The Moon

It started with a discussion about this week’s “big moon” that I had with a coworker in the production department. Yesterday, she took and posted a photo of the moon and today I emailed her the explanation why it looks huge but doesn’t photograph that way. A brief but lively debate ensued; reckon with our childlike/Hindi reasoning!

O.

That’s cool, although I think it looks bigger because cheese is bigger when it’s new because of water content. As the moon rises in the sky, the green cheese dehydrates and the moon gets smaller as it rises. Mmm... Cheese.

Jason

Nah, the moon looks bigger because the Earth rests on an infinite stack of turtles, and there's more of them in the summer because it’s warm and they like ice cream, so the Earth is closer to the moon.

O.

Well that doesn’t make any sense at all! Turtles can’t hold ice cream cones.

Jason

The ice cream cones are held in the four arms of Ganesh, protector of all and the giver of happiness and good fortune. And ice cream.

O.

He could hold five, given that he has a prehensile trunk. But I guess one is for him. Gods like ice cream too.