Re: [Humour]: People actually said these things
- From: kmmposting@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: 27 May 2005 08:12:57 -0700
At a planetarium where I've worked there was this question from a
caller - a teacher apparently:
"Me and my class cannot make it to the solar eclipse on wednesday...
can you reschedule it?"
K. Michael Malolepszy
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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