{"id":1909,"date":"2010-05-12T22:51:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T04:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?p=1909"},"modified":"2010-05-12T22:51:29","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T04:51:29","slug":"in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2010\/05\/12\/in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"In the news"},"content":{"rendered":"

I should really take it easy on the news-reporting industry. After all, I’ve been tangentially connected to it for most of my adult life, so I understand their struggle to make things interesting, right?<\/p>\n

Well, yeah. But I also reserve the right to pick on the occasional “WTF?” that pops out of the woodwork too. Attend carefully. <\/p>\n

This story comes to us from KSEE.com (KSEE is an NBC station in Fresno):<\/p>\n

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By Jove, that’s an interesting story about the disappearing\/reappearing atmospheric bands. At least it is to a wanna-be planetary astronomer like myself. But… WTF? I “get” the cute thing they’re trying to do there – losing a “stripe” not affecting the planet’s “rank” – but hey there, Sgt. Jupiter, if you can’t turn the corner and get the joke there (and it took me a while to find the gag), it just seems like a monumentally stupid statement. The solar system, unlike this reporter’s iPod, doesn’t have a shuffle mode. Its orbit hasn’t changed. It’s still the fifth planet out from the sun. Surely we could’ve found a better joke:<\/p>\n

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Time to cover up that Great Red Spot and do something about your equatorial bulge and noxious gases, Jupiter!<\/p>\n

Or… maybe we should’ve come clean on the whole thing:<\/p>\n

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In the meantime, from CNN.com:<\/p>\n

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Wait, I know the answer to this one. “Just show up,” right?<\/p>\n

That’s all for tonight! You’ve been a great audience. (A few folks have mentioned how much they miss me blogging regularly. Trust me, by this weekend you’ll be back to “God, will he shut up<\/em>?” \ud83d\ude06 )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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