Brad Snowder @Skywise@octodon.social
Astronomy Instructor and Planetarium Manager. Carpe Noctem.
Never. Fully. Trust. Anybody.
I told Mr Idiot that I just wanted to see it splatter but he was completely convinced there was some sort of subconscious message behind it all, like the spud represented blah blah blah whatever. He thought I might need therapy. I got detention, cleaning erasers and what not.
Anyway the principal, Mr Elliot, whom we all called Mr Idiot of course, called me into his office the next day.
When I was in 5th grade I found a potato and I threw it at the side of James A. Garfield Elementary just to see it splatter. My best friend told his mom, who told my mom, who told the principal. In all the decades since then I've never been able to fully trust anybody.
Some of my favorite photons have a wavelength of 656.28nm.
Tonight you can see a teapot shape in the stars of Sagittarius providing you get out away from the city and eat some magic mushrooms.
Until the election is over I'm just going to assume all y'all are bots.
To explain Sidereal Time to someone you must first explain Right Ascension but half way through they have stabbed you in their mind an average of five times.
My new universe is here.
The final chapters of WWII are just now playing out. Can't wait to see how it goes.
Sometimes I'll think about some trivial historical question and I wonder, can I just ask Alexa or will I have to physically Google it like a caveman?
Shit's about to get mediocre.
Bright Fomalhaut is on the edge of the Cetus Void, a large area with dim stars. Down that hole is where The Kraken lives. Try not to release him.
You could argue that in days of old there were more asteroids but Jupiter ate them.
I've been losing weight and right now I'm between belt holes. Very awkward.
Summer astronomy course starts today. Students this quarter will receive free access to sunshine and fresh air (my new classroom has windows).
On Sundays I go to church and by "go" I mean stay home and by "church" I mean eat pancakes.
If we go to jail for illegally downloading music I hope they separate us by genre.
Being pumped for information sounds like more fun than it is.
If religion is about describing what's real then we don't so much need it because we have science which does that better. But if it's about constructing a preferred reality, one where those similar to us are favored and those dissimilar are excluded, well then. It's working perfectly.
