Comments on: White House Star Party

By: Vikram

Vikram — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:22:28 +0000

Obama the antichrist!!!!! I thought that Bush was Christ himself!!!

By: adastragrl

adastragrl — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:31:14 +0000

@Alan in the US

Clearly not if the pres didn’t see it! But really, to start with the double double? pretty esoteric… why not Jupiter?

@onefish
Saturn?? Are you sure? It wasn’t visible from DC at that time… maybe Jupiter…

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By: The Ill Tempered Klavier

The Ill Tempered Klavier — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:00:04 +0000

I remember reading not too long ago that, knowing full well that even the most innocent comment he made was likely to be picked up and given a ridiculous political spin, Lincoln developed the habit of saying things like “Please let me be silent.” in casual situations.

By: David D.

David D. — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:06:30 +0000

#53–
“Unfortunate that a nice outreach promoting astronomy was used as a vehicle to promote even more political clatter.
(Sigh)”

Kinda like this blog post, eh?

By: Levi in NY

Levi in NY — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:59:12 +0000

The White House YouTube channel has a half-hour video up about the star party, featuring astronaut Sally Ride advocating for science (yay!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASLjEgx_Pjs

By: Alan in the US

Alan in the US — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:46:13 +0000

@adastragrl,

Modern computerized altazimuth telescopes track well, even at high powers.

Clear skies, Alan

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By: John Paradox

John Paradox — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:53:44 +0000

36. Flying sardines Says:

@ 30. John Paradox Says:

Neocons: President Barack HUSSEIN Obama kept middle schoolers up late on a school night to indoctrinate them into the *geocentric* theory… and it’s only a theory. …

Er .. don’t you mean heliocentric there?

d’oh
/homer

Geeze, just because I’ve had a few days (about three running over the last week) when I couldn’t sleep for over thirty (30) hours, you have to go and point out that I completely got it backwards. Censorship!!

/Glenn Beck

J/P=?

By: MadDoc

MadDoc — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:28:20 +0000

I am normally apolitical and do not often comment on these sort of things, but I was unlucky enough to catch a Fox News blurb this morning that showed footage of the President looking through a telescope and saying (in reference to what he was looking at) “…that’s far away”. The news commentator, Doug Luzader, then added “…just like the health care plan”.
Unfortunate that a nice outreach promoting astronomy was used as a vehicle to promote even more political clatter.
(Sigh)