Tag: astronomy

Dear KMAG: 20241028 Joe Biden Didn’t Win ❀ Open Topic

Joe Biden didn’t win. This is our Real President:

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.

This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!

We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

“We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”

“Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.

Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:

ischiorrhogic

adjective

  • of an iambic line, having spondees in the second, fourth or sixth place
  • in ancient prosody, noting a variety of iambic trimeter which has not only a spondee or trochee for an iambus in the sixth or last place, as in the choliamb, but a spondee in the fifth place also

Wolf’s easy alternative explanation

A kind of irregularity in old Greek poetry, which jazzes things up, but too much so, in the opinions of some.

LINK: https://academic.oup.com/book/34816/chapter-abstract/297701155?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false

Links to further explain the definition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iamb_(poetry)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spondee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trochee

Used in a sentence

When the variation on the sixth foot of the trimeter coexists with a spondee in the fifth place, the verse becomes still more irregular, and can, in fact, hardly be considered an Iambic verse, but is rather a combination of an iambic diameter with a trochaic monometer. Such lines are called by the grammarians Ischiorrhogic (broken-backed) : they are very rarely used by Hipponax. LINK

It had something to do with Brokeback Mountain! I knew it!

MUSIC!

OK, we’re gonna fake it just a bit for the sake of continuity!

Orrible! Just orrible! But istoric, too! And istory is…..

THE STUFF

Shakespeare as a fan of then-modern science? Hmmmmm…….

“Double, double, toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble…..”

Sure sounds like chemistry lab!

Just sayin’!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W

Dear KMAG: 20240916 Joe Biden Didn’t Win ❀ Open Topic

Joe Biden didn’t win. This is our Real President:

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.

This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!

We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

“We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”

“Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.

Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:

chanticleer

noun

  • a rooster
  • a cock, so called from the clearness or loudness of his voice in crowing
  •  a name for a rooster, used in medieval fables

Shown in art which is then shown in a picture

MUSIC!

Somewhere between Wheatie Music (TM) and Gregorian Chants, lies this stuff.

Nice. I like it!

THE STUFF

Ever wondered about black holes not just “bigger than a breadbox”, but sized somewhere between normal stellar-sized black holes, and the giant ones at the centers of galaxies?

Here you go!

Hope you enjoyed some astronomy!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W

Super Blood Wolf Moon Viewing Station

A special thread from which to get ready for, and then watch, the “super blood wolf moon”.

Before leaving, I wanted to provide some information about the “super blood wolf moon” which will appear in my absence, on the night of January 20/21. I also wanted to leave a special parting message for everybody. And finally, I wanted to leave some potentially missing crumbs for the white hats.

Rather than doing three posts, I tried to do a SINGLE POST. Well, that didn’t work out so well. The “a few tips for the white hats” part turned into a MASSIVE reveal.

Eventually, the latter just became the focus of things, and it was all wrong. Therefore, I excised that part as a separate post. Which you may or may not have seen, when you see this.

So – let’s concentrate on the SUPER BLOOD WOLF MOON.

I’m going to start off with some great links on this stuff. Please feel free to add more! First, the trendy, buzzy, Mental Floss….

https://mentalfloss.com/article/567549/super-blood-wolf-moon-is-coming-in-2019

OK – this one has an erroneous title (“solar eclipse”), but the caption is right.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2018/12/11/blood-moon-visible-from-north-america-kicks-off-a-year-of-extra-special-celestial-sights/#ad1094f5bdfc

Now for the WOO-WOO….

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2019/01/07/the-2019-super-blood-wolf-moon-total-lunar-eclipse-what-it-means-and-how-it-affects-you/#23437f5e6154

This one ties it into TRUMP….

https://thedailycoin.org/2019/01/07/january-20-a-super-blood-wolf-moon-will-cross-over-america-on-the-2nd-anniversary-of-donald-trumps-inauguration/

Here is one that gets all biblical about things….

Confused about the ‘super blood wolf moon eclipse’ that’s coming soon? Here’s your guide

Here is the same article on WordPress:

https://wordpress.com/read/blogs/149784175/posts/5466

This tweet gets all “astronomical” about things:

The bottom line – there is a LUNAR ECLIPSE that is coincidental with a bunch of stuff, and that stuff has heightened the usual human interest in any eclipse to extraordinary levels.

Now – a few thoughts about that interest.

There is certainly a lot of interesting stuff attached to this eclipse. I think one of the greatest points demonstrated by this event is the MASSIVE MINDSHARE which this celestial event holds over people – the way both ANNIVERSARIES of things and ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS have PSYCHOLOGICAL POWER over people.

This is significant. Note that these events are important in both RELIGION and SCIENCE, to say nothing of HISTORY per se. Is it any wonder that both ASTROLOGY and ASTRONOMY developed?

The PERIODICITY of things is REAL. Some is hard and fast, some is loose and statistical, much is personal and circumstantial. Coincidence is a thing which sometimes is meaningful, sometimes not. I love the famous Ian Fleming quote:

“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action”

Ian Fleming

HA!

Let me add to that.

“Ten times means you’re behind enemy lines.”

Where “scientific suspicion” leaves off and the left’s useful dismissive tool of “confirmation bias” begins is not clear. In my opinion they overlap strongly, and one has to be careful that “intuition leading to revelation” is not dismissed too early. In fact, I tend to believe that “confirmation bias” is now the left’s strongest tool for creation of useful idiots.

“Nothing to see here. It’s just coincidence.”

Still, we must be PATIENT. Correlation is not causation. The search for causation is what takes things from astrology to astronomy. It can even take astronomy from planet Vulcan to general relativity.

The search for causation can also take things from happenstance and coincidence to enemy action. Causation is sometimes something we have to wait long and hard to find.

And THAT leads to my next post. Stay tuned.

W