Comments on: The Comet. It Sings! https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/11/12/the-comet-it-sings/ Sun, 16 Nov 2014 01:46:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Christopher Winter https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/11/12/the-comet-it-sings/#comment-484404 Sun, 16 Nov 2014 01:46:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20623#comment-484404 I wonder if Mr. Alternate knows any Klingon opera.

]]> By: Christopher Winter https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/11/12/the-comet-it-sings/#comment-484403 Sun, 16 Nov 2014 01:44:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20623#comment-484403 The “Full Judy” — as in “Judy, Judy, Judy”?

(You have to be a Cary Grant fan to appreciate that.)

So, in 1960 Murray Leinster gave us The Wailing Asteroid and now we get the singing comet. What’s next?

]]> By: BBD https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/11/12/the-comet-it-sings/#comment-484402 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 14:27:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20623#comment-484402 Thanks, GL – first I knew of this.

Without doubt it merits the Full Judy: Wow!, Just Wow!

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/11/12/the-comet-it-sings/#comment-484401 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 03:27:13 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20623#comment-484401 Some kind of bittern or heron.

]]> By: Tim https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/11/12/the-comet-it-sings/#comment-484400 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 01:53:13 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20623#comment-484400 It’s auditioning for that global warming choir now that Philea deflected it this way. Also, it’s having some buffer underrun problems with the live feed.

]]> By: Brainstorms https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/11/12/the-comet-it-sings/#comment-484399 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 01:41:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20623#comment-484399 Chris, depending on how old you are, just wait several decades… You will !

(Me, I hope I never meet “Mr Alternate”…)

Greg, you’re a bird guy — what bird call does that sound like??

]]> By: Chris Heinz https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/11/12/the-comet-it-sings/#comment-484398 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 01:31:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20623#comment-484398 following American Bandstand rating system I will give the song a -10 rating. You can’t dance to it. There is no hook whatsoever. I do not want to meat the “intelligence” that created this tune 🙁

]]> By: Brainstorms https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/11/12/the-comet-it-sings/#comment-484397 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 00:49:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20623#comment-484397 It’s moaning after being stung by a Philae… Let’s hope it can’t SWOT it!

(Inside pun: SWOT = Surface Water Ocean Topography orbiter.)

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