It depends on if there is free beer…

So instead of offering you candy, we just need to offer you free beer? 

Is that a real question?

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RIP, Darth Vader. May the Force be with you.

James Earl Jones dies at 93 (newsnationnow.com)

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RIP, Darth Vader. May the Force be with you.

James Earl Jones dies at 93 (newsnationnow.com)

Real ones know. Now, go, and contemplate this on the tree of woe.

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"What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs - I was a man before I was a king."

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-O9IdAOp...IwanR1OWwz

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"What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs - I was a man before I was a king."

RIP, Darth Vader. May the Force be with you.

James Earl Jones dies at 93 (newsnationnow.com)

Real ones know. Now, go, and contemplate this on the tree of woe.

Iykyk

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It's weird. I'm now older than so many of those who died on 9/11. I guess 23 years will do that. I remember at the time I was about the same age as most of the younger ones and now at 52 I'm closer to the older ones.

The kids reading off names of 9/11 victims then talking about their family member(s) they never even met. An uncle, a father, an aunt. That's wild.

It's strange to look at the last known photos of relatively young people who died suddenly, say JFK Jr. and his wife Carolyn, and realize they'll never be older than they were in that photo but the rest of us keep aging. 

Someone like James Earl Jones you expect to pass away because he was old and lived a long life. A 27 year old from the Bronx just going about his morning and dies when a plane flies into his office? That's not okay. 

Just pondering things as I tend to do on this day.

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"What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs - I was a man before I was a king."

I don’t know if anyone has been keeping up but the SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission just had the first civilian spacewalks in history. They didn’t actually float outside the craft but did what is called ‘stand up walks’ where they exposed themselves to the vacuum of space. 

Anyway, one of the astronauts, Sarah Gillis, is also a violinist and hosted this performance from space. Very cool. 

Story here. 

https://youtu.be/lD1ixTr4JWY?si=h5lARs_qDfYKPQGw

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I don’t know if anyone has been keeping up but the SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission just had the first civilian spacewalks in history. They didn’t actually float outside the craft but did what is called ‘stand up walks’ where they exposed themselves to the vacuum of space. 

Anyway, one of the astronauts, Sarah Gillis, is also a violinist and hosted this performance from space. Very cool. 

Story here. 

https://youtu.be/lD1ixTr4JWY?si=h5lARs_qDfYKPQGw

I watched it live.. It was amazing!!

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Out of control bikers taking over the streets of Tampa!

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Out of control bikers taking over the streets of Tampa!

F-150 with a brush guard can take care of that problem pretty quickly.

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There are 10 kinds of people in this world.  Those who understand binary and those who don't.

Is anyone else seeing the brilliantly bright orb in the sky emitting tremendous amounts of light and heat? So bizarre!

It's freakin' me out, man!

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Is anyone else seeing the brilliantly bright orb in the sky emitting tremendous amounts of light and heat? So bizarre!

It's freakin' me out, man!

And just like that, it’s raining again. lol

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What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is agoin' on here???

Is anyone else seeing the brilliantly bright orb in the sky emitting tremendous amounts of light and heat? So bizarre!

It's freakin' me out, man!

And just like that, it’s raining again. lol

(sigh) How do the people in Seattle live like this?

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And just like that, it’s raining again. lol

(sigh) How do the people in Seattle live like this?

Don’t the have a high suicide rate out there?

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What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is agoin' on here???

And just like that, it’s raining again. lol

(sigh) How do the people in Seattle live like this?

You could always move out here where it’s a million degrees every day.

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RIP, Darth Vader. May the Force be with you.

James Earl Jones dies at 93 (newsnationnow.com)

Completely forgot he voiced the promotion for us to get the team

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Here is a very interesting subject.

https://phys.org/news/2024-09-century-theory-big.html

A Kansas State University engineer recently published results from an observational study in support of a century-old theory that directly challenges the validity of the Big Bang theory.

Lior Shamir, associate professor of computer science, used imaging from a trio of telescopes and more than 30,000 galaxies to measure the redshift of galaxies based on their distance from Earth. Redshift is the change in the frequency of light waves that a galaxy emits, which astronomers use to gauge a galaxy's speed.

"In the 1920s, Edwin Hubble and George Lemaitre discovered that the more distant the galaxy is, the faster it moves away from Earth," Shamir said. "That discovery led to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that the universe started to expand around 13.8 billion years ago. At around the same time, preeminent astronomer Fritz Zwicky proposed that galaxies that were more distant from Earth did not really move faster."

Zwicky's contention was that the redshift observed from Earth is not because the galaxies move but because the light photons lose their energy as they travel through space. The longer the light travels, the more energy it loses, leading to the illusion that galaxies that are more distant from Earth also move faster.

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Here is a very interesting subject. 

https://phys.org/news/2024-09-century-theory-big.html

A Kansas State University engineer recently published results from an observational study in support of a century-old theory that directly challenges the validity of the Big Bang theory.

Lior Shamir, associate professor of computer science, used imaging from a trio of telescopes and more than 30,000 galaxies to measure the redshift of galaxies based on their distance from Earth. Redshift is the change in the frequency of light waves that a galaxy emits, which astronomers use to gauge a galaxy's speed.

"In the 1920s, Edwin Hubble and George Lemaitre discovered that the more distant the galaxy is, the faster it moves away from Earth," Shamir said. "That discovery led to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that the universe started to expand around 13.8 billion years ago. At around the same time, preeminent astronomer Fritz Zwicky proposed that galaxies that were more distant from Earth did not really move faster."

Zwicky's contention was that the redshift observed from Earth is not because the galaxies move but because the light photons lose their energy as they travel through space. The longer the light travels, the more energy it loses, leading to the illusion that galaxies that are more distant from Earth also move faster.

That is interesting and completely up ends nearly a century of theory if true.
 
The James Webb Space Telescope is an absolute marvel of technology and discovery. Even its successful deployment was a feat of superlative engineering and effort.

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Has anyone else tried the Beyond Burgers? I'll never cook and eat another beef hamburger again. They're absolutely delicious with the perfect texture.

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