MLT Club Member David Herrick
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I just came across this soothing video of a ten-hour passenger train ride through snowy central Norway, looking straight ahead down the track:
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Jung, you just rekindled an old Electric Company memory:
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Woo-hoo! Canada Day! To celebrate, here are some Canada jokes I came across:
I don’t believe Canada is real. I think it’s all maple leaf.
Beavers are great dam builders and Canada’s national animal. That’s why Canada is the best dam country in the world.
One day Canada will take over the world. Then you’ll all be sorry.
Canada could have had it all: American industry, British culture, and French cuisine. Instead they got French industry, American culture, and British cuisine.
When I successfully invade Canada and they offer me lands in a peace treaty, I’ll take Nunavut.
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Thanks for the quick fix, Rudi. And thank you, Christopher, for finding a way to get a message posted to the forum. I thought I might be the only one with this issue, and perhaps had my club access suspended due to some sort of bad behavior on my part!
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Over the past week, The Kids Are Alright has averaged V = 572 and C = 1.31.
The June top 20 report will be coming up this weekend.
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That’s a great analogy, Jung! There’s nothing like seeing the universe in person. I got into space exploration following the amazing Voyager spacecraft photos of Saturn, but when I first saw Saturn through a telescope a couple of years later I was just as blown away. For one thing, you can see it as a real 3D object, with the rings clearly passing in front of and behind the planet. And for another, it’s very personal: the photons you see reflecting off the surface are literally for your eyes only.
Nice photos also! There are several thousand stars brighter than Vesta, so most likely those two fainter objects near Saturn are a couple of stars photobombing the field of view.
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This song isn’t really about stargazing (beyond the title), but it would be a nice relaxing choice to listen to while lying on your back and looking straight up on a warm clear summer night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKxX1tNhpuU
By the way, this is the original group reunited in 2014 to perform their hit from 1960, and I think they’ve still got it!
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Sorry, Tom. As you know by now, you’re not allowed to sleep in this club.
The discussion of The Muppet Movie in another thread made me think of this one:
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One of my most dubious musical purchases back in the day was an entire album by Napoleon XIV, best remembered for “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!” The rest of the tracks are similar, but not nearly as creative, except perhaps for “I Live in a Split-Level Head”.
Anyway, I thought I’d post this “song” from the album because it sort of fits the topic of this thread:
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Over the past week, The Kids Are Alright has averaged V = 735 and C = 1.69. Both numbers are keeping it among the top ten videos.
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I remember a similar event in 1982. Some nuts were saying that all those planets being clustered in the same region of the sky would produce a combined tidal force that would rip the Earth apart.
I’m sure there are people today claiming the upcoming alignment will destroy the Earth too, but I’ll bet most of them don’t even know or care what the faulty argument is.
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I remember being blown away by the sight of Kermit riding a bicycle in the first Muppet movie. I’m still not sure how they managed to achieve that effect in 1979. It was as impressive as anything in Star Wars.
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Juergen, Napoleon XIV is a guy named Jerry Samuels who made a career out of writing and performing songs in which he comedically portrayed a completely insane person.
I found the album on cassette in the comedy recordings section at a record store in the late 80’s. I had already heard his one big hit on the radio, so I decided to risk a few dollars to find out what else he had to offer.
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Thanks for finding and posting that, Juergen! Even knowing now how it was done, it still seems remarkable that it worked so convincingly.
