"Hmph. Pyros!"
"What is it we're doing here?"
"Jump on a power line..."
"We'd be cooked! The cannibals would have a feast!...Oh, that's really gross." (on being too close to the sun)
"If you were to sit on a raisin [on a loaf of raisin bread while it rises] and measure the Doppler shift of all the other raisins as they moved away from you...nah, that's just weird."
"It's mostly a really big, humongous ice cube." (re: Pluto)
"Do you know what a Kuiper belt is? It's what you use to hold up your Kuiper pants."
"Well, unless you want them to launch into space, yeah!"
"You're in a desert. The sun is hot. You have no food or water. Your camel died! Then, all of a sudden there's a thundercloud...just like in [tiny college town]..."
"Your eyes are attached to your head. Most of you would prefer to keep it that way."
"I really like stupid questions. They're the only ones I'm smart enough to answer."
"NASA plans everything."
"When this happens, astronomers say, 'Something weird happened!'"
"You could go for a swim in sulfuric acid and see how fast you erode...actually, don't do that." (re: surface properties of Venus)
"Does that prove the aliens are good, devout Catholics?"
"If you ever go to Mars, take a sweater or two...maybe three or four."
"I'm sort of lying, sort of not lying..."
"Either they're cities of Jupiterians, or..."
One explanation of Jupiter's Great Red Spot (as a sentient planet's response to our probing): "I see you!"
"He's the only astronomer in the world who can go swimming in his telescope."
"What does George Lucas know? Hmm..." (re: Mimas, a Jovian moon that resembles the Death Star)
"Standing above a pond...how you'd do that, I don't know..."
"Predicting meteors is kinda like predicting the weather, but not as accurate."
"Has scientific value...but scientists don't have any money."
"There's a comet factory!"
"I tried to have a meteor shower arranged for this class period. We got rain showers instead...hey, I got the shower part right!"
"I'd like to have my very own metallic asteroid to land in my yard - no, wait, it'd kill me. It'd have to land somewhere else, then I'd go get it."
On meteors being the dirty part of a dirty snowball (ex-comet): "More like a snowy dirtball - hey, I know some people like that."
"I can do everything except the graceful part...or the ice-skating part..."
"What about Venus? It's weird."
"Official explanation: Something weird happened."
"If it had been named Ice-Layer-A-Mile-Thick Land, would you want to go there?" (re: Greenland)
"Erik the Red pulled off the greatest real estate scam in history."
"Think boiling oatmeal."
"You could write an entire scientific paper to say, 'I saw a sunspot!'"
"So they set that up, went out to lunch for about three months..."
"Grandpuppies...I don't know if that's a word or not..."
On cell division: "Bacteria porn here - nobody under the age of 21 should be watching this..."
"Planet Earth - anyone been there?"
I've toyed with the idea of emailing the professor a copy of this stuff. :-D
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botoni said on Aug 16, 2007....
Please send it to him! I want desperatly to know what he sends back! These are waaaaaaaaaaaay funny! -
moonriver said on Aug 16, 2007....
is he still teaching? i'd like to sit in in one of his classes...lol.
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the_infernal_optimist said on Aug 16, 2007....
bottie: I did email just now, asking if he'd like to see this list (I don't attach anything people aren't expecting). We shall see what unfolds!
moon: He is still teaching - he even has three-hour night classes for hands-on observation-type experiences (has an impressive array of telescopes, I hear). I wish I had taken one of those!
~Infernal
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botoni said on Aug 16, 2007....
TIO.....I m dying to know what he responds. -
queenparanoia said on Aug 17, 2007....
On cell division: "Bacteria porn here - nobody under the age of 21 should be watching this..."
wahhahahahahahha so funny!!! plese post if he emaild back!!! =)
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silverwhisper said on Aug 17, 2007....
"has scientific value...but scientists don't have any money."
i love this! and i think you should definitely e-mail your prof. :>
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the_infernal_optimist said on Aug 17, 2007....
botoni: I will definitely keep you informed!
queen: I don't even remember why we were watching that video clip now...it was all related somehow! :-D
ed: Ah...my conversations tab is starting to turn a certain shiny color... :) I'm not sure whether he'll reply, but given his personality, I think he's fairly likely to find it amusing and let me know as much.
~Infernal
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the_infernal_optimist said on Aug 18, 2007....
He replied (I have since sent the file):"Well I didn't remember your new name, but when I got to the end and saw
(Good gosh, I didn't remember that I was dorky enough to have written poems about the class. *much blushing*)
your old name I did remember you. I remember that you gave me some
astronomically related poems.
I assume that your name change means that you got married; so
congratulations. I hope that you are also doing well otherwise.
Yes send me the file. It might be fun. Maybe I can use some of
the lines again. Classes start up again on Monday.
I'm also glad that you enjoyed and remember the class. Teachers like
things like that.
Don't forget to check out the lunar eclipse on the morning of the
28th."
We'll see what he thinks of his own sayings! :-D
~Infernal
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silverwhisper said on Aug 18, 2007....
infernal, that's so cool that he remembered you! :D
ed
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