So the Hubble telescope snaps these photos recently and then they go about calmly diagramming it.
No. That is unacceptable. You know, you get all these bespectacled geeks around a telescope they lose their common sense. Did you see that thing? I mean, guys, did you see Lord of the Rings? Ha! They’re geeks, of course they saw LOTR. (And I’ll bet some of them actually dressed as characters) Well, do you not know Sauron when you see him?
Look, when you gaze upon something like this just floating out there in the middle of space you don’t stop and snap pictures. You turn the telescope away, hope your eyes don’t burn in your head, swear off looking into space, apologize to it for even seeing it, and pray to God that when you saw it it didn’t see you back.
Do these guys not recognize when they’re in the first scene of a horror movie?
Act One: Stupid scientists stumble upon something horrible and instead of utilizing common sense, they act all geeky and make things a lot worse for the world.
Act Two: There’s death, horror, frights, slavery, tears, fire, ghosts, murder, deceit, and monsters pretty much having their way.
Act Three: Two short fat guys climb up a volcano and throw some jewelry down its gullet.
Sometimes I think people who knew a lot less back in the old days maybe knew a lot more. You know how on old nautical maps, cartographers inscribed uncharted regions of Earth with the legend โHere Be Monsters.โ Well I’m thinking that maybe this is one of the areas that when someone asks, “Hey, what’s over in this little space quadrant?” someone from NASA should just say, “Here Be Monsters. We don’t want to go there. We don’t want to talk about it. Didn’t you see Lord of the Rings?”
HT Hot Air
November 15, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Exactly! I think it’s all a cover-up, too. That place to the right where there’s supposedly “no data” – ha, I believe that! Towards the bottom, well, that’s where the Mountains of Shadow are at the southern border, and the upper part is the Plains of Gorgoroth and Mount Doom.
Did they really think they could hide this from us?
~Zee, who is entirely too aware of just how geeky a moment that was.. although I did have to use a map!
November 15, 2008 at 4:12 pm
“Act Two: There’s death, horror, frights, slavery, tears, fire, ghosts, murder, deceit, and monsters pretty much having their way.”
How prescient! You are referring, of course, to the period just after the inauguration of Saruman this coming January in Washington?
November 15, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Would that make McCain Frodo and Palin Sam?
(Sam did go on to have many children…and become mayor….)
November 15, 2008 at 8:24 pm
This is so funny I can almost forgive you for the fact that I am spending my Saturday with three guys who can’t stop talking about flying blubber. ๐
November 15, 2008 at 11:29 pm
I noticed the similarity too…this is one reason I’m an astrophysics student (it is left to the reader to determine whether it is for cool science and pretty pictures or for the sake of covering from the public the discovery of impending doom from inhabitants of Mt.Doom).
There must of been some mighty chuckles among some of the scientists when this image was produced.I’ll have you know too that we astronomers are NOT geeks, uh sometimes at least.
For the record I did not dress up…I was in high school at the time and I couldn’t embarrass my parents and siblings at the movie theater.
November 16, 2008 at 3:07 am
I’ve got a palantir thingy – I’m thinking about using it. Would that be a bad thing?
November 16, 2008 at 11:48 am
Depends what you’re using it on, I guess.
November 16, 2008 at 2:35 pm
I’d be wary. Unless Aragorn’s already wrested control of the palantiri away from Sauron, then you’ll only see what Sauron wants you to see, which often leads to the viewer misinterpreting and either switching allegiances, or falling into despair and self-immolating. If you can find evidence that Aragorn’s wrested control, though, it should be okay.
~Zee
November 16, 2008 at 2:47 pm
So Nzie, you’re saying the Palantir is the MSM???????
Is THAT what happened to Noonan/Buckley/Parker????????
It all makes sense now… LOTR was actually prophesizing the 2008 election…. Tolkien was like a new Nostradamus or that ‘pope of the olive branch’ guy…..
November 16, 2008 at 7:15 pm
that’s very funny.
November 17, 2008 at 1:46 pm
deirdre – you may be right. I just looked at mine, and Keith Olbermann’s face appeared. Scary.
November 17, 2008 at 8:18 pm
… and what about his minions?
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