Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Forget the Man on the Moon; NASA's Stardust shows comet Tempel-1 is comet Sad-Bunny. And a girl. Beat that.

I made this in MS Paint for you. Magnet. Fridge. Now.
Here she is, comet Tempel-1, or comet Sad-Bunny as I like to call her.  Stardust is a fancy little satellite with a sordid history.  By sordid, I mean of course that for a satellite it has sampled a lot of interstellar medium.  A LOT.  Last time it swung by earth it deposited a canister of interstellar medium southwest of Salt Lake City.  Rude little devil.  First time that's ever happened in the history of satellites.

Anyway, Stardust got close to Bunny late last night, and some people are calling her "second-hand" now, but I prefer to reserve judgement.  No wonder she sheds a single tear.

And now for a video of comet Sad-Bunny doing the dreaded Space Wobble of Shame:



Another theory is that she saw this giant pink bunny in Italy:

Made to look like a skydiving accident.  Neat?
That would make anyone sad.

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Avert your axis, Sad-Bunny!

Not that way!

That's better.  What do those look like though? Snarky Dragon and Bull-Snake?
Posted by Aaron
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8 comments:

  1. loveblogginFebruary 15, 2011 at 6:47 PM

    lol wtf is up with the giant bunny

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 15, 2011 at 7:08 PM

    gah!!! you're killing me, here. Where do you find this stuff?? I love how you have anthropomorphized (wait - can you do that with rocks?) the comet. And you even gave it a history - a sordid one at that. Keep 'em coming!

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  3. Ante BabajaFebruary 16, 2011 at 3:40 AM

    bull snake :D

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  4. SkimboshFebruary 17, 2011 at 10:12 AM

    You did that in MSPaint? Surely you had help. From Nasa.

    You own't be laughing when that comet turns out to be an egg that hatches in our solar system.

    I've said too much.

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  5. ToomuchtimeFebruary 17, 2011 at 10:19 AM

    Haha, oh wow. This is just hillarious to me.

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  6. dopdavidFebruary 17, 2011 at 8:18 PM

    haha massive pink bunny !

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  7. HiFiFebruary 19, 2011 at 2:28 AM

    Cute bunny. Wait, you say it is 100 feet across? !

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  8. AnonymousFebruary 20, 2011 at 8:32 AM

    Moar lik dis!! (Ai jus came from da cheezburger site)

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