USO Canteen FReeper Style Themeless Thursday .... October 17,2002

FRiends of the USO Canteen Freeper Style ~ SAMWolf and Snow Bunny ~

[Victoria Delsoul]

LOL, this is hilarious. Good job, Souris and Bunny.

Woohoo! Mojo, you are famous now. I know it's a bit early for Halloween but, today is themesless Thursday, hehehe.

Have a great day everyone, cya later.

click on the graphic

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

CLICK ON THE TANKS to
SAY THANKS TO a
SERVICE MAN or WOMAN

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

[Bahbah]

With you and Snow Bunny aiming those tanks at me, I will be sure to say thank you to a service man or woman today. Love it.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Today's transportation for you and the Girlz.
I drive by this cutter everyday (when it is in port) on my way to work.
I have spoken with this cutter on many occassions when they are underway.
This is also on my "wish list."
U.S. COAST GUARD CUTTER ORCAS
The 110-foot Coast Guard Cutter Orcas has been stationed in Coos Bay, OR, since 1989

[tomkow6]

One Monday morning, Grover was picking up the kids along a new bus route. At the first stop, he picked up a fat little girl. Grover asked, "What's your name?" "Patty" she replied. She had a seat in the back of the bus.
On the next stop there was a handicapped boy named Ross. All the kids called him Special Ross." Then a young man named Lester Cheese loaded onto the bus, sat down, took off his shoes and began picking at his bunions.
Finally the last stop came up, and another chubby little girl got on. Grover had never met her, so he asked her her name and her name was also Patty.
On the way to school, Grover looked in his mirror and began to laugh, He was thinking...
"Dang, I have two obese Patty's, Special Ross, Lester Cheese picking bunions, on a Sesame Street bus!"

[ppaul]

Good morning!

[Severa]

*poke poke* Um...hon...*S* you forgot one:

[RadioAstronomer]

Whoohooo! Another science post. :-)

All planets move in ellipses. A planet that moves in a perfectly circular orbit is actually an ellipse with its eccentricity (e) = 0, a parabola has e = 1 and a hyperbola the e > 1. So the closer to zero the planets eccentricity, the more circular its orbit.

For the planets, the furthest point from the sun in its orbit is called aphelion and the closest is called perihelion.

All of the planetary distances from the Sun are measured in Astronomical Units (AUs). One AU is the average distance from the Earth to the Sun, which is approximately 93,000,000 miles.

Mercury: e = 0.2056 and its AU = .39
Venus: e = 0.0068 and its AU = .72
Earth: e = 0.0167 and its AU = 1
Mars: e = 0.0934 and its AU = 1.52
Jupiter: e = 0.0483 and its AU = 5.20
Saturn: e = 0.0560 and its AU = 9.54
Uranus: e = 0.0461 and its AU = 19.18
Neptune: e = 0.0097 and its AU = 30.06
Pluto: e = 0.2482 and its AU = 39.44

If you notice only two planets have a high eccentricity; Mercury and Pluto. Only one of them cross the mean distance of another planet from the Sun and that is Pluto and Neptune. Briefly Pluto is closer to the Sun than Neptune when its orbit is at perihelion.

The eccentricity of our planet's orbit is mild; aphelion and perihelion differ from the mean Sun-Earth distance by less than 2%. In fact, if you drew Earth's orbit on a sheet of paper it would be difficult to distinguish from a perfect circle and that is with e = 0.0167. . As for the perfect circle, There never will be a perfect circle with the orbital elements. Remember the other planets are also "tugging" on each other. I brought up the perfect circle to show that a circle is a very special type of ellipse. The reason for that was that when we see ellipses in our mind, we see really elongated structures. Also when you look at a "map" of the solar system, they usually put it in a somewhat side perspective which exaggerates the appearance of the ellipse.

Most of the planets are so close to circles that on a piece of paper they would look just that. Again, the only two that would be even readily noticeable would be Mercury and Pluto.

For satellites orbiting the Earth, we have an added component of not only the atmospheric drag but the solar wind as well. To even further the complication our Earth is not a perfect sphere and has natural gravity wells due to the distribution of the landmasses and that it is an oblate spheroid instead of a perfect sphere (the difference is only about 15 miles between the equator and the poles). One more rub is that with long term measurements taken using a satellite in orbit (the LAGEOS), the Earth is very very slowly re-rounding itself out over time.

The other thing that is not readily apparent from most solar system maps is just how far apart the planets really are and also how tiny they are with reference to the solar system.

[SAMWolf]

List of U.S. Navy Ships
Mailing Addresses

As of: October 5, 2002 The following is an alphabetical list of U.S. Navy ships with their mailing addresses. Ships which are named for individuals are listed by the first name of that individual. For example, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower is listed under the "D" rather than the "E".

You can also search the Ships Alphabetically list and the Ships Homeports list. The Navy Fact File describes the characteristics of the ships. Ships with USNS, SS and MV are those operated by the Military Sealift Command and have a civilian master and crew. If your ship is not listed here please check the Decommissioned Ships List.

Click on the picture for the list.

[SAMWolf]

That's my fault, Severa.

I had this put together before we knew your Boat's name.

[tomkow6]

Huh?

[RedBloodedAmerican]

A very close friend of mine was on the Jarvis for a l-o-n-g time, then tended lighthouses. Nice pic, thanks.

[MeekOneGOP]

Mornin', everybody !!

Have a cup while you FReep !

For those who prefer hot chocolate.....

Ah ! Breakfast !

[zip]

GOOD MORNING SB AND ALL OF YOU THAT SERVE OUR TROOPS AT THE CANTEEN. Luv u all.

AND first and foremost: Good Morning to our military personnel, past and present and your families. I salute you from the bottom of my heart. Thank you.

[SAMWolf]

The Ladies are still eagerly awaiting (cough, cough) quiz.

[Johnny Gage]

LOL... LOL.. Ok.. breathe... breathe. Those were funny.
Definitely a day brightener!

I made a few more "surplus store" purchases, and now Squadron #51 is ready to go Tali-banny hunting.

[Johnny Gage]

And for those who'd like to join the fun, but don't like to fly,
I've got some "ground pounder" toys too.
Battalion #51 is here!

GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS!

and

GOD BLESS THE U.S.A !!!!

[SAMWolf]

I'll stick with the ground-pounder toys and leave the air support to others. Thanks, Johnny.