Open Thread WE 21 JUN 23 ~ Summer Solstice

Submitted by QMS on Wed, 06/21/2023 - 5:00am

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The alignments say summer starts around 1038 am today EDST. The weather gods seem to be in
agreement. Back in our pagan days this was known as Litha and celebrates the longest day of the year.
In our new age it marks that moment when the sun reaches that point when it is positioned farthest north
— 23.5 degrees from the celestial equator. The sun seems to just hang in the sky.

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1788 US Constitution comes into effect when New Hampshire is the 9th state to ratify it
1805 Great Stone Face, or the Profile found in New Hampshire by white men
1956 Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere before Musk arrived to mask them
2001 John Lee Hooker, American blues singer and guitarist died in his sleep aged 83

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Submitted by Lookout on Wed, 06/21/2023 - 6:30am
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It is a wet one here. Over an inch of rain last night and this morning. All the new trees and garden like it.

The Earth doesn’t orbit upright with respect to the plane of our orbit around the sun. Instead, our world is tilted on its axis by 23 1/2 degrees. Through the year, this tilt causes Earth’s Northern and Southern Hemispheres to trade places in receiving the sun’s light and warmth most directly.

So it’s Earth’s tilt – not our distance from the sun – that causes winter and summer. In fact, our planet is closest to the sun in January, and farthest from the sun in July, during the Northern Hemisphere summer.
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No world body has designated an official day to start each new season, and different schools of thought or traditions define the seasons in different ways.

In meteorology, for example, summer begins on June 1. And every schoolchild knows that summer starts when the last school bell of the year rings.

Yet June 21 is perhaps the most widely recognized day upon which summer begins in the Northern Hemisphere and upon which winter begins on the southern half of Earth’s globe. There’s nothing official about it, but it’s such a long-held tradition that we all recognize it to be so.
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The 2023 June solstice will happen on June 21 at 14:58 UTC. That’s 9:58 a.m. CDT on June 21 in North America. This solstice – the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere – marks the sun’s most northerly point in Earth’s sky.

https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-ju...

The breathing Earth...
Here's a view looking at one year of seasonal transformations on Earth. Made possible by the tremendous folks of the NASA Visible Earth team, I downloaded the twelve cloud-free satellite imagery mosaics of Earth ("Blue Marble Next Generation") at each month of the year. I wrapped them into some fun projections then stitched them together into a couple animated gifs...

So happy summer everyone!

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Submitted by QMS on Wed, 06/21/2023 - 6:46am
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soon to swing back till the equinox

thanks for the breathing earth gif!

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Submitted by eyo on Wed, 06/21/2023 - 9:30am

Hey! I hope every one is okay and having a good time living life. I really enjoy reading here. The power goes out from 8am to 4pm so PGE can do a "solar installation" for the whole complex. Good luck to the work crew!

The weather has been pretty good, not too hot and very windy. I hit a new phase with this fucking cancer, too much stress from moving and now living with 98 other people and their dogs and cats, omg life is strange. I wouldn't have it any other way Wink Cheers and thank you all! Keep rockin'.

Peace and Love

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Submitted by QMS on Wed, 06/21/2023 - 9:38am
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@eyo

Hey eyo, thanks for adding to the mix here.
Life is strenge, have simplified context by
making a list of the positives (few) and then
right beside it a list of the negatives
kinda keeps things in perspective

sorry about the cancer stresses
aging out with frost in the joints
and rot in the organs is perhaps an
acceptable price to pay for a life
well-lived? Pretending so anyway.

good luck amiga

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Wed, 06/21/2023 - 10:11am
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@eyo

wheel kicks off another cycle. Sorry about all the stresses and strains, but good to know you're keepin' on keepin' on. Hang in there.

have a good one

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Submitted by on the cusp on Wed, 06/21/2023 - 7:19pm

@eyo hugs!

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Wed, 06/21/2023 - 10:06am
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Generally, on average, these days right about now are the hottest or at least some of the hottest of the year around here. Not so this year; actually a bit chilly this morning. A week and a day gone by now, moving cautiously so as not to trigger anything, but the magic tester doodad says negatory so, in theory I am well, whether I feel like it or not. Warm fookin' weather would help - I hope to pick a shallot today and see if they are ready for harvest yet. Then 8 days of catch up on all the stuff that I put off until we returned, and then until today. Hah!

Thanks for the Hooker et. al. Time to get going I guess, happy solstice

be well and have a good one

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Submitted by QMS on Wed, 06/21/2023 - 10:24am
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@enhydra lutris

medical magic doesn't work here
bugger on with the healing bud

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Wed, 06/21/2023 - 12:28pm
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@QMS

negative on the twentieth, so I'm all cool to do this or that" and they have to go along with it, heh. It's a form of low-end ritual magik; gris gris gumbo ya ya, as the man said.

be well and have a good one

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Submitted by humphrey on Wed, 06/21/2023 - 11:28am

to the lackluster progress of the hyped counter offensive.

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Submitted by QMS on Wed, 06/21/2023 - 11:38am
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@humphrey

film it with the desired script and watch the ratings skyrocket
it is what these hollyweird types do to get attention
although the talking heads are down-playing actual reality
the whole sick episode may not play well in the next NATO
theater of war. Does Exlensky not understand defeat?

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Submitted by humphrey on Wed, 06/21/2023 - 11:42am

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Submitted by humphrey on Wed, 06/21/2023 - 1:49pm

red line is crossed!

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End game in the Ukraine war approaches?

Today Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu made an announcement that has not yet been carried in Western media but which is of the most grave nature.

According to the latest intelligence reports, Russia believes that the Ukrainian armed forces now intend to cover their failed counter-offensive in the Donbas by using US-supplied Himars multiple launch artillery and UK-supplied Storm Shadow cruise missiles, possibly in the longer range domestic version, to attack the Crimea.

If this happens, says Shoigu, Russia will consider both the United States and Britain to have fully entered the war as co-belligerents. And Russia will immediately respond to any such attack on its territory by destroying “the decision making centers” of the Kiev regime. This is a fairly transparent threat to “neutralize” their government apparatus and personnel, logically including President Zelensky.

The statement by Shoigu leaves little doubt that we are entering the final phase of the Ukraine war as a war limited to the geography of Ukraine, and are possibly heading into a wider war with unforeseeable consequences both for Europeans and (finally) for the Americans.

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Submitted by QMS on Wed, 06/21/2023 - 3:47pm
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@humphrey

how many times does the RF have to draw lines before the west gets it?
So the nazis are going to bomb Crimea with weapons supplied by UK and US.
Of course that is asking for reciprocal destruction. I don't think DC and London
quite understand what kind of dues they will have to pay in this fight.
It has been stated many times, and yet the 'all eyes' do not seem to perceive
the retribution or consequences of pushing the limits. Guess we'll see.
idiots in charge afraid of losing their weak power
crimes against humanity

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Submitted by Linda Wood on Wed, 06/21/2023 - 7:04pm

@QMS

is that they do understand the consequences but they don't care.

They calculate that the loss of the United States is worth it in order to prevail. That's the wording of our Nuclear Posture position.

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Submitted by QMS on Wed, 06/21/2023 - 7:12pm
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@Linda Wood

to we the people that still think
of consequences of a national belligerent
attitude
the world no longer believes in this
and it appears US will be the last ones to know
before it all goes south

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