Hello everybody! I am thrilled to the bone! How about them Democrats! It was such a sweet victory that blogging seemed lackluster by comparison, so I skipped a couple of weeks (times two). I even bought a vintage coat on ebay to commemorate the purpling of our nation. Yes, folks, the coat is very purple–purple [...]
The National Debt is just a little over one light-year. I don’t know about ya’ll, but I’m feeling a lot better about a National Debt of only one light-year. Our closest star friend, Proxima Centauri, is 4.3 light-years from the Sun. The Canis Major dwarf Galaxy is the nearest to our solar system and it’s 25,000 light-years away. Astronomers who hazard a guess say that the whole universe is a whopping 79 billion light-years across. I think I’ll stop there. (a joke)
Sequoia Sempervirens or the coastal redwoods we saw along the trail are the only representatives of their kind that live so far north. They like to hang close to the ocean for the moisturizing effect but don’t want to breathe a lot of salt. It’s more the fog drip along the coast that’s necessary for their well being.
That’s why you don’t see airplane pilots (unless they’re gliders) buzzing around tall topographic features like mountains. The downdraft could suck them under. Here’s the thing, folks, lenticular clouds may look like they’re standing still, but they ain’t. These clouds are constantly forming in the updraft and dissipating in the downdraft and sometimes contain winds of 50 knots or more.
As a ‘know-nothing’, I’d call it a lenticular cloud capping a thunderhead, but there are many names for lens shaped or Lenticular clouds: Cap or pileus clouds, banner clouds, orographic clouds and ’spaceships’ all describe the round, stationary, atmospheric formations of condensed water vapor or ice crystals that hang out above or near mountains.
Moving on. The praying mantis is one of those insects that gives women a bad name: That’s because the female is known to bite the head off her mate, but only during copulation. This doesn’t deter the male in any way, so they say; in fact, it speeds up his ejaculation process. And how do we know that the sperm gets a healthy boost just as the male is decapitated? Because male researchers find this sexual cannibalism so fascinating that they have devoted many hours to watching it happen