SeeingEyeBlog » superstition http://www.cochard.net Cinematography and musings from Jason Cochard Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:12:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 An inconvenient truth http://www.cochard.net/index.php/2006/06/16/an-inconvenient-truth/ http://www.cochard.net/index.php/2006/06/16/an-inconvenient-truth/#comments Sat, 17 Jun 2006 02:43:56 +0000 Jason http://www.cochard.net/newblog/index.php/2006/06/16/an-inconvenient-truth/ I haven’t seen Al Gore’s movie, but I’ve been looking at some astronomy sites, and it looks as though Mars is undergoing its own global warming. However, the evidence suggests that there are no private jets flying around on Mars, nor any SUVs, nor an over-abundance of carbon-based life forms to account for Martian global warming.

I’m not an expert, but I’m willing to bet that climate change is due in large part to natural shifts in planetary dynamics such as axial tilt angles. Maybe the whole solar system is globally warming due to the temperature of the sun. I’m not saying the evidence for global warming isn’t compelling, I’m just saying it’s not conclusive.

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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy, the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

–Voltaire, 1763.

I am going to make Devil’s food cake tonight.

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Just less than a week ago, I had a date with a girl I really wanted to impress, and just for fun I wore the green shirt again. Just so happened that her favorite color was green, not to mention we hit it off rather well. It was a very successful date, and now I have a new reverence for my lucky green button-down shirt from Vietnam.

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