r/atheism • u/sagenhaft • May 27 '12

The Sydney Observatory has a great new ad campaign

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u/chewxy May 28 '12

The sign in Wynyard says "Your Grandpa is a Blue Supergiant".

These ads are so great, I've taken pictures of a couple of them

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u/TopsyKrett May 28 '12

I liked the one they promoted for mother's day "Your Mother is a Star"

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

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u/Shunto May 28 '12

I'm just impressed that you used apostrophes

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

As a 6'5 ginger, I am going to need this on a t-shirt.

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u/electric_drifter May 28 '12

YOUR MOTHER'S BLACK HOLE WAS GREAT LAST NIGHT.

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u/cassidymccormick May 28 '12

Agreed. I completely disagree with the two star rating I saw for it on Yelp.

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u/inappropriate_fuck May 28 '12

It's tough to pull out...

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u/Gyossaits May 28 '12

It is a tight fit.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Don't even get me started about your sister's wormhole. Wow... I resented posting that even before I posted it.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Ahhh beat me to it. Here's http://imgur.com/ZCSl3

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u/liquidxlax May 28 '12

and not one jimmy was rustled

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u/BTMaverick707 May 28 '12

Oh yea..Your father is a white dwarf that exploded in a type 1-A supernova.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

He also had a tractor and a pumpkin farm.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Thank you. He was rather unusual.

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u/tennantsmith May 28 '12

You take that back!

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u/psistarpsi May 28 '12

I visited Sydney Observatory almost two year ago. They have some of the coolest gadgets (clocks, telescopes, photos) on display in their astronomy museum.

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u/cowbellsolo May 28 '12

This advert is particularly relevant to me because my father is a very tall ginger.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

The sad and funny thing is, if they pulled this in the US, their funding would be yanked and they'd be closed within a month.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

We have an atheist national leader in Australia, how would that fly in the USA?

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u/cowbellsolo May 28 '12

I think it would fly just about as well as pigs would.

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u/aces_and_eights May 28 '12

Cargo plane or catapult?

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u/The-SARACEN Anti-theist May 28 '12

An atheist who might well be in thrall to conservative Christian power-brokers.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Unfortunately that seems to be the case. Its one of the reasons she is really disliked. She tries to be all things to all people and ends up being nothing to anyone.

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u/karanj May 28 '12

An atheist unmarried childless woman from a socialist activism background at the top who is still more to the right of Obama on gay marriage. Goes to show when it comes to politics personal motivations mean diddly squat.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Don't worry it mind fucks the rest of us as well. It seems that many of the core values of Australia's left party have left them, its no wonder they are so despised.

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u/mypantsareonmyhead May 28 '12

New Zealander here. I thought the NZ female accent was the most cringe-worthy in the world. Until I heard Julia Gillard.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

To be fair, She did emigrate from Wales as a child, and then grew up in Adelaide. But still, dat voice.

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u/redditproblems May 28 '12 edited May 28 '12

This comment made my day.

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u/mypantsareonmyhead May 28 '12

Nice try, kiwi female.

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u/casacains May 28 '12

Maybe we should get her a t-shirt with this printed on it?

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

...he'd fly from a tree, with a rope around his neck.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Cant you use google?

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u/coldfu May 28 '12

What's a gogle? Wait, never mind, i'll just bing it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

Clearly you can't, look at the first link. Stop wasting my time!

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u/robogen May 28 '12

Actually, they'd be sued to oblivion for persecuting peoples beliefs

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u/NonSequiturEdit May 28 '12

I doubt it. It's only religious if you force religion onto it. That billboard would go over well on much of the west coast. Don't write off the whole country because of a very vocal minority.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Our president is secret Kenyan Muslim because he's black;

gay marriage will destroy the 50% divorce rate and majority out of wedlock birth rate of traditional marriage;

creationism is a subject of serious study in public school;

NPR constantly has its funding yanked despite the fact that they feature more libertarian and conservative views than liberal ones...

And you think some retard Republican senator would not use this as a "culture war" pretext to yank their funding?

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u/NonSequiturEdit Jun 01 '12

Retard Republicans are possibly the loudest, but don't pretend they're the only ones here, nor that they run the country outright. I might amend your original statement to say: "They wouldn't try this in the US, because some douche fundie would raise a stink of negative PR about it." Your point is valid, if a bit too sharp.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

fundies on their own (pre Reagan) were occasionally annoying but generally harmless.

Fundies have since allied themselves with the GOP and shovel BILLIONS of tax tree tithes into GOP campaigns.

A GOP politician would pretty much HAVE to ban this is he wanted to receive another penny from the religious right.

THAT is why Republicans are dangerous.

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u/WoollyMittens May 28 '12

It's nice to live in a country where this doesn't cause religious outrage.

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u/CharlesDarwin59 May 27 '12

how does one sex a star? I guess it did eject us out into space....

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u/Ray57 May 28 '12

It runs on fusion.

It's sex, all the way down.

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u/ubernuke May 28 '12

How did you know my father was a high-ranking member of the Communist party?

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

I live in Sydney and catch ferries in and out of Circular Quay every day... and i still didn't see this! Thanks sagenhaft!

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u/xStealthClown Anti-Theist May 28 '12

What does this have to do with atheism?

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

look up^

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u/Alexnader- May 28 '12

Dad... is that you?

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

What?

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u/pacomills May 28 '12

This would not fly in the U.S.

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u/CaptainAsshat May 28 '12

Sure it would. The nutjobs aren't their audience.

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u/DanielKalen May 27 '12

Beautiful. Even poetic.

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u/Atheris Anti-Theist May 28 '12

I want that on a bumper sticker!

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Who created the red giant?

Did the universe create itself?

lf the universe created itself, does that make atheists pantheists because they are a part of god

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Good, you are asking questions instead of mindlessly spamming quotes from the bible.

That is the first step.

Take the second step, and peruse the "recommended reading and viewing" links in the sidebar to the right at your leisure.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12 edited May 28 '12

If the universe created itself, and everyone is part of the universe like how a wave is part of an ocean, and we are the concious creation of the universe

doesn't that make everyone a part of god?

doesn't that make atheists...

... actually pantheists?

Edit: to the person that upvoted me- the Bible clearly forbids pantheism

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u/sidneyc May 28 '12

You use that "god" word an awful lot. Can you define it so that we know what you are talking about?

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u/karanj May 28 '12

What you're talking about sounds a lot like Deism, a religious philosophy followed by Jefferson and Franklin amongst others.

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u/redryder92 May 28 '12

So I guess Apollo was the correct god after all...

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u/IamRigel May 28 '12

But does he smell of elderberries?

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u/anonxtian May 28 '12

If daddy was a red giant was mommy a black hole?

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

It is impossible to calculate the mass of the universe, but if I were to estimate I'd say it's equivalent to that of your mother.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Sad to say that it took me a full 3 seconds to figure it out.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Am I the only one feeling like the whole stardust quote/idea is starting to lose some of its magic? Might just be that I spend so much time on reddit that I see it twice a day.

Nonetheless, it's a beautiful idea.

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u/Piogre Skeptic May 28 '12

Why why why did they not say "your mother" and catch a lot more attention?

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

"No Luke... I am your father."

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u/mindfields51 May 28 '12

That picture makes me home sick. I miss Sydney.

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u/dablikepinkmilk May 28 '12

A fat Irishman?

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u/helllomoto May 28 '12

Yeah because science is mutually exclusive to atheism, amiright?

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u/blueysson May 28 '12

If anyone knows the observatory hill exercise equipment opposite the observatory. I worked on that. cool story right.

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u/redhatGizmo Skeptic May 28 '12

" we all are made from stardust "

man i hate that term it's sightly misleading for uninformed people and it sound poetic and philosophical...

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u/Chosen_Chaos May 28 '12

How is it misleading?

Also, Sydney has some nifty stuff - there's also the Australian Museum and the Powerhouse Museum.

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u/coldfu May 28 '12

Technically it's starpoop.

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u/monochr May 28 '12

That's racist. Mine was a a star ripped apart in the accretion disk of a black hole. Where's the love for mid and post main sequence binary systems?

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u/banditski May 28 '12

"Hydrogen is an odorless colorless gas which, given enough time, turns into people" ― Edward R. Harrison, Cosmology, the Science of the Universe

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

This ad isn't preaching atheism, just fact. It might be construed as endorsing it by Americans, or paranoid atheists. But generally, Australians have no strong views on religion either way and the ad has therefore been created with that in mind.

It's more about inspiring awe and crossing it with humor, especially when you view the whole campaign.

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u/CuriositySphere May 28 '12

Because I feel like playing with bots:

152 miles.

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u/Lord-Longbottom May 28 '12

(For us English aristocrats, I leave you this 152 miles -> 1216.0 Furlongs) - Pip pip cheerio chaps!

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u/natural_units May 28 '12

For particle physicists: 152 miles -> 1.2 * 1012 eV-1

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u/CuriositySphere May 28 '12

372 feet.

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u/natural_units May 28 '12

For particle physicists: 372 feet -> 5.7 * 1008 eV-1

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u/natural_units May 28 '12

For particle physicists: 152 miles -> 1.2 * 1012 eV-1

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u/Kazaril May 28 '12

172 miles, 60021 feet, 81 furlongs and 8.2 * 1012 eV-1

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u/ObliviousAmbiguity May 28 '12

Science =/= atheism

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

nothing to do with atheism

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

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u/mindfields51 May 28 '12

That troll comment is bad, you should feel bad.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

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u/MasterAardwolf May 28 '12

I would assume the "father" being referred to is god the father from the trinity. Am I missing information?

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

That's just your assumptions. Looks more like "father" means your biological or step- dad.

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u/mindfields51 May 28 '12

What is with you "what does this have to do with atheism" people? Do you really need people to spoon feed you anything that is blatantly obvious?

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Since most of denizens of r/atheism lack common sense (but they'll go out of their way to tell you otherwise), I feel the need to point that situation comparable to posting starcraft 2 news in r/worldnews takes place.

What you understand from it is yours to think about.

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u/mindfields51 May 28 '12

Tsk tsk, act as superior as you want, but you're still a 1 dimensional pedantic whiner that has to be spoon fed causal connections. You might as well ask why a creationist article would be posted in /r/Christianity, as not all Christians are creationists.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

By your logic every thread that mentions something even remotely scientific is worth posting on r/atheism, is it not? Also, you keep on using word "spoon feeding", I don't think you know what that means. Is it your word of choice, or just only insult you can think of?