Well, it's been a while so here are two. Click the pics to go and read a description by a smart person as well as click again on the picture to get the large version.
This is obvious to anyone with a brain that it's a brain: see clearly the two hemispheres - the logical left side separated by the corpus collosum from the artistic right side.
It's obvious. Butterfly, hah. Much like saying clouds look like a bunny rabbit.
If it blows now, you will have been vindicated. I am still sticking to my magma theory: we should have seen a Dow at 20,000 had anyone else been elected other than Barry. Anyone at all, including Kucinich, Sharpton, Elvis, anybody at all.
Since it is only 16800, all of that money that should have been in the market and now sitting on the sidelines has nowhere to go since the Fed is strangling bond yields. Money guys, mostly institutional, still have to show results and we are seeing their computers trying to profit from time to time. No correction yet, just money guys trying to justify their existence to their clients.
Dow fell 270 today, will recover 150 tomorrow. How's that for going out on a limb? See how my short term chops do, eh Kid?
Well, it's interesting as hell isn't it Fredd? :) You are right that mutual funds and fund managers want to make a good showing. You can lose money as long as you have lost less than the other guys in that game. But they won't have to report to their clients for another 3 months. And yes we are in a multi-year Bull market, but nothing goes straight up.
Well, I was wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. My prediction of the Dow jumping 150 today completely missed the mark. Boy, I should be horse whipped for being so wrong, Kid. The Dow went up 274, and not the measly 150 I predicted.
Still, the unrequited demand for returns on investment globally still has nowhere to go except one place, and one place only: US equity markets. Not even arguable. And that fact alone will insulate the equity markets from crashing. Minor cashing in days, like yesterday, yes. We're still heading to 20,000 Dow and 2400 S&P. Until we get there, perhaps after the midterm elections, things are going up. And nowhere but up.
We'll see Fredd. A lot of short cover today after the FED minutes came out. But it may also be a genuine move as well. We'll see. ;-)
They talk about bull markets climbing a wall of worry. Can you imagine a bigger wall? ebola, isis, europe imploding. etc.
I still maintain it is all about the dollar, which had gone parabolic as of 3 sessions ago and is now falling. (Bullish for the markets and commodities btw) but will it continue to fall ? We'll know soon enough.
And the DOW is down 334 points today -- a drop of nearly 2%. Not good news, but why panic? What goes up MUST come down eventually. Isn't it euphemistically called a "CORRECTION?"
If the downward slide CONTINUES very long, we could be in Big Trouble, but frankly I'd gladly lose 30-40% of what I have if I could be sure it would mean an end to D'Rat Dominion.
Euripides, Yes, some money that has been well spent for a change. Lots of good stuff on the site for the Cassini mission to Saturn too if you haven't seen it.
FT - Couldn't agree more. And it is great to be living in a time when technology can bring us such images, usually false color based on the elements that they are made up of.
Being ignorant, as I am, of the more complex theories and developments in Science, I have to ask why you call it "false-color-based?"
I've always thought that "color" was basically an illusion produced by the way various materials refract and then reflect pure white light? How am I wrong?
ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS~! Wonderful to think that this amazing 'thing' that looks like a butterfly was God's inspiration for the fluttering earthly butterfly! :-) "Hey, that looks great! I think I'll make a little animal that resembles it!"
Some butterfly.
ReplyDeleteDid you get the huge version? lots of interesting detail to zoom in on. Anyway, good think it's not next door.
DeleteAll that the Butterfly Nebula lacks is antennae. **wink**
ReplyDeleteAOW, agreed.
DeleteButterfly, schumutterfly.
ReplyDeleteThis is obvious to anyone with a brain that it's a brain: see clearly the two hemispheres - the logical left side separated by the corpus collosum from the artistic right side.
It's obvious. Butterfly, hah. Much like saying clouds look like a bunny rabbit.
Fredd, do you see those rabbits all the time too?
DeleteFredd, Is the market about to blow ?
DeleteIf it blows now, you will have been vindicated. I am still sticking to my magma theory: we should have seen a Dow at 20,000 had anyone else been elected other than Barry. Anyone at all, including Kucinich, Sharpton, Elvis, anybody at all.
DeleteSince it is only 16800, all of that money that should have been in the market and now sitting on the sidelines has nowhere to go since the Fed is strangling bond yields. Money guys, mostly institutional, still have to show results and we are seeing their computers trying to profit from time to time. No correction yet, just money guys trying to justify their existence to their clients.
Dow fell 270 today, will recover 150 tomorrow. How's that for going out on a limb? See how my short term chops do, eh Kid?
Well, it's interesting as hell isn't it Fredd? :) You are right that mutual funds and fund managers want to make a good showing. You can lose money as long as you have lost less than the other guys in that game. But they won't have to report to their clients for another 3 months.
DeleteAnd yes we are in a multi-year Bull market, but nothing goes straight up.
Well, I was wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. My prediction of the Dow jumping 150 today completely missed the mark. Boy, I should be horse whipped for being so wrong, Kid. The Dow went up 274, and not the measly 150 I predicted.
DeleteStill, the unrequited demand for returns on investment globally still has nowhere to go except one place, and one place only: US equity markets. Not even arguable. And that fact alone will insulate the equity markets from crashing. Minor cashing in days, like yesterday, yes. We're still heading to 20,000 Dow and 2400 S&P. Until we get there, perhaps after the midterm elections, things are going up. And nowhere but up.
We'll see Fredd. A lot of short cover today after the FED minutes came out. But it may also be a genuine move as well. We'll see. ;-)
DeleteThey talk about bull markets climbing a wall of worry. Can you imagine a bigger wall? ebola, isis, europe imploding. etc.
I still maintain it is all about the dollar, which had gone parabolic as of 3 sessions ago and is now falling. (Bullish for the markets and commodities btw) but will it continue to fall ? We'll know soon enough.
And the DOW is down 334 points today -- a drop of nearly 2%. Not good news, but why panic? What goes up MUST come down eventually. Isn't it euphemistically called a "CORRECTION?"
DeleteIf the downward slide CONTINUES very long, we could be in Big Trouble, but frankly I'd gladly lose 30-40% of what I have if I could be sure it would mean an end to D'Rat Dominion.
FT - Yes, the smart guys are thinking correction 10-12% if it happens. That's put the S&P around 1800
DeleteI for one am still enthralled with the beauty of space that telescopes, such as the Hubble or the Chandra, have provided us.
ReplyDeleteEuripides, Yes, some money that has been well spent for a change. Lots of good stuff on the site for the Cassini mission to Saturn too if you haven't seen it.
DeleteThat BUTTERFLY nebula is new to me. What wonders the Lord hath made! Beautiful and awe-inspiring beyond compare.
ReplyDeleteThanks for these glimpses of Outer Space, Kid.
FT - Couldn't agree more. And it is great to be living in a time when technology can bring us such images, usually false color based on the elements that they are made up of.
DeleteBeing ignorant, as I am, of the more complex theories and developments in Science, I have to ask why you call it "false-color-based?"
DeleteI've always thought that "color" was basically an illusion produced by the way various materials refract and then reflect pure white light? How am I wrong?
FT Here is a decent explanation of false color images
DeleteWikipedia also has a writeup
ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS~! Wonderful to think that this amazing 'thing' that looks like a butterfly was God's inspiration for the fluttering earthly butterfly! :-) "Hey, that looks great! I think I'll make a little animal that resembles it!"
ReplyDeleteZ, That could be exactly It ! Everything comes from something. :)
DeleteDaddy why is the sky blue?
ReplyDeleteLisa! Perfect !
DeleteThanks,lol
Delete(-: what else can I "say"-
ReplyDeleteC-CS
C-CS, glad you liked it. As stated here, one of the more valuable things we've spent actually very little money on comparatively.
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