Cool science stuff

Starman beat you by eight hours. See above.

 

I swear I looked and didn't see that. Hopefully I will not be demoted to Dwarf Poster status for this.

 

The really funny thing to me is that both of you said "Suck It, Pluto!" about eight hours apart.

That means you think like Starman.

 

The Revenge of Goofy.

 

You know, the first thing I thought when I read about the possible new planet is that they should honor former planet Pluto by naming it Goofy.

OMG! I think like Starman, too! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Friends, somewhere in Washington enshrined in some little folder, is a study in black and white of my fingerprints. And the only reason I'm singing you this song now is cause you may know somebody in a similar situation, or you may be in a similar situation, and if you're in a situation like that there's only one thing you can do, and that's walk into the shrink, wherever you are, just walk in say, "Shrink: You can get anything you want, at Starman's Restaurant."
And walk out.
You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and they won't take him.
And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both f***ts and they won't take either one of 'em.
And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin a bar of Starman's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an
organ-i-zation.
And can you, can you imagine 50 people a day, I said 50 people a day walking in singin a bar of Starman's Restaurant and walking out? And friends, they may think it's a movement. And that's what it is , the Starman's Restaurant Anti-Massacree Movement, and all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it comes around on the guitar.

With feeling.

 

Well done, Starman.

Hey, do you have a childhood photo of you reading a newspaper? That would be classic.

 

Not sure where this is available in the U.S., but for the next three or four weeks, if you're an early riser (1 to 2 hours before sunrise where I am), you can see five planets (Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Mars, Jupiter) with the naked eye. I've been able to catch four; Mars has eluded me so far.

 

I'll have to check it out. I love that sort of thing. I was able to take a pretty neat photograph of Saturn, with its rings visible, this summer. This was taken right off my back deck in late August.

 

My nephew, 16, a 4.2 junior in HS and a 99% plus on the SAT/ACT, got a Dobsonian telescope for his birthday last year. It's about four feet tall.



His younger sibs were quite amazed to see that Saturn indeed has rings, Jupiter four moons (and 60-some more too small to see), etc etc.

Just for fun after kids basketball Saturday we discussed the orbital evidence for "Planet Nine" (orbital perhelions of five other KBOs).

 

Really? You've seen Mercury but not Mars? Mars is MUCH easier to see. It's higher in the sky, brighter, and it has that reddish tint to it.

 

Is Comet Catalina still visible?