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islander
Location: West coast somewhere Gender:
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Jul 30, 2018 - 6:46am |
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BlueHeronDruid wrote:Truly beautiful evening, last. I think we have another one right now. Pretty fantastic here. We are starting to get the haze/smoke from up north now, but it makes for pretty sunsets. We have a baby seal that is hanging around the boat. He's been my wake up snort for the last few days.
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BlueHeronDruid
Location: Заебани сме луѓе
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Jul 29, 2018 - 6:44pm |
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islander wrote: Ah, not quite back to our yet when we saw the view.
We did get to have dinner at the columbia tower club, so a lot of good views were had by all.
Truly beautiful evening, last. I think we have another one right now.
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islander
Location: West coast somewhere Gender:
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Jul 29, 2018 - 6:08pm |
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BlueHeronDruid wrote: I meant the bridge. Ah, not quite back to our yet when we saw the view. We did get to have dinner at the columbia tower club, so a lot of good views were had by all.
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BlueHeronDruid
Location: Заебани сме луѓе
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Jul 29, 2018 - 11:47am |
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islander wrote: On the way back from. This was just next to Anthony's downtown.
I meant the bridge.
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islander
Location: West coast somewhere Gender:
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Jul 29, 2018 - 8:17am |
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BlueHeronDruid wrote: Taken from the martini deck?
On the way back from. This was just next to Anthony's downtown.
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BlueHeronDruid
Location: Заебани сме луѓе
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Jul 28, 2018 - 8:16pm |
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islander wrote:Blood moon over Seattle.
Taken from the martini deck?
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haresfur
Location: The Golden Triangle Gender:
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Jul 28, 2018 - 7:42pm |
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islander wrote:Blood moon over Seattle.
Beautiful
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islander
Location: West coast somewhere Gender:
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Jul 28, 2018 - 10:02am |
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Blood moon over Seattle.
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oldviolin
Location: esse quam videri Gender:
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Jul 27, 2018 - 2:59pm |
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Yes. The moon.
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Proclivities
Location: Paris of the Piedmont Gender:
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Jul 27, 2018 - 12:22pm |
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R_P
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Jun 4, 2018 - 1:09pm |
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Thank the moon for Earth's lengthening dayFor anyone who has ever wished there were more hours in the day, geoscientists have some good news: Days on Earth are getting longer.A new study that reconstructs the deep history of our planet's relationship to the moon shows that 1.4 billion years ago, a day on Earth lasted just over 18 hours. This is at least in part because the moon was closer and changed the way the Earth spun around its axis. (...) Earth's movement in space is influenced by the other astronomical bodies that exert force on it, like other planets and the moon. This helps determine variations in the Earth's rotation around and wobble on its axis, and in the orbit the Earth traces around the sun. These variations are collectively known as Milankovitch cycles and they determine where sunlight is distributed on Earth, which also means they determine Earth's climate rhythms. Scientists like Meyers have observed this climate rhythm in the rock record, spanning hundreds of millions of years. But going back further, on the scale of billions of years, has proved challenging because typical geologic means, like radioisotope dating, do not provide the precision needed to identify the cycles. It's also complicated by lack of knowledge of the history of the moon, and by what is known as solar system chaos, a theory posed by Parisian astronomer Jacques Laskar in 1989. (...) Last year, Meyers and colleagues cracked the code on the chaotic solar system in a study of sediments from a 90 million-year-old rock formation that captured Earth's climate cycles. Still, the further back in the rock record he and others have tried to go, the less reliable their conclusions.
For instance, the moon is currently moving away from the Earth at a rate of 3.82 centimeters per year. Using this present day rate, scientists extrapolating back through time calculated that "beyond about 1.5 billion years ago, the moon would have been close enough that its gravitational interactions with the Earth would have ripped the moon apart," Meyers explains. Yet, we know the moon is 4.5 billion years old.
So, Meyers sought a way to better account for just what our planetary neighbors were doing billions of years ago in order to understand the effect they had on Earth and its Milankovitch cycles. This was the problem he brought with him to a talk he gave at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory while on sabbatical in 2016. (...)
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haresfur
Location: The Golden Triangle Gender:
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Apr 7, 2018 - 1:50am |
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Proclivities wrote: JrzyTmata wrote:Cheshire Moon out tonight.
... every now and then when the moon's holding water Well, they say that old Joe'll stop and give you a ride It seems, just like you, some hitchhiker will be coming by'... I want you to hang onto that dime
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SeriousLee
Location: Dans l'milieu d'deux milles livres
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Apr 6, 2018 - 1:07pm |
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Proclivities
Location: Paris of the Piedmont Gender:
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Feb 19, 2018 - 6:18am |
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JrzyTmata wrote:Cheshire Moon out tonight.
... every now and then when the moon's holding water Well, they say that old Joe'll stop and give you a ride It seems, just like you, some hitchhiker will be coming by'...
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Antigone
Location: A house, in a Virginian Valley Gender:
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Feb 18, 2018 - 4:47pm |
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JrzyTmata wrote:Cheshire Moon out tonight.
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JrzyTmata
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Feb 18, 2018 - 4:29pm |
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Cheshire Moon out tonight.
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KurtfromLaQuinta
Location: Really deep in the heart of South California Gender:
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Jan 27, 2018 - 7:42pm |
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Alexandra wrote:I am hoping for a cloud break miracle Wednesday night. I sure would love to see the lunar eclipse.
It will be total fairly early in the morning. No problem at my house. Debbie is up at 4:45- 5:00 am. When I have a job it's 4:15- 4:30 am. And I usually have a job.
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Alexandra
Location: PNW Gender:
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Jan 27, 2018 - 10:04am |
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I am hoping for a cloud break miracle Wednesday night. I sure would love to see the lunar eclipse.
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KurtfromLaQuinta
Location: Really deep in the heart of South California Gender:
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Jan 23, 2018 - 8:08pm |
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SeriousLee wrote: Coming soon to the sky near you. Well... the eclipse pretty much for the West Coast.
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SeriousLee
Location: Dans l'milieu d'deux milles livres
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Dec 31, 2017 - 5:53am |
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