Slog - Comments on The Sum http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_sum Scientists using NASA’s RHESSI spacecraft have measured the roundness of the sun with unprecedented precision. They find that it is not a perfect sphere. Who in our day is surprised to learn that the sun is imperfect? Who? You? No, no. What would shock us to a million bits is the very opposite: that sun is a perfect shape, a perfect star at the center of a perfect system of planets, the third of which is just perfect for the final creation of the perfect form of life, the human being, the animal that looks up at the sky... Copyright 2008 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:56:45 -0800 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:06:45 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Mr. Poe You are very different Charles, and you should celebrate that by way of speaking for yourself. More Steven Curtis Chapman posts, please.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_sum#c1167226 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_sum#c1167226 Science Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:26:18 -0800 Comment by johna I think you need to re-evaluate your idea of perfection.

]]> johna http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_sum#c1167227 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_sum#c1167227 Science Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:28:24 -0800 Comment by PC Yes the sun has flaws and limitations, too. Big duh.

Anyway, it's not the actual sun it's the idea of the sun that counts, in the Hegelian Platonic Marxist Obscurantist Mishmash smorgasbord served up daily by certain flawed, imperfect writers......

]]> PC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_sum#c1167233 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_sum#c1167233 Science Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:32:24 -0800 Comment by Sargon Bighorn Just like Mary Poppins, practically perfect in every way.

]]> Sargon Bighorn http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_sum#c1167236 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_sum#c1167236 Science Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:33:53 -0800 Comment by i have a medium penis As one of my favorite calc professors once told me, perfect circles exist only in mathematics.

]]> i have a medium penis http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_sum#c1167246 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_sum#c1167246 Science Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:43:14 -0800 Comment by infrequent the sun is perfect in its imperfections.

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_sum#c1167258 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_sum#c1167258 Science Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:56:32 -0800 Comment by juris Awww, this made my morning better.

]]> juris http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_sum#c1167263 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_sum#c1167263 Science Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:05:50 -0800 Comment by elswinger I hope I didn't spend money to find this out.

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_sum#c1167329 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_sum#c1167329 Science Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:55:07 -0800 Comment by -B- The sun makes my tomatoes perfect. Even when they are flawed unlike the illusion of perfectness in the supermarket.
I like imperfection.
Perfect is a fantasy. Nothing is perfect, just perfect for that moment and then it is over.
If your car is perfect then it is in an accident is it still perfect.
A "perfect day" is only perfect because it was not like the day before maybe, which was not so.
But one thing sounds perfect and that is "Perfect Day" by Lou Reed but I feel there is something sinister happening in that song like he is walking around stoned on heroin and that was his perfection at that time which is not someone else's. So perfect is like the word normal it is different from one person to another.

]]> -B- http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_sum#c1167408 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_sum#c1167408 Science Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:43:24 -0800 Comment by nightlifejitters Everyone knows that the only perfect sphere ever was George Michael's ass, circa 1987. "It's a perfect circle!"

]]> nightlifejitters http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_sum#c1167416 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_sum#c1167416 Science Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:46:56 -0800 Comment by Vince The only imperfection is in the eye of the beholder.

]]> Vince http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_sum#c1167552 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_sum#c1167552 Science Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:06:45 -0800