Dead grass!

Rest of The Week...

Well I am off to work tonight and I have to “fill-in” for a different shift on Friday Night.  That sucks.  I am supposed to go ridding on Saturday morning when I get out of work.  I will see how tired I am.  Also I found a sweet ass band called Stromkern and here is the Wikipedia listing of them. The are good if you like some industrial music with a rap beat.  Most of the stuff I have listened to I like. See everyone tonight…

 

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Dr. Strange

I just purchased the Dr. Strange DVD tonight!! A while ago, there was supposed to be a "live Action" movie, but the did not do it and put out a 6-issue series that was the movie script. Now, they have made it into an animated movie. I can't wait to get to watch it!! I am on old school reader of Dr. Strange.

What is your opinion?

Frontline Assembly Collection...

As a few of you that read this blog mkow i am a very BIG music collector. One such group is Frontline Assembly. I have most all of their projects sich as Delerium, Intermix, Noise Unit, Will, Synaesthesia, Conjure One, Equinox, Pro>Tech, and Cyberaktif. I am going to be in the process of ripping all of the CDs to HQMP3 like 192-256kbp so i can use them on my Creative Zen Touch. I have been a fan of their for many years and i have all of the singles and albums totally over 80 discs in all. It will take some time to finish this.

What is your opinion?

September 1 2007 Meteor Shower

By Peter Jenniskens
Meteor Astronomer, Carl Sagan Center, SETI Institute

 

Around the start of our year count, 2000 years ago, comet Kiess passed the sun and ejected a cloud of dust. Kiess completed one orbit in 1911 when it was discovered by Lick Observatory post-doc Carl Kiess. The dust took longer to return, and formed a continuous stream of dust particles that has been passing just outside Earth orbit ever since.

 

On Sept. 1, 2007, that trail of dust from Roman times will wander in the Earth's path again, causing an extremely rare meteor shower during the short time it takes the Earth to travel through the stream of dust. The meteors radiate from the constellation of Auriga, and are called Aurigids. Only three people alive today are known to have seen this shower before in 1935, 1986, and 1994. After the 2007 encounter, the Aurigids will not be seen again in our lifetimes.

 

The Aurigid shower will last only an hour and a half, with a bright Moon in the sky. The Moon is not expected to dim the spectacle much, however, because most Aurigids seen in the past were relatively bright -2 to +3 magnitude meteors. My colleague, Jeremie Vaubaillon of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, and I have performed detailed predictions of the dust stream's orbital evolution. The August 7 issue of the journal EOS, Transactions of the AGU, gives details of the encounter.

We predict that the shower will be visible by the naked eye from the western United States, especially in California, Hawaii, Alaska, other western states and from Mexico and the western provinces of Canada. Prime viewing time will be on Saturday, Sept. 1, 2007, a half hour on either side of 4:36 a.m. PDT. The whole event will last no longer than one-and-a-half hours. Twenty-five minutes long rates will be above half the peak rate.

Sunlight has pushed the comet's ejected particles into wider orbits around the sun in a thin stream just outside of Earth's orbit. On occasion, the combined gravity of the solar system's planets moves this dust trail into Earth's path. Only when Earth and dust trail collide do we see this meteor shower.

As they collide with the atmosphere, the dust grains of Kiess begin to vaporize at around 80 miles (130 kilometers) altitude, with the bigger ones penetrating down to as low as 50 miles (80 kilometers), before they are completely stopped. This fiery process creates a meteor.

Not only is the shower rarely seen, the Aurigid meteors also may be very unusual. Some could be bits of the comet's pristine crust. Comet Kiess returned from the Oort cloud of comets on the outskirts of the solar system only in recent history. Before that, Kiess spent 4.5 billion years in the Oort cloud, where cosmic rays baked its crust over the age of the solar system. Kiess could have shed some of this pristine crust 2000 years ago. Comets that return more frequently to the sun have long lost this pristine crust.

If so, the meteors are expected to penetrate 5 km deeper than normal in the atmosphere and lack a very specific color of yellow light from the element sodium. Such unusual meteors were seen once before during the alpha-Monocerotid meteor shower in 1995, caused by an unknown long-period comet.

 

 

RMStringer

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Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood

over questions of reality and illusion.

I know this: if life is an illusion, then I

am no less an illusion, and being thus, the

illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I

love, I slay, and I am content.

(Robert E. Howard, Queen of the Black Coast, Weird Tales, May 1934)

 

Perseid meteor shower

Well folks, I was at work during this “event” and went out several times during the night and I did not see a thing.  I was expecting a really great show and I got Nadda…

There is supposed to be another meteor shower around September 1,2007 and I will place some more details up soon.

 

RMStringer

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Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood

over questions of reality and illusion.

I know this: if life is an illusion, then I

am no less an illusion, and being thus, the

illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I

love, I slay, and I am content.

(Robert E. Howard, Queen of the Black Coast, Weird Tales, May 1934)

 

My Bad...

Anonymous said "I believe Sharon Osborn is on "America's Got Talent"...not "So You Think You Can Dance"....details. Anyway"  Well sorry for that little detail.  To me all of those shows suck so i got the name wrong. Thankx for being so good at pointing out every little error, So you can Think you got Idol Talent is what i think they should call the show and have all of the hosts sit there and argue it out with The Hoff as the ring leader and Ryan Seacrest with a dog collar tied to The Hoff...

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