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Thoughts to ponder 8 years 3 months ago #307833

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OH I miss China, enjoy your trip, but take a face mask. Now that the furnaces are lit for winter, the air pollution is high in Beijing.
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My 3M N95 20 pack arrives this week!

E*A*G*L*E wrote: OH I miss China, enjoy your trip, but take a face mask. Now that the furnaces are lit for winter, the air pollution is high in Beijing.





RIP CRAZYWOLF
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Thought to ponder?


The jackpot of the "Power Ball" lottery in the US for tomorrow is estimated to be worth $ 1,300,000,000.00. That's 1.3 billion dollars!
What would you do with it if you won?
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[NLR] McFate wrote: Thought to ponder?


The jackpot of the "Power Ball" lottery in the US for tomorrow is estimated to be worth $ 1,300,000,000.00. That's 1.3 billion dollars!
What would you do with it if you won?
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I would invest all of it and then give 99% of it away in small amounts.
Then again, me thinks this guy might be on to something.

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[NLR] McFate wrote: Thought to ponder?


The jackpot of the "Power Ball" lottery in the US for tomorrow is estimated to be worth $ 1,300,000,000.00. That's 1.3 billion dollars!
What would you do with it if you won?
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This would be a good spot to drop $1,895,000.00 of it:

www.platinumfighters.com/

This one is just callin' my name:

www.trade-a-plane.com/detail/2164933.html
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Don't waste your time with explanations people only hear what they want to hear


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The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

I would like to add that Nebular and I were discussing this thread awhile back and I told him that it occurred to me that we like quoting these smart folks because we basically have the same thoughts
But fortunately for us they are able to articulate them very eloquently
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It's cold today in Northern California. I was warming my backside at the wood stove when my cell phone rang. The call only took a minute but I'd forgotten the fire....until I moved to sit down on an ajacent chair. YEOUCH!!!! My fire heated jeans nearly burnt my skin! My wife thought I'd sat on a pin cushion.

It reminded me of the story of the original Levis 501 jeans. They were made with copper rivits at the main stress points to help keep the seams from breaking , including one at the crotch....good idea, save for one little issue. The classic story is of cowboys squatting around a fire.... all peaceful, watching the coffee boil. Maybe a little bit of harmonica music on the open prairie, then YEOUCH!!!



It's been said that that is the reason Levis discontinued the crotch rivit... more likely since it happened in 1941, that copper rationing for WW2 might have played a part...either way, I say it was a good move.
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Hold onto your hats kids...

ASTEROID TO BUZZ EARTH
: A small asteroid named "2013 TX68" will fly by Earth on March 5th, and NASA says it could come as close as 17,000 km to our planet's surface. That would put it well inside the Clarke Belt of geosynchronous satellites. The space rock is about 30 meters wide, or 50% larger than the asteroid that broke up in the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, Russia, three years ago. If an asteroid the size of 2013 TX68 were to enter Earth's atmosphere, it would likely produce an air burst with twice the energy of the Chelyabinsk event.

What they didn't mention on page one... out of a 0 to 9 scale it is a condition code 7... zero being very sure of its orbit and nine being fairly UN-certain... :dry:
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This is the kind of news that has HB so Anti-outer space.I however thoroughly enjoy it,please keep us updated.
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I found out about this organization of all places on the Fox channel,that in itself is something to ponder.

The Overview Institute

For more than four decades, astronauts from many cultures and backgrounds have been telling us that, from the perspective of Earth orbit and the Moon, they have gained such a vision. There is even a common term for this experience: "The Overview Effect", a phrase coined in the book of the same name by space philosopher and writer Frank White. It refers to the experience of seeing firsthand the reality of the Earth in space, which is immediately understood to be a tiny, fragile ball of life, hanging in the void, shielded and nourished by a paper-thin atmosphere. From space, the astronauts tell us, national boundaries vanish, the conflicts that divide us become less important and the need to create a planetary society with the united will to protect this "pale blue dot" becomes both obvious and imperative. Even more so, many of them tell us that from the Overview perspective, all of this seems imminently achievable, if only more people could have the experience
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I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim...

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Here's a thought......








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Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

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nightorado wrote: Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

Jack Kerouac


Wow. I was once attacked and bitten by a dog (a Shephard) who was hanging on to me until I reversed tactics and tried to shove my arm further into its mouth. It scared the hell out of it and it ran back to its yard. :blink:
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Ha ,i did that once too
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had a buddy tell me a story of walking his dog and encountering a really mean pitbull that had gotten loose...

it attacked his dog and locked on...

the guy was hollering and pummeling the pitbull to no avail... it wouldn't let go...

the owner of the pit heard the ruckus and came running outta the house with a large chunk of rounded off dowel rod...

my buddy stepped back glad for the help, thinking that the chunk of dowel was to pry the jaws apart...

imagine his surprise when the dude shoved that dowel into the south end of his north facing dog...

it let go rather promptly with a yelp and took off back to the house... the guy says that is the only way to get 'em to let go...

given the nature of my buddy that told me the story I took it with a grain of salt but still got a chuckle...
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If a man goes into a forrest, to speak his mind where no woman can hear him......

Is he still wrong?
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Rudolf Rednose wrote: If a man goes into a forrest, to speak his mind where no woman can hear him......

Is he still wrong?


According to Schrödinger, he has no way of knowing,
(until he comes out of the forest.)
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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

I don't remember where I heard that
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Progress is impossible without change,

and those who cannot change their minds

cannot change anything...

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the only thing not subject to change is change itself...
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i was watching a show about POW's the other night and wrote down a quote i found impressive...


"what's your fault is one thing...what you did is another"


so what the heck? rock the discotheque!
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With all of the digital surveillance going on due to terror threats over the last many years I wonder how many times this forum has been flagged by government agencies. :dry: :blink:

Think of all of the keywords and context in posts:
*Guns
*Bombs/bombing
*Airplanes
*Destroying airports/carriers
*Sneak attacks
*Snipers
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(A little shout out to Homeland Security here. Keep up the good work!) B)
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[NLR] McFate wrote: With all of the digital surveillance going on due to terror threats over the last many years I wonder how many times this forum has been flagged by government agancies. :dry: :blink:

Think of all of the keywords and context in posts:
*Guns
*Bombs/bombing
*Airplanes
*Destroying airports/carriers
*Sneak attacks
*Snipers
...

(A little shout out to Homeland Security here. Keep up the good work!) B)



I've often wondered the same thing... how many of those "guests" one sees logged on at the bottom of this forum are actually some agency or another keeping tabs... :whistle:

can you imagine what kind of hell that job would be?? monitor the all the posts on the forums and WC and who wrote them, then have to summarize it all into a comprehensive report on a regular basis... :sick:
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Nebular wrote:

[NLR] McFate wrote: With all of the digital surveillance going on due to terror threats over the last many years I wonder how many times this forum has been flagged by government agancies. :dry: :blink:

Think of all of the keywords and context in posts:
*Guns
*Bombs/bombing
*Airplanes
*Destroying airports/carriers
*Sneak attacks
*Snipers
...

(A little shout out to Homeland Security here. Keep up the good work!) B)



I've often wondered the same thing... how many of those "guests" one sees logged on at the bottom of this forum are actually some agency or another keeping tabs... :whistle:

can you imagine what kind of hell that job would be?? monitor the all the posts on the forums and WC and who wrote them, then have to summarize it all into a comprehensive report on a regular basis... :sick:


Lmao! Really!
I always wondered if Pluribus was really a HLS agent who drew the short straw and was assigned to watch DF. :lol:
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BLACK HAWK GHOST wrote: IF YOU WERE KIMG OF THE WORLD WHAT WOULD YOU DO FIRST


hook you up with a spell checker and break that cap lock button?? :P
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China’s first space station will meet a fiery end next year when the 8.5-tonne module comes crashing down to Earth, amid concerns authorities have lost control of the craft.

The Tiangong-1 space station was launched in September 2011 and currently orbits Earth at an altitude of 230 miles (370km).

But in July, amateur astronomers suggested China had “lost control” of the satellite, after Chinese media reported the country’s space agency had struggled to get in contact with it.

Officials have now confirmed that after four and a half years in orbit, Tiangong-1 (meaning Heavenly Palace) is expected to plummet to Earth in late 2017.

Speaking at a satellite launch for the space station’s successor in the Gobi Desert in northern China, officials from China’s manned space programme said the craft had ended its service in March this year having “comprehensively fulfilled its historical mission”.

According to Space.com the less than precise landing time indicates the operators had lost control of the unit, as if they were still able to communicate with it, they could steer it to “a guided re-entry over an empty stretch of ocean at a specified time”.

Like other lost satellites, it’s likely that the freefalling station will burn up on its way back into Earth and come back down in smaller chunks of molten metal rather than with a big crash.

However, some denser engine parts are unlikely to burn up completely and could potentially cause problems on the ground.
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