[Humour]: People actually said these things

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)

"Is it safe to play golf during the eclipse, I mean, won't I lose my
balls?" Asked of an astronomer at Bombala, for the eclipse in 1976

"How do you manage to take pictures of the sun during the day? Isn't
it too bright?" An email to yours truly.

"If there are no aliens, why can't NASA show us pictures of them not
being?" (apocryphal, but I've been told this and asked similar
questions so many times I can believe it)

"It's obvious the Earth is flat, otherwise the people on the bottom
would fall off into space" Said to an astronomer in 2001 in the UK.
This was NOT said as a joke....

"Isn't it too dangerous to have 2 comets in the sky at the same time?"
Asked of yours truly in 2004.


Anyone got some more?





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Wally,

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

Anthony.

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)

"Is it safe to play golf during the eclipse, I mean, won't I lose my
balls?" Asked of an astronomer at Bombala, for the eclipse in 1976

"How do you manage to take pictures of the sun during the day? Isn't
it too bright?" An email to yours truly.

"If there are no aliens, why can't NASA show us pictures of them not
being?" (apocryphal, but I've been told this and asked similar
questions so many times I can believe it)

"It's obvious the Earth is flat, otherwise the people on the bottom
would fall off into space" Said to an astronomer in 2001 in the UK.
This was NOT said as a joke....

"Isn't it too dangerous to have 2 comets in the sky at the same time?"
Asked of yours truly in 2004.


Anyone got some more?





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On Thu, 26 May 2005 03:21:09 +0300, 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 ....

ROFL, you have a wealth of material there. Thanks, and feel free to
add these gems.


Anthony.

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)

"Is it safe to play golf during the eclipse, I mean, won't I lose my
balls?" Asked of an astronomer at Bombala, for the eclipse in 1976

"How do you manage to take pictures of the sun during the day? Isn't
it too bright?" An email to yours truly.

"If there are no aliens, why can't NASA show us pictures of them not
being?" (apocryphal, but I've been told this and asked similar
questions so many times I can believe it)

"It's obvious the Earth is flat, otherwise the people on the bottom
would fall off into space" Said to an astronomer in 2001 in the UK.
This was NOT said as a joke....

"Isn't it too dangerous to have 2 comets in the sky at the same time?"
Asked of yours truly in 2004.


Anyone got some more?





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http://users.bigpond.net.au/wanglese/pebble.htm

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"You can't fool me, it's turtles all the way down."

Wally Anglesea=99 wrote:

"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)

"Is it safe to play golf during the eclipse, I mean, won't I lose my
balls?" Asked of an astronomer at Bombala, for the eclipse in 1976

"How do you manage to take pictures of the sun during the day? Isn't
it too bright?" An email to yours truly.

"If there are no aliens, why can't NASA show us pictures of them not
being?" (apocryphal, but I've been told this and asked similar
questions so many times I can believe it)

"It's obvious the Earth is flat, otherwise the people on the bottom
would fall off into space" Said to an astronomer in 2001 in the UK.
This was NOT said as a joke....

"Isn't it too dangerous to have 2 comets in the sky at the same time?"
Asked of yours truly in 2004.



Oh yeah. One Astronomy Day at the local mall a guy walks up to me:

"Hey! Maybe you can answer a question that's been bothering me for a
long time. I know they say the Earth is a ball. What _I_ want to know
is do we live on the _outside_ or _inside_ of the ball?"

No foolin' ;-).

Peace,
Rod Mollise
Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_
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Check-out sct-user, the mailing list for CAT fanciers!
Goto http://members.aol.com/RMOLLISE/index.html

I used to take constellation pictures by mounting my Vitessa L camera on my
EQ scope and using the slow-motion controls to follow the stars. Someone
asked me if I used a flash for the star photos.
Bill
"Anthony Ayiomamitis" wrote in message
...
Wally,

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

Anthony.

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)

"Is it safe to play golf during the eclipse, I mean, won't I lose my
balls?" Asked of an astronomer at Bombala, for the eclipse in 1976

"How do you manage to take pictures of the sun during the day? Isn't
it too bright?" An email to yours truly.

"If there are no aliens, why can't NASA show us pictures of them not
being?" (apocryphal, but I've been told this and asked similar
questions so many times I can believe it)

"It's obvious the Earth is flat, otherwise the people on the bottom
would fall off into space" Said to an astronomer in 2001 in the UK.
This was NOT said as a joke....

"Isn't it too dangerous to have 2 comets in the sky at the same time?"
Asked of yours truly in 2004.


Anyone got some more?





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Wally Anglesea wrote
Anyone got some more?

Not so much astronomical as gravitational, but this may qualify.
A friend said to me, while shrouded in mist at the top of a small
mountain, 'it's hard to know which way is up when it's like this'.
I said 'as long as your feet are standing on something...'
He said 'why? Is that up?'

Maybe Darwin is wrong....

Denis
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DT
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v a l l e ys

Rod Mollise wrote:
Oh yeah. One Astronomy Day at the local mall a guy walks up to me:

"Hey! Maybe you can answer a question that's been bothering me for a
long time. I know they say the Earth is a ball. What _I_ want to know
is do we live on the _outside_ or _inside_ of the ball?"

No foolin' ;-).

Someone's been reading a bit too much Edgar Rice Burroughs, I imagine.

Brian Tung
The Astronomy Corner at http://astro.isi.edu/
Unofficial C5+ Home Page at http://astro.isi.edu/c5plus/
The PleiadAtlas Home Page at http://astro.isi.edu/pleiadatlas/
My Own Personal FAQ (SAA) at http://astro.isi.edu/reference/faq.txt

Maybe Darwin is wrong....

OTOH... a number of years ago I was hiking in the mountains by Tucson, and a
fellow of about age 40 was walking toward me, accompanied by a teenage girl.
He looked at me and asked, "Do you know Kepler's Laws?"

After I recovered myself from the shock, I proceeded to draw them in the
dirt with a stick...

Howard Lester

On Wed, 25 May 2005 23:07:39 GMT, Wally Anglesea™
wrote:

Thought I'd put up some astronomically related strange questions and
statements...

Very amusing... and a little sad.

But number three is sort of interesting:

"How do you manage to take pictures of the sun during the day? Isn't
it too bright?" An email to yours truly.

This is funny if you consider the alternative to taking pictures of the
Sun during the _day_, of course. But other than the curious wording, it
is actually a pretty good question. Most people aren't familiar with
solar filters, but may know what happens to a photograph when the Sun is
in it. If someone asked me this question, I'd give them the benefit of
the doubt and assume they were really just asking how to take a picture
of something as bright as the Sun.

_________________________________________________

Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

Speaking of which, here is a very nice primer on Kepler's laws for those who
are unfamiliar with them or, like me, who might need to brush up on the
third one :-)

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/l...ry/kepler.html

-Paul S. Walsh


"Howard Lester" wrote in message
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Maybe Darwin is wrong....

OTOH... a number of years ago I was hiking in the mountains by Tucson, and
a
fellow of about age 40 was walking toward me, accompanied by a teenage
girl.
He looked at me and asked, "Do you know Kepler's Laws?"

After I recovered myself from the shock, I proceeded to draw them in the
dirt with a stick...

Howard Lester