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Elsewhere we've talked about the building housing the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, which was innovative in 1905. Here, from Curbed, San Francisco, is an interesting article (with pictures) on the history of the building.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit: a brief...

Was :sterngard:s childhood pet discovered?

Boy Face-Plants Right Onto a Million-Year-Old Stegomastodon Skull

By Jeanna Bryner, Live Science Managing Editor | July 20, 2017 01:09pm ET

A 9-year-old boy hiking in the Las Cruces desert in New Mexico recently tripped over what is now thought to be...

Didn't someone predict it wouldn't last? :sterngard:

Probably a walk away. Only the attorneys won.
If you have the Tardis did you really predict this?

Yes, same here. I hope things are continuing to look up and that you and Trisha are getting stronger and stronger.

Thanks, Addie. Lots in that article that resonates with me. Guess I missed the term "post-truth" while I was in hiding from political news over the winter. Works for me.

:bighug:

The gas burned.

Rapidly.
:rotflmao:

The Mississippi has always wanted to move. It carries large quantities of what should become new land. But because we wanted to put industries, towns, and farms where the Mississippi used to wander, we built levees. Failures of levees caused death and destruction, as in Katrina. But that mostly...

nice clip of recent space delivery

U.S. Commercial Cargo Ship Arrives at the Space Station

The SpaceX/Dragon cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station after a two-day journey to deliver about 7,600 pounds of supplies and science experiments to the Expedition 52 crew. Following its...

Condolences, Slartibartfast. :bighug: :bighug: :bighug:

We were in Burlington two weeks ago. Stayed at the Essex Spa which has an all-day gourmet restaurant, and offered balloon rides.

We got to do neither because granddaughter #1 picked graduation weekend to get married, so everything was overbooked already.

I subscribe to Potholer54's YouTube channe l. His real name is Peter Hadfield . He debunks climate change deniers and Creationist myths with a vengeance.

This is his debunking of the latest fallacy that Greenland's ice cap is growing and not shrinking.

Yeah. Brain fart. :oops:

When I learned that stuff, Eohippus roamed the plains.

I'm just an engineer, but I don't think that mosquitos are particular about the blood they suck.. so it seems to me that even the "Maine State Bird" can be a carrier..

As noted, mosquitoes have different preferred hosts, but the ability of the virus to survive inside the host also...

When I was a whippersnapper the local rendering plant would pick your critter up for free. Now with the dawn of Mad Cow they don't do that anymore. I've heard it can cost up to $900 as a disposal fee. Bring on the badgers.

I can imagine being more secure and more comfortable with an Intel driverless car than with something that I pick out of a car lot. The last time that I went to a friend's home for Thanksgiving, it was late November and the winds had come in off the Pacific. There was an empty 18-wheeler on its...

I'm going to take this opportunity to plug one of my favorite movies, The Dish (2001), starring Sam Neill about a small group of astronomers with a radio telescope in a sheep paddock in Australia. Yes, I know it isn't 100% accurate but it comes close. They claimed to have the actual computers used...

Now that the Orange Asshole is in office, why hasn't NASA gold plated the damn thing?

The mirrors are.

The mirrors have a major bigly design flaw that needs to be fixed prior to presidential approval of hanging Trump Telescope high and dry out in open space: they need a yuuuuge T embossed on...

Our local public schools have signs out front that announce PTSA meetings and vacations and that sort of thing. They also usually have the current critical thinking skills posted. They say things like "Critical thinking skills -apply" or "analyze" or whatever. I don't pay a lot...

The Pigman has been real since 1968!

Egad! Right you are. :shock:

so the results of the scope were okay

but still no explanation for the massive pain. Now it is on to more tests. Maybe something wrong with the pancreas

Saturn Bless Us, Everyone!!!!

There has been a gasoline pipeline leaking in Shelby County, Alabama that was discovered last week. The spill is estimated to be over 300.000 gallons. It is in a wildlife preserve. The report says it is contained. :?: :?: :?: There are already gasoline shortages in parts of the distribution area in...

plus these snippets:

“This wonderful news means that we now have the missing ‘ground-truth’ information needed to put Philae’s three days of science into proper context, now that we know where that ground actually is!” says Matt Taylor, ESA’s Rosetta project scientist.

The discovery comes less...

I thought about posting a link to that article---thanks Tollie! :thumbs:

They're right about science not being for the faint of heart though. It's like constantly bending over backwards to try and kick yourself in the nuts. I once had a situation where my advisor's wife (a colleague) wanted to...