Debunking Humor...

[Gary C]

Well there is some room for interpretation but ...

Same species, same brains, same hands ...

(edited to add text from the original that was not part of the graphic)

 

[NoParty]

There was a lot of talk this week about a SpaceX rocket possibly colliding with the moon:
Was it authorized? Is there any penalty? Did it really decapitate astronaut Neil Armstrong III? Billie Joe Armstrong?
Snopes debunked a video from Valuetainment, but then a rather zoomed-in still was found:

The still was also debunked, though as netizens promptly noted that the craft lacked the Balkenkreuz EM usually insists on...

 

[RTM]

 

[JMartJr]

I hope it is not out of line to place a "winner" sticker on a bit of humor -- but the above wins, and this deserves to be noted!

 

[FatPhil]

I hope it is not out of line to place a "winner" sticker on a bit of humor -- but the above wins, and this deserves to be noted!

I hope you appreciate that, to what's happening in the real world, we *are* one of the comments sections.

 

[derwoodii]

 

[GM4AJK]

This week I have been working on installing a foundation for my garden office. A lot of digging. The Sun has been brutal: non-stop blue sky and bright, hot Sun, not ideal for digging a big hole.

Yesterday, at around 3:30 pm, I remembered the partial solar eclipse was coming, and I hadn't prepared, so I nipped inside and knocked up some solar glasses (picture below). It took about 5 minutes to find where I'd stashed the Baader foil and then about another 10 minutes to tape them over some old glasses, after removing the lenses.

Just 15 minutes later I went out to test them, and it was cloudy from horizon to horizon, and it stayed that way until about 9:30 am today when I had just resumed digging!

That old joke about buying new astro-hardware means two weeks of continuous cloud is so true!

(This post probably should have been on the Synchronicity thread because it sure felt like one of those coincident things )

 

[Ann K]

Yesterday, at around 3:30 pm, I remembered the partial solar eclipse was coming, and I hadn't prepared, so I nipped inside and knocked up some solar glasses (picture below). It took about 5 minutes to find where I'd stashed the Baader foil and then about another 10 minutes to tape them over some old glasses, after removing the lenses.

There was a partial eclipse some years ago, and I taped a section of foil from a potato chip bag over a microscope slide, then taped it over my binoculars. It worked remarkably well.