Comments on: Stumping for religion http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/02/10/stumping-for-religion/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:39:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: arensb http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/02/10/stumping-for-religion/comment-page-1/#comment-156 arensb Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:20:14 +0000 http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/index.php/2007/02/10/stumping-for-religion/#comment-156 If you look real close, you can see Slartibartfast's signature on the glacier :-) If you look real close, you can see Slartibartfast’s signature on the glacier :-)

]]> By: Cyde Weys http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/02/10/stumping-for-religion/comment-page-1/#comment-149 Cyde Weys Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:39:49 +0000 http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/index.php/2007/02/10/stumping-for-religion/#comment-149 Yeah, sunset at the North Pole is probably a week-long event. At the poles the Sun basically stays at the same elevation in the sky, just rotating around once every 24 hours. The Sun only rises and sets once per year. I do wonder about the people who were successfully evangelized by this, though ... (if there are any). Yeah, sunset at the North Pole is probably a week-long event. At the poles the Sun basically stays at the same elevation in the sky, just rotating around once every 24 hours. The Sun only rises and sets once per year.

I do wonder about the people who were successfully evangelized by this, though … (if there are any).

]]> By: Darmok http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/02/10/stumping-for-religion/comment-page-1/#comment-148 Darmok Sun, 11 Feb 2007 06:54:22 +0000 http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/index.php/2007/02/10/stumping-for-religion/#comment-148 Yeah, that is really is surprising that so many people would fall for such a fake. It doesn’t take detailed astronomy knowledge to see that the image is totally implausible...I mean, it’s not as if one has to formally analyze the picture. The sizes are so ridiculous that I didn’t even realize that was supposed to be the moon—I just figured it was some ice crystals reflecting the sun’s light or something. Incidentally, there’s really no sunset at the North Pole, right? The sun just sort of spirals down and over a few days will totally disappear, I would guess. Yeah, that is really is surprising that so many people would fall for such a fake. It doesn’t take detailed astronomy knowledge to see that the image is totally implausible…I mean, it’s not as if one has to formally analyze the picture. The sizes are so ridiculous that I didn’t even realize that was supposed to be the moon—I just figured it was some ice crystals reflecting the sun’s light or something.

Incidentally, there’s really no sunset at the North Pole, right? The sun just sort of spirals down and over a few days will totally disappear, I would guess.

]]>