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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Memorial Day
by Richard Tenney 26 May '09

26 May '09

I'm tempted to join you both, but where can one even find liver and onions served nowadays? I also second Chuck's admiration for last night's moon; it looked superb. --- On Tue, 5/26/09, Joe Bauman <josephmbauman(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > From: Joe Bauman <josephmbauman(a)yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Memorial Day > To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> > Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 11:32 AM > Or we'll just go dutch treat! Sounds > great to me, Joe > > --- On Tue, 5/26/09, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > From: Chuck Hards <chuck.hards(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Memorial Day > To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> > Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 9:26 AM > > Joe, one day I will take you to lunch and we will both > enjoy liver and > onions, sparing our wives the spectacle. > > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Joe Bauman <josephmbauman(a)yahoo.com>wrote: > > > It would be wonderful if I could ever go to a > restaurant with my wife and > > eat a plate of liver and onions. This delicious meal, > high on my list of > > favorites, just revolts her so badly that I don't dare > order it. -- Joe > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Utah-Astronomy mailing list > Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php > Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Utah-Astronomy mailing list > Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php > Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com >

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Memorial Day
by Joe Bauman 26 May '09

26 May '09

Or we'll just go dutch treat! Sounds great to me, Joe --- On Tue, 5/26/09, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards(a)gmail.com> wrote: From: Chuck Hards <chuck.hards(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Memorial Day To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 9:26 AM Joe, one day I will take you to lunch and we will both enjoy liver and onions, sparing our wives the spectacle. On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Joe Bauman <josephmbauman(a)yahoo.com>wrote: > It would be wonderful if I could ever go to a restaurant with my wife and > eat a plate of liver and onions. This delicious meal, high on my list of > favorites, just revolts her so badly that I don't dare order it. -- Joe > > _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Memorial Day
by Joe Bauman 26 May '09

26 May '09

It would be wonderful if I could ever go to a restaurant with my wife and eat a plate of liver and onions. This delicious meal, high on my list of favorites, just revolts her so badly that I don't dare order it. -- Joe --- On Mon, 5/25/09, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards(a)gmail.com> wrote: From: Chuck Hards <chuck.hards(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Memorial Day To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> Date: Monday, May 25, 2009, 1:54 PM The other day my wife was mentioning flowers on her parent's graves, then reconsidered and said "My dad would have probably preferred that I left a plate of liver and onions". _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Memorial Day
by Jay Eads 26 May '09

26 May '09

Yes, thanks to those who are and who have served in the armed forces of our country and done their duty when called upon. Memorial Day always makes me think of John Donne's lines: No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee..." We are diminished whenever someone leaves us but in another way, since we are connected by our humanity, they continue to live on through the connection we continue to share with others as we interact with them.

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Memorial Day
by Joe Bauman 25 May '09

25 May '09

Yes, thanks to all of you veterans, and to those serving today. -- Joe --- On Mon, 5/25/09, Patrick Wiggins <paw(a)wirelessbeehive.com> wrote: From: Patrick Wiggins <paw(a)wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Memorial Day To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> Date: Monday, May 25, 2009, 2:27 PM On 25 May 2009, at 11:02, erikhansen(a)TheBlueZone.net wrote: >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38wx8C7VmB4&feature=related Well done Erik. And now it's time to put on one of the uniforms I wore in Vietnam and pay a visit to the Utah Vietnam memorial. Thanks to all of you who served. patrick _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com

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Memorial Day
by jim Gibson 25 May '09

25 May '09

A little thought for Memorial Day and what to put on the graves. Two Irish blokes were talking in a pub. The one says to the other, “When I die I want you to pour a 5th of whisky over me grave.” The other bloke replies, “Mind if I run it through me kidneys first?” Have a happy Memorial Day and clear skies at night. Jim

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The wow factor
by jim Gibson 25 May '09

25 May '09

It being Sunday I may be feeling more philosophical than scientific. I am thinking of the moon and the many things it does for the benefit of life on earth. Although the Giant Impact Theory has been around for a long while, I first read about Dr. Robin Canup’s work back in 2003 where she and her group created a computer modeled simulation of a mars size planet impacting the earth at an oblique angle a good while before cockroaches. The theory explains how the earth got a good sized molten iron core, why the earth is tilted 23 degrees, how the earth got it’s current rotation rate, and more. Whether the theory is true or not is not my point here. The fact is, those items I just mentions (core, tilt, and rotation) are generally accepted as true and it was reading about the Giant Impact Theory that enlightened my mind to those very basic facts. The magnetosphere generated by the molten-circulating core that protects the earth from the sun’s rude blast is a wonder. Mars is not so fortunate. The tilt of 23 degrees that allow for seasons is a wonder. The rotation rate to allow for a 24 hour day is great because if I sleep any longer then 6 hours my back hurts. If it was any shorter, I would never get a polar alignment + drift method done in time. Just these few facts alone when considered together would seem to make anyone just want to go “Wow! We are blessed!” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_impact_hypothesis http://www.psi.edu/projects/moon/moon.html Jim

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Giving away old magazines
by Richard Tenney 25 May '09

25 May '09

I'm in the mood to purge, and have a bunch of mid-90's to 2006 S&T and a few Astronomy magazines free to a good home. Let me know if you want to come pick them up, otherwise they are going into the local paper recycler. I live in Lindon (between Pleasant Grove and Orem in Utah County). 801~380~3331 /R

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Life Out There
by Joe Bauman 24 May '09

24 May '09

Thanks, Jim -- Thanks for the posting! It took a while, but I just thought of a solution if the word limitation is a problem again. I have seen on other blogs where someone posted more than one comment. So I assume you could post part of a comment, add "to be continued" and then post the rest. Just a thought. Best wishes, Joe --- On Sat, 5/23/09, jim Gibson <jimgibson0(a)gmail.com> wrote: From: jim Gibson <jimgibson0(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Life Out There To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> Date: Saturday, May 23, 2009, 8:03 AM Joe,I wanted to leave this comment on you blog, but I am just too verbose: I personally believe that there is ample opportunity for life in the universe. Because I am not a biologist, when I think ‘life’, I am really only interested in intelligent humanoid type life; fish would be ok though. Just musing, what if we found intelligent humanoid life that we learned to communicate with and they all turned out to be Catholic? Would the fact that a separate system had similar religious beliefs prove that there is a deity? Seems as though He doesn’t want to be proven anyway, so throw that one out. What if there religion was science? That is way to boring to contemplate. Mr. Wiggins’ mathematical model produces numbers that are incomprehensible in there magnitude which would lead the mind to conclude that surely with numbers like that there has to be life out there somewhere. There are limiting factors however that I believe Mr. Wiggins is aware of but had not space to elaborate on and neither do I for that matter. Maybe just one little (maybe) fact. The moon. If the discovery channel and Nova in particular are to be believed then the moon is an essential part of life as we know it today. I hear more and more that scientists should be on the look out for a planet, just the right proportional distance from it’s star with a moon to do the job right. That should reduce the numbers somewhat, but who know? From what I have seen there is so much variety out there that we can’t just limit our thinking to the one system we know. I can't figure out which 67 words to get rid of. Some might say the religious stuff, but I thought that was fun. Yeah, OK I will throw it out. Jim _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com

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Life Out There
by Joe Bauman 23 May '09

23 May '09

OK, fellow scfi and astronomy buffs, here's your chance to speculate about the nature of life on other worlds: http://www.deseretnews.com/blogs/1,5322,10000034,00.html?bD=20090522 Hope some will leave comments! Many thanks, Joe

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