The moon is 40x the diameter of the Earth away, which if you try visualize with golf ball as the Earth, would put the moon 5.5 feet away. Agree, it definitely seems like it should be closer than that.
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Emu war of 1932
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Had to google that
The best part of the Great Emu War: the emus won.
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From my high school Latin, I knew that âsenateâ was derived from the Latin word âsenatusâ but didnât realize, until I was reading a NY Times book review today on how the gerontocracy run America, that senatus was derived from âsenexâ, which means âold manâ.
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Weâre running out of salvaged ship steel needed for radiation detectors (newer steel was exposed to nuclear tests in the 50s so unreliable for this purpose.
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Iâve been keeping tabs on the old folks home, including number of deaths while in office:
(from my most recent Senate mortality post: RIP, Lindsey Graham: The Unexpected Political Death )
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Woo Hoo, Utah. That one white square. They do actually retire before getting so old as to die. Or we change our minds about them before getting there. The most recent old folks were Hatch and Romney. It would have been interesting had either of them run again instead of retiring as their popularity was waning. Hatch probably would have won again and probably Romney too but more because of his democratic appeal. One of the reasons I favored Romney was that he was already so old that he wasnât going to be able to serve for decades like Hatch did.
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No updates from Kentucky?
Schroedingerâs Senator.
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I have enjoyed some of the AI pics of him with various dead presidents and others and one where a company offered to produce the pics for anyone.
Today is 3 months before the general election.
Tomorrow is the first day where itâs unambiguous that if McConnellâs seat is vacated early, no replacement would be appointed before the next term.
TIL that the reason (or at least in part) why L is first in LGBQT+ is in recognition/honor of lesbians stepping up as caregivers and advocates for gay men with AIDS.
Ladies before Gentlemen.
There is a significant community of descendants of Hawaiians living in the Fraser Valley east of Vancouver. They moved here in the 1800s from the Oregon Territory as they (along with other non-white groups who had been there awhile) were made unwelcome by white settlers moving westward.
They were welcomed here with open arms as the Hudsons Bay Company was eager to recruit workers of all backgrounds.