Dec 10 2007
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Happy Hubble Holidays!
Hubble Holiday cards are back!
This is a really good idea: using gorgeous Hubble images to make cards for the season. The site has instructions on how to print them, and of course links to the images as well.
I have to say, I think my favorite is this one:
The picture is from the Galactic center in Sagittarius, where stars are plentiful. I recognized it immediately (I’m a dork), but the idea of using it for ornaments was pretty clever and very funny.
The most ironic one is this one:
I hate to break it to my friends at Hubble, but Mars is the god of war. Maybe a hawk would have been a better choice for the silhouette.
Or maybe it’s all part of the subtle War on Christmas: all the cards say "holiday" and "season", and not Christmas. Maybe they should have a Hubble picture of the Star of Bethlehem?
That last picture very obviously proves there is no space and the sky is a solid dome above us. You can’t get that size of silhouette on Mars if it’s really far away![/sarcasm]
Maybe it is War and Peace.
Rather than a “war on Christmas” (worth fighting, I’d say!), the cards probably say holiday/season because the state is not allowed to endorse religion.
I really don’t have a problem with “Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Pleasant Solstice Greetings”, or whatever people want to say. I just wish people would get over their collective hang-ups and enjoy the season, however they choose to celebrate it, religious or secular.
That’s not the worst of it. Did you see the one labeled hc002? Way to keep that “Mars as big as the full Moon” rumor going!
I wish I’d known about this before spending all day Sunday writing out my Christmas cards!
Oh, well, I’ll have to remember it for next year!
How charming… the dove took a dump on Mars!
Actually, having the dove superimposed on Mars is quite apt. Doves, apparently, are pretty cranky, bitey critters when they’re threatened.
Which Star of Bethlehem? The near conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in 7BC or the near conjunction of Mercury, Mars, and Jupiter in 2BC?