Thank you. I would have googled but I thought the answer was going to be all arcane astro-sciency.

What does planetary mean in this context?

This is obviously just the latest example of long stranded alien explorers directing human civilization in order to create ideograms requesting rescue from passing interstellar spacecraft.

As amazing as the human imagination is, the universe is always at least one step ahead.

Hi! Kinja sent me to Coventry?! So many great posts while I couldn't comment.

Good recap, good links.

Thanks for all the neat links. I am going to be reading this on and off all day.

This is by far the most comprehensive, unified explanation I have seen and in language that is accessible.

Are there OTHER significant factors besides the strength of a tsunami that influence its lateral path along a coast? The current Chilean earthquake generated tsunami's impact appears to for all practical purposes disappear north of the Peruvian coast even though the western coast of the N.A. continent is within the…

But someone has to... Your sacrifice is appreciated.

Top photo disturbingly alluring; like apparent ocean flora that is actually fauna AND TRIES TO INGEST YOU!!!!!

Re: Good Friday Earthquake. Thanks for this. My father was CO of one of the first ships to arrive in the Aleutians to provide power and water. In Puget Sound we stood on the bluffs and watched the water rise, like a tub being filled just a little more than usual.

Cheyenne Mountain.

You are brilliant! Again you have come through with an answer: the Giant Inflatable Polar Bear Mascot is transported by the Super Guppy!

Well, it's not as evocative as Sliding Spring but it's still better (as you pointed out) than , say, D'Urberville-Heep Comet. And, Siding Spring Mountain, New South Wales, Australia does conjure up a sense of distance, isolation, and deep silence.

Sliding Spring...what a great name!

Thanks a lot for the update. Head banging has ceased. Now just left with furrowed brow over NASA/hanger/unexplained moistness...oh, and further pondering...transported hither and yon while fully inflated?
Video is a bit of a hockey fan's wet dream! Very funny the team skates on to ice from the back through the front of…

After reading this post, looking at the photos, reading the earlier posts, checking out the NASA website, googling, I realized that NOWHERE was there a story about why there was a Giant Inflatable Polar Bear Mascot; how the Giant Inflatable Polar Bear Mascot got damp; and, why NOWHERE are there adorable pictures of…

Yes to Claudius and Le Carre...to which I would add Black Books, Danger Man, Due South, Hamish MacBeth, Slings & Arrows, B5, and SG-1.

That makes me quite happy for both of us. Be reading you!