Comments on: #422 - Lumens

By: biggo

biggo — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:47:32 +0000

One night, my brother took me out in a field near home and gave me a mysterious device “to hear the astronauts on the Moon”. A needle in the center of the device could be moved up and down to “tune” to the transmission. I took the metal thing to my ear and yes, I heard spacey sounds and some muffled words as from a broken AM radio. I was 6. I was fascinated. This is possibly the strongest memory of my childhood.

The “device” was actually a belt buckle, a simple rectangular frame with a needle; but I swear, I did hear the astronauts in the summer of 1969.

By: Torg

Torg — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:27:21 +0000

@unknowledge: Actually at about 1/9 of Earth’s volume, the Moon could easily contain the oceans.
@Shorty: Unlike you, he’s tall enough for that.
@Jetman123: He just changed the Moon out for a fluorescent bulb, and you’re complaining that it’s the wrong time of day for that?

By: Shorty

Shorty — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:26:57 +0000

Did he just reach up into space?!!

By: Psymon

Psymon — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:33:15 +0000

@Jetman123: You can see the moon in the daytime; the moon simply needs to be above the horizon.
@Lockett: Because energy-efficient bulbs don’t put out as much heat, and we don’t want a cold sun. (^_^)

By: Radical Edward

Radical Edward — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:36:06 +0000

Energy efficient lights and a man who’s not so efficient all the time? That’s funny.

By: trevor

trevor — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:17:01 +0000

I always had the same thought, whenever I moved or crouched, it would stay in the same spot. I also thought the sun and the moon were the same thing.

By: Jetman123

Jetman123 — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:46:15 +0000

At first I was wondering what the hell was going on, then I realized Biff was changing the moon. Wait, wouldn’t it have to be night out for the moon to be overhead to change it? I see others have wondered the same thing before me. ah well, we can pass it off as “Biff so beleives in doing strange things that he can ignore the laws of reality at will”.

By: Lockett

Lockett — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:41:57 +0000

Why the moon and not the sun? It’s the middle of the day.

By: S. Allen

S. Allen — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:22:38 +0000

I love the moon… wonderful to go walking when it’s snowed, and then cleared off… it’s so bright it’s amazing.

And isn’t that rabbit in the moon thing part of Watership Down?

By: Nikanaiko

Nikanaiko — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:36:22 +0000

Yours was the moon? Mine was clouds. I was absolutely stunned by the way that the clouds never seemed to move much, aside from when the wind was blowing them.