‘Dancing’ Planets……Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention….
by Bernie Bell - 09:01 on 01 May 2024
‘Dancing’ Planets….
Steve Drury’s science…..
https://earthlogs.org/2024/04/29/the-chaotic-early-solar-system-when-giant-planets-went-berserk/
My ramblings….
https://theorkneynews.scot/2019/07/27/greening-other-planets-or-not/
Bartholomew’s poetic flight of fancy….
"You need chaos in your soul
to give birth to a dancing star"
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I've seen stars dance
in my telescope—
a slow sensual clutch
around their barycenter,
bound by attraction.
I am exaggerating like a poet.
They are not holding hands,
not having hands, no arms
around a waist or neck,
not having arms or waists or necks.
They're not even moving
at least as far as my eyes
can see but I'm merely human,
a vague chaotic flicker
in a vast and ancient universe.
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Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention….
There are presently various question-marks over the use of wood-burning stoves…
https://theorkneynews.scot/2024/04/23/clarity-on-wood-burning-stoves-urgently-needed/
We were talking with someone who used to live in Winnipeg, Canada, who had a friend who lived out in the wilds. This friend had a wood-burning stove, and also a not entirely reliable source of electricity. In the winter, if the ‘lecci went off he was completely reliant on his stove for heating, in temperatures which could be life-threateningly low.
The stove would have to be kept going all night so, to make sure that he got up at intervals to stoke it up, he drank plenty of water – his bladder then made sure that he got up, kept the stove going, and didn’t freeze to death!
Why didn’t he get an alarm clock? Our story-teller didn’t say, and I’m telling the tale as it was told to us.
He also mentioned that when he lived in Canada he knew folk called Linklater and Flett, but didn’t think anything of it until came to live in Orkney, when the connections fitted together for him.
On the subject of wood-burning stoves…
https://theorkneynews.scot/2018/11/10/stove-and-wind-people/
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