Beware of Greeks bearing gyros. Strikes me that the Greeks were heroic at one time; Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Plato and those guys. Like the Vikings of the Nordic lands, ravaging all Europe-now they are socialist wussies. Or Spain with its world-ranging conquistadors discovering, then abusing the new world, now they run from the bulls in Pamplona. The sun that "never set" on the British empire did; and the thousand year Reich lasted about nine years. Ol Oswald Spengler pretty much nailed it in his tome 'Decline of the West'. BTW, gyros are hard on my digestive system, probably because I am a Viking descendant.
Waiting for the hi res photos of Pluto next week. I heard that NASA and Homeland Security are taping all calls between urban Pluto and its moon, Charon.
In fairness to Dr. Tyson, the discovery of a large number of solar orbiting bodies, would-be planets, led the planetary astronomy community to tighten the criteria required for such a body to be labeled planet. Since it meets 2 of the 3 criteria, it is still termed a "dwarf planet". Plutonium is named after Pluto, following the naming of Uranium after Uranus, because it is homologous in the actinide column of the periodic table. Have I managed to insult the communities of dwarfs, planetary scientists, nuclear engineers (and perhaps colonoscopists, considering Uranus) while trying to clear degrasse Tyson?
My thing is so now we have to go back and change all the high school science texts I grew up with all because of Mr. Tyson? It bugged him that much? I like the 9 Planets, it's a nice round number like trimesters.
Beware of Greeks bearing gyros. Strikes me that the Greeks were heroic at one
ReplyDeletetime; Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Plato and those guys. Like the Vikings of the
Nordic lands, ravaging all Europe-now they are socialist wussies. Or Spain with
its world-ranging conquistadors discovering, then abusing the new world, now they
run from the bulls in Pamplona. The sun that "never set" on the British empire did; and the thousand year Reich lasted about nine years. Ol Oswald Spengler pretty
much nailed it in his tome 'Decline of the West'. BTW, gyros are hard on my digestive system, probably because I am a Viking descendant.
St. Luke was a Greek.
ReplyDeleteSo were a lot of Popes. Well, before the Great Schism.
ReplyDeleteThere's a lot of Greek influence. Hence the Kyrie in the Mass.
DeleteI'm wondering what the ancient Greeks would've made of Cosbyian debauchery. Kind of the opposite of a bacchanalia.
ReplyDeleteSocrates discussing the ethics of Fat Albert at the Playboy Mansion?
DeleteWhen you turn off even Hef you ain't living right.
DeleteWhat's all this 'Shark Week' stuff? I'm still waiting for Walleye Week, ya know?
ReplyDeleteI found it ironic that shark week coincided with a few getting eaten by the critters...
ReplyDeleteI hear Anthony Weiner is gonna play the head of NOAA in the upcoming "Sharknado 3."
ReplyDeleteWaiting for the hi res photos of Pluto next week. I heard that NASA and Homeland
ReplyDeleteSecurity are taping all calls between urban Pluto and its moon, Charon.
I have a bone to pick with Neil deGrasse Tyson. I was perfectly happy with my NINE planet solar system.
DeleteIn fairness to Dr. Tyson, the discovery of a large number of solar orbiting
Deletebodies, would-be planets, led the planetary astronomy community to tighten the criteria required for such a body to be labeled planet. Since it
meets 2 of the 3 criteria, it is still termed a "dwarf planet". Plutonium is named after Pluto, following the naming of Uranium after Uranus, because it is homologous in the actinide column of the periodic table.
Have I managed to insult the communities of dwarfs, planetary scientists,
nuclear engineers (and perhaps colonoscopists, considering Uranus) while trying to clear degrasse Tyson?
My thing is so now we have to go back and change all the high school science texts I grew up with all because of Mr. Tyson? It bugged him that much? I like the 9 Planets, it's a nice round number like trimesters.
DeleteEl Chapo escaped. Up in the Adirondacks?
ReplyDelete& as you said once there's some phrase the French use asking is there a woman involved?
Delete...Cherchez la femme: probably about 2,000 of them, digging a mile long
Deletelighted tunnel with rails.
The Pluto space probe has an on board power source made in the Potato State. This particular RTD runs about $100 million.
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