Whatever happened to Bubbles? (APOD 26 Mar 2008)

emc · Post by **emc** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:43 am

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080326.html

Boy : Look Ma! What's that cow up in the sky?

Mother: No son. That's a hippopotamus - 'Horse of the River'

Boy: River??? What's it doin' up in the sky?

Mother: That one made it to heaven dear.

bystander · Post by **bystander** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 12:38 pm

What, Ed? You trying to be more obscure than Art?

emc · Post by **emc** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:02 pm

Not really, although I do enjoy his obscurity...

The subject nebula has the head-on appearance of a hippo... with mouth wide open... (of course my head is usually wide open... as in spaces

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As a non-scientist... this was the closest I could come to constructive commentary regarding our neighboring cosmic creational image... NGC 3576.

bystander · Post by **bystander** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:32 pm

Not a problem. I understood your reference, and I agree, it does look like a hippopotamus. It just seemed to me like something neufer would post. I'm sure we'll see something equally (or more) obscure from him. I look forward to it. Provides the mind with exercise.

Indigo_Sunrise · Post by **Indigo_Sunrise** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:40 pm

trying to be more obscure than Art

Obscure is not the word I'd use to describe those posts. Bizarre would be more appropriate.

But then, to each their own.....

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