Posted on 05/03/2022 7:07:46 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Meteorites are not ‘flaming rocks of doom,' NASA says
The “bright fireball” was traveling at 35,000 mph when it exploded at 8:03 a.m. with the “energy equivalent of 3 tons of TNT,” according to NASA Meteor Watch, the agency's project that tracks fireball activity.
“Existing law states that any meteorites belong to the owner of the property on which they fell; out of respect for the privacy of those in the area, we will not disclose the locations of these finds,”
And finding anything of value is likely harder than you think.
“The pieces from this object were way too small to leave a crater. Unlike what you see in the movies, meteorites are not ‘flaming rocks of doom’ that blast holes in the ground. In fact, you can pick one up right after it hits ground. So no smoking rocks in small craters.”
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Oooohhhh! Lookeee! A long-haired marmalade! My day is complete!
Good morning. I hope you had a good night!
I dreamed of doing a Wordle.
I didn’t get to go to sleep like I planned, so I ended up sleeping in an hour. Even though I’m not getting up at oh-dark-thirty any more, I resent losing that extra hour of my morning!
Today is pill sorting day, and that’s about all that’s on the agenda.
Good morning!
Yay! Friday Eve and tomorrow is my 9/80 off-Friday. :D
I’ll join y’all on the four-train.
Wordle 383 4/6
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I just want to grab that kitten right out of the picture and play with it.
Good morning. Not bad, thanks. Jake was on the pillow for a while, but we worked it out.
I’m going to take Kathleen to the library.
Same!
I get it in 4 about 39% of the time. 5 is about 28%.
Let us know how that works out. I may need a different monitor. Maybe Darks has something that would help.
Sorry folks. I had a hard time getting started today.
I still live but trailing the pack by a long mile.
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I’ve been looking at kitteh pics.
Depressing. The best ones for me are so far away.
Now I’m going to go sort pills. I hope my brain cooperates.
No apology necessary! We all have those days. You rocked it. :)
Thanks!
As long as it wasn’t X/6 I’m good! Of course, I’ll even take that because I know I’ve tried! 😎
I LOVE that movie!!
“Doktor Fronkenschteen!”
“Roll in the hay, roll in the hay!”
Yeah! Mel Brooks was a master!
I guessed this 5-letter word in 3/6 tries to up my 22% in that category.
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Can you guess this word?
https://wordlegame.org?challenge=dW5pdGU
Been milder recently, but mid-80’s today under clear, blue skies. Made it through the celebration with no fire locally. We’re supposedly a “NO FIREWORKS” county, but that ban has triggered a MARKED increase in the use of the kinds of fireworks that were always illegal, as people flip government “the bird” and celebrate their way anyway.
So, we were re-watching the first 2 DVDs of “The Lord of The Rings” and we got to the scene where the Fellowship was starting out on the river and each of the characters was remembering the gifts given him by the Lady Galadriel.
It got to Frodo and the camera showed him riding in the canoe with Aragorn paddling behind him. He was holding his gift in his hand and gazing at it. The Lady Galadriel’s voice-over was saying, “May it be a light to you when all others have failed.”
Suddenly I imagined Frodo fumbling the vial and dropping it into the river, then looking sheepishly around and hoping nobody noticed.
It was all I could do not to laugh out loud, which would have gotten me a SERIOUS cold shoulder from Mrs. ArGee.
Someone said it was Peter Jackson meets Mel Brooks.
Yes. Yes, I not only can see the scene as you envisioned it, but I can imagine the Cold Shoulder and finger-to-the-lips “Shhh!” Yeah. I get it! I also love it!
“Oops!”
“So what happened to Lady Galadriel’s gift, Frodo?”
“Gift? What gift? Did she give gifts to people?”
To be completely fair, the thought that triggered that one was Mrs. ArGee saying to one of us, “Put that away. Do you want it to fall into the river?” Because she’s that kind of cautious person. And my son would have said, “It’s not going to fall ... oops.” And the scene was born.
I get it! My sister and I and also my FS and I were like that. But we don’t associate all that often these days.
Again!
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