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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:10 pm
by Karearea
Good morning, 15.8°C expecting 21°C, a few stars showing; sunrise still an hour and a half away; going to be a breezy NW day.
The Moon is Full at 8pm tonight NZDT, 0700 UTC on March 25th.
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:14 pm
by talmacapt
If anyone in northern latitudes has clear skies tonight, the aurora is showing as very active on the Finnish met. site.
It is clear here but not yet dark at the moment.
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:50 pm
by Rwy in Sight
talmacapt wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:14 pm
If anyone in northern latitudes has clear skies tonight, the aurora is showing as very active on the Finnish met. site.
It is clear here but not yet dark at the moment.
Watching the aurora is the last thing on my bucket list trip wise
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2024 7:14 pm
by 1DC
It is bright and clear on the Humber,if it stays so I will look for the aurora tonight. The wind has gone into the Norrard and it has turned colder and only feels 3 to 5 in the wind chill although the guesser thinks 9 to 11! Had a lousy bacon sandwich and a semi decent coffee in the T.esco cafe this afternoon, I was sat overlooking the check-outs and I reckon the store was taking between £5000 and £10000 every five minutes. It was very busy and the place is rumoured to be the second largest in the UK.. Just had a rather nice fish pie for tea, the fish did not come from T.esco but from one of the remaining decent fish merchants on Grimsby Fish Docks..
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2024 7:22 pm
by talmacapt
Annoyingly, thick cloud is now covering the sky but fmi.fi (there are English pages) is still showing very high aurora probability.
Haven't heard from wife's Ivalo relations but they have to be up at 0500 for work tomorrow and "Voice of Finland" is on tv, grrr!,
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:03 pm
by tango15
Rwy in Sight wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:50 pm
talmacapt wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:14 pm
If anyone in northern latitudes has clear skies tonight, the aurora is showing as very active on the Finnish met. site.
It is clear here but not yet dark at the moment.
Watching the aurora is the last thing on my bucket list trip wise
I remember one evening going to a villa, far outside Athens. The food and company were excellent, but what I remember most was the carpet of stars above us. Some of them even shot across the sky.
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:02 pm
by Hydromet
Good morning all, clear blue skies and it's shaping up for a beautiful autumn day. Currently 18C, forecast max 31C.
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:30 pm
by bob2s
The timetable for today is bare of chores, one will have to amuse oneself by attempting to do nothing for the day, I am sure this will take little effort
on my part.
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:49 pm
by jimtherev
tango15 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:03 pm
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I remember one evening going to a villa, far outside Athens. The food and company were excellent, but what I remember most was the carpet of stars above us. Some of them even shot across the sky.
A few days after finally retiring and moving here in 2011 we visited my family in Ontario. On the way, flew to Vancouver, then 5 days on The Canadian train to Toronto. Second morning out - down the Rockies and into the prairies, said to Mrs Jim "You don't look as tho' you slept." "Didn't much" she said "Just opened the blinds, but me pillow under the window and watched the stars all night. Found myself crying, it was so beautiful. I did give you a shake at one point, but you didn't seem to be interested, you Philistine!"
(I could only weakly reply that Philistines were extremely talented people, for their time: High science and wonderful art. Just subject to bad PR.)
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:21 am
by PHXPhlyer
Today the car chided me to replace the battery in the fob.
Had to watch a YouTube video to figure out how to open it. Too lazy to go back out to the car and root around in the manual and the manufacturer's website wouldn't play nice to download it.
Day before yesterday it was the security camera telling me to replace batteries in the doorbell cam. Turned out only one was bad and other tested OK.
Now if they would only change themselves.
PP
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:27 am
by PHXPhlyer
Took D#1 and her cat Emotional Support Animal to the airport to return to school.
She can only fly as far as Tucson however her instructor was visiting her family there for the weekend and will take them the other 125 miles back to the school.
Tomorrow they will start working on her CFII, with a checkride in a little over two weeks.
PP
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2024 6:40 am
by Ex-Ascot
Morning folks. Sun. We did have a little strip of water left in front of us but that has gone now. Largeish pools both up and down river but very shallow looking at the cattle crossing.
We have a lady coming to stay for a couple of weeks on Wednesday. Always a good thing to force you into doing little jobs you have been putting off. We can't do anything about the sad state of the brown garden though. She has been here before and has been warned. Off into the Delta with her on Friday. A bit of aviating to be done.
As others here I've had the pleasure of seeing the aurora many times crossing the pond.
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:25 am
by Rwy in Sight
t15, I know what you mean about the clear night skies away from Athens. Arguably it is what I haven't seen that makes aurora attractive to me.
JimR I love your way of approaching kind of sensitive subjects.
National Holiday here: for some unknown reason we celebrate the uprising against the Ottoman rulers rather the signing of the
London Protocol.
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:49 am
by OFSO
Morning all. Grey skies. Off to the smoke as usual to be zapped. Calcium supplements they advised I should take are making my nails grow very quickly.
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:27 am
by tango15
jimtherev wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:49 pm
tango15 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:03 pm
...
I remember one evening going to a villa, far outside Athens. The food and company were excellent, but what I remember most was the carpet of stars above us. Some of them even shot across the sky.
A few days after finally retiring and moving here in 2011 we visited my family in Ontario. On the way, flew to Vancouver, then 5 days on The Canadian train to Toronto. Second morning out - down the Rockies and into the prairies, said to Mrs Jim "You don't look as tho' you slept." "Didn't much" she said "Just opened the blinds, but me pillow under the window and watched the stars all night. Found myself crying, it was so beautiful. I did give you a shake at one point, but you didn't seem to be interested, you Philistine!"
(I could only weakly reply that Philistines were extremely talented people, for their time: High science and wonderful art. Just subject to bad PR.)
One thing that occurs to me when I see all those thousands of stars in the night sky is that there must be life on at least one of them They can't all be useless pieces of rock - can they? I appreciate that you might take issue with that Jim - just thinking out loud really.
Yes, the Philistines should have hired the same PR company as the squirrel. It being basically the total opposite of a Philistine.
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:47 am
by Ex-Ascot
The night sky here is amazing, absolutely no light pollution. It is quite mind blowing thinking about what is out there. So far we can see or detect up to 46 billion light years away. That is a long way. There is no way there can't be intelligent life form out there. Even if it is just to the average intelligence level of a football hooligan or a frog.
To phone the furthest solar system would require some time on hold.
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:23 am
by Hydromet
When we lived outside of Tumut, we could see the glow of light pollution from Canberra, about 80km away on the other side of the Brindabella range. However, working in central Australia, it's possible, sometimes, to look around and see no lights or light pollution within your whole horizon. At times like that, with no moon, you can see why it's called the Milky Way. When the moon is full and your eyes are accustomed to the night, it's almost like daylight.
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:25 am
by reddo
Hydromet, agreed. When I drove through central Australia on the great job search quest, the Milky Way was absolutely spectacular.
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:27 am
by Boac
Why was our galaxy named after a chocolate bar??
https://onepoundsweets.com/p/milkyway-bar-60p
Come to think of it...................
https://www.galaxychocolate.co.uk Can no-one think of any original names?
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:44 pm
by OFSO
Don't you know the solar system is located in a huge ball of cardboard* into which aliens have pricked billions of holes, this giving the illusion of stars.....
* The cardboard ball is actually the discarded parking in which the solar system was delivered.**
** By amazon