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MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 18 Sep 24 - 01:25 PM Yes, I am still around. Yesterday I gave a class (Life-Long Learning sort of thing) entitled something like "Riverboats, Steamboats, and the Growth of America." It went okay, and I even got applause because I didn't sing anything. I went on for 90 minutes, and talked to about 60 people if you count the Zoomers. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 18 Sep 24 - 01:41 PM Good job! Did this involve actually going to the river or getting onto a boat? MOM would love that! |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 21 Sep 24 - 04:36 PM Librarians rule! |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 22 Sep 24 - 08:37 PM The river that flows here is the Mighty and Powerful Portneuf, which sometimes carries enough water to float a stick (the story that a betrayed young maiden decided to throw herself from a bridge and end it all but only sprained her ankle when she landed is a folktale). So no, we didn’t even visit Mink Creek or Pocatello Creek. I, however, grew up on the banks and water of the Upper River and have steamboated from St. Paul to Nawlins, as well as being personally involved with the Hudson, Potomac, Columbia, Tehana, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, Tennessee, Tombigbee, Yazoo, intercostal waterway, St. Lawrence River and Seaway, and other such waters. Mostly it was putting a bunch of stuff together in a way that made it interesting. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 23 Sep 24 - 08:05 PM I have a secret about doing this sort of thing. I figure that if it's interesting to me it's probably interesting to others. So I can use presenting a class as a reason to research something and buy books about it. Like a few years ago when I did a class on "Pandemics Of The Past" for this sort of thing. COVID was going on and there was all sorts of talk about whether or not it was real, if it was dangerous, and if so what did people do about such things as plagues in times gone by. I became interested and did some research and put together a presentation on past epidemics. Most of the audience was by Zoom but it seemed to be well received. I got a question about the title of one, "The Recent Crime Wave in Idaho, 1840 to 1910" but I answered that it's just a nanosecond ago in geologic time. AND I got to look up the crooks, and there were a lot of them. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 24 Sep 24 - 11:15 AM > the story that a betrayed young maiden decided to > throw herself from a bridge and end it all, but only > sprained her ankle when she landed, is a folktale Was she called Agnes? |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 27 Sep 24 - 10:15 AM No, not Agnes. Her name was Clementine and her daddy was a miner and she raised ducklings to help with the family bills. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 27 Sep 24 - 11:17 AM Apologies, Rap: my thoughts had flown to the gnarly-county part of Carpe Jugulum. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 27 Sep 24 - 11:34 AM Oh, and our local river occasionally has enough water to float a stick, but we wouldn't be able to tell the stick from the sewage by colour. It's even worse than the Ankh, especially in high summer. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 28 Sep 24 - 06:09 PM Believe it or don’t, but our drinking water is pumped from the aquifer. It is minimally treated for nitrates (farming and ranching country), examined and treated for waterborne pathogens, and pumped to the city. Very little treatment overall. The mountains act as a natural filter as the stuff soaks to the aquifer. On the other hand, slurping down some from a creek up in the hills will almost certainly guarantee you a case of giardiasis or worse. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 30 Sep 24 - 07:42 PM Mom! Tell her to get up there and stay up there! |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 05 Oct 24 - 01:41 PM Mom! Just what did I tell you?! |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 10 Oct 24 - 11:36 AM Let's get you upstairs before Rapparee sees you down here. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 10 Oct 24 - 04:19 PM A dispatch from the Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered links to a story from the Scottish Highlands that a herd of special cattle is to be located close to Loch Ness. Maybe the Loch Ness Monster will come out and devour them. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 10 Oct 24 - 08:41 PM Even Nessie can't digest all that hair on Highland cattle. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 14 Oct 24 - 02:58 PM So Nessie could spit out the hairball -- it would be a large hairball. Like a cat. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 16 Oct 24 - 06:32 PM Up again to the top. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 16 Oct 24 - 06:48 PM AI has done interesting things portraying Nessie, but she will never be caught. Gluon will look to that. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 18 Oct 24 - 01:56 PM Let's get you up to the top of the queue before Rapparee catches you downstairs. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 19 Oct 24 - 12:43 PM Mom’s always been an “Upstairs Girl.” |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 23 Oct 24 - 06:25 PM ANother bump to the top of the queue. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 26 Oct 24 - 05:53 PM Mom, I know you like to chat and drink with the customers in the parlor, but all who know you will ask for you. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Date: 27 Oct 24 - 11:15 AM Gravity is still not quantized. We found its waves, but its particle is not found. Gluons, the massless particles with a 1 spin, are responsible for the strong force but are busted as possible gravitons. Gluons bind quarks together as well as other things. However, quarks only exist as pairs and never stand alone. There are 8 versions/configurations of quarks. When we try to pry quarks apart, the more energy applied only produces more new pairs of quarks. E=MC2 is at work making mass out of energy. Where would abundant energy make more quarks like the sorcerer's apprentice made more mops and buckets? - Inside black holes. The only thing stopping that process would be the total stoppage of time at a singularity. On the other side of the stoppage of time is the conversion of quarks into the fabric of new space energy. It will never be seen or known but the unseen universe may have been quarks in their previous life. So Rap, there is an individual gluon but quarks only exist as twins because of a gluon. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 27 Oct 24 - 12:17 PM Look who's back, stranger! Good to see you again. MOM is going to throw a party out on the porch. Rap is bringing the booze, but he'd better leave the guns at the Legion Hovel. You remember what happened the last time . . . with target practice at acorns still in the tree it is just too hard to judge who is winning. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Date: 28 Oct 24 - 08:01 AM I'm a good shot with homemade blowguns but not with lead and black powder. I've been time traveling at 24 hours per Earth day but at 12 times the normal event speed. Events are still accelerating. Here is a picture of STEVE, https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2410/SteveFrance_leroux_2160.jpg : Sometimes a river of hot gas flows over your head. In this case the river created a Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement (STEVE) that glowed bright red, white, and pink. Details of how STEVEs work remain a topic of research, but recent evidence holds that their glow results from a fast-moving river of hot ions flowing over a hundred kilometers up in the Earth's atmosphere: the ionosphere. The more expansive dull red glow might be related to the flowing STEVE, but alternatively might be a Stable Auroral Red (SAR) arc, a more general heat-related glow. The featured picture, taken earlier this month in Côte d'Opale, France, is a wide-angle digital composite made as the STEVE arc formed nearly overhead. Although the apparition lasted only a few minutes, this was long enough for the quick-thinking astrophotographer to get in the picture -- can you find him? My intent has always been to expand our radius of science wonder and discovery |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 30 Oct 24 - 08:14 PM Excuse me, but I have seen that particular event many times. Gluon gets tired of humping my leg or doing something and decides to take off, leaving that particular sort of thing behind instead of a trail of yellow snow, etc. In fact, Gluon just left here a few moments ago. At least, it was just a few moments ago for me. I measure duration but I'm unsure just how or what if anything Gluon uses to measure duration. That, of course, presumes that "duration" has meaning. And that begs the question of whether "meaning" has meaning. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Date: 31 Oct 24 - 02:20 PM Semantics aside, I have discovered why black holes do have white holes. What exits as white holes is newly created space from mass transformed by singularity forces. We just don't see space. btw inventing new forces out of thin air like dark energy or dark matter is where science is fudging our knowledge today. What's next dark donut theory? mmm chocolate. I learned about the double slit experiment and the collapse of the wave function in 7th grade. I do not understand quantum mechanics any better today except that the mathematical perfection of quantum mechanics is no defense for it being true, complete or fundamental law. It can simply be wrong for the same reasons that the Ptolemic Aritototelian celestial spheres seemed correct with the perfect measurements it provided. Is consciousness involved?, probably not but if I knew I would have united physics and won a Nobel Prize by now. Don't forget to sharpen your hiking sticks. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Date: 31 Oct 24 - 08:25 PM I've seen a cigar shape travel from horizon to horizon in less than 3 seconds, a flying triangular UFO, and another that had a sound that was felt in my bones. I've seen objects pass right through brick walls and phenomena that are beyond human physics explanation. I conclude there is a physics that we are missing entirely. Perhaps it is true that it is beyond what we can understand but we could sure as hell use it anyway. We all only know things from our own perspective. I don't think my perspective is weird but this universe is definitively on the strange side with randomness. |
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