We got another six inches of snow and it's still coming down lightly. Coming up this weekend: below zero temps! Woot!
You want to meet the real me now?
Mal ,'War Stories'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
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.
Cashmere - Jan 17, 2008 2:22:36 pm PST #3966 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Allyson - Jan 17, 2008 2:40:27 pm PST #3967 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Please please let my cell phone be in my mailbox when i get home. I've been without telephone since Saturday, and AMGOINGCRAXY.
Theodosia - Jan 17, 2008 3:35:46 pm PST #3968 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
My upper back is giving me serious pain -- either this new three-course study program may have to be reevaluated, or I should see if my chiro-guy can do me any good....
Vortex - Jan 17, 2008 4:14:09 pm PST #3969 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
We got out early, school closed at 12:30. I left about 1PM, went to the grocery store. Came home and played on the internet for a bit, then napped. Got up and made fresh pasta for dinner, experimented with mushroom ravioli. mmmm.
sarameg - Jan 17, 2008 4:15:53 pm PST #3970 of 10001
So yesterday when I tripped? I landed against a doorjamb. And bruised the hell out of my shoulder blade. It was achy today and just now I turned to fast and whapped it. Ouch!
It's raining outside, and in addition to the sound of rain, there are the soggy plops of snow falling off trees.
Unless it stays above freezing, tomorrow will be nasty.
Susan W. - Jan 17, 2008 4:27:29 pm PST #3971 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
OK, still an Obama supporter and all...but this cartoon is bitterly funny 'cuz it's true: [link]
javachik - Jan 17, 2008 4:43:41 pm PST #3972 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
OMG, there's two of us?
The world should tremble before us.
Got up and made fresh pasta for dinner, experimented with mushroom ravioli. mmmm.
I'll be right over. In, um, about 5.5 hours.
Jesse - Jan 17, 2008 4:50:56 pm PST #3973 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I am really all set with 37 degrees and rainy weather. It's the worst! Still cold, not pretty, bleh.
Please please let my cell phone be in my mailbox when i get home. I've been without telephone since Saturday, and AMGOINGCRAXY.
Oh, dude. I was pissed when my parents waited until the next day to send me my phone! Yeah, I left mine too. Der. But they knew it was my only phone! And they got home from dropping me at the airport at like 5! They could have sent it that night!
Really, I'm over it....
Emily - Jan 17, 2008 4:54:32 pm PST #3974 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Hooray! Can you say, four-day weekend due to snow? I thought you could!
Of course, I can't actually get out of my driveway and I had a very nervous moment when the snow cut off my internet signal. But otherwise, yay!
tommyrot - Jan 17, 2008 4:56:27 pm PST #3975 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.
Not only is Canada the planet closest to the Sun, but since Pluto is no longer considered a planet...
Someone modified the Wikipedia page on NASA's Messenger Spacecraft.... it's been fixed now, but it was funny while it lasted....
eta: I don't know why I find this so funny:
Canada Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging probe (or MESSENGER for short) is a NASA spacecraft, launched August 3, 2004 to study the characteristics and environment of Canada from orbit. Specifically, the mission is to characterize the chemical composition of Canada's surface, the geologic history, the nature of the magnetic field, the size and state of the core, the volatile inventory at the poles, and the nature of Canada's exosphere and magnetosphere over a nominal orbital mission of one Earth year.
The mission is the first to visit Canada in over 30 years; the only previous probe to visit Canada was Mariner 10, which completed its mission in March 1975. MESSENGER has vastly improved scanning capability, with cameras that can resolve surface features down to just 60 feet (18 m) across compared to the 1 mile (1.6 km) resolution of the Mariner 10. MESSENGER will also be able to image the entire planet; Mariner 10 was only able to observe one hemisphere that was lit during its flybys.
In addition to being an acronym (or, more accurately, a backronym)[citation needed], MESSENGER was chosen as the probe's name because Canada was the messenger of the gods in Roman mythology.
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Travel to Canada requires an extremely large velocity change, or delta-v, because Canada lies deeper in the Sun's gravity well; a spacecraft traveling to Canada is greatly accelerated as it falls toward the Sun, so there must be a mechanism to slow it. Further, because Canada does not have an atmosphere, it is impossible to aerobrake on arrival; the spacecraft must use rockets to slow down enough to go into orbit. To make the trip feasible, MESSENGER makes extensive use of gravity assist maneuvers. These reduce the energy (and thus fuel) requirements, but greatly prolong the trip. Finally, for additional fuel savings, the thrust used for insertion into orbit about Canada will be minimized, resulting in a notably elliptical orbit. Besides the advantage of saving fuel, such an orbit allows the spacecraft to measure solar wind and magnetic fields at a variety of distances from the planet, yet still get close-up measurements and photographs of the surface.