What if the rare green comet in the sky is actually a giant space meatball?

[thomdunn]

Originally published at: What if the rare green comet in the sky is actually a giant space meatball? | Boing Boing

Fun with astrophysics

[Immutable_Mike]

[beetleshake]

[euansmith]

“Meat Comet”? Well, that’s a euphemism I’ve not heard before.

[stangunn]

Maybe it’s a body part from a Celestial. There seems to be some of those floating around up there.

[RyeNCode]

Carl Sagan's Cosmos: 'The Meat Planet'

[Shuck]

" I think this is the craziest email I have ever received"

I mean… he doesn’t actually say it’s wrong, though…

(That does raise the question for me - what would a comet made out of meat look like, in terms of the color and gases left behind? Could we identify a big frozen ball of formerly-living material in that context?)

[1000YearBan]

[Hanglyman]

Came here to make sure this was posted. Thanks!

[FloridaManJefe]

10 comments in and no “space meatball”?

[mofolotopo]

Oh there’s a mini-documentary about this.

Beef

[BakaNeko]

They're Made Out of Meat

https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html

They're Made Out of Meat

[euansmith]

Tom Noonan and Ben Bailey have such great screen presence.