Some where rhesus monkeys are luxuriating in a bathtub of yogurt, tapping away on typewriters, toying with butterfly valves during breaks while admiring the hub cap wall gallery.
Sounds like Hollywood.
Posted on 07/12/2016 8:03:24 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Pluto isn't quite as lonely as scientists had thought.
Astronomers have discovered another dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, the ring of icy objects beyond Neptune. But this newfound world, dubbed 2015 RR245, is much more distant than Pluto, orbiting the sun once every 700 Earth years, scientists said. (Pluto completes one lap around the sun every 248 Earth years.)
"The icy worlds beyond Neptune trace how the giant planets formed and then moved out from the sun," discovery team member Michele Bannister, of the University of Victoria in British Columbia, said in a statement. "They let us piece together the history of our solar system."
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The exact size of 2015 RR245 is not yet known, but the researchers think it's about 435 miles (700 kilometers) wide. Pluto is the largest resident of the Kuiper Belt, with a diameter of 1,474 miles (2,371 km).
The research team first spotted 2015 RR245 in February of this year, while poring over images that the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii took in September 2015 as part of the ongoing Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS).
"There it was on the screen — this dot of light moving so slowly that it had to be at least twice as far as Neptune from the sun," Bannister said.
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SJB, did someone downtown get under your skin? :)
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Some where rhesus monkeys are luxuriating in a bathtub of yogurt, tapping away on typewriters, toying with butterfly valves during breaks while admiring the hub cap wall gallery.
Sounds like Hollywood.
I have a collection of old license plates on the walls of the laundry room.
(I think that’s found in one of those “You might be a redneck if ...” lists.)
If I could get far enough away from them and higher up, they would most likely look a lot like that. But, bearing in mind that the Valley of the Sun is much larger than the Valley of the Meadows, our perspective here is quite limited.
But that’s pretty good photography, some wags on FB even going so fat as to say it was photoshopped. Not so. I have seen virga from clouds do much the same thing, though not with such flair. And of course, virga doesn’t make it to the ground. It evaporates long before then.
On the list of things a mother never wants to hear her off spring say.
"Yup, my mom made all of these."
Such a cute pic! The guard hairs on that little one really set the scene!
LOL
He’s glowing.
On the east coast I’ve seen rain squalls in the distance, a sheet of gray with clear skies to either side, but nothing like that.
And I’m off to Wally’s.
Nice spread of states in that collection.
Saw a superb collection like that in a cafe in NZ. Somewhere along the Clutha River Valley.
The collection lacked an Aukland plate, but they had one before our camper van rolled out of the car park. :)
(The Rental Van insurance payed for a new one.)
Since I doubt anyone on the interwebs could tell the difference between my typing and that of a rhesus monkey, I’ll have to consider it.
But I don’t buy yogurt in tubs or boxes. Just those tiny containers. I will admit I wish most were twice the size.
It's chief weapon is surprise. Suprise and fear.
It's two chief weapons are surprise and fear and ruthless efficiency. Ah!
Its three chief weapons are surprise and fear and ruthless effeciency and...
If a drunk rhesus monkey were covering Trump how would anyone know?
You could get a goat.
My Grammar was a very simple woman. I don’t think my mom could have handled it if she had been complex.
If you’re going to be quoting Chelsea, get out to the main threads.
LOL!
Wow. You guys sure talk a lot while I’m gone!
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