welcome to day 5 of BEDA. today i regret to inform you that i'm not going to bitch about Silk Spectre II and Dr. Manhattan. i'm actually feeling decent today, so i don't want to be negative.
so anyway, the thing that i do want to talk about is Bad Astronomy. i got lucky and came across Phil Plait's book when i was looking for pretty pictures books of space stuff, and boy am i glad that i picked it up. this book is opening my eyes to how much the general public doesn't know about science in general, let alone specifics.
its funny though. the first chapter in part 1 of the book is about people balancing eggs on the first day of spring. i have never heard of this before, and i my first thought was 'wtf? why would someone do that?". but there are people that belive that there's something about the gravity because of the earth's alignment of the sun, but really? it still makes no sense. it's just amazing what some people don't know about the mechanisms of their own world.
the third chapter of part 1 mentions Han Solo talking about how he can make a race in 12 parsecs when parsecs are a distance measurment, not a time measurment. that's alos a really cool part. Phil lays out all these sayings that that have been twisted. let's just say that i'll never use light-years the wrong way :)
a little short today, but that's okay.
mood: in-diff-er-ent *patrick voice*
listened to: Jane Eyre review
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