Comments on: Space caturday

By: lepton

lepton — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:00:45 +0000

Most of the cats they used looked too big.

I like the x-ray cat and behind the pillar cat, I think they are the right size.

By: Steve D

Steve D — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:29:14 +0000

There was once a constellation Felis, invented by the famous French astronomer Lalande, but it never made the official list. It included parts of what is now Antlia and Hydra.

By: Bored Al

Bored Al — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:45:02 +0000

He might consider removing himself from the video. Since nowadays everyone is being accused of narcissism, let’s go with that.

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:55:39 +0000

Cute.

As a little kid I fondly remember reading a book called Star cats (by Andre Norton I think – maybe?) where it turned out cats were actually intelligent aliens who saved a couple of human kids – and all our Earth’s cats from extinction .. it almost makes sense!

I ‘d also advocate restoring Lalande’s proposed constellation of Felis the cat. (Click on my name for info via Ian Ridpath’s ‘Star tales’ site – bonus worst ever drawing of a cat to be published!) With so many dogs in the night sky* it seems only fair!

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* Okay there’s a lion, minor lion and a lynx but they aren’t exactly cats as we know & love them and that compares with :

Canis Major (incl. the “Dogstar” Sirius)
Canis Minoris (incl. the “Little Dogstar” Procyon)
&
Canes Venatici (the hunting dogs – plural)

So, come on, we gotta add at least one (domestic or feral domestic -preferably pet-able) cat constellation to redress the celestial balance, right?

By: xmundt

xmundt — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:16:06 +0000

To let the cat out of the bag (as it were), the momentary role of Victoria Vetri in this episode was both amusing and interesting. She could, possibly have been the only person that COULD have been able to take over the role of Catwoman in the batman series.
pleasant dreams
dave mundt

By: kitty

kitty — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:40:52 +0000

so is all that static electricity causing problems? And does this help us figure out what dark matter is?

By: Zaius Nation

Zaius Nation — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:04:26 +0000

Awesome! )

By: Pete Jackson

Pete Jackson — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:54:29 +0000

@8 Bob F: Don’t forget Isis, who was Gary Seven’s black feline constant companion in the original Star Trek series episode “Assignment: Earth”. And which cat had a very special ability.

By: ctj

ctj — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:01:39 +0000

all your hubble are belong to us!

By: Bob F.

Bob F. — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:21:59 +0000

I think the first known space cat photobomb was done by Jones, an orange tabby. He belonged to Ripley on the ill-fated cargo ship Nostromo.

By: Flah

Flah — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:17:28 +0000

Wait… Does that mean that Lovecraft’s stories had a basis in reality? I think it’s time we stopped funding missions to Saturn, in that case.

By: SandyCat

SandyCat — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:36:45 +0000

Oh it’s a NASA coverup all right, kitty revenge for not sending cats up in spacecraft. Dogs, monkeys, even goldfish but no cats. Not hard to understand NASA’s reasons — nothing but MEEEOWOWOWOWOW! all the way & all the way down, drive the rest of the crew batty, not to mention kitty litter in zero gravity,but if you know cats, those UFO’s [unidentified feline objects] were predictable. And those scientific spacecraft that go missing? Yup.

By: daijiyobu

daijiyobu — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:03:28 +0000

there’s also the song by spaceScat, ” the decider”, about some alien cat who visits earth at a train station:

http://vimeo.com/9448226

-r.c. (a band member)

By: The Barber of Civility

The Barber of Civility — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:01:39 +0000

#2 bystander, I disagree. This will somehow be taken up by the climate change deniers and used to THEIR dubious advantage.

By: Pete Jackson

Pete Jackson — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:00:22 +0000

All purr-fectly reasonable!

Got any good snow shots for us? The canines minor and major should be enjoying it.

By: bystander

bystander — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:38:00 +0000

I had seen this and had a good laugh, but I completely missed the significance of the x-ray cat until you pointed it out. The sad thing is there are probably people out there who will take this as evidence of a NASA cover-up.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:33:00 +0000

So wait, are there really cats which are light years across running through the universe? If they even get close to our solar system their gravitational force alone will be enough to destroy us! Now I have another thing to worry about. You’ll have to make an addendum to your book.