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Category Archives: Just Too Cool
23 April: Talk Like Shakespeare Day
An oldie but a perennially valid goody. Last year a dear friend sent this excellent piece: In recognition of Shakespeare’s 445th Birthday, this Thursday, April 23, 2009, will be Talk Like Shakespeare Day. Shakespeare is a part of our everyday … Read More
O2 TANK EXPLOSION… 40 years ago tonight
40 years ago. The time of the explosion of the O2 tank: April 14, 1970, 03:07:53 UTC April 13, 22:07:53 EST I’ll be watching the movie Apollo XIII tonight at that time. 40 years ago. I remember being glued to … Read More
Older, Smarter
From NASA comes this about one of the intrepid Mars Rovers… Opportunity: NASA Mars Rover Getting Smarter as it Gets Older NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, now in its seventh year on Mars, has a new capability to make its … Read More
“Whatever it is, I’m against it!”
Meanwhile… over in Spirit’s neighborhood, this via Astronomy Pic of the Day, Mars is in opposition! Yes, Mars is opposed today, even as the Moon is full. Explanation: Mars is at opposition tonight, opposite the Sun in planet Earth’s sky. … Read More
For Latin Students – Fr. Foster’s Summer intensive course – in the USA!
I received this about Fr. Reginald Foster’s Summer Latin course, as well as another course, … to be taught in the USA rather than in Rome! UNIVERSUM LATINITATIS CURRICULUM A. Annua Exercitatio Communis • Milvauchiae mense Octobri ad Maium• in … Read More
Sewing straight with crooked lines
You have probably heard stories about how people hid their sacred objects in time of war. Bells were buried, books and vessels walled up behind pictures, etc. Or how revolutionaries covered images over which served to preserve them. Unbelievable find! … Read More
Mayonnaise and dark energy, Bless the Lord! Praise and exalt Him above all forever.
Fluctus et Casimiri Effectus, benedicite Domino! Laudate eum et superexaltate eum in saecula! Consider a startlingly unique element of the Judeo-Christian message: Almighty God, who really is involved, created the universe and all that is in it from nothing. And … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Casimir Effects, creatio ex nihilo, dark energy
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Blue moon eclipse revisited
One of you readers caught the partial eclipse of the blue moon! Very cool. As view from Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, GB at 1928 local time. Another, a priest friend, sent this from Ascona, Switzerland at 2010 GMT!
This is too cool: BLUE MOON ECLIPSE!
Space Weather News for Dec. 31, 2009 BLUE MOON ECLIPSE: For the first time in almost 20 years, there’s going to be a "Blue Moon" on New Year’s Eve. In Europe, sky watchers will witness an even rarer event–an eclipse … Read More
