Holmes Comet: Cover up?
It was weird how there hasn't been any big time coverage of the comet story- there has been coverage of 9-11 to the teeth of every country around the world and yet.. something we can all go out and look at remains a virtual no man's land to the international news media owned by a small handful of people..
I've been waiting..
Comet Information via Space Weather site
But what is it exactly I am waiting for? I am personally waiting for a few top stories to explain why they haven't reported on it after so many weeks... what happened with the comet and updates possibly daily about what is happening at that time just to be fair... what am I going to get? (insert video with just static here)
Show me CNN, BBC, SKY and other Mass media agents report it.. I wonder if AlJazeera English is reporting on it? Guess not just took a look there, and in spite of covering topics orphaned by the other mainstream, it too is very mainstream and focused upon its own areas... I wonder who owns them all? I wonder if they are somehow told to stay away from a nice little story about an object which was unpredictable..
I wonder if they would report any near earth object which happened to be in the area.. after all every month there are thousands of near earth objects we can see.. just skimming the atmosphere of our planet.. but I thought that this was a fact of life of looking up at the sky and having astrophysics and astronomy and astrology as interests only make these realities a daily part of our existance as well, for me anyway.
If you live under the sky, and you see the stars, what happens if one falls?
My son asked me about what would happen if we could touch a star.. what am I supposed to tell him? Am I supposed to lie to him and say... We all want to touch the stars... or am I going to tell him that A.) they are very very very hot.. B.)they are so huge that gravity would rip us apart if we got too close and C.) even if we just leave the atmosphere of our planet the solar winds would probably rip us to bits with excellerated particals (which we are trying to stupidly replicate on earth) which shoot through all forms of matter, possibly creating holes in our regeneration system of our gentic make up..
No sweety, you can't touch the stars but you can feel the sun touch you when you feel the warm sunlight on your skin in winter.. and imagine this.. if you got any closer, you would get burned. Ah never mind.
I've been waiting..
Comet Information via Space Weather site
But what is it exactly I am waiting for? I am personally waiting for a few top stories to explain why they haven't reported on it after so many weeks... what happened with the comet and updates possibly daily about what is happening at that time just to be fair... what am I going to get? (insert video with just static here)
Show me CNN, BBC, SKY and other Mass media agents report it.. I wonder if AlJazeera English is reporting on it? Guess not just took a look there, and in spite of covering topics orphaned by the other mainstream, it too is very mainstream and focused upon its own areas... I wonder who owns them all? I wonder if they are somehow told to stay away from a nice little story about an object which was unpredictable..
I wonder if they would report any near earth object which happened to be in the area.. after all every month there are thousands of near earth objects we can see.. just skimming the atmosphere of our planet.. but I thought that this was a fact of life of looking up at the sky and having astrophysics and astronomy and astrology as interests only make these realities a daily part of our existance as well, for me anyway.
If you live under the sky, and you see the stars, what happens if one falls?
My son asked me about what would happen if we could touch a star.. what am I supposed to tell him? Am I supposed to lie to him and say... We all want to touch the stars... or am I going to tell him that A.) they are very very very hot.. B.)they are so huge that gravity would rip us apart if we got too close and C.) even if we just leave the atmosphere of our planet the solar winds would probably rip us to bits with excellerated particals (which we are trying to stupidly replicate on earth) which shoot through all forms of matter, possibly creating holes in our regeneration system of our gentic make up..
No sweety, you can't touch the stars but you can feel the sun touch you when you feel the warm sunlight on your skin in winter.. and imagine this.. if you got any closer, you would get burned. Ah never mind.
posted by AstroSphinx | 10:46 pm
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