@Lydie Data centers are going to destroy our planet and life as we know it. I'm so glad I got my solar installed this year and am now effectively living off grid. Of course I'm using the grid as a bigger battery. ;-)

@Lydie Wut? Have I missed something? Do I have gold sitting in my closet?

Brent Mckean captured this amazing moonlit scene with three combined exposures on an icy winter morning in Manitoba, Canada.

The colorful rings are a corona caused by diffraction by ice crystals near the direction of the Moon.

Outside those rings, a 22-degree halo was created by moonlight refracting through ice crystals shaped like hexagonal prisms.

On the left and right are 'moon dogs', caused by light refracting through thin, flat, 6-sided ice crystals.

At the top and bottom of the 22-degree halo are 'upper and lower tangent arcs', created by moonlight refracting through nearly horizontal hexagonal ice prisms.

A few minutes later the halo and arcs disappeared and the sky returned to normal -- with the exception of a single faint moon dog.

Image source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200224.html

For more on tangent arcs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangent_arc

I know people love to blame #Capitalism and #boomers for things as they are today. However, things broke in 1973, years before boomers were truly in control of the economy. Check out this video.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1310944546648457

@Fragarach That satellite was the first geostationary communications satellite. Seven years later, there were more satellites to be sure.

@susankayequinn I felt sick when I read this. Too much climate hysteria indeed. What a group of awful people.

@astronomerritt Some architect designed the house for himself. It sits on a beautiful piece of property in the woods and can rotate or not. When I was there the owners had it on rotate mode and it was wild. Very slow motion. You don't notice it except when going into the circular hallway that goes to the kitchen and bathrooms. I now forget the rotational rate, but it was several minutes to make a full rotation, but enough that the room you were in vanished around the corner, so to speak.

@dillyd Part octopus. Marvelous tree!

@astronomerritt My favorite bizarre house I've ever been to is one that was round. But the outer section rotated. The bedrooms, dining, and living rooms were on the outside, the kitchen and bathrooms were on the inside, which didn't rotate. The plumbing needed to be stable. All the electricity ran through a pair of large copper rings in the center, connected with the grid. But the coolest part is you'd go to the bathroom, then have to find your way back to the room you left, as it rotated away.

@MissConstrue Oh, fire ants. Pull down his pants and put his thang onto the hill. Face down. Staked as stated, buy through the feet and hands.

Some people deserve to be tortured. Didn't Stephen say that?

@MissConstrue I have paid no attention to the W.H. staff. Miller looks the part of a WWII SS officer. They are all awful and I'll have nightmares constantly if I think about who is running the country...

@MissConstrue Thanks for sharing. She looks absolutely mad in the photo. Woah.

I'm looking to hire a woodworker to build an oak bookcase with a desk at the end in my house in Denver, CO. About 9' long by 7 1/2' tall. Budget of $12k. Must be insured and all that legal stuff.

Boost appreciated

#woodworking #fedihire

@astronomerritt I will not click that link, I will not click that link, I will not click that link. Oh gosh, I clicked that link...

@dillyd And he is fortunate because you recognize his wonderfulness. And share it encouraging others.

@dillyd You seem to have a good life with that man. Lucky you!

@SeaFury One year I gave all handmade gifts for the holidays to friends. That was about 45 years ago. Most of those gifts are still with the people who got them.

So yeah, special.

@EuromaidanPress This man died to try and protect his wife. This is what good men do. I raise a glass for you today Alex! You were a fine man and worthy of praise. Mazel tov!

@drandrewv2 I truly don't understand how any head of state thinks anything agreed to with the felon in chief is worth the paper it's printed on? He has reneged on nearly every agreement he's made in his life.

@MissConstrue I grew up with him as Michael on All in the Family. He was the voice of my generation. He was my big brother.

Cranking it to 11 for ya, Rob!