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"Gary"
May 2007
Overland Park, KS
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Dec 2005
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Twas good to get back home. Vacations are good and provide the break from everything, but it's always nice to get home and sleep in your own bed, your own bathroom, and not to forget the good old refrigerator!!! But this heat wave sux. Setting temperature records now for this time of the month/year. Only running about half the farm now cause the poor old A/C is having to do triple duty.
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I ♥ BOINC!
Oct 2002
Glendale, AZ. (USA)
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It is a hot year every where.
Just read that some scientists are saying there will be no floating ice left at the north pole by September of this year :yikes: |
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Of course we in the US are watching our severely impacted economic situation closely, but ours isn't the only one taking some serious hits either. While we have the added catastrophe of the flooding in the mid-west, China has taken some serious financial hits too from the heavy flooding damage there. Lots of other weather related issues around the planet too. For those that follow the Mayan(?) calendar thing about the end coming in 2012??? What is supposed to cause it? |
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I ♥ BOINC!
Oct 2002
Glendale, AZ. (USA)
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You can find lots of hits with Google to read more. ;)
Every so often a force from space causes global cataclysms and mass mutations. Authors disagree about what humankind should expect on Dec. 21, 2012, when the Maya's "Long Count" calendar marks the end of a 5,126-year era. Part of the 2012 mystique stems from the stars. On the winter solstice in 2012, the sun will be aligned with the center of the Milky Way for the first time in about 26,000 years. This means that "whatever energy typically streams to Earth from the center of the Milky Way will indeed be disrupted on 12/21/12 at 11:11 p.m. Universal Time" The date December 21st, 2012 A.D. (13.0.0.0.0 in the Long Count), represents an extremely close conjunction of the Winter Solstice Sun with the crossing point of the Galactic Equator (Equator of the Milky Way) and the Ecliptic (path of the Sun), what that ancient Maya recognized as the Sacred Tree. This is an event that has been coming to resonance very slowly over thousands and thousands of years. It will come to resolution at exactly 11:11 am GMT. The astronomer Philip Plait has stated very clearly that the Mayan calendar does not end in 2012 at all, that it is like the odometer on your car, as each section of the odometer reaches 9 and then clicks over to 0, the next number to it starts a new cycle, so that when all the numbers again reach 0 all the way across the odometer - the last number will change from 1 to 2 and the new cycle starts all over again. and I'll leave you with this link: http://www.greatdreams.com/2012.htm How's your prime hunting doing these days? ![]() |
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Dec 2005
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"Gary"
May 2007
Overland Park, KS
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It's intersting that you guys are talking about global warming and the such here.
I have an actual $50 bet with a business associate that we made 5 months ago that for 3 out of the next 5 years, the avg. global tempurature will be > 0.5 degrees Celsius above the long-term average since 1870. Of course I am wagering that it is above that average. Last year, there was one of the largest drops in history, which is what inspired our somewhat heated debate. It dropped from 0.8 degrees above the avg. to 0.2 degrees above the avg. He's convinced that's indicative that the 'temporary upward blip' in global tempuratures is over. I told him he's nuts because 5 of the last 6 years before 2007 had been > 0.5 degrees C above the long-term average and that the trend has been strongly upward for nearly 25 years. He's an ultra-conservative and is completely convinced that global-warming is a myth. I finally told him to put his money where his mouth is and make the bet. He didn't hesitate. Based on what I've heard from several people and in the news, I think I'm already in good shape to take a 1-0 lead this year. ![]() We're using a neutral and official whether-related website to get the avg. global temp. so everything is on the up-and-up. I'd have to dig it up from an old Email if anyone wants to see it. It's quite interesting. Gary Last fiddled with by gd_barnes on 2008-06-30 at 02:57 |
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May 2007
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I ♥ BOINC!
Oct 2002
Glendale, AZ. (USA)
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Well, one thing that I have thought of for quite some time... if all that snow/ice is melting, it's putting a lot more moisture in the air, for now...
I'm more worried about when all the fresh water reserves are melted away. |
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