Volume # 60/ The Darker Side

Good Mornig - it's be u ti ful!
All clicked in.

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Howdy all,

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ehBeth, great sites - makes me want to visit.

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Visit??? Just say the word and here I am! Lost in the Wilderness is more like it. Hey, hey, amigos and amigettes. Did anyone see the tee-vee program on the new species of monkey that has been discovered in the Bolivian rainforest?? Yikeroo. It is soooo cute and fuzzy. And, they mate for life..AND the male of the pair tends the offspring. Wonders never cease.

Love and howdies to you all.

ww :-)

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aktbird57 -
You and your 283 friends have supported 1,897,561.3 square feet!
Marine Wetlands habitat supported: 44,312.0 square feet.
You have supported: (0.0)
Your 283 friends have supported: (44,312.0)

American Prairie habitat supported: 35,858.8 square feet.
You have supported: (10,042.6)
Your 283 friends have supported: (25,816.2)

Rainforest habitat supported: 1,817,390.5 square feet.
You have supported: (161,285.1)
Your 283 friends have supported: (1,656,105.4)

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1 Aktbird57 .. 1136 43.560 acres

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and it's another earthturn ...

1st day of summer in some parts of the world already
... another hour or so til summer here

winter starts officially in other zones

hard to know what to where when it's going to be the first day of summer AND the first day of winter

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hey! I saw the woolly whisperer up above, and stradee and danon, and the paddle wielder - great to see all of you

<the grinning Latvian's clicks are done>

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Hiya Mz WW!

The "Highland Mangabey" critter

http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/pics/06_2005/primate.jpg

and a Chimp 'workshop'! <wonder if they do windows> Very Happy

http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/pics/11_2004/chimp.jpg

And more interesting observations regarding Global Warming

http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/2005/june/climatechange.htm

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Morning all, Very Happy

Happy Solstice - - - It was on this day in 200BCE that a genius named Eratosthenes measured the circumference of the Earth with a single stick.
True story......... Shocked

He prearranged for the day by observing the sun's movement North and noticed that it stopped moving North and was perfectly vertical (casting no shadows on the ground from a vertical position at a point in Africa now known as Syene - and located on what is now known as the Tropic of Cancer.) Having been practicing math with the Greeks, he decided to locate himself at a Northern latitude from the Tropic of Cancer and observe what happened. He did this at Alexandria, Egypt. On this day 2200 yrs ago - he placed a stick vertically in the ground at Alexandria and at the appointed time measured the angle of the shadow cast by the sun and the stick. Using the information, he calculated the circumference of the Earth. He was almost completely accurate in his measurement, as we have determined today. :wink:

Oh, the part about the old guys thinking the Earth was flat was invented by a bunch of religious nuts during the middle ages. Rolling Eyes

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You and your 283 friends have supported 1,898,170.0 square feet!

Marine Wetlands habitat supported: 44,475.8 square feet.
You have supported: (0.0)
Your 283 friends have supported: (44,475.8)

American Prairie habitat supported: 35,882.2 square feet.
You have supported: (10,066.1)
Your 283 friends have supported: (25,816.2)

Rainforest habitat supported: 1,817,811.9 square feet.
You have supported: (161,332.0)
Your 283 friends have supported: (1,656,480.0)

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110 Shocked

pix from this weekend loaded from camera onto puter
later this week - move them to an online host and share!

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PLEASE!!

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[size=7]oh my, hurry ehBeth!![/size]

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Today is a sad day for both aviation and space exploration.

The solar-sail spacecraft launched early a.m. from a Russian submarine in the Barents Sea has been lost. The U.S. lost a pilot flying >

http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/2005-06/18137836.jpg

> over Afghanistan - cause unknown so far, though ground fire unlikely as he was at an altitude of over 60,000 ft at the time.

Hoping for better news in the future - AND for the story of George Wayfarer's guardian angel Smile

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Clicked............

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ehBeth wrote:

The wonderful little travel companions are snoozing away at the hamburgers right now. Bailey is on the floor beside me in the den, while Cleo is snuggled up between hamburger and mrs. hamburger in the living room. Cleo is snorting happily as she drifts in and out of sleep.

We had a great drive, with a 45 minute break for a breakfast picnic on our way. The dogs and I ran around for a while, shared bacon and eggs and toast from Wendy's, ran a bit more, and then hopped back in the car. Got off the highway near the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, and drove the last hour of the trip on the back roads. Fabulous drive.

http://www.quinte.on.ca/tyendinaga/

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You and your 283 friends have supported 1,892,223.0 square feet!
Marine Wetlands habitat supported: 43,796.9 square feet.
You have supported: (0.0)
Your 283 friends have supported: (43,796.9)

American Prairie habitat supported: 35,788.6 square feet.
You have supported: (10,019.2)
Your 283 friends have supported: (25,769.3)

Rainforest habitat supported: 1,812,637.6 square feet.
You have supported: (161,214.9)
Your 283 friends have supported: (1,651,422.7)

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1 Aktbird57 .. 1133 43.436 acres

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hamburger and mrs. hamburger shout back "Hallo Hallo Halloda!" to all their fine friends among the wildclickers

Beautiful link, eh, Beth. Collected 2 butterflies this week!

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ehBeth wrote:

aktbird57 -
You and your 283 friends have supported 1,894,587.7 square feet!
Marine Wetlands habitat supported: 43,984.2 square feet.
You have supported: (0.0)
Your 283 friends have supported: (43,984.2)

American Prairie habitat supported: 35,812.0 square feet.
You have supported: (10,042.6)
Your 283 friends have supported: (25,769.3)

Rainforest habitat supported: 1,814,791.6 square feet.
You have supported: (161,238.3)
Your 283 friends have supported: (1,653,553.3)

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1 Aktbird57 .. 1134 43.491 acres

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Here's where you'll find my hometown - Kingston

and a few of the local sights/sites

and one of our favourite places to walk with the dogs here

http://www.cataraquiregion.on.ca/index.html

You'd all love it - it's gorgeous year-round.

The word I'm looking for is WOW!

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Happy Belated Birthday,
Eh Beth! You are really something!

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You and your 283 friends have supported 1,900,324.1 square feet!

Marine Wetlands habitat supported: 44,569.5 square feet.
You have supported: (0.0)
Your 283 friends have supported: (44,569.5)

American Prairie habitat supported: 35,905.6 square feet.
You have supported: (10,066.1)
Your 283 friends have supported: (25,839.6)

Rainforest habitat supported: 1,819,848.9 square feet.
You have supported: (161,355.4)
Your 283 friends have supported: (1,658,493.5)

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We're heading for TWO MILLION square feet. Isn't that amazing?

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Thanks for the note, Teenyboone. It's fun being part of this gang.

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I got a note from Matrix at my home email while I was out of town. She's doing well - her kids are keeping her very busy - in a very good way - everyone's still clicking!

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Hoft, thanks for the info! Are you home now or still traveling? <always good seeing your posts>

"The converted intercontinental ballistic missile carrying the craft launched safely at 12:46 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time from the Russian submarine Borisoglebsk. The first part of the launch went according to plan, Planetary Society President Louis D. Friedman said Tuesday from Moscow, but controllers subsequently observed a great deal of "noise" in the signal during the last part of the launch phase".

The news article link:

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-062205sail_lat,0,6323651.story?coll=la-home-headlines

What the flight needed was pwayfarers guardian angel perhaps? Smile

ehBeth, thanks for news of Matrix! Please tell her "hi" from all the wildclickers and that we miss seeing her postings too!

Hi Teeny, Danon, and all! Very Happy

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Always good to see you, Stradee, and the other people here.

The Russian booster rocket was in fact a submarine-launched ICBM - it failed 83 seconds into the flight, losing the solar-sail spacecraft. Wondering whether the Russians had some idea that their ICBMs were so unreliable as to crash on their heads before reaching any targets - maybe that's what kept us safe all these years Smile

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Morning all,

All clicked.

HofT, I have the feeling that what kept the world alive during the Cold War years was more in framework of "Dumb Luck".
For instance, during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, few Americans were even aware of the situation - which in real life consisted of several ship loads of atomic weapons actually armed, ready to fire and aimed at the US, AND, the Captains of the ships - with their fingers poised over the firing buttons - had NO communication with Moscow. That was the closest that humans have come - to my knowledge - in destroying the Earth. Completely.

Yep, dumb luck.

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This site will give updates.
http://www.planetary.org/solarsail/latest_update.html

Solar Sail Latest Updates
June 21-22, 200

.......While it is likely that this conclusion is correct, there are some inconsistent indications from information received from other sources. The Cosmos 1 team observed what appear to be signals, that looks like they are from the spacecraft when it was over the first three ground stations and some Doppler data over one of these stations. This might indicate that Cosmos 1 made it into orbit, but probably a lower one than intended. The project team now considers this to be a very small probability. But because there is a slim chance that it might be so, efforts to contact and track the spacecraft continue. We are working with US Strategic Command to provide additional information in a day or so.

If the spacecraft made it to orbit, its autonomous program might be working, and after 4 days the sails could automatically deploy. While the chances of this are very, very small, we still encourage optical observers to see if the sail can be seen after that time.

We await further developments and information coming out of Russia, STRATCOM, and the tracking stations.

eBeth, your pictures and links are tempting to start vacation right away. Thanks for the mental break.

To all wildclickers:
Enjoy summer- ice cream, sun, beach, BBQ, travel, lazy days....

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