The observatory will be open to the public on Friday, October 28th at 8:00pm weather permitting. Venus shines brightly in the west-southwest just before sunset. It's second in brightness only to the moon after sunset. After night falls, you'll find Mars rising in the east. Mars is closest to Earth this week and next! It's shining brilliantly at magnitude -2.2 in Aries near the Taurus border. It rises fiery yellow-orange in the east-northeast in twilight, blazes high in the eastern sky by 10 p.m., and moves over to the west by dawn. And it's rising earlier every day. In a telescope Mars is 20 arcseconds wide. For a couple of weeks it remains essentially as large as when at its very closest on the night of October 29th. Check out recent amateur images of the planet including its dust storm here: http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/plane ts/article_1612_1.asp
The SFA Observatory's viewing sessions are intended for visitors of all ages and are free of charge. Since these are outdoor events, poor weather conditions may force a cancellation. The current weather report can be found here. To reach the SFA Observatory dial 936-569-0102 and for maps and directions http://www.physics.sfasu.edu/observatory/tour_form .html. We have free SFA Star Charts that you can download and print http://members.cox.net/astro7/SFAStarCharts.html. To see what's up in the sky see this Week's Sky at a Glance.
For larger groups please email me in advance so that I can have additional help available. In addition to our public viewing session at the SFA Observatory you may also want to attend a planetarium show on a Friday night. Here's the planetarium schedule: http://www.physics.sfasu.edu/planetarium/index.htm
...construct and successfully test 'Aggie Solar Death Ray' on jet-skis, and ski-boats.
October 22, 2005 College Station, Texas (AP) By Spock the Baptist (The Fishing Physicist)
This weekend members of the Texas A&M Bass Club struck a blow for bass fishermen everywhere, when they successfully tested a solar death ray based on the 'myth' of Archimedes' death ray. The 'Aggie Solar Death Ray' targeted three different models of jet-skis, and two models of ski-boats and summarily destroyed them.
Upon hearing of the highly successful test Ray Scott, and Forest Wood held a joint press conference to reveal that they had contracted with the "Bassin' Aggies" to market the device through Bass Pro Shops to bass anglers the world over. This was immediately followed by a ring endorsement of the National Outdoor Writers Guild in a press statement. The Guild statement concluded that the 'Aggie Ray' was the greatest advance in fishing in the past half century.
Numerious stock analysts rated all stock related to the new invention an enthustic 'put up your kids for collateral!' investment.
"So aluminum was the first spelling, which was later change by language nazis because it didn't sound right."
If you see someone with an adhesive label on their lapel or shoulder with a upside-down lower case e on it then you'll know that they're a member of the language nazis.
"...you will really hate that the British call potato chips "crisps", and cookies are "biscuits". Not to mention that they then call fries "chips"! Oh, the humanity!:)"
Well, what can you expect from a 'race' that thinks warm beer, and jellied eels constitute a treat.
4 hours a day. This is likely to include TV as background noise. How many people fall asleep while 'watching' TV at night? How long will the TV be on until said person wakes and turns it off.
It's already been done. It was called the Pong Show......oh wait!?!
Never mind...
"Breathe deep the gathering gloom, Watch lights fade from every room. Bedsitter people look back and lament Another day's useless energy is spent. Impassioned lovers wrestle as one; Lonely man cries for love and has none; New mother picks up and suckles her son; Senior citizens wish they were young. Cold-hearted orb that rules the night Removes the colours from our sight, Red is grey is yellow white But we decide which is right And which is an illusion
I find the whole red vs. blue thing amusing. For years the GOP was blue, and the Demos were red, you know red as in left wing. See: Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, http://uselectionatlas.org/ "Note, this site uses Blue for Republicans and Red for Democrats. I know that most media outlets have adopted the opposite color key in recent years. However, due to the sheer volume of maps on this site, changing them to match the media's recent color choices requires a significant investment in time (I started creating the maps 11 years ago!). Please also note that the colors are just a key to the maps on this site. I could have just as easily chosen green and orange."
I was in favor of using Gore Grey, and Bush Brown for the 2000 election. Earth Tones are so much more stylish than boring blue, and routine red.
HiThere, you and morgawr are not from Texas are y'all.
We've got a real problem here in the Lone Star State with public school funding. Our Supreme Court has declared that local funding in unconstitutional under the Texas Constitution. The reason being that due to differences in the value of the local tax bases there is inequitable funding between 'rich' and 'poor' school districts, which in turn leads to an inequitable quality of education between the 'rich' and 'poor' school districts.
For the last decade the Texas Legislature has wrestled with, and gone through all manner of contortions to resolve the funding 'problem', with no solution that even comes close to being reasonably satisfactory. The realpolitik in Texas is such that a even a workable solution, that some major segment of the Texas Body Politic won't fiercely object to, is highly unlikely.
E-mail is a tool of repression wield by self-perpetuating yankee running dog autocrats to repress proletariat peasants. The yankee running dogs have propagandized you into believing that we're an autonomous anarcho-syndicalist collective. Outdated imperialist dogma has perpetuated the social and economic differences of the proletariat and conceal that we're living in a dictatorship.
Wait...
Ooooh! Dennis! There's some lovely filth down here...
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The observatory will be open to the public on Friday, October 28th at 8:00pm weather permitting.
Venus shines brightly in the west-southwest just before sunset. It's second in brightness only to the moon after sunset. After night falls, you'll find Mars rising in the east. Mars is closest to Earth this week and next! It's shining brilliantly at magnitude -2.2 in Aries near the Taurus border. It rises fiery yellow-orange in the east-northeast in twilight, blazes high in the eastern sky by 10 p.m., and moves over to the west by dawn. And it's rising earlier every day. In a telescope Mars is 20 arcseconds wide. For a couple of weeks it remains essentially as large as when at its very closest on the night of October 29th. Check out recent amateur images of the planet including its dust storm here: http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/plan
SFA OBSERVATORY NOTES http://www.physics.sfasu.edu/observatory/obs.htm
The SFA Observatory's viewing sessions are intended for visitors of all ages and are free of charge. Since these are outdoor events, poor weather conditions may force a cancellation. The current weather report can be found here. To reach the SFA Observatory dial 936-569-0102 and for maps and directions http://www.physics.sfasu.edu/observatory/tour_for
For larger groups please email me in advance so that I can have additional help available.
In addition to our public viewing session at the SFA Observatory you may also want to attend a planetarium show on a Friday night. Here's the planetarium schedule: http://www.physics.sfasu.edu/planetarium/index.ht
...construct and successfully test 'Aggie Solar Death Ray' on jet-skis, and ski-boats.
October 22, 2005
College Station, Texas (AP)
By Spock the Baptist (The Fishing Physicist)
This weekend members of the Texas A&M Bass Club struck a blow for bass fishermen everywhere, when they successfully tested a solar death ray based on the 'myth' of Archimedes' death ray. The 'Aggie Solar Death Ray' targeted three different models of jet-skis, and two models of ski-boats and summarily destroyed them.
Upon hearing of the highly successful test Ray Scott, and Forest Wood held a joint press conference to reveal that they had contracted with the "Bassin' Aggies" to market the device through Bass Pro Shops to bass anglers the world over. This was immediately followed by a ring endorsement of the National Outdoor Writers Guild in a press statement. The Guild statement concluded that the 'Aggie Ray' was the greatest advance in fishing in the past half century.
Numerious stock analysts rated all stock related to the new invention an enthustic 'put up your kids for collateral!' investment.
Now for a new project for the Mech E Srs. at MIT. Using the SolarDeathRay construct a robotic solar welder.
Bingo!!!
Mod parent up! He hit the proverbial nail squarely on the head...
Not to mention electric fences...
"So aluminum was the first spelling, which was later change by language nazis because it didn't sound right."
If you see someone with an adhesive label on their lapel or shoulder with a upside-down lower case e on it then you'll know that they're a member of the language nazis.
By their schwas-stickers ye shall know them....
"...you will really hate that the British call potato chips "crisps", and cookies are "biscuits". Not to mention that they then call fries "chips"! Oh, the humanity! :)"
Well, what can you expect from a 'race' that thinks warm beer, and jellied eels constitute a treat.
What do you want to bet that it was designed on a Macintosh...
:D
Oh would that ever be sweet!
I find your sig vacuous.
Jan Lukasiewicz is spinning in his grave. Yoda, however, very proud would be.
4 hours a day. This is likely to include TV as background noise. How many people fall asleep while 'watching' TV at night? How long will the TV be on until said person wakes and turns it off.
"Just talkin' bout givin' the Covenant the Shaft!"
It's already been done. It was called the Pong Show... ...oh wait!?!
Never mind...
"Breathe deep the gathering gloom,
Watch lights fade from every room.
Bedsitter people look back and lament
Another day's useless energy is spent.
Impassioned lovers wrestle as one;
Lonely man cries for love and has none;
New mother picks up and suckles her son;
Senior citizens wish they were young.
Cold-hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colours from our sight,
Red is grey is yellow white
But we decide which is right
And which is an illusion
POOOOOOOOONNNNNG!"
I find the whole red vs. blue thing amusing. For years the GOP was blue, and the Demos were red, you know red as in left wing. See: Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, http://uselectionatlas.org/ "Note, this site uses Blue for Republicans and Red for Democrats. I know that most media outlets have adopted the opposite color key in recent years. However, due to the sheer volume of maps on this site, changing them to match the media's recent color choices requires a significant investment in time (I started creating the maps 11 years ago!). Please also note that the colors are just a key to the maps on this site. I could have just as easily chosen green and orange."
I was in favor of using Gore Grey, and Bush Brown for the 2000 election. Earth Tones are so much more stylish than boring blue, and routine red.
Halo becoming a movie was inevitable. That was obvious ever since Bungie previewed Halo at MacWorld some years ago.
So instead we'll eat at Burger King, Dairy Queen, Taco Palace, The Royal Pagoda, White Castle, or some other aristocratic dinning establishment?
HiThere, you and morgawr are not from Texas are y'all.
We've got a real problem here in the Lone Star State with public school funding. Our Supreme Court has declared that local funding in unconstitutional under the Texas Constitution. The reason being that due to differences in the value of the local tax bases there is inequitable funding between 'rich' and 'poor' school districts, which in turn leads to an inequitable quality of education between the 'rich' and 'poor' school districts.
For the last decade the Texas Legislature has wrestled with, and gone through all manner of contortions to resolve the funding 'problem', with no solution that even comes close to being reasonably satisfactory. The realpolitik in Texas is such that a even a workable solution, that some major segment of the Texas Body Politic won't fiercely object to, is highly unlikely.
"...tends to cause hurricanes travel to the northwest."
Only if the tropical cyclone is in the Northern Hemisphere.
Which reminds me...
What ever happed to flying cars by 3000?
"Even the evil RPG "
Just because the VC used RPGs against US forces in Vietnam doesn't make them evil.
E-mail is a tool of repression wield by self-perpetuating yankee running dog autocrats to repress proletariat peasants. The yankee running dogs have propagandized you into believing that we're an autonomous anarcho-syndicalist collective. Outdated imperialist dogma has perpetuated the social and economic differences of the proletariat and conceal that we're living in a dictatorship.
...
Wait...
Ooooh! Dennis! There's some lovely filth down here
"Giant Chick overlords"
Think Drumsticks!
Mmmmm... Drumsticks!
"...a US climate centre..."
Note the ==> a == in the above quote.
How do you get a *global* average from one *local* centre?
What metric will they use to determine if the world has cooled or warmed?
I prefer the quadrennial psudo-amateur athletic competion that we name not.
Ni!
Spock the Baptist,
who is now heading off to chop down the mightest oak in the forest with his razor wit.