Icy Round-up
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Stories
- Uber driver DaVante Williams gets hotel for teen passenger, then a job offer.
- Marble Arch Mound to close after just six disappointing months. I don't mow art, but I mow what I like.
- Their cats took their Vitamix hostage. Three weeks later, the standoff continues (may require registration or subscription). Thanks RedEye9.
- Birds are real, a US government agency wants to assure you. Bird is the word, Peter Griffin wants to assure you.
Science
Thanks Max.
- Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen.
- The Heaviest Drinker in the Animal Kingdom (may require registration or subscription).
- Fleshing out the bones of Quetzalcoatlus, Earth’s largest flier ever.
Media
- Skiers Sprayed With Freezing Water, 2 In The Hospital. What a nightmare! Thanks Acleacius.
- Assuming the pregnancy test strip as vape. Thanks VideoSift.
Follow-ups
RedEye9 wrote on Jan 9, 2022, 19:09:
I can't find the Twilight Zone episode that fits that description.
There is a movie from 1969 that fits the description. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064519/ Journey to the Far Side of the SunThe European Space Exploration Council sends two astronauts to explore a planet similar to the Earth but located on the opposite side of the sun.
One major difference that'll make tact happy, they mention it is over 100 million miles from earth.
Blue wrote on Jan 10, 2022, 08:36:The only good thing about the Jets is a childhood story of one of my sisters referring to the team as "the airplanes".
I don't think I actually root for other teams. There are some I like better than others (dislike less?). The Bills qualify as likeable for me, but the Jets don't.
Cutter wrote on Jan 9, 2022, 18:22:I don't think I actually root for other teams. There are some I like better than others (dislike less?). The Bills qualify as likeable for me, but the Jets don't.
Hey Blue, as a native New Yorker will you root for the Jets or Bills if you can't for the Giants?
Actually I'm curious if other sports fans here will do that for their state - where they have two or more teams - as a fallback team. So long as your state wins, so to speak, because you sure don't want XYZ state to win.
Armengar wrote on Jan 10, 2022, 03:07:Yes, his efforts were mentioned in the article I looked at. He was a man ahead of his time. However, the 1761 work was the first estimate which was statistically accurate.
for distances in ancient times, look up Eratosthenes.
That is genius work as he would have had zero ways of proving his theory. There wasnt even a complete map of the world.
1badmf wrote on Jan 9, 2022, 19:31:Unless my math sucks, 186 million is "over 100 million", so...they were correct if the quote is correct.RedEye9 wrote on Jan 9, 2022, 19:09:
I can't find the Twilight Zone episode that fits that description.
There is a movie from 1969 that fits the description. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064519/ Journey to the Far Side of the SunThe European Space Exploration Council sends two astronauts to explore a planet similar to the Earth but located on the opposite side of the sun.
One major difference that'll make tact happy, they mention it is over 100 million miles from earth.
still not nearly far enough. a planet on the other side of earth's orbit would necessarily be 93M miles x2, or 186 million miles.
RedEye9 wrote on Jan 9, 2022, 19:09:
I can't find the Twilight Zone episode that fits that description.
There is a movie from 1969 that fits the description. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064519/ Journey to the Far Side of the SunThe European Space Exploration Council sends two astronauts to explore a planet similar to the Earth but located on the opposite side of the sun.
One major difference that'll make tact happy, they mention it is over 100 million miles from earth.
The European Space Exploration Council sends two astronauts to explore a planet similar to the Earth but located on the opposite side of the sun.
WaltSee wrote on Jan 9, 2022, 15:07:
One of the episodes dealt with a planet on the same orbital path as the Earth, except for being on the opposite side of the sun, so we'd never see it. The Air Force was putting together a crew to fly to the Earth twin in a new experimental rocket plane of some kind, and the show kept mentioning the planet being the incredible distance of one million miles from Earth! (This is all IIRC, so pardons if it isn't precisely right!) Back then, late '50's early 60's, "a million miles away" seemed like a mind-numbing astrological concept, as it would be a few years before we'd start talking about a light year being six trillion miles, etc. And now Webb will be peering back in time from a million miles from Earth!...;) The progress made in the last sixty+ years is astounding when I think about it.
In 1761... Jerome Lalande collected all the data and computed the first accurate distance to the Sun: 153 million kilometers, good to within three percent of the true value!
fakespyder wrote on Jan 9, 2022, 16:08:Cyprus reportedly discovers a Covid variant that combines omicron and delta.No, damn it. Just no!Birds are real, a US government agency wants to assure you. Bird is the word, Peter Griffin wants to assure you
Bird-house!