This expert astronomer and my dog are on the same level of intellect.
I'm tellin' ya, logic and English are turning into the secret handshakes of the 21st century.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 01/20/2011 5:39:20 AM PST by Red Badger
Click! New desktop pic. :o)
This expert astronomer and my dog are on the same level of intellect.
I'm tellin' ya, logic and English are turning into the secret handshakes of the 21st century.
A friend earlier to day mentioned that today’s English vocabulary is disintegrating into a single syllable language. I agreed and speculated the cause might be texting. I’m confident that texting has debilitated many Americans ability to spell.
I miss him big time and wish he'd come back.
...between December 13 and 22, SOHO saw more than two dozen sungrazers appear and disintegrate... According to Battams and colleagues, the comet swarm could be forerunner fragments from a much larger parent comet that may be headed along a similar path... according to comet hunter David Levy, the coming of a large sungrazer is just speculation for now. Comets in general are quite fragile and break apart easily, so this comet storm may simply be the last gasp of a bigger body that no longer exists, he said... Comet expert Don Yeomans, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, agrees.Thanks Silentgypsy and The Comedian for the pings, and thanks Red Badger for the topic.
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...between December 13 and 22, SOHO saw more than two dozen sungrazers appear and disintegrate... According to Battams and colleagues, the comet swarm could be forerunner fragments from a much larger parent comet that may be headed along a similar path... according to comet hunter David Levy, the coming of a large sungrazer is just speculation for now. Comets in general are quite fragile and break apart easily, so this comet storm may simply be the last gasp of a bigger body that no longer exists, he said... Comet expert Don Yeomans, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, agrees.Thanks Silentgypsy and The Comedian for the pings, and thanks Red Badger for the topic.
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...The granddaddy of all sungrazing comets, the three-mile-wide (five-kilometer-wide) core of Ikeya-Seki swept within 280,000 miles (450,000 kilometers) of the solar surface [in 1965]. Rather than vaporizing, the large comet survived its close encounter and whipped around the sun, becoming so bright in Earth's sky that, for a time, it was visible during the day. Since there were no space-based solar probes at the time, no one knows whether that event was preceded by a storm of smaller comets...Thanks Silentgypsy and The Comedian for the pings, and thanks Red Badger for the topic.
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Yeah, it was too bad, but probably not surprising that Sig226 left FR. Wish he’d (she’d?) handed off the list to someone (not me, somebody else).
...and she’ll be driving six white horses.
First one is a STORM SUPERCELL over Montana.
Second one is a wide angle, long exposure shot of a frosted leaf, with Orion in the Sky above, from Japan.
There is a picture a day, for every day starting from June 1995, here http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
The first one doesn’t look real. It looks like an artists rendering.
The second one does and I recognized Orion. That’s a beautiful picture.
That's what I thought. BUT, it is real.
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