Almost a punchup over Jupiter...

Daring Dave · #1 25-06-2005, 11:59 PM

Direct from the land of the absurd..

Can ya dig this....

I was at work last night (2nd job) and whilst outside taking a smoko with the fellas I mentioned that Jupiter was nice and bright high in the sky...

Unfortunately I was met with ' Thats Bull....' from a few of the guys...

No matter how much I tried to convince them that it was not a bright star they gave me heaps.....

I tried telling a few of them to check out the net to see I wasn't talking rubbish and even invited a few to pop over to look through my scope...

They were incapable of comprehending that some planets are easily visible by the naked eye.

Next thing I know this bloke I don't know very well (1 foot taller and 60kg bigger) offers to resize my head for talking rubbish !!

I give up !!!

I must work at sceptics central...

h0ughy (David) · #2 26-06-2005, 12:03 AM

were they draging their knuckles and dribbling profusely at the corner of their mouth

to them the earth is still flat, and Newcastle will win the premiership this year!

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #3 26-06-2005, 12:12 AM

Geez Dave, don't dare tell them that those 3 stars over near the horizon are Saturn, Mercury and Venus. We will have to visit you in hospital!

Daring Dave · #4 26-06-2005, 12:16 AM

I was about to Ken but didn't bother... My mood was fairly poor afterwards...

Neanderthal man is alive and well in some places....

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #5 26-06-2005, 12:24 AM

If you really want to get them going, tell them about the 'Muti-Universe' theory, then RUN!

Well, you are called 'Daring Dave'.

Daring Dave · #6 26-06-2005, 12:31 AM

'You can see other galaxies from your backyard' !

Nope....Not telling them that either....

I think being a sceptic is fine....I was once too in a way.......but...after being invited to see for yourself and refusing the offer is just plain stoopid...

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #7 26-06-2005, 12:36 AM

By the sound of them, do you really want them at your place?

Take a small scope to work and show them!!

Orion · #8 26-06-2005, 08:50 AM

They refuse the offer because deep inside they know that they might be proven wrong. Some people are like horses with blinkers on, they only walk straight ahead with there heads down never bothering to look around to see the big picture. They believe that it is all just happening at there feet.

acropolite (Phil) · #9 26-06-2005, 09:12 AM

Should have bet them a couple of cartons of stubbies.. they wouldn't have been able to resist.

tornado33 · #10 26-06-2005, 09:14 AM

Dave
You never know, about Newcastle anyway, the Knights won their first game last night hehehehe.

atalas · #11 26-06-2005, 09:56 AM

Hey stuff this, lets go an knock them in to orbit !

Louie

cahullian · #12 26-06-2005, 10:33 AM

There has been lots of chat on the radio and in the press lately they mustn't have learned to hear or read. Send them my way as my baseball bat is a great educator.

Gazz/Irish

Starkler (Geoff) · #13 26-06-2005, 11:08 AM

Yep I would have seen it as an opportunity and offered a bet

P.S. If people got punched up for talking crap at my workplace, it would look like a warzone hospital ward

dhumpie · #14 26-06-2005, 12:05 PM

There are still many ignorant people in these world that don't have a clue. With people like that, I just don't bother telling them anything

Its just not worth it.

Darren

fringe_dweller · #15 26-06-2005, 12:13 PM

Its 'cool to be a fool' is alive and well - welcome to amateur astronomy in Oz! You will need a blackbelt in martial arts heheh, they obviously feel threatened by your knowledge Dave, if they offered to make you see stars!

Should of told them it was a UFO they might of believed that?
Kearn

Sausageman (Mike Boggan) · #16 26-06-2005, 01:10 PM

Hey Dave,
I have the opposite to you, on clear nights up in SE Qld, I usually take the 4.5 inch Transportable And Succinctly Crap Observatory, (TASCO) to work.
I end up with 20 or more guy's looking through it. It's hard to get them back to work.

They must be a better class of worker's LOL
Mike

dhumpie · #17 26-06-2005, 02:04 PM

There are those that are open and there are those with closed minds. I have conducted many of such "introduction to astronomy 101" on Mounth Cootha (Brissie) for friends with my 80ST and my 6"f/5 and most of the times I capture the audience. I even got one of my friends so interested that he bought a scope

Darren

asimov (John) · #18 26-06-2005, 03:35 PM

Yeah, *sigh* I can relate. There's some real drips out there that know stuff-all about our surroundings. Just tell them the night sky is a black piece of felt with holes in it.

Every time someone happens to see one of my scopes, they say.."wats that thing!??" when I tell them, they get that " derrr...the light's are on, but nodody's home"...glazed look in their eyes.....5 mins later, they'll ask "how much did that microscope cost??" Now I just tell them it's a home-made newk launcher, just in case the little town I live in get's bombed..

fringe_dweller · #19 26-06-2005, 05:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by asimov

"...glazed look in their eyes.....

Myself and some observing friends know the famous 'eye's glazed over look' sadly only to well John. One day I am going to get a photo of it! I wonder what they are thinking when they do that? Why is the universe so boring to so many people? And regarding getting a enthuisiastic audience of newbies on occassions - do they still respect you in the morning?

Kearn

asimov (John) · #20 26-06-2005, 05:37 PM

Respect? I'm known as "that mad scientist guy with those newk launches & the trusty hack-saw",

but ONLY get's em' out at night-time....{.

the glazed look}

just keeping the town safe, people's!