Science Friction

Why the tie? I think I would just be decisive and give one the nod over the other. Corbin's pasting of the Panthers in the last outing gives the Hounds the nod for me. I'm glad to see that you finally put South over North. That's where they belong.

Saw him play earlier in the Corbin game. I was very impressed by the young man.

I've seen him play. He's terrific. Also seems to conduct himself very well on and off the court. Congrats to former Corbin guard Josh Hamlin. He has his team playing very well. This is a team that Corbin beat by 15 earlier in the season. Mercer simply couldn't miss early on in this game. It happens. Corbin will be fine. They will win the 13th, in my opinion.

Next week I'm going to rank my top five or so astronomy stories for 2017. I bet you can guess what will be my #1. Stay tuned....

North has a nice team but I've had South above them all year. Both of these teams will be dangerous come tourney time. A bit of a tangent, but a related one - The WYMT mountain rankings are a complete joke. Whoever is responsible for compiling those should be ashamed.

Maybe Corbin will beat Tilghman.

Total lunar eclipse over Hong Kong:

I've often wondered about it. I know there are tons of stuff on the internet where people are espousing the flat Earth model. A lot of the arguments seem to have a religious basis. Go figure.

You know, sometimes I wonder about these Flat-Earthers. Do they deny that Earth is flat just for attention or do they REALLY believe? Why is it so important to them that our planet be flat? Do they distrust science so much that they will deny the obvious(round Earth, moon landing, climate change, etc...)I know for some it is tied in with their religious convictions. Let's face it, for centuries people believed the Earth was the center of the universe until Copernicus came along and disputed Ptolemy some 1400 years later. Hell, Galileo was jailed for heresy just for holding to the "far-fetched" idea that the earth was not the center of everything in the universe. But in this day and time how could anyone with a sane mind seriously doubt the shape of the earth? I mean , once Man first realized what an eclipse was, why would there be any further debate? What do they think about seeing Earth's shadow moving across the face of the moon like it did this morning? I , mean, seriously... Kyrie Irving, the earth is the shape of your basketball. It's your brain that's flat! Flat-Earthers, bless your hearts. Here's what a lunar eclipse would look like if the earth were flat...DUH!

For those who stayed in bed this morning or didn't have a good viewing location, here's a 60 sec. time lapse of this morning's eclipse from Griffith Observatory in LA.

Yes, and there was some good viewing in parts of Europe and Asia as well.

Did anyone get a chance to catch any of the Earth's shadow on the big supermoon before it disappeared this morning. By the time totality occurred, the moon had already disappeared for us, but if you were up early enough you might have been able to see a bit of the moon being partially eclipsed. This morning's eclipse was actually pretty rare. It resulted in a super blue blood moon. The moon was a super moon, meaning it was at its closest point to the earth, resulting in it being 14% bigger and up to 30% brighter. It was also a blue moon, meaning it was the second full moon this month. The lunar eclipse caused the "blood" moon , resulting in the moon taking on a reddish hue. That red color occurs because light filters through our atmosphere and then the red light from all the sunrises and sunsets across the world goes up and bounces against the moon. If you didn't see this morning's eclipse, you will have to wait until 2037 to see another super blue blood moon!!!

Did anyone get a chance to catch any of the Earth's shadow on the big supermoon before it disappeared this morning. By the time totality occurred, the moon had already disappeared for us, but if you were up early enough you might have been able to see a bit of the moon being partially eclipsed.

Looking forward to seeing Taylor and Faulkner go at it again when Corbin and Mercer play a rematch on Saturday in Lexington.

^^^ To clarify, it was the first quarter in which Corbin scored on every possession.

Calling South Laurel North is fighting words in Laurel County. :stop: #CivilWar :isurrender:

Running clock. Andrew Taylor returns with 29 points, 9 rebounds, and 0 videos. He had 23 at halftime. He didn't log a lot of minutes in the second half due to the score. Taylor ascends to 10th on the all-time scoring list in KY high school basketball history. He also climbs to 27th on the list of most rebounds ever. Corbin did something in the fourth quarter that was pretty special. They scored on EVERY single possession in the first quarter, scoring 32 points in the quarter. There were just a few possessions in the entire first half in which the Hounds didn't score. Chandler Stewart added 23 for Corbin, including 14 in the first quarter alone. This game was the first game all season that the Redhounds had everyone in uniform and no one in street clothes. The Hounds are getting healthy and focused for March.

Billy Hicks is a machine.

I've only seen them about three times this year but they should do pretty well against pressure. Pretty good ball handlers and athletic. I know Scott turned them over quite a few times and got some run outs.

#30 SG . Jumps really well. Very athletic kid.

Would love to see this one. What happened in Irvine? Fisticuffs?

Should be a good one. A bunch of talented Cards on display in this one. I'm going with GRC but if JJ Ramey goes off, South could pull off the mild upset.

Was a billion years into the future not far enough ? Our Earth formed about 4.54 billion years ago. That's a long time! Can you imagine what a day on our beloved planet would be like about that same length of time from now? What would Earth be like, say 4 billion years from now? For certain , our once blue planet would be totally unrecognizable. There would be no signs that life ever flourished here. Because of increased luminosity of the sun and runaway greenhouse effect, it would be so hot that even the surface would melt. That's right, you would not even have solid footing if you could stand on the surface. As long as a even a few minutes on this future hellish Earth would seem, a day really would be longer- about 16 hours longer, in fact. Four billion years from now, Earth's rotation will have slowed to the point that a day will be more than 40 hours long. If you look in just the right spot through the brownish, reddish atmosphere, you might spot an old friend, the Moon. However, it would be much smaller in the sky, having drifted farther and farther away from Earth over these billions of years. I would like to think that humans will have moved on elsewhere in the solar system by then. All of that ice on Europa will have likely melted by then. Titan will be in the habitable zone. Maybe our descendants will be Europeans or Titanians by 4 billion A.D. As far as Earth at that time, everything that we have ever known, everything we have ever made - every city, building , every human- will have been reduced to mere atoms scattered about deep within the planet's crust.

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Thanks for allowing me to borrow it. I knew it had to mean a beat down.