Intro
The Moon doesn't just go around and around us. It goes north to south
across us and then back up again, and around, and WE go around under IT.
Where the Moon north starts going south towards the equator, cyclones are
generally absent in both hemispheres. In our case the New Moon WAS over
the northern hem. on June 3rd, and on the 10th crossed the equator, which
is why we didn't see any before the 10th. Around the time the Moon crosses
the equator is the time thunderstorms occur.
Weather: coming
At this time in the month we get get fast-moving weather systems,
changeable, because the angular distance the Moon is travelling is faster
than at other times in the month. Until about 17th, next Sunday, give or
take a day, that's our lot. The Moon turns the corner at its south point
on the 17th and we should get nice clear weather again for the week after
that, up to 24th - still cold though.
Viewpoints
Caesar didn't just walk in when he conquered Britain. The bloody campaign
started in 55BC and took 10 years, stuff we don't read about in school of
course, because the Romans are supposed to have been the goodies. The old
British system of measurement derived from the ancient science of the
Celts/Britons, that was cast aside and satanized as pagan, unnecessary and
evil, after 43AD. But those ancient 'backward' British had the maths of
the stars so tuned, they designed (and it lasted 5,000 years) a unit system
to describe it. Imagine a circle drawn inside a square. Now imagine that
circle is the Sun. That square would measure 3,168,000 miles. If the
circle was the earth it would be 3,168,000 miles. And the Moon, 3,168
megalithic (ancient) miles. Our total atmosphere measures 60 feet up, or
316,800 feet. There are 9 planets in the Solar System. According to
Encyclopaedia Britannica the sum of the mean distances from the Sun to
each of the planets (dropping the zeroes) is 9954. Think of this number as
the circumference of a gigantic circle, representing our ENTIRE SOLAR
SYSTEM. Divide by pi and we find the diameter to be 3,168. When I tell
this maths to schoolchildren a nice light comes into their eyes.
I've just been watching a The Planets rerun, the episode that talks of the signals serious scientists are sending out to find life out there. Interesting to see top astronomers quibbling over what we should say when They reply, who should be our spokesman between us and Them, and whether or the rest of us should be allowed to put in a message too. They've assumed there is life out there, they can speak English and they want to speak to us.
Astrology in NZ
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~lianne9/
World's newspapers
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/
Decrypting the Eclipse
http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast06aug99_1.htm
Q's and A's
Q: Was the Moon used in navigation centuries ago? If so, how?
(John Petit, Hamilton)
A: On his first voyage to the Pacific, Cook determined longitude by lunar
distance. During a 24 hour period, the Moon moves anticlockwise about
13deg with respect to the stars, 22 of its own diameters. Its motion past
a chosen star every 28 days can be seen and easily measured. It was a
common method for several centuries.
Q: Why does the barometer generally stay the same over a day and night,
even though the atmosphere (according to you) undergoes two tides per day?
(Ron Wills, Jacksonville)
A: When the Moon is in the sky gravitation takes over and the atmosphere is stretched, taking the atmosphere to a high tide. We always have a high tide the Moon's up. Taking air from wherever, the atmosphere would have to be stretched (moleclues pulled out a bit more) to keep the barometric pressures the same as it would be if there was no Moon in the sky. During a Full Moon (night moon) the baro pressures would be the same at night as they during the day. Particularly if there is an anticyclone around. At Full Moon night, there's more air above the earth, but more OF it to keep the pressures the same. To get that effect the Moon must gravitationally hold the atmosphere up, which means it must thin it out. During a low atmospheric tide, when the Moon is not above the horizon, the air is more compact lower down. When you get higher and the temperature drops down, the air get heavier and cold air falls, I suppose therefore creating what pilots would interpret as aviation instability. Clouds descend lower in a low air-tide, remain higher in a high tide. You only get real cumulus cloud when there is no Moon up.
Humour (from Daniel MacCaffrey)
PROOF
Jesus was ethnically neutral or ...
THREE PROOFS THAT JESUS WAS MEXICAN
1. His first name was Jesus
2. He was bilingual
3. He was always being harassed by the authorities
THREE PROOFS THAT JESUS WAS BLACK
1. He called everybody "brother"
2. He liked Gospel
3. He couldn't get a fair trial
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THREE PROOFS THAT JESUS WAS JEWISH
1. He went into His Father's business
2. He lived at home until he was 33
3. He was sure his Mother was a virgin, and his
Mother was sure he was God
THREE PROOFS THAT JESUS WAS ITALIAN
1. He talked with his hands
2. He had wine with every meal
3. He used olive oil
THREE PROOFS THAT JESUS WAS A CALIFORNIAN
1. He never cut his hair
2. He walked around barefoot
3. He started a new religion
THREE PROOFS THAT JESUS WAS IRISH
Ý1. He never got married
Ý2. He was always telling stories
Ý3. He loved green pastures
THREE PROOFS JESUS WAS AN AUSSIE
1. He wandered about the Desert a lot
2. A lot of His mates were Publicans
3. HeÝ thought Banks and moneychangers were a bunch of bastards.
THREE PROOFS JESUS WAS A KIWI
1. He did nothing at all at Christmas but sleep and just hung around the
place at Easter
2. He ran around with a lot of loose women but claimed he never slept
with them
3. He had a thing about running off into the bush looking for lost sheep
ÝTHREE PROOFS THAT JESUS WAS A WOMAN
1. He had to feed a crowd at a moment's notice when there was no food
2. He kept trying to get the message across to a bunch of men who JUST
DIDN'T GET IT
Ý3. Even when He was dead, He had to get up because there was more work for
him to do.
ÝTHREE PROOFS THAT JESUS WAS NOT A METEOROLOGIST
1. He never made out that he was God.
2. He often admitted he had been wrong.
3. He never once said "this is a La Nina pattern".
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