Tag: Moon

Dear MAGA: 20260225 ✾ Thank God ± Theistic Evolution ∈ Wednesday Open Topic

NOTE: Gail Combs is having very terrible back pains tonight, and WordPiss is acting up, so we have switched Wednesday and Thursday nights. Please pray for Gail’s recovery and healing!

This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!

Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.

Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!

Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.

The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.

And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.

And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.

OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.

  • No food fights.
  • No running with scissors.
  • If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.

If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!

W

Here we go again! More Thursday THRILLS!

(1) Before Amelia The Goth, there was Amelia Earhart. So what happened to her? Here’s one theory with a lot of evidence, but still…..

(2) America has an ace in the “critical minerals” game. What is it? WATCH.

(3) Fire ants. NASTY. Using flies to kill them? Also NASTY, bit seemingly necessary. DETAILS.

https://youtu.be/tOm8OHlFxs4

(4) Sometimes the moon looks bigger due to an optical illusion. But how does the illusion work? THAT is more complicated than you may think!

(5) This was just some crap that YouTube threw at me, but it’s actually a lot of fun. Thank goodness I’m way past this dating stuff!

(6) What the heck – how about one more? An article about Elon Musk’s baby mamas and kids.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-neuralink-exec-twins-via-ivf-no-romance-report-2022-8/

Have a great weekend, and see you in March!

W

Quarter Millionth (Moon Distance) Post

The Moon’s distance from Earth varies, but it it generally WITHIN a quarter of a million miles.

Here is the “technical stuff” behind “quarter million”. And one of the best pictorial demonstrations I have yet seen, of why “super moon” is actually a thing.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Lunar_perigee_apogee.png

Lunar distance (LD or {\textstyle \Delta _{\oplus L}}), also called Earth–Moon distance, Earth–Moon characteristic distance, or distance to the Moon, is a unit of measure in astronomy. It is the average distance from the center of Earth to the center of the Moon. More technically, it is the mean semi-major axis of the geocentric lunar orbit. It may also refer to the time-averaged distance between the centers of the Earth and the Moon, or less commonly, the instantaneous Earth–Moon distance. The lunar distance is approximately 400 thousand kilometres (250 thousand miles).[1]

The mean semi-major axis has a value of 384,402 km (238,856 mi).[2] The time-averaged distance between Earth and Moon centers is 385,000.6 km (239,228.3 mi). The actual distance varies over the course of the orbit of the Moon, from 356,500 km (221,500 mi) at the perigee to 406,700 km (252,700 mi) at apogee, resulting in a differential range of 50,200 km (31,200 mi).[3]

Lunar distance is commonly used to express the distance to near-Earth object encounters.[4] Lunar distance is also an important astronomical datum; the precision of this measurement to a few parts in a trillion has useful implications for testing gravitational theories such as general relativity,[5] and for refining other astronomical values such as Earth mass,[6] Earth radius,[7] and Earth’s rotation.[8] The measurement is also useful in characterizing the lunar radius, the mass of the Sun and the distance to the Sun.

Millimeter-precision measurements of the lunar distance are made by measuring the time taken for light to travel between LIDAR stations on the Earth and retroreflectors placed on the Moon. The Moon is spiraling away from the Earth at an average rate of 3.8 cm (1.5 in) per year, as detected by the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment.[9][10][11] By coincidence, the diameter of corner cubes in retroreflectors on the Moon is also 3.8 cm.[12][13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_distance_(astronomy)

Well, we just passed a quarter of a million posts, and it turns out that I made the quarter millionth one:

It was on THIS thread of Daughn’s:

20190909 KAG Rally Thread!

That was a fun thread! And very fitting that it was a Trump Rally!

LINK: https://wqth.wordpress.com/2019/09/09/20190909-kag-rally-thread/comment-page-4/#comment-250000

We’ve come a long ways. We’re still kind of a mom-and-pop operation, but great things happen here.

Hmmmm. Where have I heard THAT before? *wink*

It is a genuine pleasure to spend time with you all here, helping to not only Make America Great Again, and to KEEP Making America Great, but also – very importantly – to Keep America Great! That will be the task of patriots long after we go to those balcony seats for the best view in the house. So let’s keep on making THEIR job as easy as we can.

Have a great day, people!

W

And we ain’t just barkin’ at the Moon this time!