I’ll be interested to see where these lines of research go, that’s for sure.

By: Bruce Almighty

Bruce Almighty — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:20:11 +0000

They need a proofreader…first puzzle is of a woman’s face in “Certis Major.”
I think they mean Syrtis Major.

By: Todd W.

Todd W. — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:20:05 +0000

@Molly

It would be interesting to know how levels of the chemicals mentioned in that HuffPo article compare to levels in individuals from other countries, e.g., for those who are from third-world countries, where exposure to the chemicals would likely be less.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:50:58 +0000

So… If I compare you to Galileo and myself to Hitler, does that make me a scientist?

By: Janiece

Janiece — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:43:56 +0000

I know just the person who needs one of these LIKE NOBODY’S BUSINESS!!

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:34:58 +0000

If anyone ever builds a theme park based on psuedoscientific whackjobbery, it MUST have a section named Hoag Land.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:34:03 +0000

Sorry Phil, but puzzles are hard work. It’s easier for someone else to do it while I sit back and pawn off my superstitions to innocent children.

By: John

John — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:23:15 +0000

He’s referring to Richard Hoagland, the nutcase who thinks all the high res images of Cydonia have been “altered” to hide his precious face on Mars.

By: Molly

Molly — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:20:02 +0000

Speaking of the antiscience, HuffPost actually has a reassuring article shining some light on the science going on in autism research and EDC’s. Very interesting. The comments, however, continue to be disheartening.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harvey-karp/cracking-the-autism-riddl_b_221202.html

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:53:52 +0000

Yes, “hoag heaven”. As in “the Unpleasant Profession of Jonathon Hoag” ?