Comments on: Cosmophobia

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:04:22 +0000

I think that both a comet strike and the consumption of cosmopolitans can lead to the use of statements like “blasted out of existence.”

By: CafeenMan

CafeenMan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:26:25 +0000

Personally, I would define “cosmophobia” as, “Fear that your science is more real than my mythology”

By: CafeenMan

CafeenMan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:25:00 +0000

14. Buzz Parsec Says:
February 3rd, 2010 at 8:58 pm

Someone should write a book about all the possibilities of cosmic death, just to allay our fears…

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I think a competent astrologer could do it.

By: CafeenMan

CafeenMan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:23:58 +0000

@12. allium Says:

Dr. Plait has said as the article you linked to that things tend to slow down as they fall to Earth. That’s clearly true, but then the part, “it was unlikely to harm anyone” seems kind of a stretch to me.

I can drop a small rock off a bridge and harm somebody and it hasn’t even reached terminal velocity.

There have been several instances where things went through several layers of roof and ceiling which tells me there’s plenty of velocity to do more than just harm somebody.

Ok… back to the previously scheduled topic…

By: R-man

R-man — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:39:45 +0000

I was browsing the intertoobs the other day and stumbled upon the Youtube channel of the (un-caped) crusader of skepticism – Captain Disillusion.

In his recap of the TAM7, I spotted a stack of certain books, and a certain Bad Astronomer.

Just letting you know.

By: Ian Andreas Miller

Ian Andreas Miller — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:39:12 +0000

Whenever my Inner Classicist sees “cosmophobia,” he thinks it means “fear of order” or “fear of the cosmos.”

“What’s the weak and rational fear that in the far future the earth will be destroyed by some cosmic event called?”

Telemellontocosmicocatastrophophobia.

By: jcm

jcm — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:29:20 +0000

@14: Buzz Parsec

There is such a book. But, I’ll the man tell you about!

By: Buzz Parsec

Buzz Parsec — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:58:32 +0000

Someone should write a book about all the possibilities of cosmic death, just to allay our fears…

By: mike burkhart

mike burkhart — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:26:05 +0000

maybe it the result of decades of scifi that has created this phobia (strange I don’t apper to have it despite likeing scifi most of my life)

By: allium

allium — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:26:50 +0000

Semi-on topic; something blowed up real good over Ireland:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0203/meteorite.html

By: Jon Hanford

Jon Hanford — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:16:47 +0000

“What’s the weak and rational fear that in the far future the earth will be destroyed by some cosmic event called?”

For some here on Earth, Reality.

By: Tom Jones

Tom Jones — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:01:00 +0000

You know what really gives you a wicked hangover? 2 bottles of Jaegermeister, that’s what.
I drank that S— in 1977, never again!

By: Rift

Rift — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:57:22 +0000

What’s the weak and rational fear that in the far future the earth will be destroyed by some cosmic event called?

By: amstrad

amstrad — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:56:25 +0000

OT: London underground style map of the Milky Way

http://news.discovery.com/space/milky-way-transit-authority.html

By: Gary Miles

Gary Miles — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:52:59 +0000

I have a fear about a watermelon spiked with Eveclear flying toward my head. What is that called? Clear Channel?

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:32:50 +0000

I thought cosmophobia was the fear of popular science shows on public television.

By: Jole

Jole — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:23:33 +0000

Jim, you beat me to it.
Perhaps it’s the fear you have while waiting to hear what Michael Richards is going to say next…

By: Carey

Carey — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:22:34 +0000

The drink you’re thinking of, Phil, is the Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster. Drinking it is like having your brain smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick… moving at 30 km/s.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:50:29 +0000

Cosmophobia, an irrational fear of Kramer.

By: IVAN3MAN AT LARGE

IVAN3MAN AT LARGE — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:45:01 +0000

I always thought that cosmophobia — Firefox spell-check suggests Cosmopolitan(!) — is the fear of women’s magazines!

By: Matt G.

Matt G. — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:26:50 +0000

A bit of pineapple juice really takes the edge off a cosmo for all you cosmophobics out there.