Awesome. I don't know if I support the merger of the three galaxies mentioned, however. We don't need an all-powerful and centralized, top-down Big Galaxy overseer. I'm for star cluster rights.
Centralization always ends with the Big Bang. My thinking is, you must go to hell before being admitted to heaven.
On a somewhat reflective note, my parents were FDR Democrats before they visited those Ivy covered walls and became conservatives. My have things changed!
I recall my father telling me in a 7th grade science class (he was a junior high and senior high teacher before moving up to the junior college level), that the earth was closest to the sun while we were having winter. Of course I told all my knowledgeable classmates just how dumb he was. Later I learned the truth, and that indeed we would be having winter here when the earth is farther from the sum in some 12,500 years. Perhaps this "precession" movement is the cause of periodic climate change--I often have wondered. But then that's above my pay grade. Out of curiosity, what do you think about the 25,000 year precession cycle and it's effect on the climate. Perhaps I should consult the most knowledgeable man in the world and the inventor of the internet---Al 'Himself' Gore.
Ron, 25,000 precession cycle. I had to look it up and found all sorts of information about it. I wouldn't refute it. I'm a big believer in cycles. Stock market, human belief systems, the whole ball of wax. Sure. 25,000 and change cycle makes perfect sense to me.
FDR Democrats.... Back in those days and well beyond the majority were Patriotic. I think it started slipping with the hippies in the late 60's. What a worthless bunch they were.
I was never a hippie, but I did find myself early on (late teens, early 20's) questioning all the values that had been passed on to me to that point. I tossed them all out and soon came to rediscover them all as true. I guess some people just don't have the ability to do that so they stay lost in their hate filled reality disconnected fantasy existence.
On Precession Cycle---picture a spinning top. It spins very fast on it's central axis, but as it does at the same time the central axis slowly moves around also. Today if you were standing at the North Pole and looked to your zenith there you would see Polaris (North Star) but when you are a very, very and I mean a very old man some 12,000 years from now the position of the North Star will be seen some 23 degrees down from your zenith. And we here in the northern hemisphere will be having winter in July---at the time when the earth in it's elliptical annual path around old sol it comes closest. When I had astronomy 101, the instructor was an air force captain, taught us nothing but celestial navigation for the entire semester. No GPS devices back then. Plotting your lat. and long. position back then was a bitch!
Yes, I align my telescope on Polaris, which currently is stated to be 1 degree off but for a telescope with clock movement, it's not bad. Jupiter or the Orion nebula will stay in focus for a good long time with only minor adjustments needed to keep them in the frame.
Things are always changing. Personally I like it but it seems a lot of people do not like change.
Gotta say I'm so impressed with sailors of the Magellan age who were able to plot their position by the stars and time of night. There were some damn smart folks in days gone by. Today it is harder to make a smart person with all the 24/7 nonsensical input. It's a wonder anyone can think these days.
Awesome. I don't know if I support the merger of the three galaxies mentioned, however. We don't need an all-powerful and centralized, top-down Big Galaxy overseer. I'm for star cluster rights.
ReplyDeleteDaBlade, get ready for higher taxes and less of everything else. It's natures way.
DeleteWait, I thought interaction between galaxies was strongly disapproved of in the universe. I'm just saying...
ReplyDeleteCube, Unfortunately there are transgender democrats everywhere.
DeleteCentralization always ends with the Big Bang. My thinking is, you must go to hell before being admitted to heaven.
ReplyDeleteOn a somewhat reflective note, my parents were FDR Democrats before they visited those Ivy covered walls and became conservatives. My have things changed!
I recall my father telling me in a 7th grade science class (he was a junior high and senior high teacher before moving up to the junior college level), that the earth was closest to the sun while we were having winter. Of course I told all my knowledgeable classmates just how dumb he was. Later I learned the truth, and that indeed we would be having winter here when the earth is farther from the sum in some 12,500 years. Perhaps this "precession" movement is the cause of periodic climate change--I often have wondered. But then that's above my pay grade. Out of curiosity, what do you think about the 25,000 year precession cycle and it's effect on the climate. Perhaps I should consult the most knowledgeable man in the world and the inventor of the internet---Al 'Himself' Gore.
Ron, 25,000 precession cycle. I had to look it up and found all sorts of information about it. I wouldn't refute it. I'm a big believer in cycles. Stock market, human belief systems, the whole ball of wax. Sure. 25,000 and change cycle makes perfect sense to me.
ReplyDeleteFDR Democrats.... Back in those days and well beyond the majority were Patriotic. I think it started slipping with the hippies in the late 60's. What a worthless bunch they were.
I was never a hippie, but I did find myself early on (late teens, early 20's) questioning all the values that had been passed on to me to that point. I tossed them all out and soon came to rediscover them all as true.
I guess some people just don't have the ability to do that so they stay lost in their hate filled reality disconnected fantasy existence.
On Precession Cycle---picture a spinning top. It spins very fast on it's central axis, but as it does at the same time the central axis slowly moves around also. Today if you were standing at the North Pole and looked to your zenith there you would see Polaris (North Star) but when you are a very, very and I mean a very old man some 12,000 years from now the position of the North Star will be seen some 23 degrees down from your zenith. And we here in the northern hemisphere will be having winter in July---at the time when the earth in it's elliptical annual path around old sol it comes closest. When I had astronomy 101, the instructor was an air force captain, taught us nothing but celestial navigation for the entire semester. No GPS devices back then. Plotting your lat. and long. position back then was a bitch!
ReplyDeleteYes, I align my telescope on Polaris, which currently is stated to be 1 degree off but for a telescope with clock movement, it's not bad. Jupiter or the Orion nebula will stay in focus for a good long time with only minor adjustments needed to keep them in the frame.
ReplyDeleteThings are always changing. Personally I like it but it seems a lot of people do not like change.
Gotta say I'm so impressed with sailors of the Magellan age who were able to plot their position by the stars and time of night. There were some damn smart folks in days gone by.
Today it is harder to make a smart person with all the 24/7 nonsensical input. It's a wonder anyone can think these days.