I have a water seepage problem in my basement, too. All kinds of stuff grows in it.
Maybe someone left a banana pudding down there. A long time ago
(at least 10 months, i’d say).
Yeah, unlikely. It just appeared this week, bam! Clearly an ooze from below the surface. I’d prefer that to other possibilities anyway. There’s things we don’t like to think about, wouldn’t you agree?
No one answered my question about money on other planets; I’ll give you 24 hours.
Yes.
Re: money: Saturn uses frozen methane. I don’t know about the other planets
No. Time’s up. Planets use other Planets for money.
A planet like ours is chump change. I’ll explain: Presence of Life in fact decreases our market value by throwing doubt on future stability. If there’s anything we know it’s that factotums hate uncertainty, and that’s one quality we as a species got plenty of. This is why the alien invasion we all fear is inevitable; they will arrive, quickly denude us, then harvest our resources (they are meagre, but you can be sure our molten core of pure iron has attracted drooling attention, which is another reason we should get rid of it but I digress.)
In fact, the Planets have worked things out very nicely; they trade ownership so for instance Venus and Mars own each other, this allows each to buy and sell the other planet’s assets with no risk of anyone showing up to collect say an overdue Tribute (not cost effective).
Would that we were so smart.
I am excited thinking about the future! We have the rotating Space Telescope, called James Webb, and so far it has been a walloping success, especially after the embarrassment of the Hubble for all those years. But that old Model T (Hubble) can burn up in the atmosphere for all I care, in fact I think we should shoot it down and end the nightmare, even if it costs a few million, well worth it because after Skylab and all the other abandoned junk out there in uncontrolled orbital decay managed to crash harmlessly into the ocean, as well as that Chinese thing a couple of years ago and probably other things I’m forgetting about, it figures Hubble is due to cause a horrible cataclysm - any Vegas oddsmaker will tell you that - could even hit Russia and cause a war; do we really want to risk it? Crossing our fingers is not going to help - bad things happen and right now we are just whimpering past the graveyard!
But James Webb is now peering into deeper space than we’ve ever encountered. They say the can now look at photons from two billion years after the universe ignited and get a much clearer picture of galactic history. And that holds great promise, because at this rate by the time Webb is ready for the scrapheap, science will whomped up an even better telescope, and we can only hope they will be ready by then to put it to better use. Right now, we are able to discover new planets on stars in the Milky Way, and gain a lot of superficial datums - it’s done by measuring occlusion of starlight by objects in transit - but imagine what we can learn if we had magnitudes in the hundreds of thousands more resolving power? Then we’ll be able via the occlusion method to pick out surface details on those planets, so if there are women there, standing on the edge of the planetary disc, as they pass their “event horizon” a greater amount of light will be blocked in the upper body area than the man. Tell me that’s not exciting! I bet Dr. Sabine Stanley thinks so (I do not know her personally, and if I am wrong about her predilections I humbly apologize - I have one question though: what are you doing with that haircut?).
And please, can we (America) just skip the Moon? They are training new Astronauts for another mission, to the Antarctic pole (India just claimed that, are we nuts? They can have it with our best wishes!) but we planted a flag there fifty years ago, I see no need to go back - none. I think all this preparation is a smokescreen, and the Chinese are falling for it; Pres. Trump wants them to blow their cookies in an expensive “Space Race”, one that we already won, while we have our sites on bigger targets, the Ice Moons of Saturn, the crust of beneath which are untold wealth; blow into that and we have aced the Money Race, and we can do it with American robots which contain Integrated Circuits envisioned by Dr. King, our rivals meanwhile are cooking their meals in the desolate Mare Fecunditatis or Sea of Fecunditity which I promise you is anything but. Nothing can grow there! No water! Enjoy the view.
We may yet live to see the end of this, hold onto your hats!
Well here’s a fine howdy doody! My letter to Ted Yoho, originally sent in 2021 that’s three years (do the math!) has come back to me again! Unopened, unread! How is this possible? One answer: Louis DeJoy (postmaster general, who took charge in 2020 to great promise, has made changes all right: Word comes down, “Do everything on the cheap”.)
I hope all of you have invested in Forever stamps. I’ll let you know when it’s time to throw them in the wastebasket, because Outlook Hazy, Try Again. Maybe the Pony Express should be reactivated, it’s time those ponies earned their keep!
Honestly, by now Ted has likely moved out of Florida to a better state, but don’t worry, I’ll track him down - he cannot continue to dodge me. He certainly owes me a response at very least - I mean three years!
I have located Ted. The letter WILL reach him this time, I’m sure of it. He has returned to DC, slipping neatly between the corridors of Power, which is just where we like him. Although frankly I thought he would be making fistfuls of money in the Private Sector, this is actually better for our puroises.
He is Co-Chair of Consensus of Development Reform (CDR), a proud Conservative Think-tank that is busy thinking about reforming development, which can only mean Tax Cut. Now Pres.Trump’s last Tax Cut was good for America but it did not affect my tax rate due to my income level being “none of your beeswax” but I expect his next one will change that, and this is important since even though I am not wealthy, it is chiefly due to the dual burdens of 1.) high taxes on Job Creators, and 2.) Overregulation that is killing the dreams of Honest citizens who imagine themselves hitting the jackpot someday if they can only catch a break and cut a few corners. These dreams are Yoho’s dreams as well!
There is just one thing I can’t figure: The CDR. if you go to their website and hit “About”, shows this image:
What in God’s name is that thing? It sure doesn’t look like Tax Cuts to me. I just hope Ted has a reasonable answer because I think it’s kind of spooky, maybe worse than “#2 is Scary” (see previous posts, which presumably you have unless you came here as a thread tourist, in which case skedaddle, we don’t need casual outsiders poking their heads in here where we have serious business to discuss!)
Incidentally I considered rewriting my old appeal to Ted, after all it’s three years it’s been bouncing back and so somewhat stale, but decided not to as it was a Perfect Letter and I doubt it could be improved. So, once more into the breach and the clammy hands of Mr. DeJoy.
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Update. It took me fifteen minutes to find a mailbox. In downtown Boston! There were those brown accumulator boxes here and there, but a blue regular box, with a slot where you can put a letter? No! Then when I finally spotted one, it was on Congress Street, in Post Office Square. And was there a Post Office? Of course not! Just a lonely letterbox, and they only collect once a day!
You see what I put up with?
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One day after putting it in the mailbax, you guessed it, it came back. Three times out, three times back.
They even cancelled the stamp! Are they even supposed to do that? Seems like it should be a freebee.
I’m not going to bore you with this (okay, I already have). Sufficient to say I won’t give up. I will Wite-Out the “RETURN TO SENDER” so no mistake can be made, and mail it again. If you want to take bets on whether and when it will come back (some kind of record!), let me know, because I want some of that action.
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Exciting times.
Please have a look at this.
(The word “abstract” is a term of art among scientists, it means Here we are announcing an important new discovery; here’s the bare bones version to pink your interest; the Good Stuff is behind a paywall; why not? Science is hungry!)
Luckily I have discerned the orbiter dicta i.e. words that let the cat out of the bag: “key corellogram features”. Just a fancy way of saying “funny shape”. Sorry Mr. Abstact but I won’t be sending you a check.
To give you an idea of how this applies to our problem, try this:
That gray blob at the center is the interesting part, like the Sun’s corona during that Total Eclips (yes I saw it, had to sneak into Canada and they didn’t catch me, now it’s too late) this as I understand it is like a protective membrane caused by the remnants of Theia, acting like a Womb. and “only present at certain latitudes”—find those and it should be a simple matter to grab onto and pull like a big hysterectomy, removing Womb and Fetus (=baby or in real terms the Core). This seems like the best idea so far; of course I am always on the lookout for newer and better ideas, and in a way it’s a good thing we didn’t try all those other idea, most of which were potentially risky as well as expensive—good things come to He who Waits.
One more thing, the Ted Yoho letter came back again and I’m done with that. I’ve already wasted too much postage, especially considering the inclemental rise in the cost of a first-class letter. I hope you have figured out the Scam that is the Forever stamp. You go, “Look, you can pay one price for a bunch of these stamps and they’re still good even after the inevitable Pay Hike, great, gimme a lifetime supply and I will beat the system”, only the System beats you because you will die someday without using most of them, ever think of that? Later, Hatch
Nitpick: I am not a doctor, but I don’t believe hysterectomies are performed by grabbing and pulling.
Depends on your insurance.
Are you sure? I will have to ask a gyno (woman) about this. I thought you just stick a pair of tongs up there and anything you grab is easily removed. Although now they probably have a robot like one of those arcade machines where you move a claw around and try to grab a Spongebob doll. (Those are a ripoff by the way.)
Oh, great.
This is just another phony. That “core” is just a rubber ball from the toy store.
Notice there’s a star in Alaska. I’ve been there, and there’s nothing of the sort.
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Welcome back home, Butch and Suni! What a ride!
I think I read.that during their long, long stay in space they kept busy and did hundreds of science experiments. So let’s say a third of their time up there. Then they had to sleep, so that’s another third. Then there’s time for meals, TV, exercise and other leisure stuff.
Did they do it? I think it’s a fair question. Of course they’ll never say they did, but I bet the thought crossed their minds, probably many times. I know it would mine.
I bet you anything the spouses will have “suspicions”. They might keep it to themselfs for a week or two, but before long, his wife is going to say “What was she like?” Or her husband will go, “Musta been pretty boring, you were probably getting antsy, right?”
Hey, they didn’t plan to be stuck there for months and months! Pretty good excuse!
Those two are hardly the first time there have been males & females in space on the same mission or ship or station at the same time. There’s no particular reason to assume these two had any more or less affinity for each other than for the other crewmembers aboard the station of the appropriate sex.
Well let’s not worry about earlier occupants, but in case you’re wondering, OF COURSE there has been “relations” in Space in the past! How long have there been Space Stations? How many occupants have they had in what, fifty years? How many of them have been Human Beings?!!!
This is a special case! Two age-appropriate, we assume heterosexual (but even if not, so what? Long term isolation has a way of breaking down barriers) adults in a space the size of a Plaze suite (maybe larger, I didn’t remember to bring my tape measure!) Just the two of them. Unless there are surveillance cameras but you know, there are ways to deal with that! And endless hours with nothing to do!
I’m not saying I have any inside dope, but when the book is written (and that may take a generation or more to happen, after some of the prudeness the current one is saddled with has been sanded away) we will find out, but I promise you it HAS happened! Maybe not Butch and Sandy, but someone! Or else all the billions spent on the Space program has been a huge waste.
In 1992 a married couple spent a week together on a Space Shuttle mission. They had met during the training for that mission and married secretly 20 months before the flight. Seems likely that there may have been some unscheduled activity during that week.
I knew it! I bet the “secret marriage” part just made it all the more spicy, like we’re getting away with something; furthermore you can be sure whatever their Official Mission was (oh, I’m going to look for genetic mutations in Mole Rats, and that guy, I think he’s growing beans or something…), they knew what they were really up there for.
Were they Russians?