Starship Asterisk*

Surely this - THIS- was the true sign of Nibiru about to strike the Earth, despite all the skeptics and critics saying it didn't exist...

Ahhh, I have so much enjoyed Phill Plait's work on the Bad Astronomy website, and lately in some of the television programs on NTGEO or Science channel. wrt. Venus transit - I drove to the local observatory (about 10 miles from my work), and was pleased to help two young men that had bought a brand ...

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Wow! Thank you so much. This is a great tool for explaining at least *some* of the scales involved when looking at astronomical events. Since I teach Astronomy merit badge for Boy Scouts, this will be a handy visual aid. (I've been using the ''Earth as a Peppercorn'' model, and taking the guys on a ...

You meet one Margareta Winberg, you've met them all... But at least Sweden had the class to (1) admit they made a mistake and (2) still invite the therapist Margareta to their dinner and best yet - (3) had her sit in the group photo!! Be honest. Other than the Carter and Ford administrations, how ma...

Hey Beyond Texarkana, as it happens. Right at the intersection of 3 or 4 different 'climes' And was a farm kid growing up in Minnesooota, and a Boy Scout (Eagle Rank), and currently a Scout Leader... so paying attention to the critters around me is sort of..part of the whole package. (Tying in to th...

Hmm.. living rural or semi-rural has a distinct advantage in the variety of critters one can see if one simply keeps an eye open. At our current home I've seen: Several squirrels - almost all grey squirrels. A once large population of rabbits, that dwindled enormously during the 'reign' of a couple ...

And a few of the old favorite cannibal jokes.... Did you hear about the cannibal that passed his brother in the woods?... badum-dum tsshh Did you hear about the cannibal student that was expelled from school for buttering up his teacher?... Did you hear about the starving cannibal that went to the s...

As it happens, this would mean I am 'The Grey Calculator'. Sounds like another name for the human brain. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk0IDCD2pXs http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094794/ Oh... my.... This has now made my list of 'Supremely Cheesy Monsters + Poor Acting/Screaming + Bad Science + Painf...

As it happens, this would mean I am 'The Grey Calculator'.
Not an entirely bad superhero name, or perhaps a super-baddie.
Certainly would fit in with the Rogues Gallery of the 1960's TV Batman.