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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/9/2021 12:25:10 AM   
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so I went to Wendy's and got a baconator double.


My cardiologist just cringed.


Why would he do that? Keep him in business - have two!

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 7/6/2021 12:26:46 AM   
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Blue Jackets Goalie Matiss Kivlenieks Killed From Fireworks Blast to Chest
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 7/7/2021 2:13:29 AM   
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Blue Jackets Goalie Matiss Kivlenieks Killed From Fireworks Blast to Chest
By Daniel Villarreal On 7/5/21

https://www.newsweek.com/blue-jackets-goalie-matiss-kivlenieks-killed-fireworks-blast-chest-1606963


Wow, that is an unpleasant way to go
out with a bang (Sorry, couldn't resist.)

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/4/2021 1:40:03 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/4/2021 4:53:53 PM   
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"A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights;
and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors."
- Field Marshal Montgomery

That comment, of course, refers to the Royal Marines who served aboard ships as the security detail to keep the British sailors away from the grog!

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/4/2021 7:54:26 PM   
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"A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights;
and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors."
- Field Marshal Montgomery

That comment, of course, refers to the Royal Marines who served aboard ships as the security detail to keep the British sailors away from the grog!


That would also cover the US Naval Infantry also called the US Marines. When they get a boo-boo, they have to go to the US Navy for help - or call for a Navy Corpsman.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/6/2021 8:32:34 PM   
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"A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights;
and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors."
- Field Marshal Montgomery

I wonder what situation led the honourable Montgomery to make that pondering.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/6/2021 8:46:40 PM   
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"A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights;
and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors."
- Field Marshal Montgomery

I wonder what situation led the honourable Montgomery to make that pondering.


The number of bars of soap that they bought before they sailed?

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/8/2021 6:03:50 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/8/2021 10:12:43 PM   
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Any new bird sightings?


Yes, some very phat grey squirrels . . .

I want to live trap some for my kitties to play with . . .

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/9/2021 9:29:48 PM   
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The mistake that toppled the Berlin Wall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn4VDwaV-oo


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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/10/2021 10:53:21 PM   
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Any new bird sightings?


Yes, a red tailed hawk in my backyard eating a squirrel. Red tails are the largest kind of hawk you'll see around here. You may also have heard of the fighter squadron named for them that operated in Europe.




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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/10/2021 10:54:07 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/10/2021 11:26:50 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/12/2021 3:17:19 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/12/2021 4:31:11 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/18/2021 7:25:15 AM   
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Any new bird sightings?


Yes, a red tailed hawk in my backyard eating a squirrel. Red tails are the largest kind of hawk you'll see around here. You may also have heard of the fighter squadron named for them that operated in Europe.


Thank you for sharing.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 11/18/2021 7:27:22 AM   
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Here's my cat Lilly watching.


Nice cat.

I would be as mesmerized as she is.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 12/10/2021 3:48:34 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 12/21/2021 2:58:30 AM   
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh3EKDghbuU

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 12/21/2021 3:02:10 AM   
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC7OJ7gFLvE

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 12/21/2021 11:07:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		Interesting to see the lightning flashes all over the surface. Given the size of Jupiter, some of those bolts would be 1000 times bigger than anything seen on earth!

Saw a documentary about Auroras a couple of days ago. It showed Aurora crowns on both poles of Jupiter and Saturn. Surprised they were not in that animation fly-past.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 12/22/2021 3:34:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		The famous "Great Red Spot" on Jupiter, that can be seen in the first video at around 2:28, has actually roughly the same diameter as Earth.
The thing is basically a giant storm that rages on Jupiter since hundreds of years, if not even longer.
Always amazing to see how small we are in the great scheme of things.






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RE: OT Things to ponder - 12/22/2021 7:58:35 PM   
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Interesting to see the lightning flashes all over the surface. Given the size of Jupiter, some of those bolts would be 1000 times bigger than anything seen on earth!

Saw a documentary about Auroras a couple of days ago. It showed Aurora crowns on both poles of Jupiter and Saturn. Surprised they were not in that animation fly-past.


Even the ones on Earth are too ethereal to capture on regular video from orbit. The camera settings would have to be pretty particular.

And it would have been most visible over the dark side of Jupiter, which they didn't show much.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 12/22/2021 8:01:06 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 12/22/2021 8:02:18 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 12/22/2021 10:55:06 PM   
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That's a B-2 in flight.

Making a crop circle?

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 12/23/2021 12:52:49 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 12/23/2021 1:20:44 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 12/23/2021 5:56:41 AM   
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Interesting to see the lightning flashes all over the surface. Given the size of Jupiter, some of those bolts would be 1000 times bigger than anything seen on earth!

Saw a documentary about Auroras a couple of days ago. It showed Aurora crowns on both poles of Jupiter and Saturn. Surprised they were not in that animation fly-past.


Even the ones on Earth are too ethereal to capture on regular video from orbit. The camera settings would have to be pretty particular.

And it would have been most visible over the dark side of Jupiter, which they didn't show much.

They showed the aurora over Jupiter in the documentary I watched on Smithsonian channel. Images from a satellite dedicated to exploring Jupiter for the next decade or so. Of course the aurora only shows up to the naked eye when their is a big enough mass ejection from the sun - a heavier solar wind. The doc also showed the auroras at earth's poles from space. Again, they would have taken the pictures at peak activity.

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