FRIEND:
hey man...anymore
news on that inbound rock???
BARDSQUILL:
cornfused as hell
FRIEND:
didn't i read something
about ox4 last year??? i think so...it was considered a possible impactor
but there was alot of uncertainty...???
BARDSQUILL:
that sucker flew
by last September with a projected period of two years. Just what the
hell is it doing flying by day after to morrow?
FRIEND:
sompim changed
it's orbit...???
BARDSQUILL:
of course it WAS
lost
BARDSQUILL:
almost acting like
it was captured, do we have a moon?
FRIEND:
last time i checked...
FRIEND:
has anyone gotten
a visual or is all this based on calculations..??
BARDSQUILL:
should be visible
now with a 50 dollar teleescope
FRIEND:
size?
BARDSQUILL:
haven't figured
it out yet:
http://newton.dm.unipi.it/cgi-bin/neodys/neoibo?objects:1998OX4;main
BARDSQUILL:
here tis:
160 - 370 m
FRIEND:
could be worse...but
also probably quite easy to change the orbital characteristics of a little
fella like that...
FRIEND:
easy to catch in
a gravity well...
BARDSQUILL:
hmmmmm
FRIEND:
maybe it'll take
out dc and save us all some grief...thousands of birds, with one stone...hah!
BARDSQUILL:
Brits sure seem
worried, like it's gonna smack Big Ben
BARDSQUILL:
maybe they nudged
it over to Saddam.
FRIEND:
hehe
BARDSQUILL:
whole Brit report
all around OX4
BARDSQUILL:
they say it could
ruin their economy, heh, crazy Brits
BARDSQUILL:
just getting my
puter back up, my crazy wife has a tendency to take it all apart now and
then, puttin weird hardware in it, etc
BARDSQUILL:
she studied
electronics, takes everything apart
BARDSQUILL:
1-18-01c2.jpg
FRIEND:
she sounds cool!
FRIEND:
what the @#%$???
BARDSQUILL:
da sun
FRIEND:
in the sun centered???
FRIEND:
or the huge object
on the right???
BARDSQUILL:
errrrrrr......
BARDSQUILL:
some things we
see there to mess up all explanations, love it.
FRIEND:
me too!!!
BARDSQUILL:
astronomers hate
it, so me love it
FRIEND:
i know. it's
hilarious to see these guys squirm for explanations that still fit in their
boxes...
FRIEND:
history is so
stupid...same mistakes over and over again...
BARDSQUILL:
they remind me
of the Vatican armed guard around a statue of St. Peter
FRIEND:
i had an experience
with the swiss guard in 1984...i was just a kid, messin with them...knowing
what i know now, i would guess m.k....
FRIEND:
those guys are
zombified
BARDSQUILL:
messin with swiss
guard, he, love it.
BARDSQUILL:
shoulda used sneezing
powder
FRIEND:
i kept asking them,
'is the pope home? i need a few minutes...come on...is he home???
are you ok??? hey, you...are you ok???...'
FRIEND:
never flinched...and
i was persistent...probably did it for 15 minutes...
FRIEND:
guys were stone
BARDSQUILL:
now they'd proly
use pepper spray on you
FRIEND:
no doubt. they
take people away for less than that anymore...what a shame.
BARDSQUILL:
wonder what they
think about standing there, probably sex
FRIEND:
hah!!! maybe
pizza...
FRIEND:
and then sex...
FRIEND:
maybe sensible
shoes...
BARDSQUILL:
pizza? You mean
they feed em?
FRIEND:
hell, i don't know
if they are even alive...
FRIEND:
hey, rumors of
martial law on the way in california if this electricity/fuel crisis goes
on much longer...
BARDSQUILL:
pissing off Seattle
people, court order to send all the hydroelectric energy down there.
BARDSQUILL:
mad because it
seems like California screwed up in handling its own energy barons.
FRIEND:
heck yes...all
a bunch of smoke and mirrors anyway, i figure...
BARDSQUILL:
real good move
put the people under martial law, they wouldn't dare confiscate the utilities
instead, now would they, noOOOoooo. Why, it tain't American.
BARDSQUILL:
So much horse-poop
flying around these days.
FRIEND:
sheesh...i know...it
will take care of itself...eventually...
BARDSQUILL:
guess I should
try to find out who owns the utility companies that ain't utilitating...bet
two bucks that arrows will point to the incoming White House
FRIEND:
one of the biggies
is enron...and they have been in bed with the incoming whitehouse since prescott
bush...all these producers, distributors, etc...all from the same mold...
FRIEND:
just more fleecing
BARDSQUILL:
sigh
BARDSQUILL:
we were ranting
about Bush in the 60s
FRIEND:
they are the one
of the biggest crime families in the western world.
FRIEND:
i went to this
deal in denver last weekend...called the national western stock show...big
deal for rodeo types, cattlemen, etc...my fiance just wanted to see the baby
animals...
FRIEND:
anyway, they had
a sheep sheering competition...all i could think of was the world...getting
fleeced by these creeps...pissed me off so bad...
FRIEND:
it was called the
'oster' international sheep sheering competition...sheesh...even sheep sheering
has corporate sponsors...
FRIEND:
not to mention,
i felt pretty bad for the way they treat the poor sheep...just like the average
world citizen gets treated...
BARDSQUILL:
back in 60s
and 70s these CIA guys in suits would show up mid-semester with admit cards
for my large lecture classes. There they'd sit in their suits, middle rows,
meanwhile had all these eclectic hippies, Chicanos, bikers, making a huge
din, brought their dogs to class, their kids, passed joints in the back row,
and there sat those poor CIA suits.
FRIEND:
i keep thinking
to myself...how do you show a brainwashed population that the people in charge
have everything but there best interests at heart...hell, they have no heart...
FRIEND:
what were you lecturing
about??? why were they there???
FRIEND:
actually sounds
like an ideal situation in which to learn...
FRIEND:
cause learnin ain't
all books, eh...??? that's just what it's been reduced to...
FRIEND:
education is
programming anymore. we teach students, regardless of the level, to
memorize, for the most part...
FRIEND:
we need to teach
students how to learn...
FRIEND:
not what to learn,
but how to learn...
BARDSQUILL:
Was funny as
hell, during that period o' time, suits-time, had an Aztec priest lecture
in my class. Old guy dressed in Aztec duds, lit a big brazier full of copal
incense, he smoked up the classroom so bad the fire alarms went off, damn,
got canned that day, President of college was red-faced, YOU SET OFF THE
FIRE ALARMS! I said, ain't my fault it was HIS, pointed at Aztec priest
who was shaking a damn gourd and casting out demons.
BARDSQUILL:
taught art
appreciation, sort of, heh
FRIEND:
hah!!! that's
the first time i have laughed out loud, all day!!!
FRIEND:
that is fricking
hysterical...hah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FRIEND:
i love it!
FRIEND:
funny...i learned
art appreciation from an x girlfriend...she was a little rich girl...daddy
in the oil biz...hangs out with jim nicholson - head of the g.o.p....
FRIEND:
scumbags
FRIEND:
i learned alot
from being around those guys...kinda started me on my journey to learn about
all of this stuff...woke me up...
BARDSQUILL:
Bikers came
up afterwards, Alvin, ex-Pres of Oakland Hell's Angels, just out of San Quentin,
took my class to get educated, heh. Alvin says you got %^#*ing fired, aye?
I said, yup. He said, don't worry, we'll take care of the problem!
I SAID, OHH NOOO! He said, it'll be cool. Never missed a day
of work.
FRIEND:
hah!!! x
sure had a great collection though...and i learned to love the arts...i guess
everything happens for a reason...both positive and negative results from
every action...our world yields pairs of opposites...duality...the garden...
BARDSQUILL:
Ol' Alvin got
me put in the hospital twice tho, by accident o' course. He wanted
me to ride with them, let me use his old Harley, DAMN, never do that again.
Went over a cliff in Mariposa County!
FRIEND:
kent, i'm glad
you survived. i gotta run. i'll talk at you later...
BARDSQUILL:
Second time
my string band, musicians, rode in the back of Alvin's Model A pickem up
truck playing Old Joe Clark, Alvin's entry in the Clovis Rodeo parade.
BARDSQUILL:
ok, tell this
tale later
FRIEND:
stop it...you're
killing me...
FRIEND:
i'm out...
FRIEND:
)))
FRIEND: : hey, one more thing...
FRIEND: : http://www.iht.com/articles/8057.htm
FRIEND: : NEW YORK Researchers say they have slowed light to a dead stop, stored it and then released it as if it were an ordinary material particle....
BARDSQUILL: oh yea, saw that but lost the link. THANKSSSS!
