Posted on 10/21/2008 3:01:43 PM PDT by gsdallas
To ask the question in that way discloses that you are a victim of the Star Trek imagination scenario. "It was a desert planet/It was a jungle planet/It was a planet of polar iciness."
Any normal planet could have all of the above. And any normal planet will have day and night at the same time.
Venus is not quite normal, but it does have day and night. The rotation of Venus is 243 days, but its movement around the sun only takes 225 days! Its day is longer than its year!
Phooey. I'm not going there. Instead, it has been noted that a stable circulation pattern in the upper atmosphere circles the planet about once every four Earth days. Call it the equivalent of the jet stream. And jet it does; to get around the planet that quickly, it averages 300 miles per hour.
That portion of the atmosphere is also cooler that at the surface, and the pressure is more Earth normal instead of crushing. In many ways, the carbon dioxide atmosphere of Venus acts like the equivalent of Earth's oceans. If we were just coming into this system, we would not try to establish a colony at the bottom of the ocean.
So we'll have to set up floating cities on Venus, making it once again a romantic destination for science fiction lovers.
There is one thing MUCH better than Vick’s Vapo-Rub: Watkins Menthol-Camphor ointment.
Because I smoked, I would get horrendous colds with coughs that tore my rib cage apart. The only thing that would ease them...Watkins. Now, that’s all I use.
I now have NOT smoked longer than I smoked, but because of a collapsed lung in a car accident, I would still get terrible chest colds (before CFIDS took charge.)
Now, it’s just my allergies. If they get too bad, and I cough my head off, I use Watkins and it stops.
Too technical for me. I need a Diet Coke. I’ll keep an eye out for Watkins Ointment. Poor Pat (and all his brothers in the room with him!).
"Is it day or night on Venus?" It's always after 5, somewhere...
Forgot to set the clocks, but I see my computer kept track.
I always set mine before I go to bed. Right now, I’m waiting for my phone to catch up. Hahaha! Even the birds like the light, but the catz are annoyed...I didn’t get up in the dark and give up my warm spot.
Pat will have to stay home from church, which will make him sad. We didn’t set the clocks, either, but Vlad let us know when it was time to get up. “I don’t want to sleep any more! And I have a puddle!”
When it's daytime where you are, on the opposite side of the planet, it's night.
It's kind of a feng-shwai thing.
I always do too, but forgot last night. Combination of being sick and jetlag, I guess.
Hey newbie are you an unwashed lesbian?
Got it. I still need to find a Diet Coke, though. I’m trying to write an annoucement in Spanish, and I can’t remember half the words I need!
“annoucement” — That sounds like French. No wonder you’re having difficulty. *\;-)
Got my romance-language wires crossed there, n’est ce pas?
Maybe this will help: We Can Remember It For You Wholesale.
Gu dearbh. (Indeed.)
I told my friend that your luggage stayed in Heathrow for a tour, and you just got it back. (Last night.)
He said when they rotated back to the States from Germany, their Samoyed took a detour. Everyone was in tears, for the duration, but the next morning the airline delivered the dog to the mother’s house.
Jeez...I could lose luggage, but I’d sure hate for my dog to be somewhere she wasn’t supposed to be!
I'm not surprised the luggage didn't make it. I was scheduled to have 65 minutes to make the connection and they specially tagged the bag for a short connection. When I got off the plane I had but 20 minutes to arrive at the departure gate, 20 minutes in which to:
1. Ascertain that I was in Terminal 5B (my only chance of making it)
2. Figure out where to go to get to the departure gates (not easy)
3. Pass through a checkpoint where they checked (and replaced) my boarding pass
4. Go up an escalator and go through security (30-ish couple in front of me who appear to have never gone through a security checkpoint before, they had NO CLUE what they were doing)
5. Find the departure gate (not easy -- very poor signage)
6. Take the elevator down to it
I was one of the very last through the gate and onto the bus to the plane.
Good story!
I thought Heathrow could have done much better directing passengers to security and beyond. The only GOOD thing about that place was the restroom...the doors were full length, the cubbies wide, and the walls lacked only 2” of being full length. Probably for ease in cleaning.
And even the cleanliness of the airport proper amazed me, as well as Bobbys walking by twos with an automatic rifle. I felt pretty safe there!
I don’t recall a lot about Heathrow — I’ve been through it often enough but it’s been a while and some is mixed up with other airports. This time I was in the brand-new Terminal 5 which, outside of the signage, looked pretty nice for all that they hide the gates among all the shops. *\:-(
I’ve been in less confusing airports. If I had known, I would have gone through Gatwick. Heathrow is far too confusing.
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