five questions for this week
unfeatured questions stolen from the featured question chatboard, dated from October of 2007
In 1969, the astronaut who made headlines was Neil Armstrong,
who was the first human to set foot on the moon. In 2007,
the astronaut who made headlines was Lisa Nowak, who drove
across the country in a diaper to confront a romantic rival.
Has interest in the space program waned over the decades?
What role does the media play in public perception of the space
program? And what can be done to re-energize
public interest in space exploration?
Praetorian1001
What scares you the most?
Viol3tt
Do you think it is possible that superficiality benefits mankind
in any way? If so, how? If not, why?
badgertalent
Is political correctness good for anything other than comedy fodder?
AvenueToTheReal
Would you move into a house that was listed as “haunted”?
BlitzkreigBeauty
Answer any one or all of these questions in the coming week. I try to mix the whimsical with the serious here, so hopefully there is at least one question here for everyone.
February 2nd
The Februalia festival of candles honors Juno Februa. Candles are lit in honor of Juno Februa, the Purifier and Mother of Mars, and to scare away evil spirits. Februalia and Imbolc became Candlemas under Christian dominance and is now held in honor of the Virgin Mary.
If Candlemas Day be bright and fair
Half the winter is to come and mair (more)
If Candlemas Day be dark and foul
Half the winter was over at Yowl (Yule)
This tradition is obviously continued in the celebration of Groundhog’s Day.
The Swedish Lucia-Queen is a girl wearing a crown of seven tapers set in a circle. The Crown of Lights is often worn by a very young girl, presumably to symbolize the extreme youth of the year.
This is the second day of the Lesser Eleusinian Mysteries of Demeter and Persephone.
Sul-Minerva of Bath is a British-Roman deity associated with Brigid as a goddess of knowledge and healing. Her sanctuary is described as an ‘ash-less’ fire, referring instead to her sacred spring. If Sul is cognate with the Goddess of Silbury Hill, there might have once been a procession to her sacred spring, the Swellowhead which begins to flow again in February ‘when the Queen comes from the mound.’
On the 19th day of Pamenot, Nut was born.
Comments (9)
What scares me the most is running out of toilet paper.
i answered all of them. although i wasn’t really interested in too many of the questions this time. maybe i’m just in a mood though.
I don’t know about that astronaught question… did you know people are selling property on the moon now? Yay, let’s destroy the moon since we’re having so much fun with earth! LEAVE THE MOON ALONE, people!
I’m confused about what I’m supposed to do!
@nevragn - What would scare me more would be running out of toilet paper in a public restroom! Yikes! lol
@NightlyDreams - Eh, that happens to me too. And I pick the questions!
@heidenkind - I know. I can’t decide if it’s a scam or not. I mean… no one owns the moon! It’s like an international treasure. You can’t own the moon!
@AvenueToTheReal - Every week I steal some questions from the featuredquestion chatboard because the questions they pick are usually not provocative or inspiring. So I troll through their chatboard for questions that were never featured and post them to my page. I tagged you because one of the questions was yours. You don’t have to do anything unless you want to answer one or more of the questions.
@harmony0stars - Apparently you can own the moon.
What I want to know is, who did the people who are selling off the moon now pay for their ownership of the moon? God???
Some day, we’re going to look up into the night sky and see suburbs. lol
Or perhaps strip mining. Hm, which would be worse?
@heidenkind - Well, strip mining is unlikely. Apparently the moon was formed by the asteroid that struck the earth during the time of the dinosaurs. There is a massive crater in China (Mongolia I think) and in the gulf of Mexico, and a smaller one in Siberia. They’re not sure where the moon got chipped off, but it was one of those places. The moon is basically Earth crust and has the strip mining value of tarmac. It barely has a core, which explains its low density, gravitation, and its inability to retain warmth, and the likelihood of there being useful minerals on the Moon are… astronomical. lol
@harmony0stars - And yet I distinctly recall seeing a report about how Bush & co. planned to start mining operations on the moon. Thank god he’s not in office anymore, huh? Phew!
@heidenkind - haha… think of whom you’re speaking. They could have planned to mine gold from blond’s heads, and I wouldn’t have been surprised. And of course, you’d be hard pressed to convince the Religious Right that the moon was created by anything other than God’s will (in the form of an asteroid perhaps? The Christian God’s never been very subtle.)