Igloo? Caribou?? Too many movies...Almost went to the one in the Sierras, but...we were in the band, and, in short. they saved money by not sending us to train with the wing...Sucks to be support...
"Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet" >From "THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES" by C.W. Badie --- On Fri, 1/29/10, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net> wrote: From: Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] "Wolf" Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you cansee it To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 11:40 PM Wow, how long were you there, and what constitutes cold weather training? Do you have to stalk and kill caribou or something? Build an igloo? Were there any kind of war games involved? ----- Original Message ----- From: "jazzynupe 007" <jazzynupe_007@ yahoo.com> To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 5:51:57 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] "Wolf" Moon Tonight to be Spectacular- -if you cansee it Keith, I can easily beat that. Did my cold weather special forces training for the Marines outside of Nome, Alaska. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry From: Keith Johnson <KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:40:35 +0000 (UTC) To: <scifino...@yahoogro ups.com> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] "Wolf" Moon Tonight to be Spectacular- -if you can see it The coldest weather i've ever experienced was in Chi-town back in '97, when I was up working on a software project for my then employer. I remember the absolute temperature was -10 F (i had *never* experienced below temps before!). But with the winds off the Lake, chill factors were down to -25 F! Amazing stuff. Having lived there for a time, and having spent several visits there for my project, I was by then knowledgeable of how to dress: five layers of clothing on my torso (t-shirt, thermal shirt, flannel shirt, sweater, coat), thermal leggings underneath my jeans, thermal socks, two hats to enclose ears as well as head, full facial covering. Believe it or not, I actually walked around downtown for two hours in that. I was staying in a hotel near State street, so there was lots of stuff to see. A year ago I accompanied my wife to training in Boston in January, and temps dropped to 8 F, it snowed, and the winds were fierce. Really, really bad--but not as bad as that time in Chicago... ----- Original Message ----- From: "C.W. Badie" <astromancer2002@ yahoo.com> To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 4:37:40 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] "Wolf" Moon Tonight to be Spectacular- -if you can see it It's 6 degrees here in Chicago...rain. ..Hmph! "Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet" >From "THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES" by C.W. Badie --- On Fri, 1/29/10, Keith Johnson <KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net> wrote: From: Keith Johnson <KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net> Subject: [scifinoir2] "Wolf" Moon Tonight to be Spectacular- -if you can see it To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 3:00 PM And here it'll be cloudy and rainy tonight in the ATL... :( Oh well, it's great to read about, and I really dig the different full moon names from Native culture. ************ ********* ********* http://news. yahoo.com/ s/space/20100129 /sc_space/ biggestandbright estfullmoonof201 0tonight http://www.space. com/spacewatch/ full-moon- names-2010- 100127.html Biggest and Brightest Full Moon of 2010 Tonight Reuters – A full moon is seen over the Houses of Parliament in London January 1, 2010. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez … Robert Roy Britt Editorial Director SPACE.com Robert Roy Britt editorial Director space.com – Fri Jan 29, 7:45 am ET Tonight's full moon will be the biggest and brightest full moon of the year. It offers anyone with clear skies an opportunity to identify easy-to-see features on the moon. This being the first full moon of 2010, it is also known as the wolf moon, a moniker dating back to Native American culture and the notion that hungry wolves howled at the full moon on cold winter nights. Each month brings another full moon name. But why will this moon be bigger than others? Here's how the moon works: The moon is, on average, 238,855 miles (384,400 km) from Earth. The moon's orbit around Earth – which causes it to go through all its phases once every 29.5 days – is not a perfect circle, but rather an ellipse. One side of the orbit is 31,070 miles (50,000 km) closer than the other. So in each orbit, the moon reaches this closest point to us, called perigee. Once or twice a year, perigee coincides with a full moon, as it will tonight, making the moon bigger and brighter than any other full moons during the year. Tonight it will be about 14 percent wider and 30 percent brighter than lesser full Moons of the year, according to Spaceweather. com. As a bonus, Mars will be just to the left of the moon tonight. Look for the reddish, star-like object. Full moon craziness Many people think full moons cause strange behavior among animals and even humans. In fact several studies over the years have tried to tie lunar phases to births, heart attacks, deaths, suicides, violence, psychiatric hospital admissions and epileptic seizures, and more. Connections have been inclusive or nonexistent. The moon does have some odd effects on our planet, and there are oodles of other amazing moon facts and misconceptions: A full moon at perigee also brings higher ocean tides. This tug of the moon on Earth also creates tides in the planet's crust, not just in the oceans. Beaches are more polluted during full moon, owing to the higher tides. In reality, there's no such thing as a full moon. The full moon occurs when the sun, Earth and the moon are all lined up, almost. If they're perfectly aligned, Earth casts a shadow on the moon and there's a total lunar eclipse. So during what we call a full moon, the moon's face is actually slightly less than 100 percent illuminated. The moon is moving away as you read this, by about 1.6 inches (4 cm) a year. The moon illusion Finally, be sure to get out and see the full moon as it rises, right around sunset. Along the horizon, the moon tends to seem even bigger. This is just an illusion. You can prove to yourself that this is an illusion. Taking a small object such as a pencil eraser, hold it at arm's length, and compare its size to that of the moon just as it rises. Then repeat the experiment later in the night and you'll see that the moon compares the same in both cases. Alternately, snap two photos of the moon, with a digital camera or your cell phone, when the moon is near the horizon and later when it's higher in the sky. Pull both photos up on your computer screen and make a side-by-side comparison. Astronomers and psychologists agree the moon illusion is just that, but they don't agree on how to explain it
