RadioAstronomer (who has been doing double duty at work, and will be for some time) says hi, and asks in hurt tones why we haven't been pinging him, and whether it's his breath? Or that insufferable propeller beanie? Anyway, Rades, this ping's for you!
I don't know about you all, but it's nice to get back to refuting the familiar old creationist canards, after the long spell of cheap, imported rancor. It's rather like rooting through an old box of Wacky Packages.
"Hey, I remember this one!"
"I remember laughing really hard at this one as a kid."
"You know, this one didn't make sense to me when I was 10, and it still doesn't."
"What the hell makes these things stick, anyway?"
It's the effect of the baleful glare of Mars peering over the horizon, blocking all communication with him...