Science Friction

I have drank one cup of coffee in my life. I was 11 and it was to wash down medicine.

 

I watched a plane crash into the gulf when I was on vacation in Destin eight years ago

Never watched a plane crash but it is a recurring dream that I've had many times. I wonder what that dream is supposed to mean?

I thought this was an interesting score. The Hawks just demolish the homestanding 16th -ranked Rams. I think it's been almost 40 years since St. Joe's took down a ranked team on the road. Lunardi has had R.I. listed as high as a #5 seed. This was quite a shocker. St. Joe's is now 14-15 and Rhode Island falls to 23-5.

I really like this thread. It's fascinating to hear all of these stories.

In all sincerity, I feel I've had a pretty blessed life, with wonderful, loving parents and caring friends. Thankful for each and every day. I know that's not terribly interesting but it's so very true.

I used to date a girl who used to date the guy who was the youngest man to ever sit on death row in Kentucky.

Holy moly.... does my life suck!!!! Please close this thread before I lose to will to live.

This thread has me concerned about you. :lol2:

It has ME concerned about me.

Ted Kaczynski and I received the same academic degree. His dissertation was better than mine, but I keep a cleaner house than he does(did).

This is my #6 story of 2017:

6. It's a Comet , it's a Rock , .... No , it's an Interstellar Asteroid!!!"

For the first time ever, a visitor from interstellar space was spotted in our solar system in October of 2017. The object, detected by researchers using the Pan-Starrs 1 telescope in Hawaii, was first thought to be a comet but, when no coma was spotted, the comet designation was amended to that of an asteroid.

A/2017 U 1 , or "Oumuamua" as its friends call it , could be about as much ice as rock. Believed to be less than 1,300ft. wide, Oumuamua approached our solar system from the direction of the constellation Lyra at about 57,000 mph. The icy rock, or whatever it is, entered the solar system nearly perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic, and crossed the plane in early September inside the orbit of Mercury.

Oumuamua made its closest approach to Earth in mid-October at a distance of about 15 million miles. If you are wondering where the damned thing is now(and I just know you are), it is high above the ecliptical plane and speeding toward the outer reaches of the solar system at a speed of more than 97,000 mph in the direction of the constellation Pegagus.

Scientists want to study this object before it disappears from view forever because knowledge of its origin could shed light on the processes of planet formation in our cosmic neighborhood.

One wonders just how many of these strange objects there are out there flying through interstellar space. How long will it be before the next one finds its way into our little planetary system? How do we go about finding more of them???

^ My son and daughter-in-law took in DIL's younger sister for a year when they lived in Boston. She was in school with the younger Boston Marathon bomber.

I feel like I'm just another degree or two of separation away from some real problems...

I had a friend who was killed by serial killer Donald Harvey. I have another friend who was nearly killed by John Wayne Gacy.

I've received letters in the mail from a woman sitting on death row convicted of a double murder.

Sometimes I think maybe the writing is on the wall...

Only as a desperate, last resort.

Hey now, the homestyle smashed potatoes and awesome pot roast is a pretty satisfying meal(especially after you've run for 15 miles ).

How long before a teacher shoots a kid?

Or a kid kills the teacher with his own gun. I had a teacher in middle school that used to fight with students. I can only imagine what would have happened if Mr. Root had been packing heat during those altercations.

Made eight hole-in- ones and won a free round after making an "Ace" on the 18th on this golf course in Pigeon Forge:

I lost respect for EKU's hiring process when they refused to give Steve Bird a serious look for football coach a few years back.

I ran from my house to the Golden Corral in London(about 15 miles), ate dinner, then jogged back home. Don't know which made me feel more sick at my stomach - the running or the food @ GC.

Here's Zig giving Orton a dose of his own dropkick medicine.

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Mr. Perfect was definitely the first name I thought of. That guy was so good.

Almost perfect, one might say.

Funny how you and I debate religion, eschatology, salvation of the soul, and other such things but at the same time relate to 1990’s professional wrestling.

Don't think that hasn't crossed my mind many times. That's one thing I love about this forum. I get the chance to talk with people I would probably never get to meet and talk about things ranging from "Space Mountain" to the Mount of Olives. I appreciate the opportunity to talk with you, pastor.

http://bluegrasspreps.com/ky-boys-basketball/bracken-county-65-362906.html

Thank you. February Madness...

When I was a kid we went to school fed, reasonably dressed and under threat that, if we got into trouble at school, we get it twice as bad at home. My teachers word was gospel. Yes ma’am and sir were how we were taught to address them.

 

 

Too many kids these days have missing or otherwise occupied parents. They come to school hungry, poorly dressed, unprepared, and no one at home makes them do anything. They have never been taught respect. My sister left a public school because she was literally afraid of many of the students and some of their parents.

 

Teachers these days are expected to be social workers, parents, and now police with little or no support from the parents of the children they teach. I admire anyone who wants to teach these days, but they should be paid a whole lot more.

I love you!!!

Great post.

Andre the Giant's was pretty rabid . j/k

French giants can't jump.

Das Wunderkind Alex Wright had a good one.

Yes he did. Had totally forgotten about him.

What happened in the Bracken/ St. Pat game? What was up with the controversial ending?

This is my #7 story in astronomy for 2017:

7. World Ceres Victory: Building Blocks for Life Discovered on Dwarf Planet

The largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is the dwarf planet, Ceres, roughly the size of Texas. Glance at a photo of the big rock and it doesn't look much different from the Moon with its barren and cratered surface. But looks can be deceiving.

Back this time last year, research scientists announced that they had detected organic molecules on the surface of Ceres. Of course, organic molecules are a necessity for life as we know it. When you combine this discovery with the fact that is believed that Ceres may have a liquid ocean beneath those carbon compounds on the surface , this Texas-sized rock suddenly becomes more exciting than José Altuve and the World Series Champion Houston Astros.

The presence of both liquid H2O and carbon compounds on Ceres raises the possibility that primitive life forms may have emerged from there.

Ceres was the first dwarf planet to be visited by a spacecraft( Dawn spacecraft visited Ceres in 2015 just a few months before New Horizons flew by Pluto).

Ceres is likely a future destination for human colonization given its abundance of ice, water, and minerals.

What in the heck is a polar bear doing in KY? Way out of its element here. Back to the frozen tundra, bears!!!