by Ann » Mon Jun 14, 2010 4:40 pm
Sorry, Antennae!
I was going to vote for you. Really I was. You see, I have the greatest respect for people who would vote for that Saturn image, because I, too, think it is amazing that we humans have managed to send a spacecraft to Saturn that can take pictures like that one. Ah, but the image isn't in color, and you know what I think about that, don't you?
But I have the greatest respect for people who would vote for the Saturn image. I have a certain respect for people who would vote for the Sun image too, even though that one is a lot less impressive all things considered and the Sun is so unrealistically yellow. Uh. You know what I think about that, don't you?
And I can nod appreciatively when people vote for NGC 3190 too, because that is an amazing picture, courtesy of Hubble and Robert Gendler. But that galaxy has almost no star formation, and I think that is a little bit boring. You know how it is.
So I was going to vote for you! Really! You are so flamboyant. So... curvacious. So pink and blue and yellow! So
bursting with energy! So shrimp-scrumptious! So tail-icious!
So I was going to vote for you. Really, I was. But then the two Earthly starry landscapes insinuated themselves with me, and I...was tempted. I... tasted their earthy splendor. Their serenity, their majesty. The earth and the sky, the soil and the stars. The cliffs so near and smooth, so inviting to be touched, and the stars just next to them, so incomparably far away. How magnificent! I... fell. I voted for them! Forgive me, Antennae, I betrayed you!
Ann
Sorry, Antennae!
[img]http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/dn11509/dn11509-1_600.jpg[/img]
I was going to vote for you. Really I was. You see, I have the greatest respect for people who would vote for that Saturn image, because I, too, think it is amazing that we humans have managed to send a spacecraft to Saturn that can take pictures like that one. Ah, but the image isn't in color, and you know what I think about that, don't you?
But I have the greatest respect for people who would vote for the Saturn image. I have a certain respect for people who would vote for the Sun image too, even though that one is a lot less impressive all things considered and the Sun is so unrealistically yellow. Uh. You know what I think about that, don't you?
And I can nod appreciatively when people vote for NGC 3190 too, because that is an amazing picture, courtesy of Hubble and Robert Gendler. But that galaxy has almost no star formation, and I think that is a little bit boring. You know how it is.
So I was going to vote for you! Really! You are so flamboyant. So... curvacious. So pink and blue and yellow! So [i]bursting[/i] with energy! So shrimp-scrumptious! So tail-icious!
So I was going to vote for you. Really, I was. But then the two Earthly starry landscapes insinuated themselves with me, and I...was tempted. I... tasted their earthy splendor. Their serenity, their majesty. The earth and the sky, the soil and the stars. The cliffs so near and smooth, so inviting to be touched, and the stars just next to them, so incomparably far away. How magnificent! I... fell. I voted for them! Forgive me, Antennae, I betrayed you!
Ann