Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for June 01, 2014

They left out how our moon got knocked out of orbit in 1999!

Just another attempt to shame Pluto.

Any astronomer, even an amateur like me, can tell you that a crescent moon is just the moon in one of its quarters. At least they didn’t make the artistic error of showing a star between its two points.

There should be the start of the name Chairface on it. (The Tick)

Charon is larger in proportion to Pluto than The Moon is to Earth. It’s the largest of Pluto’s five known moons.

Since Charon doesn’t orbit a planet, I suppose it’s disqualified from contention.

This is like reading a science journal. Please keep it light and funny.

Hmm, shouldn’t “Cliff’s Moon” be up there? . . . . ☻

That’s the only thing I have against Neil deGrasse Tyson, is his part in getting Pluto demoted.

I always wondered why we call our Moon the “Moon”? That’s like naming your dog “Dog”. All the others have cool names. I know its called “Luna” but we never use it.

“Moon light in Vermont.”.Sorry, can’t get the music notes in there..\\//_

All science errors aside, the 2008 movie, “Impact” is a cracking good moon adventure.

Dr. Mel: Don’t be “lunar?”

♪ ♪ Hey, it works. ♪ ♪ Thanks, ChessPirate. Phobos and Deimos are the two moons of Mars. Phobos is Greek for fear (from which we get the word phobia) and Deimos means terror or panic. Charon is the moon of Pluto. Charon was the aged boatman who ferried the souls of the dead across the River Styx to the gates of the underworld.

sorry dr. mel, but ganymede and titan DO orbit the sun, they just have more fun doing it.

I took a space ship to Pluto and when we got there it was gone!

As Dr. Mel notes, Luna is disproportionately large, vis a vis other planet/satellite systems. Because of this, the apparent size of Luna’s disk is almost exactly the same size as the apparent size of the Sun’s disk. A lot of planning went into that – juggling the sun’s great size with its distance compared to the Moon’s, to make it come out right. Think about it…(And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night…)

Why is Dr Mel saying not to be a Canadian dollar coin?

Isn’t the “width” of a sphere called it’s diameter?

Aren’t moons and planets and other spherical bodies usually measured by diameter? I’ve never heard them described by their width.

“See her as she flies,golden sails against the sky.Close enough to touchBut careful if you try…Though she looks as warm as gold,The moon’s a harsh mistress,The moon can be so cold.”

Jimmy Webb, writer (Title-The Moon’s a Harsh Mistress)

Find the Linda Rondstadt version on youtube. If you’ve read Heinlein’s book of the same name, I dare you not to have moist eyes.

It’s not a bad question you ask. It’s not easily answered “on one leg” in the comments section of the comics. I will say that everything in the Bible is there to teach us how to live better lives, and is definitely not to “make fools of us” as you put it.In this case, just two of the lessons to be learned from the two lights are: how to properly share responsibility, and not to complain too much when you think you’ve received the short end of the stick. How it is we learn this is more involved and not really suited for this forum.

Who is Number One? No. One.

Thank you. Just doing my part, and I’ve been appreciating your contributions as well. The struggle against ignorance is a long and difficult one.

Did anyone else notice Dr. Mel’s pun? “Don’t be loony.” Kind of cheesy, but…

Just my real name.