Late last night as it was
getting dark I thought I really should have a go at seeing this Super Moon the
one that is huge so huge that a cow would not be able to jump over it in one
go. Well those cows next to us would not, they are just strange cows. But as is
the way of things there were also super clouds so seeing the moon seemed almost
impossible, however dad said he would pull a few levers and twist a few knows
and see if he couldn’t create a gap in
the clouds. He did but it was directly above the house which was very impressive
to look at but it was not exactly where the moon was, so after some more
tweaking to create an angled isothermal atmospheric anomaly we finally got to
see the Super Moon and I took what turned out to be a really super rubbish picture
of it, but at least it shows I did see it.
We have had the
Ghost Writer pottering about here today instead of being in his grey office, he
says when he arrived at the building (his office is in up on the second floor)
it was not so much a grey office as a black office due to the absence of light.
It appears that over the weekend a pipe had become detached from a tap up on
the second floor and the water, keen to use the powers of gravity to its
advantage to reach the ground had managed to find a convenient shaft to run
down. Unfortunately the convenient shaft for the water was the main route for
all the power cables for most of the building, water and electric do have a
habit of not working together all that well. Or they do work well together, but
not always as us humans would like. They are both fundamental key elements of
the universe without which it could be argued life itself would not exist,
there is a theory that God, one of the big Gods not a Micro God was
experimenting with stuff when a huge bolt of lightning hit the large copper sphere
on his laboratory roof which then accidently took the easy route to Earth
through his mug of tea (99.7% water), creating small wiggly things which he
looked at and went YUCK and threw into the sink from there they (the wiggly
things) then ended up in the sea. Plumbing back then was rubbish, well a few
Gods and a big universe don’t really need good plumbing, I guess the ironic
thing is that if the plumbing was good now the Ghost Writer would not have got
today off, but had the plumbing been good back in the days of the Gods there
would be no Ghost Writer (or anyone else).
It’s a funny
old world.
.
Hey dude,
ReplyDeleteDespite everything, the dish still ran away with the spoon. I didn't get to see the supermoon. However, I did my own supermoon impression and my neighbours were horrified.
A ghost writer is something I can see through, every time. With that, I shall make things clear and vanish.
Ha ha ha ha and ha ha ha....
I hope your neighbours have recovered from their ordeal you could invite them for supper under the moon.
DeleteWe went to super moon, we followed mr spoon, super moon.
ReplyDeleteLike Superman or super scoop
DeleteYou have the words "... twist a few knows ..." But after eXamining the sentence I think you meant "... twist a few knobs ...", yet I now like the idea of twisting a few knows. This might confuse people who have a few friends who twist their few nose. But there are any number of people willing and able to twist know-ledge perhaps weLL beyond the few range.
ReplyDeleteThey should pass a law that says you can't be the dictator of Russia if you are a kleptomaniac, and by 'they' I mean The French, and then when The French invade Russia the dictator wiLL have fewer rings.
So I think you have a definitive theory of relatives-ity and evilution with worms and copper and electricity and stuff. I am leaving soon for a cooler place to read The Last Banks Book which arrived this morning. But first I must make coffee to finalize the buffalo steak and potato salad.
DeleteI got to see the super duper moon just before it set yesterday morning just as the sun was rising. There is an interesting "hole" in my view to the southwest where a piece of sky is:
DeleteA) Above a fence
B) Under a tree
C) To the left of a church
and the big moon was hiding there.
I did note that it was as the sun was rising where as here it was late evening, I think this may imply the world is round and not flat. So when you said
DeleteA) Above a fence
B) Under a tree
C) To the left of a church
D) Just past the edge of the world
You were right to avoid D for lots of reasons.
I hope you are enjoying the book.
I talked to my mother yesterday and she told me about her recent flight from Hawaii where she saw the sun out her window and then noticed the moon out the other side of the placecraft. I was going to use the word spacecraft but then came up with a different new word. A placecraft just means a device that aLLows you to go from one place to another. It could be anything from a skateboard to a Dreamliner.
DeleteI was really upset because the trees in the field next to me insisted on not getting up moving a bit or even ducking down to allow me to get a view. I know they can do this because I have seen lord of the rings and the trees move about in that documentary.
ReplyDeleteI did catch a brief glimpse but it was pointless trying to get the telescope out so i didn't bother.
in other news, your theory of a god that had lightening zap through his cup of tea reminds of a science experiment i saw which wasn't far off your description and they ended up creating some long worded thing that i can't remember the of, but ... BUT it was supposed to be one of the key ingredients to making life!!!!
This proves, Rob that you are a genius (of which there was never any doubt)
*i'll try and find a link to a video if one exists of this experiment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=79o6xzMfzKg
DeleteThe late, great Carl Sagan.
Just change a big glass tube for a cup of tea - and hey presto! LIFE!!!!
Trees are like that spoil sports, even if their bark is worse than their bite (not true with roses, nasty beasts).
DeleteI did think you would be out there doing your bit and I am glad you got a peek (not the dog).
OK MR H I am off to look at he clip now.... I have the boxed set of Cosmos easily to hand just in case I need it.
I have watched the clip Mr H and I did observe one thing that Mr Sagan did not say the experiment produced tea coloured material. . . . . . I think that is a critical observation.
DeleteGood spot. I am starting to think the universe is tea bag shapped. Now to find out if its square, round or pyramid shaped.
Deletehahahahahaha
it is strange you should say that Mr H because I may be able to tell you..... It is a conventional teabag shape but you need to fold all the edges into a single point, The Absolute point of Universe. This turns it into a sort of hours glass shape but flattened back down into a teabag shape again.....
DeleteI may write about this tonight because I appear to be losing readers like it is the end of the universe.