It’s time for this week’s Luddite Pillory, in which space-related silliness is held up for ridicule and scorn!
- “See, I told you: Armstrong converted to Islam as soon as he set foot on the moon and heard the adhan. All this is proven by their naming of their new moon-ship with an Arabic word. They deny it, but they give the game away!”
Seriously, though: how wonderful it is that people at NASA nowadays are fans of a franchise representing the “manly virtues” and scrappy, hands-on exploration, instead of a franchise populated with prissy post-modern utopian socialists sipping tea and tediously working themselves into paralysis over some hairsplitting moral quandary as they flit about the galaxy waiting for the deus ex machina of the week to make its appearance. Of course, if that were really the source for names starting with “A”, one has to wonder why they didn’t end up with “Apophis” and “Anubis”.
- James Hansen: Fake, but appropriate.
UPDATE: There seems to be some question regarding the accuracy of the Spectator piece, itself.
- “The monkeys and the polar bears are deep inside my consciousness now. I’ve got to do more.”
Seeking professional help might be a good place to start.
- Blog Comment Zen. Yes, Joe: that it is.
