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   baslim_the_begger said, 5 months ago

   Send the talk radio folks to mars (4.0) and let them warm up things with all that hot air.

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   LordDogmore said, 5 months ago

   So which “Talk Radio” does Lars mean?
   BOTH ends of the political spectrum use the airwaves, don’t they?

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   madKanga said, 5 months ago

   @LordDogmore - and your point being??

   Personally I think they are both as bad as one another.

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   glslightning said, 5 months ago

   Yes, both ends of the political spectrum use talk radio, but which relies most on fear and superstition to frame their arguments?

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   Vote said, 5 months ago

   Identical orbit, other side of the sun? Okay. That’s doable. Might have fooled the ancients, but orbital perturbations of other planets (inc. Mars 4.0) would readily have been detectable by and understandable to astronomers, post-LaGrange, who knew a little of celestial mechanics.

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   madKanga said, 5 months ago

   @Vote: Doable but not stable; if I remember correctly, the stable points are 1/3 ahead and behind the planet. But let’s not be too picky - its still fun!!

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   pbarnrob said, 5 months ago

   @madKanga: There are several more-or-less stable ‘balance’ LaGrange points; IIRC, L1 is along the line, between primary and satellite, L2 behind satellite, L3 behind primary; L4 and L5 are the 60o ahead and behind, along the satellite’s orbit of primary. Vote’s point is, the perturbation would be detected from the presence of another satellite, affecting everybody else’s orbits. What does a celestial mechanic keep in her toolbox?

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   Dracip said, 5 months ago

   glslightning, very good point!

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   michael moore said, 5 months ago

   Rush to grudgement.

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    DesultoryPhillipic said, 5 months ago

    And which side uses invective and sheer lunacy?

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    Northwoodser said, 5 months ago

    Wiley, you just can’t help yourself can you? You have to keep tweaking every political know-it-all.

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    Lewreader said, 5 months ago

    Wait till the Church hears about this. Someone is going to be excumuinicated

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    BC13 said, 5 months ago

    Half past never sounds about right, now more than ever

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    navion said, 5 months ago

    Speaking of hot air, perhaps we should include the “mainstream” media and the disciples of Rather.

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    Doctor Toon said, 5 months ago

    Regardless of which end of the political spectrum they hail from, people obsessed with politics (or religion) tend to be unreasonable.

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    jimeguess said, 5 months ago

    Nope. Not talk radio. Government Schools! THEY are the ones that have one fourth of a page on Abraham Lincoln and SIX pages on Marilyn Monroe in the history books!

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    plus4 said, 5 months ago

    “Superstition” such as… believing in life on Mars?

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    prasrinivara said, 5 months ago

    You ever read John Norman’s “Gor ” (aka “Counter-Earth”) novels, Vote?

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    yyyguy said, 5 months ago

    there was an old movie called Journey to the Far Side of the Sun which dealt with a landing on an exact copy of Earth located at the opposite point in our orbit.

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    nighthawks said, 5 months ago

    rush to judgement

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    JonD17 said, 5 months ago

    I am in agreement with MadKanga and doctortoon; doesn’t seem to matter which end of the “spectrum” the talk radio is coming from, it’s all dedicated to stir the pot and fomenting agitation. My feeling is that the talk radio (and television) people are dangerous in the ideologies they set into motion. Too many people are naive enough to take what they say as gospel and thereby shape their actions accordingly. If the have to exist, let’s please remember; IT IS JUST ENTERTAINMENT!! TRUTH IS AN OPTION IN THAT WORLD.

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    Chikuku said, 5 months ago

    Read RAINBOW MARS by Larry Niven to learn more about the alternative Marses.

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    Wildmustang1262 said, 5 months ago

    Talking about UFOs and the aliens are full of B S!

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    Paudil said, 5 months ago

    glslightning, one side uses fear of terrorists, the other side uses fear of global warming…

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    SQUIDBREAKER said, 5 months ago

    To JohnD17:

    Truth is not an option for the righteous; it is mandatory.

    But silence is an option for anybody, even a fool.

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    Rick Heckman said, 5 months ago

    So this implies we should make the NY Times our ‘learning annex’? Or even public schools, with their stellar results? How about blaming the real reason - millions of apathetics that think everything should be rosy and take no responsibility for their own life. Too many people expect and now demand government largesse to make up for their own shortcomings.
    I help the helpless - I refuse to help the clueless.

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    gopuppy said, 5 months ago

    glslightning said,
    “Yes, both ends of the political spectrum use talk radio, but which relies most on fear and superstition to frame their arguments?”

    Ha ha ha - trick question, right? Question should be: “who uses it explicitly and who uses it implicitly?”

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    prasrinivara said, 5 months ago

    No Rick, you don’t need to make NY Times the learning annex: you can always use sci-fi (such as Lin Carter’s Green Star series, or aformentioned Norman’s Gor set), Dianetics, or phoren sites (such as BBC, IndiaTimes, Globe&Mail, Canoe, …) instead.

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    Ji2m said, 5 months ago

    Al Gore and all his useful idiots should be able to warm up Mars…

    @glslightning - That would be the ones who use pseudo-science and rely on the ignorance of an uneducated, unthinking populace to force onerous restrictions and taxes on people…

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    Shikamoo said, 5 months ago

    I thought Talk Radio refered to Orsen Wells’s famous Mars broadcast. Had everyone scared!

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    jsprat said, 5 months ago

    wow…I thought comics were entertaining and frivolous…silly me.

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    Sternvogel said, 5 months ago

    pbarnrob said, about 9 hours ago

    “What does a celestial mechanic keep in her toolbox?”

    A crescent (moon) wrench?

    Star Tools?

    http://www.macraesbluebook.com/search/company.cfm?company=403936

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    SQUIDBREAKER said, 5 months ago

    Never a monkey wrench! But always an 8-iron and a sand wedge for ‘harey’ situations.

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    prasrinivara said, 5 months ago

    Actually, a monkey-wrench is ok for celestial mechanics. See SuperFriends which included “Wonder Twins and Gleep” (Gleep was the twins’ Exxorian monkey, who was “a real expert with monkey-wrench”).

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    ZetaZeta said, 5 months ago

    This isn’t necessarily a zing at talk radio, but that other forms of media (television, specifically) are not annexes of learning at all. ;P

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    SQUIDBREAKER said, 5 months ago

    Ok - I’ll get a monkey wrench back in my toolbox too to ward off evolutionists. Thanks Pras!

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    B0B_E said, 5 months ago

    And the democrats don’t spread fear and lies? And Ed Schultz and Thom Hartman don’t spread hate?

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    openminded said, 5 months ago

    jsprat- yeah, me too.

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    cliquegge said, 5 months ago

    Interesting comments - I didnt try to uncover the hidden meaning - I just enjoyed the “surface” humour.

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    jamadison4 said, 5 months ago

    ,
    All is an ILLUSION……….

    Don’t touch the Horizonal, and don’t touch the Veritical………DAMMIT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    ,

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    Kerovan said, 5 months ago

    Counter Earth has been used many times, including a TV series about an astronaut trapped on it. He broke free from the totalitarian regime’s imprisonment only to see three moons in the sky. Spent the series on the run and trying to find a way home. It’s also been used extensively by Marvel comics, numerous books, movies and at least one other TV series.

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    LawofIdentity said, 5 months ago

    The alien in the third panel makes an astute observation.

    This particular comic strip issue illustrates that many people do not use their reason; their only tool of cognition. They rely instead on faith (the willful abdication of one’s mind) or emotion.

    And the influence or non-influence of talk radio has nothing to do with it. It is a non-sequitur.

    What is critical here is that many people do not understand the difference between thought and emotion and they do not realize that emotions are products of one’ s thinking or of one’s non-thinking.

    To more fully understand what I am saying I suggest you read Ayn Rand’s greatest novel, Atlas Shrugged.

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    rhutch436 said, 5 months ago

    Wow…All this from a comic strip that’s not even an editorial…Surely you must expect the writers to make a comment now and then meant to degrade the right. That’s what is expected if you want to be accepted by the
    “intelligentsia”. Don’t expect people to think . That’s not likely to happen. It’s a comic strip. I love “Get Fuzzy”, but I know the author disagrees politically with my views. Nonetheless, he’s a genius when coming up with material. Enjoy the strips and save the rancor. Use that energy for the next election and actually insist on a meaningful candidate who is positive and believes in core values instead trying to placate the media. You can’t “out-liberal” a liberal, and if you try, you’ve already lost. President Obama ran a great campaign. Get over it and don’t waste your life being angry ( talking to both sides here). I’ll be praying for our President and Nation.

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    baslim_the_begger said, 5 months ago

    Those worrying about perturbations in planetary orbits due to the presence of mars 3.5 are missing the significance of what Lars & Jeffery are working on. No doubt the Larstians have larger scale machinery to help hide their mass effects.