APOD: The Local Fluff (2010 Aug 29)
Re: APOD: The Local Fluff (2010 Aug 29)
Gee, i wouldn't have thought that a discussion about "Fluff" would bring so much doom and gloom.
But just to throw my two cents worth in, i just heard someone on TV mention that Saturn would be leaving the house of Jupiter around the end of 2012.
Many years ago i caught the end of a PBS program that was showing a really ancient chinese calendar that had spikes on it that correlated with events that happened on the Earth. The biggest spike was at the time of Krakatoa. The calendar ended in 12/2012. Then the program ended.
I listened intently to hear what the program was or when it would play again, but there was no mention. I checked PBS carefully for the next couple of weeks, but could not find any program anywhere that listed anything about an ancient Chinese calendar. So for me--THAT is a big mystery.
But just to throw my two cents worth in, i just heard someone on TV mention that Saturn would be leaving the house of Jupiter around the end of 2012.
Many years ago i caught the end of a PBS program that was showing a really ancient chinese calendar that had spikes on it that correlated with events that happened on the Earth. The biggest spike was at the time of Krakatoa. The calendar ended in 12/2012. Then the program ended.
I listened intently to hear what the program was or when it would play again, but there was no mention. I checked PBS carefully for the next couple of weeks, but could not find any program anywhere that listed anything about an ancient Chinese calendar. So for me--THAT is a big mystery.
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Re: APOD: The Local Fluff (2010 Aug 29)
Henning Makholm wrote:
I'm not sure that your point (1) should be assumed to hold. One can imagine that passage in and out of the spiral arms give rise to a systematic variation in radial velocity that the stars in our neighborhood would all share.
A solar eccentricity e < 0.1 means that:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Standard_of_Rest wrote:
<<In astronomy, the local standard of rest or LSR follows the mean motion of material in the Milky Way in the neighborhood of the Sun. The path of this material is not precisely circular. The Sun follows the solar circle (eccentricity e < 0.1 ) at a speed of about 220 km/s in a clockwise direction when viewed from the galactic north pole at a radius of ≈ 8 kpc about the center of the galaxy near Sgr A*, and has only a slight motion, towards the Solar apex, relative to the LSR. The LSR velocity is anywhere from 202–241 km/s.>>
the minor axis is nor more than 0.5% smaller than the major axis.
That comes pretty damn close to being a circle.
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Re: APOD: The Local Fluff (2010 Aug 29)
From the Free Dictionary:
me·di·um (md-m)
n. pl. me·di·a (-d-) or me·di·ums
1. Something, such as an intermediate course of action, that occupies a position or represents a condition midway between extremes.
2. An intervening substance through which something else is transmitted or carried on.
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a. A means of mass communication, such as newpapers, magazines, radio, or television.
b. media (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The group of journalists and others who constitute the communications industry and profession.
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me·di·um (md-m)
n. pl. me·di·a (-d-) or me·di·ums
1. Something, such as an intermediate course of action, that occupies a position or represents a condition midway between extremes.
2. An intervening substance through which something else is transmitted or carried on.
3. An agency by which something is accomplished, conveyed, or transferred: The train was the usual medium of transportation in those days.
4. pl. media Usage Problem
a. A means of mass communication, such as newpapers, magazines, radio, or television.
b. media (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The group of journalists and others who constitute the communications industry and profession.
5. pl. media Computer Science An object or device, such as a disk, on which data is stored.
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Re: APOD: The Local Fluff (2010 Aug 29)
Q: Why did the man punch the fortune teller when she laughed?
[spoiler]A: He wanted to strike a happy medium.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]A: He wanted to strike a happy medium.[/spoiler]
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APOD: The Local Fluff (2010 Aug 29)
beyond wrote:
"Many years ago i caught the end of a PBS program that was showing a really ancient chinese calendar that had spikes on it that correlated with events that happened on the Earth. The biggest spike was at the time of Krakatoa. The calendar ended in 12/2012. Then the program ended"
I remember something like that as well. I believe it was the "Time Wave Zero" w/ Terrence Mckenna correlating the I-ching in a way to levels of novelty in culture.
"Many years ago i caught the end of a PBS program that was showing a really ancient chinese calendar that had spikes on it that correlated with events that happened on the Earth. The biggest spike was at the time of Krakatoa. The calendar ended in 12/2012. Then the program ended"
I remember something like that as well. I believe it was the "Time Wave Zero" w/ Terrence Mckenna correlating the I-ching in a way to levels of novelty in culture.
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Re: APOD: The Local Fluff (2010 Aug 29)
I wonder what time Doomsday occurs on December 21 2012 as I don't want to be in bed and miss it.
It's probably just my sense of humour (or lack of it!) but I found it funny that this APOD has a L Huff reporting on L Fluff.![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
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It's probably just my sense of humour (or lack of it!) but I found it funny that this APOD has a L Huff reporting on L Fluff.
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Re: APOD: The Local Fluff (2010 Aug 29)
At winter solstice: 6:12 AM EST [rise & shineDavidLeodis wrote:
I wonder what time Doomsday occurs on December 21 2012 as I don't want to be in bed and miss it.![]()
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DavidLeodis wrote:
It's probably just my sense of humour (or lack of it!) but I found it funny that this APOD has a L Huff reporting on L Fluff.
- Linda Huff is no powder puff
She is rough, tough & gruff
and was unwilling to bluff
about all that Fluff stuff.
Art Neuendorffer
Re: APOD: The Local Fluff (2010 Aug 29)
Is it fluff? Is it stuff?
Can you stuff it in a drawer?
Can you possibly make more?
We like stuff! We like fluff!
Let us stuff it in a neufer!
Let us make him much more flufer!
Flufer neufer, he's our man;
if he can't do it, no one can!
Yes, yes, I'm going to my room this instant..... you don't have to push...!
Can you stuff it in a drawer?
Can you possibly make more?
We like stuff! We like fluff!
Let us stuff it in a neufer!
Let us make him much more flufer!
Flufer neufer, he's our man;
if he can't do it, no one can!
Yes, yes, I'm going to my room this instant..... you don't have to push...!
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
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Re: APOD: The Local Fluff (2010 Aug 29)
Your replies neufer and owlice made me ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
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----------------------------------------------------owlice wrote:
Is it fluff? Is it stuff?
Can you stuff it in a drawer?
Can you possibly make more?
We like stuff! We like fluff!
Let us stuff it in a neufer!
Let us make him much more flufer!
Flufer neufer, he's our man;
if he can't do it, no one can!
Flufenacet treatment phenocopies fiddlehead
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A REBEC face (French, visage de rebec).
An ugly, grotesque face, like that which used to be cut
on the upper part of a REBEC or three-stringed fiddle.
- "Dead is the noble Badebec,
Who had a face like a REBEC."
____________ -- _Pantagruel_, Rabelais
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Re: APOD: The Local Fluff (2010 Aug 29)
Brythonic fluff
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King Lear 2.2
KENT
Sir, in good sooth, in sincere verity,
Under the allowance of your great aspect,
Whose influence, like the wreath of radiant fire
On flickering Phoebus' front,--
CORNWALL
What mean'st by this?
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King Lear 2.2
KENT
Sir, in good sooth, in sincere verity,
Under the allowance of your great aspect,
Whose influence, like the wreath of radiant fire
On flickering Phoebus' front,--
CORNWALL
What mean'st by this?
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Re: APOD: The Local Fluff (2010 Aug 29)
Ah! What color did you request? Yellow? Purple, so that you might dispense with the sweatshirt? Or are you hoping to join Blue Man Group?neufer wrote:Art Neuendorffer
(written before his death and publifhed at his dyeing requeft)
Perhaps you requested to be tie-dyed!
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Do tell, do tell!
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Re: APOD: The Local Fluff (2010 Aug 29)
I requeft that you refpect my dyeing remarkf.owlice wrote:Ah! What color did you request? Yellow? Purple, so that you might dispense with the sweatshirt? Or are you hoping to join Blue Man Group?neufer wrote:
Art Neuendorffer
(written before his death and publifhed at his dyeing requeft)
Perhaps you requested to be tie-dyed!(I can see the headline now: Neufer in Knots. Ouch!!)
Do tell, do tell!
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Re: APOD: The Local Fluff (2010 Aug 29)
I'm trying to, but I need to know what color (or colors) I'm respecting to make this work!neufer wrote:I requeft that you refpect my dyeing remarkf.
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Re: APOD: The Local Fluff (2010 Aug 29)
I don't comment on colors...that's Ann's job.owlice wrote:I'm trying to, but I need to know what color (or colors) I'm respecting to make this work!neufer wrote:
I requeft that you refpect my dyeing remarkf.
Art Neuendorffer
Re: APOD: The Local Fluff (2010 Aug 29)
She's dyeing you?!?neufer wrote:I don't comment on colors...that's Ann's job.
Well, then, you'll be blue!
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Re: APOD: The Local Fluff (2010 Aug 29)
Ann's poster gives us an answer:Henning Makholm wrote:
I'm not sure that your point (1) should be assumed to hold. One can imagine that passage in and out of the spiral arms give rise to a systematic variation in radial velocity that the stars in our neighborhood would all share.
Art Neuendorffer
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Re: APOD: The Local Fluff (2010 Aug 29)
owlice wrote:She's dyeing you?!?neufer wrote:I don't comment on colors...that's Ann's job.
Well, then, you'll be blue!
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Re: APOD: The Local Fluff (2010 Aug 29)
In regard to the Y2K scare; the fear was caused because of a hard-coded clock design in IBM systems that could not accept dates beyond 12/31/1999; that issue was avoided by a combination of physical and logical upgrades to the systems that were affected by this limited thinking design.
Any assumption is just that, an assumption; and to do so can cause people to be poorly prepared for the future. If someone poses a question about what could happen if the sun were to cross a powerful magnetic band; it would be best to answer the scientific question with a scientific reply. There are many possibilities of things that could happen if such an event were to occur, and no living person has all of the answers. Perhaps such an event could cause the earth's poles to swap, or perhaps there would simply be a slight increase or decrease in the earth's gravitational pull. It is more about the process of considering all of the possibilities than debating the proposed event. This is the essence of science itself, to postulate the "what if" and propose all of the possible results.
Any assumption is just that, an assumption; and to do so can cause people to be poorly prepared for the future. If someone poses a question about what could happen if the sun were to cross a powerful magnetic band; it would be best to answer the scientific question with a scientific reply. There are many possibilities of things that could happen if such an event were to occur, and no living person has all of the answers. Perhaps such an event could cause the earth's poles to swap, or perhaps there would simply be a slight increase or decrease in the earth's gravitational pull. It is more about the process of considering all of the possibilities than debating the proposed event. This is the essence of science itself, to postulate the "what if" and propose all of the possible results.