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Say goodbye to ... forever. Ehmic, I guess congratulations are in order. Good luck, you'll need it.

If the challenge is met and you don't pay up, you'll be hunted down like a dog.

If you dig a parking space out of a snow bank and you find Beck sleeping it off, then what do you do?

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That's a sisu joke, alright. Uggghhhh.

I expect the attacks to tail off. I also expect the Iraqis to take a more active role in putting down the resistance because a great deal of fear will have been removed.

I imagine that the US will hang on to Saddam for a while while they interrogate him. In fact, I expect it will be a good long while. As long as there is any useful information they can extract from him there will be no trial and no execution. The Iraqis, on the other hand, will pressure us for an immediate trial. The will want him executed as soon as possible to preclude any possibility in people's minds that he can ever come back into power.

Truth, truth? We don't want the truth. Another thread killed by a lurker.

That IS cool. Thanks. Notice that the biggest shadow is cast by Adams, which happens to be the biggest mountain.

I don't know, but would surmise that tidal forces contribute heat to the earth's core along with radioactive decay. To the extent that the core remains molten tidal forces contribute. We do know that the distance of the moon's orbit from earth is constantly increasing. Angular momentum is being consumed by the energy dissapated by tidal forces.

Even though the sun is in the sky for only four hours in Fairbanks, I'll bet you get to see it more than we do here in Seattle. Yeah, it's light for eight hours, but it's a bluish-grey light. Plants need two colors of light to grow and flower. Blue light is supposed to be involved in growth, whereas orange-red light promotes flowering. In considering what kind of light to use in my greenhouse to supplement the natural light, I figured I needed more orange, so I picked sodium vapor. It's kind of depressing light by itself, but when mixed with the bluish light of a cloudy day it's kind of pleasant to be out there.

It really happened. I looked it up in Snopes.

Will, we've got twice the daylight here in Seattle and it still gets me down. I don't know how you guys survive the winter in Fairbanks. This afternoon at about 3 pm, a ray of sunshine came through the clouds and I just stood there and stared at it like junkie getting a fix. I put a high pressure sodium light in my greenhouse to supplement the natural light for my orchids. I sometimes go out there and pretend I'm in the tropics. It's 70 degrees in there with 60% humidity and everything green. It helps.

It's my party and I'll pose with whomever I want.

Scrambler, your knowledge of the subject vastly exceeds my own.

The extinction of the dinosaurs 65 Million years ago was the first mass dying that was attributed to an asteroid impact. In this case, the impact was thought to have occurred in Honduras and the theory is supported by the discovery of a layer of the rare precious metal, iridium at the so-called K-T boundary. The much earlier Permian extinction, in which 90% of species were wiped out, is also thought to have been the result of an asteriod impact. For some reason there is no iridium layer at the Permian-Triassic boundary, as one would expect. New evidence in the form of "shocked quartz" lends support to the theory. My guess was that the Cretaceous extinction was caused by an iron metorite, whereas the Permian was caused by a comet impact or less likely a stony metorite, if such a thing exists of sufficient size.

I forgot to mention what I thought was the most interesting theory from the NOVA show. Mars has only 1/100 of the atmosphere of earth and its magnetic field has ceased to exist. Recent measurements by spacecraft orbiting Mars have detected islands of residual magnetism in rocks on the surface that are thought to reflect the former magnetic field of the planet. The theory goes that because Mars is smaller than Earth, its core cooled off faster and the iron core solidified and stopped flowing. This extinguished the magnetic field. Without the magnetic field to direct charged particles towards the poles and away from the atmosphere, the air was eroded and carried away into space bit by bit, resulting in a dead planet. When earth's magnetic field undergoes reversal, the same thing happens to its atmosphere. However the total amount of time over which this state exists is relatively short on a geological scale. Not enough atmosphere is lost in those brief periods to be significant. However if you happened to be around during those periods you would be treated to fantastic aurora displays anywhere on the planet at any season.

I notice that there is quite a lot of logging going on in the area, so it must be in Canada somewhere.

I agree. HB1 sucks. But tell me how can you through legislation prevent software phone support jobs from fleeing overseas?

There are cliffs to watch out for, but if you know the right way to go you can avoid them. The trick is to stay right coming down the west face along a minor ridge (keep on your right). Before you get cliffed out you traverse right and even climb a little until you reach a talus slope that allows you to decend to the glacier.

Sisu, that is not an accurate analogy. In a library, you go searching for books using an index and then go pull down a particular book. This site is more like a news stand where you browse until you see something interesting and then buy it. Everything is out in plain sight- well almost everything. Most news stands hide the nudie magazines so as not to offend those with more delicate sensibilities.

Jon, you may wish to "thumbtack" this post for a while.

The Chevy Nova never sold well in Latin America, I am told, and the reason is that "no va" in Spanish means "no go". Who wants a car that doesn't go?

Nice troll. Why not just cut his rope and give him a shove?