Dan B.

Ann, given that Congress's Thanksgiving recess starts no later than Monday, isn't a pocket veto a very real probability here?

Confused, I thought his name was John James Audubon.
(Daniel Webster was a great dude too; I think he was the one who made fun of my family's nose.

We're a year past peak now, right? The last two maxima, I was nocturnal and looking at everything out there BUT the sun, so I don't know either!

YouTube video by 管理人_SubaruTel_StarCamAdmin The Aurora Observed from Maunakea, Hawai'i, by the Subaru's All-Sky Camera on Maunakea 2024-5-11

@mattotaiyo.bsky.social already hinted at it, but I believe the X-class event in May of 2024 did result in a pinkish glow to the north (which is to say, away from the volcano!) from the Maunakea summit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciSk...

I had to google some acronyms there - I've been involved with many things, but ILRS isn't one of them. 😂 I mostly speak 2-line element sets. Yeah, sounds like something got gummed up. I don't know who makes HTS CPFs.

Ah, SIC codes. I know NORAD numbers. AFAIK, people in the pipeline from taking observations to publishing the catalog are still working despite the shutdown, though I'm not sure about contractors, or the Space-Track folks at Aerospace in California. 🤔

ILRS? Is it mostly the LEO ones? Can you still do GEOs and MEOs with corner cubes, and maybe LAGEOS 1/2?

I took the kids to grandma's for Columbus Day, while my wife stayed home. I'll let you guess what we returned to. 🙄🎄

The usual threshold for "Classic Rock" is a minimum of 20 years old, 30 being even better. 30 years ago, we already had the earliest releases from Foo Fighters, Korn, Nickelback, Papa Roach, Rammstein, Sevendust, Staind, and System of a Down. Man, "Classic Rock" just keeps getting better! 🤘

As Faith No More said, "What is it? It's it."

The movie was so much better.

"That's not a mushroom, it's a badger. Next... also a badger, not a mushroom. And then there's another ten badgers. Wait, this next one IS a mushroom, and so's the one after it! But... another dozen badgers before the next mushrooms? You people are singularly bad at this."

Our youngest wore flannel and corduroys from Goodwill, but as a zombie. Okay, yes, I know, that's not that different from a Gen Xer.

LOL. My wife's car clock is also about to be correct, I think. The clock in her previous car was the same way.

Now you have me wondering how many different states have had their own "Trump v. [State]" lawsuits or appeals. I know 50 would be hard to reach.

Alphabetically by first author's last name, right? Not alphabetically by title, last author's first name, publication, or anything else? 🤔

You've just described the first five years of someone who grew up in another English-speaking country encountering paperwork from, or required by, the US government. 🤔

From well before I was born until 2020, my late father and my mom were old-school Eisenhower-Nixon Republicans. Conservatives who conserved things, etc. Being from NJ, they knew Trump too well to back him. After January 6, Mom switched sides and Dad became an independent. #nokings indeed.

...and since I just saw your comment on Subsy's post about it: Corner 😜

Lovely! And not QUITE as far north as Mills... but I presume to some extent you'll still have the effects of latitude, where summer nights barely get dark, and winter nights are long and dark but also, well, winter? 🤔 Nonetheless, I'll definitely try to give it a visit! 👍

Coins for the dead - Wikipedia

Wait, that isn't how en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins_f... is supposed to work...

Does it really count if you don't even (have to) leave the house, though? 🤔

Er, "probably a Starlink" dang autocorrect! Starlings were an entirely different set of satellites (57386-57389).

Yup, just last night I was talking to someone about how we're about to roll over 66k, and they were looking forward to 66666.

Starlink-35044, sigh. And 2^16-1 was Starlink-35133. Back in the day, my answer to "what's that satellite I see going overhead?" was "probably an old Russian rocket body," because most of the 100 brightest ones were. Today, "probably a Starling" is the answer to many questions. 😜

You and I both know I'm not a REAL physicist, but just how theoretical are we talking? 🤔 Would a hypothetical physicist do?

Makes sense. I don't know if I even have a point. If I do, it's that 1775 wasn't exactly something unprecedented for the Massachusetts folk. 😉

👆Yeah, this. By 1688, Charles was pushing up daisies, and James II was trying to stay the course. Didn't work, of course. And once colonists in the Dominion of New England heard James was gone, they overthrew Royal Governor Edmund Andros, held him for 10 months and sent him back to London. 😂

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