Comments on: Sagan destroys astrology

By: Jabjabs

Jabjabs — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:44:11 +0000

Oh I am very amused by this. Time to go get an apple pie myself

By: flip

flip — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:43:39 +0000

#34, Isaac,

I think you missed the joke. The zodiac ship keeps firing weapons that don’t work. That suggests their engineers don’t know what they’re doing. Which further suggests their engineers wouldn’t know how to build a working ship in the first place.

It would make sense that Sagan’s ship “was built by engineers using scientifically sound principles”, but not the zodiac ship.

By: Isaac

Isaac — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:31:39 +0000

@ flip, #30

“One wonders how the animal spaceship even functions.”

Simple, flip. As with computers and pretty much everything else in the world, the zodiac ship functions because it was built by engineers using scientifically sound principles.

By: penneysound

penneysound — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 04:12:03 +0000

if anyone wants to make some sort of animation of it, i would happily provide sound effects if you can provide voices

By: Ksessoking

Ksessoking — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 08:12:27 +0000

Can’t wait to show this to my students!

By: Rodolfo

Rodolfo — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 23:59:17 +0000

Carl Sagan: MY HERO!!! I still remember when I saw Cosmos on TV for the first time (I have a copy in VHS, another in DVD, the book and the music in a 33 rpm-vinil record!!). From time to time I enjoy re-reading some of his books.

By: flip

flip — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 22:35:57 +0000

That’s one good comic!

One wonders how the animal spaceship even functions.

By: Martha

Martha — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:42:30 +0000

I guess some people view astrology as a religion, but that does not obligate us to treat it any differently. The days when we have to treat religion with deference merely because it is religion are long gone. Religion does not occupy some special place that requires us to treat it any differently than say politics. Besides as belief systems go astrology is sort of the bubble gum of woo. Stop making special pleas about religion because I don’t care if you are offended that I ridicule your religion or your deity. It had to happen sometime that religion was cut down to size and I am happy to be a part of that process.

By: Ld Elon

Ld Elon — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 05:55:15 +0000

This is not brilliant, this is a childs toy. Ther is a difference you know.

who the fk is carl?

By: Boingo

Boingo — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:24:41 +0000

Ho ho ho! LOL!

Carl Sagan for the win!

And lots more sentences ending in exclamation points!!!!!!

By: grung0r

grung0r — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:15:26 +0000

How uncivil of you to post this! Whenever I see the ridiculing of people’s cherished beliefs, I feel that the go to guy is one Phil Plait. Here is what he had to say on the subject: Ridiculing… is not the right path; certainly taking them to task for it is OK and I support that, as I said in my original post on this. But you don’t have to be a dick about it.

Perhaps this isn’t rank hypocrisy though. Maybe ridiculing People’s deeply held and cherished(yet mind numbingly stupid) beliefs is ok, as long as it’s not deeply held and cherished(yet mind numbingly stupid)Religious beliefs. A special plea, if you will. Yes, that must be it.

By: Alan(UK)

Alan(UK) — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:47:37 +0000

This is enough to make you believe in astrology:

http://www.ursi.org/Proceedings/ProcGA05/pdf/E07.5(0359).pdf

By: froonium

froonium — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:46:33 +0000

Most excellent comic! Unfortunately, astrology is playing the whack-a-mole game and just popped up in India with this bit o' stupid - Bombay-High-Court-Rules-Astrology-To-Be-a-Science

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By: Zyggy

Zyggy — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:00:48 +0000

You, sir, win at the internet today.

The Carl Sagan comic was great, but I though the best part is the link to the Symphony of Science video. I hadn’t heard of the band previously, but I really enjoyed the other stuff as well.

On an amusing note, so to speak, putting Carl Sagan’s voice through the auto-tuner makes him sound a LOT like Kermit the Frog.

Zyg

By: nancyem

nancyem — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:44:17 +0000

LOVE IT. had a huge crush on Sagan when I was a kid, who needed teenybopper magazines?

By: J. Major

J. Major — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:14:46 +0000

Brilliantness

By: fetchbeer

fetchbeer — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:51:25 +0000

Carl Sagan can hear you scream in space.

By: Arik Rice

Arik Rice — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:50:21 +0000

The last bit should have read “crumbly but…good”. Still it was frakkin hilarious!

By: truthspeaker

truthspeaker — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:48:01 +0000

I assumed Carl heard the “BOOOOOOM!!!” when the shock wave from the explosion hit his vessel.

By: Steve (treelobsters)

Steve (treelobsters) — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:26:38 +0000

Maybe Carl’s ship has an augmented reality feature that detects explosions in space and overlays suitable sound effects in 5.1 Surround.

By: Ken B

Ken B — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:03:01 +0000

I loved it, until it got to the panel where you could hear the “BOOOOOM!!!!” in outer space… Ruined the whole thing for me.

By: Bluegrass Geek

Bluegrass Geek — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:46:10 +0000

On a similar note:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLpgxry542M

“Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son of a bitch in space!”

By: Donald Simmons

Donald Simmons — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:06:59 +0000

He appears (with the title character) in Atomic Robo Vol. 3: Atomic Robo and the Shadow From Beyond Time. In the 1970s Robo ropes Sagan into helping him study an interdimensional Lovecraftian creature. It’s a great story and Sagan gets to use Robo’s Science Gun.

By: Joseph G

Joseph G — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:55:49 +0000

I’m so glad you posted this. Someone showed it to me the other day and it made my whole week!

@ ellie: I agree! I hope there are more of these.