It all depends upon how you look at it.
Posted on 06/11/2009 7:45:25 AM PDT by jmcenanly
Here comes the "Neil Armstrong 'raped' the moon signs".
Ooh, struck a nerve there, did I? The fact is that CA is dominated by moonbats who really don’t have a clue about how to think rationally, esp on politics and policy. That’s what I was (perhaps inartfully) referring to. I know, I lived in LA for several years before escaping.
Now, there are obviously LOTS of exceptions, but you are in the minority. My advise: Get out. Try Texas. I think you’ll find that us slacked jawed hicks (I know, you didn’t really call us that) have a great appreciation for people who can actually get things done. And you can run your observatory from here over the web with the bonus of an excuse to visit CA to check on your equipment!
PS Maybe share an image or two in forum? Would love to see ‘em.
Uh, no..lol
Get out. Try Texas.
If Texas didn't have such a major crime problems, if they had weather that was habitable for humans, I might consider it. But thanks anyway!
Latest 2006 Crimes per 100,000 People:
| Dallas, TX | Los Angeles, CA | National | |
| Murder: | 15 | 12.4 | 7 |
| Forcible Rape: | 53.28 | 27.3 | 32.2 |
| Robbery: | 553.9 | 370 | 205.8 |
| Aggravated Assault: | 584.2 | 377.2 | 336.5 |
| Burglary: | 1734.7 | 524.8 | 813.2 |
| Larceny Theft: | 4006.4 | 1539.2 | 2601.7 |
| Vehicle Theft: | 1116 | 654.4 | 501.5 |
The Appennines mountain range, and Apllo 15 landing site, a magnificent mountain range on the visible surface, with 3000 peaks, and extending in an almost continuous curve of more than 400 miles in length.
The last two peaks are perhaps most famous for forming the valley where the Apollo 15 was the ninth manned mission in the Apollo program and the fourth mission to land on the Moon. It was the first of what were termed "J missions", long duration stays on the Moon with a greater focus on science than had been possible on previous missions.
Orion Nebula M-42 1275 light years out.. 1/30/2009 19X65sec Canon 40D LX200 Classic 10" - M42 is a stellar nursery where new stars are being formed. 700 stars in various stages of formation have been detected
A more recent shot....M-13 is a Globular star cluster in the Constellation Hercules. It contains several hundred thousand stars, and is approximately 25,000 light years from earth.
Like most of the US, our crime is largely confined to the inner city ‘hoods. But at least here, you can carry (and shoot back). You’re right about the heat. Also, let’s not forget the BUGS! I’ve never seen so many flying and crawling things that bite or sting, almost all with some form of venom! (Effects range from ouch to OUCH! to Holy #### that HURTS to “call 9-11 NOW” to “he’s dead, Jim.”)
Even given all that, I would NEVER move back to CA...
Great images! Thanks!
Very cool!
lol...I’ve heard about the bugs. I was in Dallas a few years back...The heat and humidity were pretty bad when I was there. Seriously though, I’d move there but were so *&%^ spoiled with the weather here...And we have a pretty nice location, I just can’t see giving it up at this stage...Cal is a love hate thing with us...We love it and hate it if ya know what I mean.
Absolutely!
And I have soil samples from my garden, so there is no need to test fertility & moisture levels in the Sahara Desert; we'll just go ahead and plant a few hundred acres of wheat!
Nice try, but crashing their junk into the moon will be an uncontrollable event, and no means exist to even verify the location, or obtain data.
Hold muh beer, reporter-san...
LUNAR IMPACT: Japan's Kaguya spacecraft crashed into the Moon on Wednesday, June 10th, and the impact reportedly produced a flash visible from Earth. This sequence of images comes from the 3.9 meter Anglo-Australian Telescope in New South Wales, Australia
(Images available at the web site)
Astronomers Jeremy Bailey and Steve Lee used the observatory's Infrared Imager and Spectrograph (IRIS2) to record the fireball, which appeared at 18:25 UT when the 2,900 kg spacecraft slammed into the lunar surface at 6000 km/hr. The observations were made with a 2.3 micron narrow band filter, and are part of a time series of 1 second exposures with 0.6 seconds dead time between each frame.
Readers are asking, why bother hitting the Moon? For one thing, it's a good way to end a mission. Lunar satellites can't orbit forever because the Moon's gravitational field is weird and lumpy. Crashing is better than flying off into space, where the spacecraft could pose a hazard to other missions. Crashing also produces a fireball, which allows astronomers to estimate the "luminous efficiency" of objects hitting the Moon. Luminous efficiency is a key parameter required to interpret genuine lunar meteorite impacts. Also, hitting the Moon might uncover something interesting--like evidence of water. NASA's LCROSS spacecraft will attempt that trick later this year.
It was not totally 'uncontrolled'; it had been planned as part of the mission right from the beginning; mass is known, as is speed at impact; there is instrumentation; the spot was picked, not random.
Great shots !!!!
THANKS for sharing !
There is a Japanese lunar orbiter named Kaguya that is scheduled to crash into the moon today at about 2:30 pm ET. Scientists hope to learn something about the moon's composition by observing the debris that is kicked up.They're hoping to find bluefin tuna. /rimshot
:’D Dead time in purgatory for laughing at that one. ;’)
Thanks editor-surveyor.
awesome pic bttt
Pluto, the “Roto-Rooter of the Zodiac”, is doing his job!
"Venus and Mars are flirting with each other"
"Help from the planets"
From this one she writes:
“One friend I know is having intense healing dreams about his parents and his son, where he wakes up in tears. That’s an example of Chiron and Neptune in action together.”
she is an Astrologist.
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