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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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.................................CONGRATULATIONS dkt ON REACHING 6,500,000 MOT POINTS !!!................................. |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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.............................CONGRATULATIONS YellowAV ON REACHING 500,000 MOT POINTS !!!............................. |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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As I recall, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were know to the ancients as they were visible to the naked eye. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were not found until after the invention of the telescope. That was 2 or 3 years before my birth though. Chiggers? Had not thought about that...but, the bugs on the front of your cars are almost non-existent, lawn mower maintenance and operating expenses are nominal but the water (for the oak trees only), and electrical are very high. Dry-land crops are non-existent so you can expect clothes that contain cotton to be higher, along with other things. Ranchers are selling their cattle early at reduced prices because they are having to feed them (feed/hay is scarce and high-priced); grazing land is all scorched and even though you see little differences in the price of meat now, it will rise later due to the shortage. All kinds of ramifications -- not just in the local area. Yea, for an old guy, Mr. Galilei seemed a bit eccentric back then but was nice enough, especially if you were willing to listen to his wild ideas.  Just saw graphic that showed your part of Texas was only 4-6 degrees warmer that normal for the month of July. What it lost in summarizing the month was the fact that it was every single day. What I remember about the summer heat in DFW back in the 80's and 90's was that July was when it started to get hot but the real heat was in August. It could and would hit 105 or higher but only for 1-3 days at a time. I can't imagine weeks of it. Just be glad you don't live over near Pittsburg.  |
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RT
Master Cruncher USA - Texas - DFW Joined: Dec 22, 2004 Post Count: 2636 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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 Good Morning MOT (and visitors) Congratulations dkt and YellowAV!  Again Forecast for today is 1 degree cooler -- only 109 today, Thursday 108 and Friday 107. 87 is the forecasted low all of those nights. I have cut back on my shutdowns and am doing a partial shutdown while outside temps are in excess of 99F. On the Pittsburg thing...are you talking about this? That is interesting. We do it in space all the time but then in space they don't have to worry about detergents and other chemicals/compounds like steroids in the water. There are major water issues in our future as the water tables continue to drop. Some really smart people are quietly obtaining water rights all over the southwest and west. Have you seen the pictures of Lake Mead lately? Look how the white area shows the drop and the Landsat images here There is an old Irish saying that I love "Hooray Anyway". Everyone have a great day. |
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Former Member
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The pictures of lake Mead are for 2000 and 2003. Aren't there any more recent pictures, like this year?
My son, Steven, was telling me about the number of people selling gold coins, and also about the number selling stock and buying gold. I am not going to change any of my investments at this time although I may add to what I have if the prices really get low enough. |
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darth_vader
Veteran Cruncher A galaxy far, far away... Joined: Jul 13, 2005 Post Count: 514 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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As I recall, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were know to the ancients as they were visible to the naked eye. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were not found until after the invention of the telescope. That was 2 or 3 years before my birth though. To finish off this thread... Pluto was discovered in 1930, so if we had any members in the 85+ crowd, they might remember 8 planets. Neptune was discovered in 1846, so there's no one alive who remembers when there were 7 planets. There was some mention in a few news sources that Neptune had recently completed one orbit since the time it was discovered. The discovery of Neptune is quite an interesting story as it's location was predicted by some anomalies in the orbit of Uranus. This probably covered in Wikipedia among other places. I think they should have officially kept Pluto as a planet. The definition that some had proposed for a planet, something that has enough mass so that it's roughly spherical and orbits a central star or stars, would have been much better than the definition adopted. The "drawback" as seen by some is that the definition would mean we would have several new planets since Kuiper belt objects have been found that fit the definition. - D |
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RT
Master Cruncher USA - Texas - DFW Joined: Dec 22, 2004 Post Count: 2636 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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As I recall, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were know to the ancients as they were visible to the naked eye. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were not found until after the invention of the telescope. That was 2 or 3 years before my birth though. To finish off this thread... Pluto was discovered in 1930, so if we had any members in the 85+ crowd, they might remember 8 planets. Neptune was discovered in 1846, so there's no one alive who remembers when there were 7 planets. There was some mention in a few news sources that Neptune had recently completed one orbit since the time it was discovered. The discovery of Neptune is quite an interesting story as it's location was predicted by some anomalies in the orbit of Uranus. This probably covered in Wikipedia among other places. I think they should have officially kept Pluto as a planet. The definition that some had proposed for a planet, something that has enough mass so that it's roughly spherical and orbits a central star or stars, would have been much better than the definition adopted. The "drawback" as seen by some is that the definition would mean we would have several new planets since Kuiper belt objects have been found that fit the definition. - D Poor Pluto... So sad  Well now I can at least change my sig. |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 08/10 - All Members:
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Points milestones report ======================== judson Somerville MD reached 48,000,000 points Runtime milestones report ========================= No runtime milestones found. Results returned milestones report ================================== dkt reached 25,000 results pramodp reached 2,400 results YellowAV reached 1,100 results New members report ================== No new members found. Retired members report ====================== No new retired members found. For the week as a team: Statistics Total Run Time Points Results Team Records: Results Returned: 06/08/2011 4,091 Points: 07/18/2011 1,110,596 Runtime: 01/25/2006 1:123:00:53:34 Good crunching folks!!!!! |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 08/10 - Active Members
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Note: Active members are those who earned points in the prior 30 days. Top Twenty active members returning points today: 01: RT - 191,572 points 02: judson Somerville MD - 124,472 points 03: GeraldRube - 80,254 points 04: Coingames - 52,730 points 05: David Autumns - 35,977 points 06: xroule - 31,286 points 07: NiceMedTexMD - 26,750 points 08: dkt - 24,609 points 09: brown chris - 21,198 points 10: parmesian - 19,168 points 11: Blueprint - 17,290 points 12: Daeloan - 16,486 points 13: darth_vader - 14,882 points 14: Vuj - 12,948 points 15: keithhenry - 11,246 points 16: jpenning - 10,935 points 17: finman - 9,974 points 18: YellowAV - 9,616 points 19: Fanie - 8,724 points 20: lawrencehardin - 8,361 points Total points returned today: 773,407 Active members returning points today: 41 Average points per member active today: 18,863.5854 |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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.................CONGRATULATIONS judson Somerville MD ON REACHING 48,000,000 MOT POINTS !!!................. |
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