Monkey Musing Daily Open Discussion #3 8/24 - 8/29/2007

[San]

Hey Tiger! 

HEy San!!!!! 

Hi mrs. red

did you see your Halloween avi??? it's so cool!!!  I don't know why I am all excited about Halloween this year!!!  I just am... maybe because I am ready for fall??? and I LOVE summer time!!

Yes I did see it mrs. red and CBB did a great job.  I saved it and I'm going to wait a little before I put it up.

I was in Macy's yesterday and the guy in the store told me they were getting ready for Christmas .  He said they were unpacking all Martha Stewart stuff.

[mrs. red]

San, I am feeling pretty happy about all the of the winter/fall holidays... but it's way early for CHRISTMAS!!!!

WOW....  I can't stand it!  I keep seeing Halloween and Thanksgiving stuff in the stores, but dang I am not ready for Christmas....

I can only think of one thing for RED..... well, two... but I need six more months of work before I am ready to buy them!!!

[Anna]

Listening to Ann Coulter on Drudge and heading for the Monkey Bunkey.

Good night, all!

[mrs. red]

Well good night... CBB's tea sounded good and now I know I must hit the proverbial bunkey...

nite monkeys!

[klaasend]

Nite Mrs. Red!  Nite Anna!

[IBE]

Angie,

I saw where Robots posted yesterday but was not on line when he was posting.  Also saw where he had been on the Front Page.  So he's here, he's there, just not when I am online, been missing him lately.

Or maybe he is avoiding me?   

Angie... send out a 911 please.... ROBOTS is too quiet! maybe he has end of summer blues!

been a long time since I sent out a BOLO IBE.. but I will try my best    Used to get flustered at 911 going on the radio with one.   Here goes nuttin.  lol

County Radio  To all Scared Monkey members.. be prepared to copy BOLO information on a missing member.

County radio to all Scared Monkey members.. Be on the look out for a missing person.. Goes by the name of Robots.
last seen in the MUSIC THREAD in Pop Culture posting guitar riffs.

Approx age:
   70 to 80 yrs old.. <he dont know himself.   >
Description:  Dinosaurs are back and roaming the earth! The 32-inch long Roboraptor has all the personality and characteristics of the real thing. With advanced artificial intelligence personality, various emotional moods (hungry, defensive, etc.), realistic biomorphic motions, direct control and autonomous (free-roam) modes, Roboraptor is sure to make you believe dinosaurs have really returned!  Robots is a freak when it comes to germs. Won't catch him eatin out anytime soon. He is waiting on  fancy cigars when the KLPD breaks the Natalee Holloway case.
Robots is not armed or dangerous. Anyone with any info on Robots. who or has direct contact with him.. have him report to the musings thread .   
 Last photo known to have been taken :   HAVE YOU SEEN ME?  




<sorry Robots.. lol I could do much better with your real pic.. lol>   

Wow, Angie, thank you... I have never heard a real 911 call out before.
Thanks Klaas... I just get lost at times... or maybe overwhelmed might be a better term.

Really Like Mrs. Red's new avatar! What is flying past the moon... a cloud or something from Aruba??

Sorry, didn't respond quicker... fell asleep.

Dugga thanks for the spelling checker... I need grammar checker too

[IBE]

Total lunar eclipse to occur on Tuesday

  By COLLEEN SLEVIN, Associated Press Writer  Sun Aug 26, 10:47 AM ET 

 DENVER - The Earth's shadow will creep across the moon's surface early Tuesday, slowly eclipsing it and turning it shades of orange and red. The total lunar eclipse, the second this year, will be visible in North and South America, especially in the West. People in the Pacific islands, eastern Asia, Australia and New Zealand also will be able to view it if skies are clear.

People in Europe, Africa or the Middle East, who had the best view of the last total lunar eclipse in March, won't see this one because the moon will have set when the eclipse begins at 4:51 a.m. EDT. It will take an hour to reach full eclipse stage.

An eclipse occurs when Earth passes between the sun and the moon, blocking the sun's light. It's rare because the moon is usually either above or below the plane of Earth's orbit.

Since the Earth is bigger than the moon, the process of the Earth's shadow taking a bigger and bigger "bite" out of the moon, totally eclipsing it before the shadow recedes, lasts about 3 1/2 hours, said Doug Duncan, director of the University of Colorado's Fiske Planetarium. The total eclipse phase, in which the moon has an orange or reddish glow, lasts about 1 1/2 hours.

The full eclipse will be visible across the United States, but East Coast viewers will only have about a half-hour to see it before the sun begins to rise and the moon sets. Skywatchers in the West will get the full show.

In eastern Asia, the moon will rise in various stages of eclipse.

During the full eclipse, the moon won't be completely dark because some light still reaches it around the edges of the Earth. The light is refracted as it passes through our atmosphere, scattering blue light — which is why the sky is blue — but sending reddish light onto the moon.

"When someone asks why is it (the moon) red, you can say because the sky is blue," Duncan said.

The next total lunar eclipse occurs Feb. 21, 2008, and will be visible from the Americas, Europe and Asia.

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On the Net:

NASA Lunar Eclipse Page:

http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/LEmono/TLE2007Aug28/TLE2007Aug28.html

[IBE]

Gee and I thought the day was important for our Social Security retirement checks came early!!! 


2000-Year-Old Meteors to Rain Down on August 31, 2007

Peter Jenniskens, Ph.D.
Meteor Astronomer, Carl Sagan Center, SETI Institute
SPACE.com Thu Aug 23, 10:30 AM ET

The meteors that are about to rain down in the early morning of September 1 date from around 4 A.D., the latest calculations show.

It is not often that we can tell when a shooting star was first released from a comet into space, to travel as a meteoroid in an orbit around the Sun, and finally collide with Earth's atmosphere to shine as a meteor for our enjoyment. Most meteors that sporadically flash across the sky on a dark moonless night date from anonymous times. Only in recent years have we learned to trace young meteor showers, just a few revolutions old, to their date of origin.

The oldest such shower, but only one revolution old, is due in the early morning of September 1, 2007. Our calculations indicate Earth is about to cross the dust trail of comet Kiess, a comet that takes some 2000 years to complete one orbit around the Sun. The trail is very narrow, so Earth will be hosed by meteoroids for only about an hour and a half. The meteoroids will approach from the direction of the constellation Auriga, the charioteer, in the north-eastern part of the sky, causing a meteor shower called the "Aurigids."

If you spot one of those meteors, you may be only the fourth person alive who is known to have seen this meteor shower. In recent times, the shower was spotted in 1994 by two observers and in 1986 by one *******.

If you are lucky enough to catch a picture of an Aurigid meteor using your digital camera, you will be the very first to do so.

Tips on how to observe meteors and where to report the results can be found at: http://aurigid.seti.org

The shower is visible from only part of the world. If you live in the western parts of the USA, Canada and Mexico, including Hawaii and Alaska, you might spot an Aurigid meteor. Plan to step out around 4 A.M. PDT in the early morning, warmly dressed with a blanket wrapped around your shoulders, away from city smog, with the Moon behind an obstruction, and with a wide view on the sky. Gaze up at the sky, waiting, and you may spot one of these elusive bits of matter that Comet Kiess lost 2000 years ago.

This is your only chance to see this shower; the dust trail is not going to hit again in our lifetime. It is also our best chance yet to test meteor shower prediction models and look for evidence of the crust that a comet is suspected to build up during the time it spends in the Oort cloud. Comets in shorter orbits have long lost this pristine crust.

Jon Giorgini of JPL/Caltech has identified observations of Comet Kiess when it returned in 1911. The orbit is now better determined than before and calculating backwards in time puts the comet near Earth's orbit in 4 A.D., give or take 40 years. It was at that time that the dust was released that we now see as meteors. The dust was ejected in wider orbits than the comet and took somewhat longer to return.

Jeremie Vaubaillon of Caltech calculated where the dust would end up at Earth's orbit on September 1, 2007, if it was ejected in 4 A.D. and he found that, indeed, the dust trail will be in Earth's path. The peak is expected at 11:33 UT, or 4:33 a.m. PDT, give or take 20 minutes.

From past Aurigid showers, we anticipate a shower of mostly -2 to +3 magnitude meteors with a peak Zenith Hourly Rate about 200 per hour during a 10-minute interval, with rates above 100 per hour for only 25 minutes. With a bright Moon in the sky, only 4 days past full, that translates to several tens of chances to make a wish on a meteor from around 4 A.D.

To increase our chances of catching these rare meteors, we will be observing the shower from two Gulfstream GV aircraft (flying at 45,000 ft) on a parallel flight path from Wisconsin, over the Bay Area in California, and on to the Pacific in the early morning of September 1. An international team of 24 researchers will have 21 windows to aim their cameras through. The cameras are of different types, some similar to your own digital camera and camcorder, others using technologies more familiar to cameras used on astronomical telescopes or those in night vision goggles. Near the horizon, we hope to see many more meteors than will be visible from the ground, but each of us will be glad if the shower actually shows.

You can participate in this research by making an effort to photograph or film the Aurigid meteors. Chances are that one of you, not us, will catch the brightest Aurigid out there. Even simple cameras can provide information about how the meteoroids break apart, as each image is composed of three different images: one in blue light, another in green, and one in red. Each color traces different aspects of the meteor's light.

More information at our Aurigid Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign mission website: http://aurigid.seti.org

          o All About Meteors
          o Gallery: 2006 Perseid Meteor Shower
          o Gallery: Best of the Leonid Meteor Shower
          o Original Story: 2000-Year-Old Meteors to Rain Down on August 31, 2007

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[klaasend]

IBE - did you get thunder and lightening today?  We had a storm blow through mid day that was really cool.  Lot's of thunder and lightening then it actually rained for a while.  Once it cleared up though it was really humid.  It was the tail end of Dean.

[Angiex911dsptchr]

Gonna get going.  Have a great night everyone.
 
  San I am sorry 

 Hugs to Nemo and CP   

[klaasend]

Gonna get going.  Have a great night everyone.
 
  San I am sorry 

 Hugs to Nemo and CP   

Nite Angie - Robots just posted in the NH thread 

[robots]

Good to see you Robots!  Did you see Angie did a 911 call out for you in the Musing thread?

no i didnt, i have been bopping in a couple times today 

i am almost moved.... maybe be done in 1 more day

i had to move washers and dryers and all the heavey stuff today

im 95 years old and the washer is ridiculous, its a front loader and i had to take it from the downstairs into the truck and then to the new house in the downstairs over there..


ribs were feeling good until today

[IBE]

K... the prell worked... somewhat...

my hair is lighter to a point that I don't look in the mirror and wonder who the hell that is looking at me

   LOL..  it wont make yah 100% but it does help alot to lighten. 

While out exploring I had my picture taken... I didn't know who it was in the picture! also!!! Looked like my mom at an "older" age.. quite a shock!

Having people still love us and to love ourselves is important... easier said than done!

My mom used to tell me that is why God gave us white hair... so the lines in our face didn't show up as much... seems the contrast with very dark, dark hair shows lines as older.

God must be a man men look good with gray hair.

If you make a mistake... last time I picked a too dark of a shade.. or when it turns, brassy, green or orange (why we don't do things like that???)

A quick lathering of dish washing liquid like Joy etc will help "erase" the mistakes. and a good hug... if no one to hug... put arms around self. I just am learning that.

Monkeys know everything!

[robots]

 

[San]

There you are .  People have been looking for you.

[IBE]

IBE - did you get thunder and lightening today?  We had a storm blow through mid day that was really cool.  Lot's of thunder and lightening then it actually rained for a while.  Once it cleared up though it was really humid.  It was the tail end of Dean.

No thunder and lightening!!!! that's what I like about S. CA.. hardly any.. I get skeerd as ROBOTS would say.

I didn't even sprinkle enough make a sound on the tuna can roof. I looked southeast and could see the clouds.

Am applying for a grant.. have 8 leaks in roof... would like to get my Revereware back to the kitchen.

Ain't dull.. but is boring at times..

[IBE]

Hi ROBOTS..

You are with me when I went exploring for Donna Jou areas of interest... Now don't get shocked!

(it's the cell phone)

Had a former boyfriend with broken ribs... couldn't even hug him. Wow pain.

We have missed you!!!

[IBE]

Bad post of the day

Meant to say "it didn't even sprinkle enough" not "I didn't sprinkle enough"  a duh

dod and cat can't understand why I am laughing

[klaasend]

Robots - I didn't know you were moving!  That sucks in the heat of summer with broken ribs 

[IBE]

You're fixed for Halloween, but I'd definitely recommend switching toilet bowl cleaners!

Should be a new type of cleaner... only have to use it once a year otherwise your toiled disappears!