Sun
 

This is strange. I'd swear I saw this same picture on the web a few months ago.:confused:

Actually, it was in the paper, Islamic Radicals Unsuccessful in Attempt to Extinguish Sun

The Sun didn't go out?!?
 

That does it. As an American Citizen, I am hereby declaring A War for the Protection of Freedom from the Sun. We will commence our preemptive strike on the solar surface in 2 days if the Sun does not relinquish its hold on the heavens. America. Will. Not. Tolerate. This tyranny. Any longer.

Everybody's a damn comedian. Don't you know the cellar is a forum for serious and scholarly intercourse.:D

Re: The Sun didn't go out?!?
 

A little late. The sun just threw another CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) at the earth that just missed us today. Its been throwing things at us for millenia - mostly every 11 years.

serious intercourse? What are you about?

AND scholarly ...

I think that means he reads the instructions before starting.

(Hope he's not the sort that has to stop in the middle and check to make sure he's turning in the right direction.)

     I'm not really into the idea of putting the sun out, maybe just fitting it with a dimmer switch.

when it comes to intercourse, I'm seriousAnd I don't stop in the middle.:D

PS Hey Griff, thanks for making me the object of your 1800th post.

Actually, it looks like his 1800th was in Waco, not on the Sun.

Your right, sorta. He's got 2 posts in this thread that say 1800 too. His thingamajig must be stuck.

Sounds painful. Check yer old posts the thingamajig keeps climbing. I always try to tap into a conspiracy every hundred posts or so. Anyway, I'm into the Jefferson admin now... lets take a hike with Merriweather Lewis.

*sigh*

93 million miles away and it's still uncomfortably warm.

Then why were tree leaves seven to ten days late in blooming?

My roommate and I were wondering about that one too. I used to live in Wenatchee, WA, which considers itself the apple capital of the world. Looking around the city at all of the orchards I can see why.

So anyway, they talked about the total temperature over time to allow the trees to blossom, so I thought that it might be because some trees had their start in a green house, where the temperature was a bit hotter, so they have a prediliction to bloom a bit earlier than others.

Don't know...

Isn't the tree blooming thing a function of the amount of light more than temperature? Had a lot of cloudy weather?

Well, in Wenatchistan, the sunlight was kind of taken for granted. After mid-March, the skies were clear. They talked about temperature more than sunlight, though.

Uryoces,

Did you live in Wenatchee? Lin and I are going to be there in a week (Friday May 9). It's her hometown!

Coming through Seattle.

Maybe we can get a beer...

Take him up on it if you can, Ury...he's cool as hell.