Orb: “Did you change the channel? What happened to the show we were watching? Did it end? This isn’t the same show we were watching! Where’s the show we were watching!”

Lin: “No, I didn’t change the channel. This is a “Science Moment” and now you’ve missed it.”

Orb: “It was just about the moon anyway. I know about how life couldn’t exist on Earth without our ’sister’ moon, and how it effects tides and stuff, and how it protects us from asteroids. Boring.”

Lin: “Someday I hope to be as intelligent and as enlightened as you.”

I’ll admit it, I find science shows about the moon, on the whole, boring. I’ve seen too many of them recently, I guess. An extended blurb containing common knowledge about the moon, in the middle of my completely silly TV program about what creatures living on other planets might be like is even more boring. Bring on more strange aliens, please … and NOW!

Hopefully I re-established my geek reputation with Lin a few minutes later during another commercial:

Orb: “Do you happen to know anything about the relationship between Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Mean? I know there is one, but I can’t remember what it is.”

Lin: “I’m not sure I even know what a Fibonacci Number is.”

Or maybe he thought I was asking that to show my high intelligence and enlightenment. Who knows, but at least it shut him up. Being bored by the moon does not make me an intellectual snob. I’m just really sick of hearing about the moon.