Saw this in my FB feed:
Even if those distances are true, it also assumes there are no other boats within a 416 km radius.
Jeff Bezos, comic book super villain seems to be building a 127m, three-masted, $500m yacht. No word if this will be what provokes the Revolution.
No he won’t.
ducks and runs
More about “Point Nemo” or the Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility at Wikipedia. It’s the furthest point from land, and presumably civilization (and humans). While your point about ships being closer, it doesn’t look like a popular shipping lane according to ShipTracker (one cargo ship and one fishing vessel somewhat in the area). The Wikipedia statement about “Point Nemo” and ISS is probably more accurate than the facebook quote:
…sometimes the closest human beings are astronauts aboard the International Space Station when it passes overhead.
(Currently the ISS is crossing South America towards South Atlantic, according to Astroviewer.)
Oddly, it seems because of ocean currents blocking nutrients from the area, even fish avoid the location.
Finally, Point Nemo is near the longest straight-line ocean path. I’m not sure of the significance of that.
Wouldn’t that also assume the ISS was directly above? If it were on the other side of the Earth, the distance would be far greater.
I think “at the right time of day” covers that.
I find it hysterical that they’ve plotted the Pole of Inaccessibility for Great Britain. It’s in the middle of some farmer’s field northwest of Tamworth. The guy probably walks over it a couple of times a week.
I know, I know. Still amusing, though.
Antoine de Santt-Exupery, the author of the beloved children’s story “The Little Prince,” flew a P-38 during World War II with the Free French Air Force. He was a careless and arrogant pilot who - this is true - once delayed returning to base so he could finish reading a book IN THE COCKPIT. He and his plane vanished on a reconnaissance mission in 1944.
The wreck of Saint-Exupéry’s P-38 was found in 2004:
For anyone interested in aviation, history, or both, Saint-Exupery’s two semi-biographical books are amazing reads of true pioneering and adventuring.
The (US) Air & Space Museum has taken delivery of a Star Wars x-wing fighter.
It strikes me that I am so over Star Wars. it has not aged well.
I’m not about to go through a thousand posts right now, even though I would find the vast majority interesting; I apologize if this has been mentioned.
Tea Leonni is the grandniece of the actor who played Fred Ziffel on Green Acres.
In the sitcom “Frasier”
Eddie (born May 15, 1990) is the dog owned by Martin, a large Jack Russell Terrier. Eddie was played by two dogs during the run: first by Moose, and then by Moose’s son Enzo, who first appeared as a stunt double.
On October 3, 2019, the Los Angeles Dodgers (the MLB baseball team) set a record - having played 1,471 consecutive home games (since April 17, 2000) without being rained out.
I learned this recently from a book I picked up – The Addams Family: An Evilution. The book traces the development of the “canonical” members of the Addams family through Charles Addams’ cartoons.
It’s rather surprising. “Lurch” (not named in the cartoons, of course, like many of the characters, who first got name for the TV series) originally had dark hair and a beard, and was very likely inspired by Boris Karloff’s butler character Morgan in James Whale’s 1932 movie The Old Dark House. (And not inspired by Karloff’s turn as the Frankenstein monster in James Whale’s 1931 film Frankenstein)
But that’s not the main thing I came to talk about. What really surprised me was that Thing – the disembodied hand – was not a disembodied hand in Addams’ cartoon. To quote Wikipedia:
Actually, in the drawings, Thing doesn’t appear to be horrible-looking – merely extremely shy. The inspiration for Thing being only a hand appears to be the single cartoon in which Thing is acting as the record-changer (and in which Thing very clearly has two hands, and obviously a body, even if it’s hidden)
As portrayed in the TV series, Thing was a hand (and, in some episodes, and arm, up to the elbow) usually portrayed by Ted “Lurch” Cassidy, although others substituted when both had to be in a scene. Thing wasn’t shown without his box until the movies.
Cousin Itt, on the other hand, did appear in the cartoons as a person-sized hairy creature, just as on TV.
Not only that, it is apparently a “new” model from the most recent trilogy, rather than from the original trilogy. Just…not worthy of the Air & Space museum IMO.
In the very first Addams family cartoon published in The New Yorker back in 1938 you can see both the Morgan-inspired “Lurch” with dark hair and beard (and Morticia, of course), but also upstairs, peering through the railing bars, the whole-body person that is Thing.
See the first cartoon below the splash panel on this page:
It wasn’t previously mentioned. But anything involving Fred Ziffel is always of interest to me, if no one else. So thanks for sharing.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Fred+Ziffel&hl=en&tbm=isch
FYI it only took me a few seconds to confirm you were first. I clicked the magnifying glass search icon, checked the “search this topic” box, then typed [leonni] into the box. A moment later it showed only your post. To make sure I changed [Leonni] to [Ziffel] and got the same result. Nobody else mentioned either of these names.
Per Google, the lady spells her name Téa Leoni. With an accent on the “é” and just one “n”. Nobody else mentioned that name either.
The Dodgers (who had a lot of nicknames in their early history) have had their home games attended by more spectators than any other professional sports franchise in the history of the world.