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Re: Missing the sky

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 6, 2002, 20:44
En réponse à David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>:

> > That sounds so funny to hear you say that. After all, the sky IS a > real > thing: It's the belly of the Great Sky Toad that hugs the Earth. I > mean, I > thought this was basic stuff everyone learned in elementary school. One > day, > the Earth got too cold, and the Great Sky Toad took pity on it, so he > flew > over to the Earth and wrapped himself around it. Of course, the Great > Sky > Toad is blue (this is beyond common knowledge), and when he goes to > sleep, > his camelian genes kick in, and he blends in with space, so that his > foes > won't see him and eat him up while he's asleep. And so, the word for > "sky" > in all my languages is either "Great Sky Toad" or "The Belly of the > Great Sky > Toad", in some form or other. Anyway, maybe you're just not a science > person... ;) >
Sorry to contradict you, but I know by visual evidence that the sky is a giant sock knitted by the sun and in which Earth is found. The sun knits it with a wool tainted blue, but the taint gets oxydated by the oxygen in the atmosphere when the sock touches it, and after this oxydation the wool becomes transparent. That's why on the side of the sun the sky looks blue, while on the other side we see the space through it. The sun is a slow knitter, so the beginning of the sock is only arrived at Jupiter. They say the sun will stop knitting when the point of the sock reaches the largest point of the orbit of Pluto. This should be obvious for anyone with a little knowledge of astronomy and chemistry :)) . Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.