Drought / Burn Ban / Brazos County

Dust, Dust, Dust

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Jupiter Dust Filtration System: Winter 2007

ACCRETION OF MASS

External accretion of extraterrestrial mass is irrefutable. Everyone knows about meteors and meteor showers that regularly enhance the night skies at certain times each year. Meteorites, the solid remnants of meteors that land on Earth, are also known to almost everyone, even though few may have actually seen one. (SOURCE)

Retrieved by Pat Darnell
When we GooGle: Accretion Dust, Disk

We get -- Reference: [HERE]
W. K. M. Rice, Philip J. Armitage, Kenneth Wood, and G. Lodato, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 373 1619-1926 (2006).

When astronomers observe a star surrounded by an accretion disk in visible light, they typically see radiation from the star at the center of the disk. When they observe the disk in the infrared, they typically see emission at a continuous range of wavelengths, ranging from short to long. The short-wavelength IR radiation emanates from dust closest to the star. There the dust is heated to temperatures of a 1000 °C or more. Dust in the disk farther away from the star is cooler and emits at longer IR wavelengths.

The problem is it's virtually impossible to actually see a nascent planet inside a swirling, turbulent, and opaque disk of gas and dust. It's much easier to identify planets orbiting stars a billion years old (or older) whose accretion disks have vanished.

Not ones to throw up their hands in despair, however, Fellow Phil Armitage and colleagues from the University of Edinburgh, the University of St. Andrews, and Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy recently analyzed some indirect evidence that some accretion disks may have at least one Jupiter-sized gas planet within them. The evidence comes from the properties of the disk itself. (Read Article HERE)

Today's Post: More in MooPig's Query: "What's a Billion anyway amongst Friends?" while listening to Lenny Breau's "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy..." click to hear for yo'seff... what do you suppose dust accretion sounds like on a cosmic disk?

MooPig to Sponsor 2009-10 Dust Bowl: Jack Rabbits vs. Farmers

by Pat Darnell

Did you know there was a Jack Rabbit Round up back in the '30's, before Roosevelt's New Deal?

Predators that usually thin out the jack rabbit population had been neutralized by the condition of the prairie in middle USA. It was the famed Dust Bowl. I saw footage on the History channel last night that in my mind resembled any "scariest" scene from any horror film, ever.

The rabbits were dashing in all directions, frenzied and fraught. Jack Rabbits apparently "do well in dry, drought periods. Hot and dry are no problem" for the bunny with huge ears and hind legs, with ridiculous speed. A Jack Rabbit also has the ability to change direction at full speed. What that does is lets Jack out maneuver a coyote, as the predator has to stop to turn as fast as its rabbit prey.

So the Jack Rabbit population reached improbable numbers and farmer\ranchers had to do something about it. What little grass and vegetation that survived was being taken away from their cattle. Jack's were also having litters of four to eight rabbits each every month. It was a fecund time for the Jack of all Rabbits, that is for sure.

Farmers gathered up to stage a roundup. Collectives of farmers herded the Jack Rabbits into rabbit proof pens. Some reported 30,000 at once were herded to their death pens. I think this rates as a holocaust for the Lepus Leporidae... no?

This is the old -- IF "Hulk Hogan wrestled so his son wouldn't have to wrestle" -- argument... but wrestling took a back seat to other entertainments in Hulk Hogan's lifetime;

THEN ...so instead, his son went driving after drinking, and is guilty of manslaughter. Same thing. [wipe that silly look off your face]

I am guessing the Easter bunny didn't visit children in the aftermath of mass killing of Jack Rabbits by frustrated middle American farmers. The Easter ascent has not been the same for lepus since 1930's. In fact, I am also reminding those who have read till this point -- nothing at all was done about middle rural America, and dissemination of American prairie into tiny specks of dust, until an enormous cloud of dust, Dust Blizzard, settled on Chicago, and then later all over New York City.

Only then did largesses send photographers to the Dust Bowl and images became prevalent in Newspapers. So that then Roosevelt could tout his New Deal: "...we take your tax money and centralize it over here for the world's royalty's, and send it back to you in truck loads of meat."

Be sure to tune in Next Year 2010, for the MooPig Sponsored Dust Bowl in Lubbock.

References: [SOURCE]

Well, OK, some may say, "But you know, Obama is not a hunter." Right. And neither is John McCain. And isn't that a breath of fresh air! I, for one, am pretty damn tired of all this Elmer Fudd stuff coming from our politicians.
It all started with George W. Bush. I don't remember Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton trotting out into a field for a shotgun photo-op.
The funny thing here is that George W. Bush is not a real hunter. He's just a beltway frat boy who borrowed a shotgun in order to strike a redneck rural pose.
Karl Rove figured most National Rifle Association members would not care, and that many would not know the difference, never mind all those pictures that showed George W. Bush to be a walking gun safety violation.

Writers, Sharpen your Pencils

Feats don't fail me now!!

Much too mUCH iNTERPRETIVE WORK TO BE dONE..."

Enoch: or, Hanokh

One of the most important apocryphal works of the Second Temple Period is Enoch. According to the biblical narrative (Genesis 5:21-24), Enoch lived only 365 years (far less than the other patriarchs in the period before the Flood). Enoch "walked with God; then he was no more for God took him."

The original language of most of this work was, in all likelihood, Aramaic (an early Semitic language). Although the original version was lost in antiquity, portions of a Greek translation were discovered in Egypt and quotations were known from the Church Fathers. The discovery of the texts from Qumran Cave 4 has finally provided parts of the Aramaic original. In the fragment exhibited here, humankind is called on to observe how unchanging nature follows God's will.

The Book of Enoch is a pseudo-epigraphal work (a work that claims to be by a biblical character). The Book of Enoch was not included in either the Hebrew or most Christian biblical canons, but could have been considered a sacred text by the sectarians. The original Aramaic version was lost until the Dead Sea fragments were discovered.

Reference
Milik, Jazef. T., ed. The Books of Enoch: Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4 (Oxford, 1976) Printed book. General Collections, Library of Congress.

Antithesis:
Writers? Look HERE: Answering Christianity: Can the opposites be true? Invariably a writer looks to some pseudo-authority to cauterize his writing. I would avoid allowing Science to justify one's writing... why? Because it is lame. Speak rather from the heart of your own third person... no?

I really do not think all of this is just a sales job.
pd/mpaw