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Over at a discussion board about religion and cosmology, I helped make a discussion concrete by asking whether the participants often gaze at the stars through a telescope. And what this does to them.
The discussion delved into a debate about the fact that the African Dogon tribe was already capable
of distinguishing between Sirius A and Sirius B, long before telescopes were invented.
Lots of poetic comments about star-gazing too.
Then someone popped up and said looking through a telescope is a brilliant past-time, but that he always gets hungry when doing so. The discussion suddenly took a hugely materialistic turn:
-Which types of food go best with the spiritual feelings that often accompany star-gazing?
We decided on fatty fast-food and easy snacks.
So here, today, I present the mobile snack-bar with attached big telescope. The lights of the snack bar can be dimmed, it operates in full silence (apart from the occasional hiss when a saucage gets grilled) and which can be taken to a patch of land where the skies are dark enough to engage in star-gazing and pop cosmology.
There is no proof that God disapproves of eating hot dogs while investigating Sagittarius.
Dogon and Sirius
http://skepdic.com/dogon.html
in the Skeptic's Dictionary [baconbrain, May 03 2008]
[link]
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Bad idea, unless you can pipe the distorting warm air from the grills away from the telescope |
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Keep the crumbs out of the controls and the grease vapors off the glass. |
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That Dogon business is not a fact--see link. |
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Location, location, location. |
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A friend of mine is the IT guy at the Mount Palomar observatory. He says the operating temperature of the place is ambient - when it's hot, it's hot, and when it's cold, it's cold. Something about not messing up the equipment with differing temperatures. |
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So choose a temperate location for this venture. |
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As a Sagittarius, I would disapprove. |
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As a Sagittarius, I don't particularly mind. |
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As a Scorpio, I don't believe in that zodiac/horoscope stuff. None of us Scorpios do. |
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As a Scorpio I don't mind hotdogs.
None of us Scorpios seem to. Of course the brand we buy are nothing but lips... |
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We don't believe in this horoscope crap at all, as we are hard-bitten sceptics. But then, Cancers are all like that. |
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Any of that high-fiber Cassie's Grains here? Or is it just Dobson's Grill? Could we serve up some Fig Newtons with a Maksutov Cocktail? |
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As an Aquarian, I would rather grill some minced, seasoned and packed-into-a-cone-shaped Capricorn.
Then eat it with salad, pitta bread and lashings of chilli sauce. |
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as a Capricorn, I object to that! |
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Has anyone done the Uranus gag yet? |
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No, we have to do the one about loosening Orion's belt first. Then comes the one about milky way goodness. Then you can do the Uranus gag. |
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... and the deep-fried Mars bar... |
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..as a Martian, I object to people frying in our bars! |
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