Blue Collar Scientist

Now that I’m back from Arizona and have a smidge more time to pay attention to the blog, I thought I’d bring back the highly popular¹ Comment of the Week awards. Winners earn our high opinion, and pretty much nothing else.

This week, Glendon Mellow of The Flying Trilobite knocks one out of the ballpark in response to my suggestion that the three of us - Zach at When Pigs Fly Returns being the other - liberate the thoracically-challenged:

Vive le revolucion!

We must free our wheeze-imprisoned brethren!

To the bronchiomobile!

Glendon wins mainly because of the way I laughed my ass off at the moniker for our official superhero car. I think I’m going to name my beloved Honda minivan after this suggestion.

Running a very close second, however, is a comment left by Spiv on the posting about my apathetic response to NASA’s big news this week, which did indeed lift me out of the doldrums a bit and made me feel more positively about the discovery and the hype. Spiv rightly points out:

It’s a serious research opportunity. There’s not a lot of supers that are within our range and young enough to study at such great detail. When you study them going off halfway across the universe you get to study a handfull of effects from it.

When you get to study one in your own backyard you can see all kinds of details regarding expansion, collisions with gas clouds, etc, etc.

That’s my feeling anyway. I’m not terribly excited about what’s been done (finding it), I’m excited about what will done now that we have something to look at.

The last paragraph really hits the nail on the head. The news isn’t really that big, and maybe that’s where my reaction is coming from. But the opportunities moving forward are tremendous. Thanks for pointing that out!

1. This is called “humor.” [↩]

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