Open Thread WE 27 DEC 23 ~ Star gazing
“There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson
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“There are more stars in the heavens than all the grains of sands covering the world’s beaches”
– Carl Sagan
Welcome. Lately the night skies have been unusually clear which inspired this little ditty.
Seeing Orion come up and travel across the celestial horizon indicates winter months
upcoming. It is a cold sky, beautiful to behold.
The starry midnight whispers,
As I muse before the fire
On the ashes of ambition
And the embers of desire,
"Life has no other logic,
And time no other creed,
Than: 'I for joy will follow.
Where thou for love dost lead!"
"The Starry Midnight Whispers"
by Bliss Carman
Stars, I have seen them fall,
But when they drop and die
No star is lost at all
From all the star-sown sky.
The toil of all that be
Helps not the primal fault;
It rains into the sea,
And still the sea is salt.
‘Stars, I Have Seen Them Fall’
by A. E. Housman
Credits ~
Euclid's first images: the dazzling edge of darkness
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Euclid_s_fi...
After Hours by Paco Pomet
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/12/paco-pomet-celestial/
Open thread so share your visions: past present or future.
Comments
Good morning...
It is a good time for star gazing. I subscribe to Michigan State Sky calendar, but there are nice online versions to tell of upcoming events.
https://in-the-sky.org/newscal.php?month=1&year=2024&maxdiff=7#datesel
EarthSky is also a great resource...https://earthsky.org/
Thanks for the poems and message to "look up!"
Nice to see the sun today. Been gray the last two days. We did get 2.7" of much needed rain. Hope everyone is ready as we transition into 2024. How time do fly!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Hey good morning
When writing this a few days ago, we were in the clear.
Now in an extended fog bank so celestial glitter is not.
No one individual knows the whole of the truth,
and no one individual fails entirely. Everyone says
something true about the nature of things.
-- ARISTOTLE
Cheers!
Are the tweet and the image related? (asking for a friend)
The Galaxy Song …
Stephen Hawking
Dancing in the stars.
Fun stuff!
Thanks
Star light,
star bright...
My wish would be to solve world problems, achieve world peace.
Wouldn't a good start be to starve the MIC?
Things are slow at the office due to the holiday and all kinds of illnesses floating in the air. Remember when everybody had COVID and flu disappeared? Now, nobody gets a cold. Strange.
I am going to do a walk through of a house this afternoon. If it is in reasonably good shape, I will have it moved, refurbish it, sell it. The temptation of being given a house is very strong.
Thanks for the OT, and I hope the fog doesn't get in your head, friend!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
World peace
Is a threat to national security.
Truth is foreign influence.
You must obey.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
No shit, E1.
n/t
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Peace on Earth.
In Memoriam
Bill Hicks (1961-1994)
"the reason you need a new class to come into power in the United States is because this one is useless" -- Vijay Prashad
Hicks
was just all that, Cass.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Scripps news
had a segment on UFOs, which are now called UAPs (unexplained aerial phenomenon) in which the new NDDA bill has language requiring disclosure of government and private MIC possession of "non-man-made technology AND non-human biologicals to the public.
Apparently, they think we are big boys now and can handle the truth.
The implication of non-human biological means they have recovered the pilot(s) from crashsite(s).
It was alluded by the interviewee that most government personnel as well much of private industry involved with the defense industry have known for decades. Only us plebes were to be kept ignorant.
It must mean they have developed a weapon from this technology/biological remains.
I'm sure it's to serve man.
s/
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
We are surrounded by non human biologicals and contain
some as well, need we submit them post haste? non-man-made tech is scarcer, but it is out there and not all of it from great antiquity either, some corvids are tool makers.
Be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Considering the sources of 'official' leaks
Framing the evidence of extra terrestrial as they do, it sounds like they are
running out of scapegoats. Blame this pickle on the aliens!
Well, there is something a tad alien about pickles, I agree n/t
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --