My newest crack is Trader Joe's Golden Berry Blend--Dried raisins, cranberries, blueberries and cherries. It is Da Bomb.
We'll be in our bunk.
Wash ,'War Stories'
Natter Five-O: Book 'Em, Danno.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Scrappy - Mar 18, 2007 2:56:51 pm PDT #7704 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Cashmere - Mar 18, 2007 2:57:03 pm PDT #7705 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
why are blueberries so damned tasty?
Don't know buy my kids agree with you. They can't get enough of them.
Zenkitty - Mar 18, 2007 2:57:05 pm PDT #7706 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Okay, this is just a guess I'm pulling out of my back pocket, but I think maybe the earth and the moon are like dance partners, holding each other's hands and whirling around. They're stable as long as they both hold on and keep a constant speed. But if one suddenly lets go - as if the moon somehow disappeared - the other would go careening off, spinning erratically. The earth couldn't really go flying off, because the sun's gravity keeps it in its orbit, but its spin would lose stability.
The moon arrived - whether it was captured or broken off the earth itself - a long long time ago, so the "dance partner" interaction has been stable since well before we evolved. The moon is slowly getting farther away from the earth, so that's affecting the partnership, but it's so gradual, we're never going to notice any difference.
A planet doesn't need a relatively big moon to be stable, but ours has had its big moon for so long, the sudden loss of it would severely disturb its rotation.
tommyrot - Mar 18, 2007 3:01:03 pm PDT #7707 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
My theory does not involve dancing.
OK, the earth is not quite spherical - it's somewhat "flat" at the poles and a little wider at the equator, due to the earth's rotation. So the earth at the equator is a little closer to the moon than the earth at other places. So I guess that's enough to keep the earth's equator and the moon's orbit mostly synced up.
Why that's necessary, I don't know....
§ ita § - Mar 18, 2007 3:13:53 pm PDT #7708 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Googling on the subject's very interesting. So far I haven't hit anything that has the Space:1999 profile, but I'm sure that's just because I haven't put "space" and "1999" into my search. Yet.
Hey! Should I wear a crinoline to dinner, or is that too much?
sumi - Mar 18, 2007 3:17:19 pm PDT #7709 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
TAR: Man those trained rats are SO COOL. I mean, how cool is it that you can train rats to find mines? I am guessing that they are too light to set most mines off? Even though those were some large rats.
Cass - Mar 18, 2007 3:24:10 pm PDT #7710 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Also, I want a nap.So much.
Lovely day. Lovely weekend. Want someone to fetch me dinner.
Damn, good weekend.
sumi - Mar 18, 2007 3:27:29 pm PDT #7711 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
TAR: Argh. I so wanted Schmirna to be gone.
I am so sorry about that! I don't understand what I did wrong.
§ ita § - Mar 18, 2007 3:28:18 pm PDT #7712 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Lowercase ess, sumi.
eta: Ne'er mind. Corrected the spoilerfont for you.
Jesse - Mar 18, 2007 3:33:21 pm PDT #7713 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Are you effing kidding me with this? But funny that all the gay guys wouldn't do the nail thing, when they probably would have had an easier time, since it's a job for men there.