I am currently in the throes of one of my “I hate everything because all is unjust” attitudes toward the world at large and humanity in general. I’m just letting you all know. I did begin Anatole France’s Revolt of the Angels and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt simultaneously, which may improve my mood immensely. The former is quite engaging and clever, while the latter oddly dovetails with Steyn’s monthlong tribute to Johnny Mercer over at SteynOnline, which came as a bit of a surprise.
Anyway, with this–and make no mistake, I sincerely get Israel’s side of this madness–and the climate change scandal–didn’t the great prophet Crichton warn us about this awhile ago?–I’m just not feeling all that chipper. I want Gilad to come home, but at what cost? And will any of the CRU data make a difference to the idiots who’ve bought into that pile of horseflop anyway? Will it trickle down to the average consumer who has been coerced into buying crappy “efficient” lightbulbs that make their lives dmmer and more complicated?
Perhaps I’ve just been spending too much time at this site.
Invisible galaxies?
And two galaxies colliding … and yet remaining distinct … and then having another go at it 70 million years later?
That’s amusing.
More great news, Ilion.
Galaxies are known to do this from time to time, it seems.
Though to be sure, even this is even a less-than-normal galaxy of physical matter that’t not recognizable, the chances of any two objects like stars crashing into one another is (per one astronomer) about the same chances as two gnats in a canyon.
Be that as it may…..
Closer to home it seems a group of post-collision space rocks named Baptista (baptism by fire, anyone?) has been studied and the trajectory was plotted and it seems a rougue rock from the larger formation between Mars and Jupiter is what nixed the dinos.
Any day now. The good news is we know what to look for now. “Resonance”, a property where what happens first for thousands of years is close calls and similar pathways over and over and over that pulls the loose ones closer over time to the earth. So every near miss means the next time it shows up to make people crap their pants increases the chances of the real hit. Though this takes millenia.
Nice, eh?
Good reference found at The Naked Scientist:
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/news/news/839/
This time hopefully we won’t be caught with out pants down.
Though I’d say if your time is up and there’s the end before your eyes, you might as well be doing something fun before you..never mind…
Speaking of astronomers, fro your amusement — NewScientist: Dark galaxy crashing into the Milky Way
Too brain dead and fogged at the moment to analyze the CRUd data, but Nick has some handy info on that as well.
But Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil?
Haven’t read the book, but Duuurn, I DO declare, that was a REALLY odd movie.
But that’s good old Savannah, Georgia.
And yeah they really do wanna know who yo daddy “and them” is in that social caste realm.
Happy T-Day if I don’t get back around.
Right now my brain is where one astronomer called The Realm of the Nebulae…
“God is in control;” no matter what comes, God is in control.