Strange animals in the sky

Subject: Re: Strange animals in the sky Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:22 am

Aliens,
according to actions of some, I think they already live among us.
They often appear to be from outer space - or "spaced out."
Seriously though, there is much fantasy associated with people coming from outer space but who really knows? The seemingly impossible often happens. The space is so large that there are mysteries still to be discovered.
Ahad, I think your study of the solar system is fascinating. I enjoy reading your insights.

Subject: Re: Strange animals in the sky Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:09 pm

Thanks for appreciating Abe.

Obviously things like the existence of other life forms out there are extremely speculative and since we have never managed to "forge" any life artificially in the laboratory, we can never guess if life happened through a random chance event on Earth.

To this day, no scientist has yet created a single cellular microscopic living organism like an amoeba. The amoeba is an "animal", but a very small one at that. It sits at the lowest building block level of life. An ant (which we can see without a microscope) sits over millions of times higher than an amoeba... and we as humans come way further up than that.

The mysteries of "life" are not the only puzzles, however. Even in the physical world, where we have hard mathematical equations that describe just about every known process, there remain many mysteries.

The Sun is a highly mysterious object. Its inner workings are impossible to model through any known mathematics invented by mankind.
The optical surface of the Sun (the "photosphere") is known to have a temperature of approximately 6,000 Kelvin. Above it lies the solar corona at a temperature of 1,000,000 Kelvin.

If the Sun's core is burning at 15 million degrees Kelvin (the hottest part of the Sun) then we expect its outer surface to be much cooler - which it is, at just 6,000 Kelvin. Coming further outwards away from the surface of the Sun we find the solar corona.

How is it that the corona of the Sun is so much hotter at 1,000,000 Kelvin, compared to its surface? That is a scientific mystery, and whoever solves it will be on the list for a Nobel Prize in physics! Over to you for those who aspire to have a position in history! Laughing

Subject: Re: Strange animals in the sky Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:20 pm

No.... let me re-phrase that.... we all have a position in history as authors...

To have an "esteemed" position in history!

lol!

Subject: Re: Strange animals in the sky Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:22 pm

Enjoyed the animals in the sky, Ahad.

Also enjoyed Shelagh's thing on Amazon but would like to know how she gets so much more done than I do in a day. Do they have 30 hours instead of 24 in Wales?

Subject: Re: Strange animals in the sky Fri Feb 13, 2009 4:03 pm

She has a secret time machine in the back yard.....

.....oops Strange animals in the sky - Page 2 343621

Subject: Re: Strange animals in the sky Fri Feb 13, 2009 7:03 pm

I believe that Shelagh has mental kenetic engery. She just eyeballs a thing and it goes and does it's self and is better for it. Cool

Thanks for all your kenetics, dear Shelagh.

Love,
Betty

Subject: Re: Strange animals in the sky Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:04 pm

Ahad, I understand very little of the universe, but you are educating me and broadening my mind with your wonderful posts.

Betty, I think you are right about Shelagh! I don 't know how she accomplishes half of what she does in a day. Maybe Dick has the right idea--she has more hours in her day than the rest of us!

Subject: Re: Strange animals in the sky Sat Feb 14, 2009 12:53 am

Billy's got me really intrigued... If Shelagh has a secret time machine in her back yard. I think so. I think so.

I crave for chocolate after pictures like this:

http://www.dlr.de/mars/en/DesktopDefault.aspx/tabid-384/1357_read-2916/gallery-1/gallery_read-Image.8.1502/

Subject: Re: Strange animals in the sky Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:57 am

thehairymob wrote:: She has a secret time machine in the back yard.....

.....oops

CHAPTER TWELVE

Time Stands Still

There was a young lady named Bright,
Whose speed was far greater than light;
She set out one day
In a relative way
And returned on the previous night.

– Arthur Buller, Relativity

Emmelisa and Dell wanted to know how they could follow their father’s trail of light.
“How can we follow a trail of light? What should we do?” Emmelisa asked Mr. Kidd.
“You need to start by finding the first file that your father created on the computer when he began his project,” Mr. Kidd answered.
“How will we know which is the first file?” Dell asked.
“Try looking for ‘My First File’,” Mr. Kidd suggested.
“Is it stored in one of these buildings?”
“Yes, but it would probably be easier to search using the keyboard and a lot less tiring! You wouldn’t have to walk from building to building.”
“Can we use the keyboard here?” Emmelisa asked Mr. Kidd.
“Yes, but it would be just as easy to use the keyboard in your bedroom.”
“How do we get back?”
“Well, before you return, would you like to read the message from Cosmos?”
“Yes!” Emmelisa exclaimed.
Then Mr. Kidd pressed the button on his light control that was now luminescent and glowed brightly in the surrounding darkness. As he held his finger against the button, the stars disappeared slowly as daylight returned and the luminescent light control became progressively duller until it eventually turned black.
“This way,” Mr. Kidd directed the children to return to the other side of the counter.
They followed Mr. Kidd out of the small grey building and along the pathway leading to one of the RAM buildings. Inside the RAM building, the reception area was buzzing with activity as information was being ferried from one floor to another via the elevators and staircases.
“Why is this building so busy?” Emmelisa asked.
“Because messages go in and out on a very regular basis. Some of the messages are stored for long periods and some are immediately destroyed after they’ve been read.” Mr. Kidd explained as he walked over to the receptionist and asked if there were any messages for Dell and Emmelisa Planemaker. The receptionist typed the two names into the computer on her desk.
“One, on level three,” she replied. “I will need the exact address.”
“Dellemm@hardwareland.co.uc,” Mr. Kidd offered.
The receptionist typed the address into the computer and said, “Level three, row two, box one.”
“That’s easy to remember,” Mr. Kidd thought aloud. “Three, two, one.”
He invited the children to take one of the elevators but, because they were very busy, he thought it might be easier to walk up the stairs to level three.
They climbed the stairs in short bursts because the stairs were just as busy as the elevators and they had to keep stopping to allow grey-suited men and women, who were carrying messages, to pass them on the way down.
When they finally reached the third floor, they followed Mr. Kidd to a long corridor with rows and rows of storage boxes. They only had to walk past row one to find row two, where he removed the message from box one.
Mr. Kidd handed the message to Dell, who held it so that he and his sister could read the message together. The message was written in electronic mail format:

From: Cosmos
Sent: Today
To: Dell and Emmelisa Planemaker
Subject: Getting out of Hardwareland

Say goodbye.

“Of course,” Emmelisa laughed. “Bye.”

Hardwareland vanished. Emmelisa and Dell were standing in front of the computer in Emmelisa’s bedroom, on Easter Monday morning at exactly the same time Emmelisa’s bedroom had disappeared.

They didn’t realise that any time spent in Hardwareland was no time at all. They had both arrived and departed from Hardwareland at exactly the same time—as though time had stood still.

2005 Shelagh Watkins.

Subject: Re: Strange animals in the sky Sat Feb 14, 2009 7:00 am

That's great, Shelagh. Now we know your secret!

Subject: Re: Strange animals in the sky Sat Feb 14, 2009 7:26 am

Shelagh did it again! Quoted the first limerick I have read that could be repeated in mixed company.

Subject: Re: Strange animals in the sky Sat Feb 14, 2009 7:36 am

I never can remember the darned things. All that comes to mind is the line about Nantucket!

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