Here’s a little something for the cynics and the planetary scientists:
Available now at Non-Zero Chance
Update: Now available in color as an alternative
Update 2: Now available as a pack of greeting cards. Okay, going to bed now.
6:28 pm, November 15, 2006 -- 19 comments
This shirt reads like someone’s been hanging out with Randall Munroe.
I like these. They’re reminiscent of old school Lore humor. Speaking of old school Lore, when are you putting a link to the Ratings back on the sidebar? I can’t breathe without it there, it was so comforting…
Well, that’s one holiday chore taken care of. And yes, I am a planetary scientist.
Clearly you are part of the secular humanist conspiracy to deny Jesus’ role in axial tilt. It’s in the Bible. Or at least, I’m sure it must be, as I haven’t actually read the book.
Starting the War On Christmas early this year? Good work, soldier!
Now now. Yall know Jesus tilted the Earth…oh wait…that was Zeus (to be continued)
There is a growing trend to do mid-winter things like put up lights and feast on root vegetables and fatted animals in June in New Zealand, which only makes sense if axial tilt is the reason for the season. December Christmas down under is a comparative non-event because it’s in the middle of summer holidays, everyone’s away, it’s too damned hot to roast a turkey, the days are too long to put up lights and a fat guy in a sweaty red velvet suit just looks pervy. Most “Christmas” stuff is done for the benefit of tourists and immigrants from the northern hemisphere and it just feels wrong.
Personally, I like the Summer Solstice better, when the hippies come out and dance naked around bonfires.
maija:
Clearly you Kiwis need to start your own winter solstice celebration and export it to us northerners.
Our site, atheismquotes.com, has had a design with this sentiment for well over a year now… I ordered and distributed buttons with it a few months ago to some of my atheist friends.
I love this. Thank you.
Also, everyone knows it’s Atlas who’s responsible for tilting the Earth. You’d be a bit wobbly too if you had to carry the whole damn planet on your shoulders.
PS: Your design is better, in my semi-professional opinion, than the atheismquotes design. Either way, it’s still a great idea, regardless of timing and/or execution. As an agnostic Sun-worshiper (metaphorically speaking, of course) I think atheists are too sure of themselves anyway.
I’m not surprised that other people came up with the idea independently. (See my Tigga Please observations.)
Also, I noticed that someone is selling a Hot Like Bea T-shirt. That one I’m not so sure they came up with on their own, but even if I was selling shirts I don’t know that I’d want to worry about likenesses and rights and lawsuits and such, so no worries.
When will the store be back up?
Maybe next year.
This Halloween I decided to be a vampirate. I thougt I was clever. Google tells me I’m not…
Mmm Axis Tilt, :-D
You guys make me smile.
love it… reposted it on my blog and made the image a link to this page so you get credit (and hopefully traffic) from it, hope that’s ok.
Actually, it was Archimedes
“Give me a lever long enough, a fulcrum strong enough and I’ll move the world”
http://www.starstryder.com/2008/02/18/with-a-lever-i-move-the-earth/
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