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  • J jon-nyc
    24 Jan 2022, 22:37

    It’s out of tune with itself so it’s not just a recording artifact.

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    Larry
    wrote on 4 May 2022, 00:30 last edited by Larry 5 Apr 2022, 00:37
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    ...,.,...

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      mark
      wrote on 4 May 2022, 00:46 last edited by
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      The Sodium Tail of Mercury

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      May 9, 2021: The biggest comet in the Solar System is actually a planet. It’s Mercury. Researchers have known for years that Mercury has an enormous tail. Last week, Andrea Alessandrini photographed it from the balcony of his house in Veroli, Italy:

      https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2021/05/10/the-sodium-tail-of-mercury/amp/?fbclid=IwAR0uBH2psiYrKakwCf8sKSJ5fsfrj7AvyHwURndSWtLAfuZnm8-uqCrZymQ

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      • M mark
        4 May 2022, 00:46

        The Sodium Tail of Mercury

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        May 9, 2021: The biggest comet in the Solar System is actually a planet. It’s Mercury. Researchers have known for years that Mercury has an enormous tail. Last week, Andrea Alessandrini photographed it from the balcony of his house in Veroli, Italy:

        https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2021/05/10/the-sodium-tail-of-mercury/amp/?fbclid=IwAR0uBH2psiYrKakwCf8sKSJ5fsfrj7AvyHwURndSWtLAfuZnm8-uqCrZymQ

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        Aqua Letifer
        wrote on 4 May 2022, 00:51 last edited by
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        @mark said in Mildly interesting:

        The Sodium Tail of Mercury

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        May 9, 2021: The biggest comet in the Solar System is actually a planet. It’s Mercury. Researchers have known for years that Mercury has an enormous tail. Last week, Andrea Alessandrini photographed it from the balcony of his house in Veroli, Italy:

        https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2021/05/10/the-sodium-tail-of-mercury/amp/?fbclid=IwAR0uBH2psiYrKakwCf8sKSJ5fsfrj7AvyHwURndSWtLAfuZnm8-uqCrZymQ

        Wow that's rad.

        Please love yourself.

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          4 May 2022, 00:46

          The Sodium Tail of Mercury

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          May 9, 2021: The biggest comet in the Solar System is actually a planet. It’s Mercury. Researchers have known for years that Mercury has an enormous tail. Last week, Andrea Alessandrini photographed it from the balcony of his house in Veroli, Italy:

          https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2021/05/10/the-sodium-tail-of-mercury/amp/?fbclid=IwAR0uBH2psiYrKakwCf8sKSJ5fsfrj7AvyHwURndSWtLAfuZnm8-uqCrZymQ

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          George K
          wrote on 4 May 2022, 00:56 last edited by
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          @mark said in Mildly interesting:

          The Sodium Tail of Mercury

          That's just damn cool. We tend to assume that, because we can't see things, they don't exist.

          Radio telescopes, FTW!

          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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          • G George K
            4 May 2022, 00:56

            @mark said in Mildly interesting:

            The Sodium Tail of Mercury

            That's just damn cool. We tend to assume that, because we can't see things, they don't exist.

            Radio telescopes, FTW!

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            mark
            wrote on 4 May 2022, 13:53 last edited by
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            Here is a color photo including the Pleiades Star Cluster, that was posted to the James Webb Telescope FB page.

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              George K
              wrote on 4 May 2022, 14:54 last edited by
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              Human for scale: USS Gerald Ford in dry dock.

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              "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

              The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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              • G George K
                4 May 2022, 14:54

                Human for scale: USS Gerald Ford in dry dock.

                image.jpeg

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                mark
                wrote on 4 May 2022, 15:00 last edited by
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                @George-K That's a pretty big boat!

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                  mark
                  wrote on 5 May 2022, 21:54 last edited by
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                  Posted on FB with the description:

                  Russian photographer Andrey Pavlov has taken one of the most impressive macro photos of ants you will ever see.

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                    Klaus
                    wrote on 5 May 2022, 22:48 last edited by
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                    That photo is almost too good to be real.

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                      Aqua Letifer
                      wrote on 7 May 2022, 15:17 last edited by
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                      53A3B3D0-3BBB-45DB-A48A-C5A4C0ED87B8.jpeg

                      Please love yourself.

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                      • G George K
                        3 May 2022, 23:25

                        @Horace said in Mildly interesting:

                        It would be nice to imagine the vomit force being due to a rifling action of the neck, but alas, it's just boring ol' gravity.

                        As someone who, presumably, has never had someone literally vomit into your (unmasked) face*, you have no standing to comment in this thread, @Horace.

                        *1993, Sunday afternoon, ICU. Yeah, that was more than special.

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                        LuFins Dad
                        wrote on 7 May 2022, 16:08 last edited by
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                        @George-K said in Mildly interesting:

                        @Horace said in Mildly interesting:

                        It would be nice to imagine the vomit force being due to a rifling action of the neck, but alas, it's just boring ol' gravity.

                        As someone who, presumably, has never had someone literally vomit into your (unmasked) face*, you have no standing to comment in this thread, @Horace.

                        *1993, Sunday afternoon, ICU. Yeah, that was more than special.

                        So I do have standing? Yay me…

                        The Brad

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                          Ivorythumper
                          wrote on 9 May 2022, 20:22 last edited by
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                          Eggs from different breeds of chicken, natural colors of eggshell.
                          eggshell.jpg

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                          • I Ivorythumper
                            9 May 2022, 20:22

                            Eggs from different breeds of chicken, natural colors of eggshell.
                            eggshell.jpg

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                            George K
                            wrote on 9 May 2022, 21:38 last edited by
                            #329

                            @Ivorythumper and they all taste the same, right?

                            "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                            The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                              9 May 2022, 21:38

                              @Ivorythumper and they all taste the same, right?

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                              Ivorythumper
                              wrote on 9 May 2022, 21:43 last edited by
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                              @George-K No idea!

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                              • I Ivorythumper
                                25 Jan 2022, 18:40

                                @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

                                A “petroglyph” (new word to me) from 8000BC.

                                8419FFFF-4166-41FE-8F5C-A7A0EDAA9E04.jpeg

                                As interesting, if not more, is Göbekli Tepe, which has archeologists stumped.

                                It is a fully formed neolithic temple, which somewhat predates any stone founded city, and has no indication of the sort of human habitation needed to organize, build, and service a temple cultus. It seems to have been built by hunter-gathers (pre village, pre agrarian), who yet had 3 dimensional plastic art form of animals carved out of stone, rather than petroglyphs which were carved into stone.

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                                10,000 year old art -- for reference these are more than twice as old as the Pyramids at Giza.

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                                wrote on 11 May 2022, 01:28 last edited by Ivorythumper 5 Nov 2022, 01:30
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                                @Ivorythumper said in Mildly interesting:

                                @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

                                A “petroglyph” (new word to me) from 8000BC.

                                8419FFFF-4166-41FE-8F5C-A7A0EDAA9E04.jpeg

                                As interesting, if not more, is Göbekli Tepe, which has archeologists stumped.

                                It is a fully formed neolithic temple, which somewhat predates any stone founded city, and has no indication of the sort of human habitation needed to organize, build, and service a temple cultus. It seems to have been built by hunter-gathers (pre village, pre agrarian), who yet had 3 dimensional plastic art form of animals carved out of stone, rather than petroglyphs which were carved into stone.

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                                10,000 year old art -- for reference these are more than twice as old as the Pyramids at Giza.

                                Just following this thread... I've been interested in Gobekli Tepe for about 20 years now. Within the past two years, a much larger and much older temple site (1000 or 2000 years earlier) has been uncovered about 30 miles away:

                                Karahan Tepe

                                This gentleman holding his gentlemanly tool has been covered since about 10,000 BC Sayburc Man c. 11000 BC.jpeg

                                This is "Temple of the Penises" is the oldest know piece of architecture. Karahan Tepe c.10000 BC istock.jpeg

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                                  George K
                                  wrote on 11 May 2022, 11:56 last edited by
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                                  "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                  The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                    jon-nyc
                                    wrote on 11 May 2022, 16:56 last edited by
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                                    Only non-witches get due process.

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                                      jon-nyc
                                      wrote on 16 May 2022, 11:09 last edited by
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                                      Trivia: take a deck of cards and give it a good shuffle. You are pretty much guaranteed to have produced an ordering of the cards unique in human history.

                                      Like if 8 billion people shuffled cards once a second for a billion years, the number of card orderings would be 1/(42-digit number) of the total possible.

                                      Only non-witches get due process.

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                                      • J jon-nyc
                                        16 May 2022, 11:09

                                        Trivia: take a deck of cards and give it a good shuffle. You are pretty much guaranteed to have produced an ordering of the cards unique in human history.

                                        Like if 8 billion people shuffled cards once a second for a billion years, the number of card orderings would be 1/(42-digit number) of the total possible.

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                                        Klaus
                                        wrote on 16 May 2022, 11:35 last edited by
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                                        @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

                                        Trivia: take a deck of cards and give it a good shuffle. You are pretty much guaranteed to have produced an ordering of the cards unique in human history.

                                        Like if 8 billion people shuffled cards once a second for a billion years, the number of card orderings would be 1/(42-digit number) of the total possible.

                                        On the other hand, given enough time, a monkey hammering away randomly on a typewriter would produce Homer's Odyssey eventually.

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                                        • K Klaus
                                          16 May 2022, 11:35

                                          @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

                                          Trivia: take a deck of cards and give it a good shuffle. You are pretty much guaranteed to have produced an ordering of the cards unique in human history.

                                          Like if 8 billion people shuffled cards once a second for a billion years, the number of card orderings would be 1/(42-digit number) of the total possible.

                                          On the other hand, given enough time, a monkey hammering away randomly on a typewriter would produce Homer's Odyssey eventually.

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                                          jon-nyc
                                          wrote on 16 May 2022, 11:55 last edited by
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                                          @Klaus said in Mildly interesting:

                                          On the other hand, given enough time, a monkey hammering away randomly on a typewriter would produce Homer's Odyssey eventually.

                                          Before he got it right, he would miss it by just a few letters many billions of times.

                                          Only non-witches get due process.

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