Quirks

I need to rewrite almost everything I have bothered with on this Blog.
Sort of feels like more of a web page event than a diary.

It is supposed to reflect new things learned though, so until I acquire a new home and resettle, I will just have to plod on.

Today's enlightenment came from Thomas Gold: Austrian–American astronomer (1920–2004) and his book: The deep hot biosphere.

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There are two types of weather books.

There is the type with the pretty pictures for those who don't know any better or can't look out the window. And then there is the heavy going type, lots of heavy type too, for those who don't know any worse.

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Gone Fishin

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A PDF on the subject of repeated weather characteristics. I'd do w rewrite for next time. Hopefully make it a little bit more readable.

(But don't hold your breath.)

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From a chart on a museum wall above a preserved Spitfire in Stoke on Trent:

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Horus

Egyptian HOR, OR HAR, in ancient Egyptian religion, god in the form of a falcon whose eyes were the sun and the moon. Falcon cults were widespread in Egypt. At Nekhen (Greek: Hierakonpolis), however, the conception arose that the reigning king was a manifestation of Horus and, after Egypt had been united by the kings from Nekhen, this conception became a generally accepted dogma. The first of the Egyptian king's five names was the Horus name--i.e., the name that identified him with Horus.

Horus appeared as a local god in many places and under different names and epithets: for instance, as Harmakhis (Har-em-akhet, "Horus in the Horizon"); Harpocrates (Har-pe-khrad, "Horus the Child"); Harsiesis (Har-si-Ese, "Horus, Son of Isis"); Harakhte ("Horus of the Horizon," closely associated with the sun god Re); and, at Kawm Umbu (Kom Ombo), as Haroeris (Harwer, "Horus the Elder").

Osiris

The origin of Osiris is obscure; he was a local god of Busiris, in Lower Egypt, and may have been a personification of chthonic (underworld) fertility, or possibly a deified hero. By about 2400 BC, however, Osiris clearly played a double role: he was both a god of fertility and the embodiment of the dead and resurrected king. Osiris, god of the underworld was not only ruler of the dead but also the power that granted all life from the underworld, from sprouting vegetation to the annual flood of the Nile River.

Copyright © 1994-2001 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

I liked the one about the hawk. An hawk eats about once in three days. Having hunted for a couple of days, his gravity wouldn't be restored to him until it was excercised. Most stunts would result in the prey getting away until having starved it would be in perfect balance with itself, its environment and its intention.

Then it would be back on a watchtower for a day or so, farting off dead rabbits or small birds -whatever.

I like the timing of the hawk's meals. One dinner to the next in digestion time periods that is similar to the rainy season versus the dry in the Sahel, is it? Not? At any rate the idea is prefererable to the idea that horses can't survive shipment through the horse channels for a few days or longer. Why send them by sea? Why not buy the stock in Britain or Ireland and send them from there?

What about the cattle?

Cattle need 5 tmes more water than horses. Horses are animals of the desert and the steppe. They thrive in the Sahel. They are the preferred livestock in Northern China, Mongolia and Mustang.

I'd have thought that if any livestock was so numerous in the seas off Spain and Portugal -headed for America, the things would have been cows or Oxen.

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There is no reason to suspect the gods of various regions having similar myths about them, would have something in common with the sound of their names in a completely different language.

But I like the idea.
Follow me:

Babylon used to have a two seasonal year. Summer and winter we'd call it in the northern hemisphere.

But I am a dweller of the north and my ideas are those of the chaotic British weather and the organised British calender.

I like the idea that the gods would be revealed in the names of the parts of the earth.

Babylon is in the zone we call the Horse Latitudes; the region at sea where merchants used to sacrifice horses.

No; I don't think so.

That sounds like a very expensive religion. Not one likely to get rich quick or slowly.

The Horse latitudes are most likely the regions named after the chaotic nature of the weather there.

It is the region most likely to reach a stable sea surface pressure of about 1016 millibars, if I were asked.

Which I won't be, because I don't know.

How about naming the physics of place after the various religions of the place.

Would it make more sense if the Horse Latitudes were nmaed after the gods Horus? Osiris? or Error?

That last one was me making the pieces fit again. Error isn't a god. It is the nearest to the sound of the name of a Babylonian god that I can make the fit to.

But then, when it comes to religion you can make your god fit your needs very easily. Look what the rednecks in the Colonial Party did in the last decade.

What the current oaf is doing.

What the last home of every righteous thing used to do under Victoria and on down. Wasn't every English Edwardian Lady married to a racist?

Let's see...
...that would be the people who were alve when George Bush's mother was getting her education.

What do you think?

The world was divided in those days into the British Colonies and Elsewhere.

And the people in the world in those days were either whites or natives.

The higher etchelon of course were the White British. And they have, still to this day, three etchelons. Upper class and Middle class and us.

(Us; "We" the people who used to do the work before the Upper class discovered China.)

SPeking of China...

The Horus Latitude is a nebulous region that extends roughly whatever the weather is doing around 30 degrees north and about the same degree to the same degree south.

From the outer edge of one tropic to the outer edge of the other the world contains a weather phenomenon called the Hadley cell.

Tropical storms run under it.

Outside that remit lie great semi deserts of the world. Regions whose lives are controlled by the vagaries of the "Rainy season".

Unless you live in China or southern North America (Mexican USAsia)Indonesia.

Or even then...

What do I know?

Nothing.

...I know that the mathematics worked out by Hadley and the improvements to his model of the atmosphere made by people like Coriolis and Ferrel, all mean less than nothing if there is no means of analysing the calculations in a laboratory and investigating the behaviour with scientific controls....

And showing the distribution of packets of air by inserting them with marked atoms or molecules and releasing them into just such a system outside the laboratory and then showing us the unequivocal results proving it...

...Is the only way this third class, second rate Elizabethan is going to take the concept to heart once again.

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In the meantime, here is a good one to play with:

Invent a pictographic set of icons that shows the distribution and physical behaviour of water in the weather cycle.

René Descartes managed it in a woodcut for his treatise:
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"Discourse on Method".
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There are three steps to heaven.

Or how to know what to do to get paradise.

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Likely the fact they called in engineers to rectify the fault at the time they announced the hazard was enough to show they were caught with their pants down crapping in lieu.

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If the cap fits and the sky falls on you you won't get it off again easily.

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It's over.
(I think, but don't quote me unless you are genetically inclined to to that form of psycocksis. It could just have been something I ate.)

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I have a lot of stuff I was compiling over the last few weeks, files too large to go on a blog and all of it something that you'd find better than in a book or a specially written site.

So I tried to dose it on my old MSN group but the damned new place is a slotchy game I don't have time to play.

This is a local public library computer as I don't have an account at home, so I suppose I should be grateful. It's in every way a major pain though.

Still it will help me cut down on the bad language and keep my posts to a realistic number so I should be happy. Except that I can't find their version of the My Computer thing.

I've finally got around to Linux at home. Not all that impressed with the OS I have but it is a very good music centre that keeps falling over aka Windows BSOD. So much for the small brains behind all the invective about Microsoft.

I've got a list of the things the Encyclopeadia Britannica has about the various earth sciences. Magnetism and meatyorology and the like.

I suppos if I find anyone interested in the black art I aught to give them a source to start with. I'd use the free online one if I could get online. The Enc Brit is seriously hampered by brevity and US sponsorship. I also think it is under the thumb of the state religion there.

So I did a scatchelogical exercise on the trinity. I was trying to look up something I said about Arianism on a blog here last year. And boy did that lead on to a box of tricks.

And all of it on a USB stick right here with me and no way to plug in any excerpts.

How high the moon?

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Not my understanding of the subject at all.

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I saw my father's face today as I looked in the back of the van. And I heard myself think as I once used to say "I'd never be just like that man". I lived without care more than I care to say and care to say less than I can but I saw that man's scion looking at me. As if he'd never been away.

How might it all go wrong?

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http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/astronomical-applications/data-services/phases-moon

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From a complaint one lamer sent me. (Sorry bee but you asked for it )

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So here we are half way through the next spell and I haven't said anything about it.

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And it sent me spinning.

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From the RedPuma site.

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In fluid mechanics...

Leave now.

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Oh you pretty things.

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Did you ever see a series called Band of Brothers?

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How They Brought The Good News From Ghent To Aix
A great poem by Robert Browning.

I think it has something to do with religious persecution in the renaissance but that's just an oppinion. Those days were presided over by a the Borgias who were trying to resuscitate the Holy Roman Empire.

And kill any attempt to bring Unitarianism to light.

Or maybe not. Maybe it was about a shopping bill. Maybe they were out of wine.

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The sun dance.

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Work on cleaning up nuclear power plants gets a new insight with some research.

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There was a mass exodus in the early partof the l;ast century from Montana due to an extreme drought. Bearing mind that the new settlers there had barely enough time to get settled before it all went wrong for them:

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I've been trying to puzzle out how I'd arrange things if I was god and had to deal with people so far divorced from me they suspect that no such things as dieties exist.

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I wonder why the tropics are hot.
They get the sun quite a lot
But 12 hours of night should put heat to flight
I wonder what else they have got.

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The Recording artIst Pirates OFF America and other bully boy countries would have us believe that paying insulting prices for CDs is the only way to collect music libraries.

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Possible causes for the behaviour of air pressure systems over the North Atlantic.

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Some quotes from a Texan that any serious history student -especially one contemplating politics, might do well to consider.

(Someone for instance, like George W Bush.)

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It's a matter of degrees.

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Ditto is a free extension to the Windows Clipboard. You copy something to the Clipboard and Ditto takes what you copied and stores it in a database to retrieve at a later time. I find this an excellent tool.

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So you think you had problems with employment.

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told to drop his trousers, he managed to conceal his weapon.

Asked to comment he said: "I'm smooth."

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How stupid would you have to be to respond to this crotch bucket?

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Coo!

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Locked in, locked out.

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I missed out this as I moved home in the last week and a bit and have only just got online.

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Would they lie to you?

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Snow when it should be cold.

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If you have been following or even attmpting to follow my weather topics, you will have realised that my ideas are not univerally accepted. Well, this thread is no different.

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Shell managed to make a small profit last year.

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News from the Joint Typhoon Warning Centre

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Critics say he is looking for excuses.

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It's not just the people in gaol that need locking up

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3 January 1911 China and 1988 and 1989 Grand Canon Arizona.

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the EPA and Whitman said repeatedly — beginning just two days after the attack — that the air appeared safe to breathe. The EPA's internal watchdog later found that the agency, at the urging of White House officials, gave misleading assurances.

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Politicians attempt to preserve the status quo. That is why they carefully manage news; why they don't want the Internet to remain free; why opposition parties get outlawed; why teachers, lawyers and people who can think for themselves get disappeared.

Why expert witnesses "commit suicide".
Or not, as the case may be.

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