Moontanman

Rock salt hope or buckshot hope?

No more of anti love message really, the audacity of these people never cease to amaze me. Misery loves company I guess but i am not willing to be miserable with them...

Couldn't be much worse than when I announced my arrival to the new neighbors of my old house with a flare gun. It was a coldisack.

I allow them to defecate abundantly.

You haven't got a dirty mind then?

I have a beautifully dirty mind...

make me one with everything.

Yup! I know an old one...

still a good one tho

I think we'll need a bigger boat...

I'm on my way to Cape Cod with my fishing rod...well I wish I were.

I used to do quite a bit of shark fishing, last fish i caught was a6.5 foot black tipped reef shark I caught in the surf but I think mary lee is bit beyond my ability. I would like to say it doesn't surprise me much that there is alarge great white near our beaches this time of year. This is prime fishing season and i have many times seen something very large swim just out of range of the pier lights on long cold nights of spot fishing over the years...

Are you looking to fill your aquarium or your dinner plate? I'm curious what your plans are if you wouldn't mind providing some more detail.

I was wondering the same. I've got this Gollum image in my head, you'd better hurry!

Sorry guys, it was for science. the point was mostly to take pictures of fish from different water sheds and record the numbers of species and take photos for a book. I did bring back a few specimens from my aquarium. I caught or helped catch several species, including Black banded sunfish. Enneacanthus Chaetodon, Esox niger, Nototrpis chiliticus, Nocomis leptocephalus, A bandeded water snake, a mud turtle, a lesser siren, green newts, a very tiny stinkpot turtle and several other species I...

Shrink and edit, how so specifically?

You could use the program to shrink, crop and edit pictures. I'll probably have to crank up the old PC to get it back. It allowed you to do quite a bit more than just those things but that was about all I ever used it for..

what OS do you use. Both the standard viewer with Windows and Linux (most flavours) can do this with ease.

lol what happened?

When ignorance shows it's ugly face, it's up to the men and women of Science Wisdom And Training to teach and to serve. Probably some guy, hopped up on astrology or something, screaming from the roof how, "It's just a THEORY!"

Not far off Phi, he was on the roof of his apartment complex threatening to kill himself, took the entire city county swat team 6 hours to get him down... just one of them things...

I won't believe it til there is 3-4 feet

or til it's statistically significant.

While I do accept that climate change is happening, I do not accepting that man is "making" this change. Climate change is part of a natural cycle, and man is merely *accelerating* it to a remarkable degree.

We had a beautiful day here in Portland, OR. I actually had to take my sweatshirt off.

We just got the cold too. It's all Canada's fault!

11 degrees here - but then that's centigrade!

Owie! My heart goes out to you, my friend. Time, wounds, healing. It'll all work out.

"You can do more good with an assbone of a jaw than you can with the jawbone of an ass." --Samson

Yeah I really will be a butt head now!

the voices in the other room say you can still sing dem bones. but you have to say the hipbone connected to the jawbone, or they will make jawbone of an ass jokes. hope everything went ok.

Mine too );

We get unconditional love from our dogs - but of course we love them back. Possibly more than any other animal we made dogs - and once you connect with a dog the bond is awfully strong. Comfort and support just like you would any friend

I have sat on the floor with him all day off and on, I can't get him to take his pain medicine, he's too big to manhandle and feels so bad he is far from his usual jovial self. I am not sure how to get medicine in him, he was taking his pills ground up in egg yolk but not he won't even try that...

happy birthday!

That's the spirit!

Forever young.

And Happy Birthday!

out of curiosity why 29th? Thinking about it -I enjoyed my early 20s more than late, my early 30s more than late, and still - tenaciously - hanging on to earlymid 40s (for another week or so

Hope the health improves Moon.

thank you

I Hope you get well soon. I enjoy your presence on here.

Dammit Moon you are not having the best of luck recently. I hope things start to go your way and things begin to sort themselves out

It's true! He is moontanman! Let us make him lower priority.

Wish you all the best!

A religious community in disguise. Anything based solely on belief is akin to a religion.

In the immortal colloquial words of the deep south... you got that right... 

I even posted a new video by SFIA about Ancient aliens where Isaac Arthur gives a very reasonable take on ancient aliens as a possible solution to the Fermi paradox. I might as well being trying to preach Wicca at the local Jehovah's Witness Hall... 

LOL!

Hope it gets better soon Moon. Hang in there!

Hope you're well soon, and can start posting regularly again.
We haven't had any threads about extra-terrestrial visitors in a while 🙂 .

It's so hard to focus when you're in pain. My heart goes out to you, my friend, and I hope the pain fades as you continue to get better.

I belonged to an astronomy club in my teens - it is hard to overstate the giggle factor of that poor, erm, gas giant.  With the American pronunciation, anyway.  (I know some English speakers call it "YUR-uh-nuss," which neatly defuses all the fun that "yur-AY-nus" provides)

Not only on the less reputable sites. "... frogs ... massive leap ..." : Scientists regrow frogs’ amputated limbs in massive leap for regenerative medicine | Euronews

Glad to see you back, and with your sense of humour in good shape.

It's a massive comeback.  

Where do ghost lights go when their natural habitat is destroyed? 

Probably removed the sign/reflector the light was bouncing off of when they removed the tracks and road. I don't know where ALL the ghost lights go, but the bad ones go to prism. 

I've seen the Maco light, several times, I do not know what it was but reflector it wasn't. I always figured it was some kind of electrical phenomena associated with the RR tracks. Not everyone could see it even when others did. It was weird enough to make a sceptics hair stand up... it did mine. 

I often wonder if it would still be there after the tracks were taken down but the area is lighted now with street lights and no way to see such a dim red glow with the lights drowning everything out. 

To be fair the amount of lighting in the area seems more than a bit extreme, I wonder if the light has something to do with that. It was nearly 50 years ago now but if I remember correctly a news crew managed to film it once but that could be wishful thinking on my part.

I am.

Me too.

Yup.  

At least watching the aurora borealis wouldn't be the worst way to die...

no the aurora would indeed be nice to see as a last sight.

i wonder what the worst way to die would be?

woa no need to comment

xD

Oh yeah, I got my camera back so i might be posting more exciting videos of paddlefish swimming around, lol

For anyone interested:

http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/49806-paddlefish/page__p__550244__hl__paddlefish!__fromsearch__1#entry550244

I wouldn't mind a hot summer!

Ah, North Carolina in the summer. Hot as the blue blazes with a thunderstorm in the afternoon just to keep the humidity level interesting. And to think I am moving back there next summer.

That storm took about 1/4 of our beach :/

Beaches come and go, I've watched our local beaches change over yours in ways that are impossible to explain in any way other than beaches not being permanent land forms..

Buy you Saker S-1 personal jet, can you drive ?

I can say I've been allowed to fly a plane afew times but I am not a pilot my father in law was. I bet I could learn to fly it..