BABloggee TPrime pointed out to me that the image I posted of Comet 17/P Holmes yesterday reminded him of something, and it didn’t take long for him to figure it out…
Hmmm. Maybe I should upgrade soon. Apple is obviously spending a lot of cash on advertising!
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October 29th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
A golden apple of the sun…
October 29th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Comet: harbinger of doom.
Comet shaped like the Apple logo: Maybe we should all just give up computing entirely.
October 29th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
You might say that their budget is astronomical.
October 29th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
Most out-of-this-world advertising campaign in Apple history.
October 29th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
We must live in an iUniverse.
October 29th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Must be that God has his laptop open and the apple is lit up.
October 29th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
> We must live in an iUniverse.
The only problem being that we can’t just nip down to the iStore and buy a whole new one when there’s a relatively simple flaw that could be quickly repaired…
October 29th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
“Golden Apples of the Sun”? I remember that short story from my youth. It was one of the first books that got my imagination soaring. Thanks for the good thought from an innocent youth.
Also a good story, recommend it for those who can find it.
Stephen B.
Math Teacher
Gaithersburg HS
October 29th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
Golden Apples of the Sun - Ray Bradbury.
October 29th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
So it’s made in China then?
October 29th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
If God is a Mac user, that just gives me another reason to be an atheist.
October 29th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Perhaps this lends some credibility to the recent assertion that there’s a twenty percent chance we’re all just pawns in somebody else’s simulation.
Could it be that we’re seeing the back of our overlord’s laptop screen!?
October 29th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
If apples are good enough for Isaac Newton, they’re good enough for me.
October 29th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
Wow… if it’s an apple comet, corporate policy will probably block it from half the world. iComet will start up and charge everyone who can see the comet a dollar every time they look. It will cost extra to look through a telescope, and if you go to a friend’s house, it won’t show up in his telescope unless you pay a dollar.
At the peak of brightness, Apple will cancel the comet and it will simply disappear.
All the while this is going on, Microsoft will copyright the moon and add an application WinMoon to Vista.
October 29th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
I noticed that!
Geez, everything sure is rolling Apple’s way. They even have the universe revolving around them.
October 29th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
Peri … perid … pareidolia … somethin’ like that. I read about it on this Astronomer dude’s website.
Irony meter: pegged. 1.1 Alanisis.
October 30th, 2007 at 12:10 am
It is the sign of LaForge, the holographic simulation is showing its age.
October 30th, 2007 at 6:07 am
“Hello, I’m a Mac.”
“And I’m a PC.”
“And I’m a comet.”
Don’t even kid yourselves, folks, you’d LOVE to see that one!
October 30th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
[…] Hèhè, de weergoden hebben mij vijf minuten Holmes gegund. Het was vanavond eventjes helder, tot wolkenvelden de boel weer verknalden. Vanaf m’n zolderraam, met uitzicht op het noordoosten, kon ik komeet 17/P Holmes goed zien. Een soort bolvormige sterrenhoop, maar dan al zo met het blote oog te zien. Bijgaand een foto die ik nog net kon nemen, voordat links de wolken overtrokken.  Er schijnt overigens ook een staart zichtbaar te zijn, eentje die ‘m erg doet lijken op het Applelogo. Bron: Bad Astronomy Blog. […]
October 30th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
[…] over at Bad Astronomy (who I remember from the hilarious and sadly ended Penn Gillette podcast) has posted a picture of Comet 17/P Holmes which I admit, as you can see above, looks strangely like a certain computer […]
October 30th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
[…] over at Bad Astronomy (who I remember from the hilarious and sadly ended Penn Gillette podcast) has posted a picture of Comet 17/P Holmes which I admit, as you can see above, looks strangely like a certain computer […]
October 30th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
BA, slap a copyright on that photo and make Jobs an offer
October 30th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
[…] over at Bad Astronomy (who I remember from the hilarious and sadly ended Penn Jillette podcast) has posted a picture of Comet 17/P Holmes which I admit, as you can see above, looks strangely like a certain computer […]