The question you must never ask!

[Mike Painter]

What time does the sun come up?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19950923#
--
"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion." ~ Robert Pirsig

[SkyEyes]

On Oct 15, 9:45 pm, Mike Painter <mddotpain...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> What time does the sun come up?
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19950923#

Oh, wow! That is just too cool for school.

Brenda Nelson, A.A.#34 and A+ atheist
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[Jeanne Douglas]

In article
<3d49b797-a718-4c87...@r8g2000pbs.googlegroups.com>,

SkyEyes <skye...@cox.net> wrote:

> On Oct 15, 9:45 pm, Mike Painter <mddotpain...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > What time does the sun come up?
> >
> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19950923#
>
> Oh, wow! That is just too cool for school.

Indeed.

The universe is full of wonders.

--
JD

"Osama Bin Laden is dead and GM is alive."--VP Joseph Biden

[Dakota]

On 10/16/2012 3:12 AM, Jeanne Douglas wrote:
> In article
> <3d49b797-a718-4c87...@r8g2000pbs.googlegroups.com>,
> SkyEyes <skye...@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> On Oct 15, 9:45 pm, Mike Painter <mddotpain...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>> What time does the sun come up?
>>>
>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19950923#
>>
>> Oh, wow! That is just too cool for school.
>
> Indeed.
>
> The universe is full of wonders.
>

And we only see a very tiny bit of it.

[Alex W.]

On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:45:37 -0700, Mike Painter wrote:

> What time does the sun come up?
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19950923#

I want the suncream franchise rights for that place!

[MarkA]

It reminded me immediately of the movie, "Pitch Black".

--
MarkA
Keeper of Things Put There Only Just The Night Before
About eight o'clock

[Brian E. Clark]

In article <pan.2012.10.16.12.27.38.834345
@nowhere.invalid>, nob...@nowhere.invalid says...

> > And we only see a very tiny bit of it.
>
> It reminded me immediately of the movie, "Pitch Black".

You're not afraid of the dark, are you?

--
-----------
Brian E. Clark

[Brian E. Clark]

In article <9ipp789h5i27rfqsv...@4ax.com>,
mddotp...@sbcglobal.net says...

> What time does the sun come up?

I believe it comes up right around sunrise, but I could be
off by a couple of minutes...

[Brian E. Clark]

In article <9ipp789h5i27rfqsv...@4ax.com>,
mddotp...@sbcglobal.net says...

> What time does the sun come up?
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19950923#

I hope that if there are any inhabitants on that planet or
its moons, that they have more sense than humans; I'd hate
to think they'd wage holy wars over which star is the true
lord of heaven.

[Jeanne Douglas]

In article <pan.2012.10.16....@nowhere.invalid>,

MarkA <nob...@nowhere.invalid> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 04:42:00 -0500, Dakota wrote:
>
> > On 10/16/2012 3:12 AM, Jeanne Douglas wrote:
> >> In article
> >> <3d49b797-a718-4c87...@r8g2000pbs.googlegroups.com>,
> >> SkyEyes <skye...@cox.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Oct 15, 9:45 pm, Mike Painter <mddotpain...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >>>> What time does the sun come up?
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19950923#
> >>>
> >>> Oh, wow! That is just too cool for school.
> >>
> >> Indeed.
> >>
> >> The universe is full of wonders.
> >>
> > And we only see a very tiny bit of it.
>
> It reminded me immediately of the movie, "Pitch Black".

AWESOME movie!

And the beginning of my lust for Vin Diesel.

[MarkA]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:30:00 -0400, Brian E. Clark wrote:

> In article <pan.2012.10.16.12.27.38.834345 @nowhere.invalid>,
> nob...@nowhere.invalid says...
>
>> > And we only see a very tiny bit of it.
>>
>> It reminded me immediately of the movie, "Pitch Black".
>
> You're not afraid of the dark, are you?

Not since I keep my 1,000,000 candle power spot light under my bed!

--
MarkA

If you can read this, you can stop reading now.

[Brian E. Clark]

In article <hlwdjsd2-2B4B87.15532216102012
@news.giganews.com>, hlwd...@NOSPAMgmail.com says...

> > It reminded me immediately of the movie, "Pitch Black".
>
> AWESOME movie!
> And the beginning of my lust for Vin Diesel.

_Pitch Black_ also provides another another data point in
support of the idea that Keith David is one of the coolest
actors on the planet. :)

[Jeanne Douglas]

In article <MPG.2ae7e6382...@news.eternal-september.org>,

I'll second that.

[Dakota]

On 10/16/2012 9:05 PM, MarkA wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:30:00 -0400, Brian E. Clark wrote:
>
>> In article <pan.2012.10.16.12.27.38.834345 @nowhere.invalid>,
>> nob...@nowhere.invalid says...
>>
>>>> And we only see a very tiny bit of it.
>>>
>>> It reminded me immediately of the movie, "Pitch Black".
>>
>> You're not afraid of the dark, are you?
>
> Not since I keep my 1,000,000 candle power spot light under my bed!
>

Much safer than lighting 1,000,000 candles in your bedroom.

[Joe Bruno]

The "rising" of the sun is an optical illusion created by the Earth's rotation.

[Mike Painter]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:44:48 -0700 (PDT), Joe Bruno <ajt...@cox.net>
wrote:

Really? None of us here knew that, we are so thankful.

And thank you for again showing what a great sense of humor you have.

Did you know that even when we talk about a quarter moon, all of the
moon is still there?

[Dakota]

We should remember to remind Joe next December that the 'reason for
the season' is the tilt of the Earth's axis of rotation with respect
to it's orbital plane.

[Alex W.]

Found this blog entry, quite by conincidence, comparing Pitch
Black with Prometheus:

Well, okay it’s true Prometheus does feature monster effects that
look like they cost about 50p to make and came courtesy of the
reject pile from Fraggle Rock. It’s true that the planetary
vistas look like a widescreen version of some
shot-in-a-Welsh-quarry episode of Doctor Who or Blake’s Seven.
(And, somehow – don’t ask me how, I’m just the consumer here –
both monsters and planet manage to look less convincing than
their 33 year old FX counterparts in the original Alien). It’s
true that the script is littered with painfully crude Christian
agit-prop, a factor made even more gapingly obvious by the
deleted scenes my DVD copy came with. But these things, oddly
enough, are not what makes Prometheus such a profoundly
dispiriting experience to watch. Or at least, it’s not just
those things……

See, I wanted to be fair. I wanted to be sure this wasn’t my
inner Alien geek sulking because Prometheus didn’t live up to my
fond teenage recollections of the original movie. I wanted to be
sure it wasn’t my atheism, profoundly irritated by the invocation
of gaahhd in conversations between supposedly hard-nosed adult
professionals.

So, I went back and watched Pitch Black again, and lo and behold,
despite the dodgily imagined alien world and the derivative
monsters, Pitch Black is a great little movie. Sure, it’s not
paradigm-shifting or iconic in the way Alien was (its monsters
are borrowed more or less wholesale from Geiger stock, for one
thing), but then few movies are. But the stock characters in
Pitch Black behave in a way that’s coherent throughout; the
religious ones strike interesting dialogue sparks off Vin
Diesel’s avowedly materialist protagonist (and the religion
itself is a decently imagined future faith, rather than something
cut and pasted from contemporary middle class, middle American
bible class); the narrative spine of the movie is tight and
strong. You care about the characters, you care about the
outcome, there ae some truly powerful moments (eg – did not know
who he was fucking with!) and even a few small surprises thrown
in. From pretty much the outset, your emotions are firmly
engaged.



http://www.richardkmorgan.com/news/919/something-beginning-with-p/