Comments on: Carroteidolia

By: mike burkhart

mike burkhart — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:15:01 +0000

If it had two extentions in the front it would look like Firefox ( fictonal Soviet Mig 31 fighter from the novel Firefox and a 1982 movie staring Clint Eastwood )

By: mike burkhart

mike burkhart — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:11:15 +0000

It looks more like an SR-71 to me then the Space Shuttle .

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:58:52 +0000

,,,and God said, “Let there be,,,Oops!”

Positive cosmological constant implies God didn’t get it quite right. Slightly negative would be better for life.

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26276/?nlid=4019

Gary 7

By: ggremlin

ggremlin — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:53:46 +0000

It looks more like a sign you shouldn’t pick your nose.

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 03:45:08 +0000

PS. WARNING : Obscenities & NSFW language on the Pulp Fiction Youtube clip linked in the comment that’s currently awaiting moderation above – sorry forgot to add that in time.

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 03:25:21 +0000

@ ^ The Barber of Civility :

Or being hunted by Vincent Vega :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec-8mD_BhrU

While listening to :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_(singer)

the Spanish singer-songwriter, Vega.

Ah, Wikipedia fount of all wisdom (or not!) :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_(disambiguation)

Turns out there’s a Vega in Norway and Sweden & *two* in the States – &, no, one of them is not Las Vegas!

Agree when it comes to the novel versus the movie of Contact – and, yeah, I thought the ending sucked too. For both actually – novel’s better but it & the film both gave a great journey with lots of interesting stuff along the way but had, in my view, a disappointing let-down of a finish.

@31. Joseph G :

What most people don’t know is that carrots are the mutant descendants of genetically engineered self-propagating supercrops develops by intelligent beings from a more fashionable part of the galaxy.

LOL. Good one!

By: The Barber of Civility

The Barber of Civility — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 02:38:48 +0000

@18 Floyd and @21 QuietDesperation -

Read the book. It’s so much better, and the ending is amazing!

@34 Fizzics Teacher -

As long as you’re not DRIVING a Vega!

By: Fizzics Teacher

Fizzics Teacher — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:59:03 +0000

Sure, go to Vega, but there isn’t much to see there. The drive to Vega is nice. In the summer. With no snow.

(Vega is a small community in Alberta, about 110 kilometres northwest of Edmonton. )

By: Joseph G

Joseph G — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:37:57 +0000

@#23 Ken B: Hehe. My thought was “Ayyyn… I musta taken a wrong toyn at Albakoikee!”

By: Joseph G

Joseph G — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:32:37 +0000

@#21 QuietDesperation: Excellent. I love that word, I’d always hoped to see someone have good reason to use it in a sentence.
Much as I love Carl Sagan, I agree, the ending sucked (the movie, that is – it’s been ages since I read the book).
And not just the “And no one believed her” part, no, that was just the tip of the iceberg.
What I hated was the painfully obvious parallel they tried to draw between her unprovable experience and her weird boyfriend’s religious faith. Because, apparently, seeing something a tad unusual – after being dropped into a trillion-dollar space machine built from confirmed alien blueprints – is exactly as hard for others to believe as faith in God (based on no concrete experiences whatsoever).

By: Joseph G

Joseph G — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:03:29 +0000

What most people don’t know is that carrots are the mutant descendants of genetically engineered self-propagating supercrops develops by intelligent beings from a more fashionable part of the galaxy.
Their beta-carotene is over 10 times as available after cooking – this is because carrots were intended to enter a planet’s atmosphere, survive reasonably intact, and embed themselves in the soil – this is where the pointy shape and crunchy texture come from. The greenery of the original carrotoids acted to decrease its terminal velocity before reaching the ground.
Eventually they would form supercolonies that formed enormous cannon-like structures. After accumulating enough energy to grow combustibles, these carrot cannons would fire baby carrots back out into space, where they would embed themselves in comets, some eventually reaching other planets.
Over millions of years, Earth viruses mutated the carrotoids into their current relatively immobile form. Unfortunately, little evidence of their glorious, adventurous history remains.

And that’s how I’m going to one day convince my kids to eat their vegetables.

By: Keith Bowden

Keith Bowden — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:44:37 +0000

Sometimes a cigar is not a cigar…

By: Number 6

Number 6 — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:57:01 +0000

Because we’re on the subject of science fiction (Contact), you might want to take a peek at your local PBS TV station tonight and watch the “Pioneers of Television”. Tonight’s topic is tah-dah….Science Fiction!

Looks like they are covering the series: Lost in Space, Star Trek, and Twilight Zone

http://www.pbs.org/opb/pioneersoftelevision/pioneering-programs/science-fiction/

By: alfaniner

alfaniner — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:27:03 +0000

My first impression was Gleep (or is it Gloop?) from The Herculoids.

By: Digital Atheist

Digital Atheist — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:12:43 +0000

i saw that blasted penguin Tux from the silly Linux sites. :-O

By: Chris Winter

Chris Winter — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:11:22 +0000

Mike Flugennock was on the right track. That’s not the shuttle; it’s Buran!

By: Chris Winter

Chris Winter — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:08:13 +0000

Number 6, you’re right. Ellie had a solid-state sound recorder with her. After her trip, which seemed to last only seconds, it was found to have recorded 18 hours of static (or silence; I forget which.)

By: Matt B.

Matt B. — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:02:30 +0000

For anyone that didn’t like the ending of the movie Contact, read the book. There’s more of an ending there. Or so I’m told; I’ve read the book and I asked a friend about the movie.

I feel for Phil concerning the swingset. Sometimes I get that feeling just coasting down a slight decline in my car. It must be partly psychological.

By: Ken B

Ken B — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:59:16 +0000

I, for one, welcome our new rabbit overlords.

By: Number 6

Number 6 — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:43:12 +0000

@QuietDesperation….

Sorry to disagree with you and agree with most…I really enjoy that film….but it’s been quite a while since I last saw it.

At the very end of the film, wasn’t there a suspicion by two others who read or heard the final report of her mission that there was an unexplainable (or not easily explained) time difference — as to how much time went by inside and outside of the capsule?…. a difference of about 18 hours (according to the IMDB database)…So, it wasn’t a sure thing that only one person knew something unusual had happened, but couldn’t prove it.

Jake Busey as Joseph, the religious terrorist is especially creepy…Jake has that “interesting presence” on film just like his Dad, Gary.

By: QuietDesperation

QuietDesperation — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:11:38 +0000

ZOMG! Not shuttle. Carrot bomb!! Throw it! Quick!

We watched Contact two weeks ago. It’s an amazing movie, especially through the wormhole to her “father.”

My initial reaction was minor dislike, but that grew into a serious dislike. The whole end was a cop out. I *hate* the story archetype where something amazing happens, but only one person knows it and can’t prove it. Bleah… I had to search for a word at the time to adequately describe my perception of the film: “mawkish”

By: Erik M

Erik M — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:11:05 +0000

Looks like the Virgin Mary’s nose!

By: Michel

Michel — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:05:47 +0000

“Of course, I get sick on a kid’s swing set, so that’s probably not it. ”

Maybe if you eat it you´ll be cured!
And tomorrow you scream “HOLY SH…”

By: Floyd

Floyd — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:53:39 +0000

We watched Contact two weeks ago. It’s an amazing movie, especially through the wormhole to her “father.”

By: Number 6

Number 6 — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:17:04 +0000

“Ahhhhhhhhh…(chomp…chomp…chomp)…What’s up Doc?”

Phil, looks like you’ve got a ready-made prop for an upcoming “Veggie Tales in Outer Space” movie. Interesting color for a Space Shuttle. Orange you happy?