The satire is greatly helped by the illustrations of skewed mammals with quizzical looks on their faces, happy dinosaurs jitterbugging to extinction and careful diagrams for the do-it-yourself crowd to follow.įrom Dr. On planetary orbit, Weller’s book states that “an eclipse of the moon occurs when the sun passes between the Earth and the moon,” and “an eclipse of the Earth occurs when you put your hands over your eyes.”
Jupiter would be the same size and location as the average Central American right-wing dictator.” Venus, to the same scale, would be a golf ball in Buffalo. Weller’s comeback is “imagine the Earth is a tennis ball located in the middle of Times Square. Looking back on the way he learned about the solar system, Weller remembered teachers comparing it “to golf balls at various distances-they always came up with this bit. Black holes also are thought to contain “campaign promises, missing Watergate tapes and Jimmy Hoffa,” the book points out. (but) today all that has changed: A dim, incoherent knowledge of science is available to anyone.”Īs an example, he offers an artist’s rendition of the interior of a black hole in space, cluttered with lost keys and ballpoint pens, Visa cards, sunglasses and Amelia Earhart’s airplane. In the introduction, Weller points out that at one time it took years to obtain “even a dim, incoherent knowledge of science.
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