[Humour]: People actually said these things

In article , Wally Anglesea™ wrote:
Thought I'd put up some astronomically related strange questions and
statements

"If it's so dangerous to look at the eclipse, then why are they having
one at all?" (caller to a radio program prior to the 2002 eclipse,
Ceduna, Australia)

If I remember correctly, somebody had sent a letter to a local newspaper
also complaning of the Australia 2002 Eclipse: "If these eclipses are
arranged at all, why can't they be arranged over some more populated
areas instead of the desert."

- Emma

Wally Anglesea™ wrote:
Anyone got some more?


When the Hale Bopp comet visited us in 1997, there was a public
observation in my city. We were taking photographs, when a mother came
with her child and asked us what time the comet will pass.

Anthony Ayiomamitis wrote:
Wally,

Thanks for these gems ... they will be added very shortly to my list at
http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Jokes.html ....

I could add the set from students as well as professionals at
http://www.astr.ua.edu/keel/sayings.html


Bill Keel

Bill,

From the halls of learning:

Is it true that the sun isn't 1 solar mass ?

Are there any horizontal branch stars visible from the western hemisphere ?
(poly sci major ?)

You can't have a grazing orbit of the moon because grass does not grow there.

Dan


"William C. Keel" wrote:

Anthony Ayiomamitis wrote:
Wally,

Thanks for these gems ... they will be added very shortly to my list at
http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Jokes.html ....

I could add the set from students as well as professionals at
http://www.astr.ua.edu/keel/sayings.html

Bill Keel