Here and Now...What's Happening?

[araucaria]

Alternating current

[Marianne]

AC might mean Apollo Command, a term for the spacecraft/modules.
http://www.space.com/21401-preparati...nd-module.html
http://science.howstuffworks.com/apollo-spacecraft4.htm
http://www.spaceflightonline.com/apo...mand%20modules
(TMI? hehe)

My dad worked on the early Mercury program. As best I recall, it was the Mercury Redstone.
He's coming home from hospital today, hopefully.

Nora!! I can almost smell the pine trees in your forest, and the good hot soup.

The Village is celebrating.

[eaglespirit]

Abundant Cosmos

[Carmody]

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by araucaria (here)

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Posted by Ol' Roy (here)
Will you all be nice to me? My Uncle helped design the Apollo space AC. Anyway he was my hero. I took

Ol' Roy, that must have been the early take-off model can we have the rest please?

LOL

Until Ol' Roy returns we could play a guessing game.
Fill in the dotted line.

I took.........................

While "off" was the first word that popped into my mind the missing link here might have been an elaborate story, about Ol'Roy taking his kids to see the space capsule. Anything could have happened....

Nothing doing. I can't get past working out what AC means. I think it means Abort Control and this is all we are getting

Air Conditioning?

bingo! IMO.

Incredibly hot on one side (sun side) of the capsule, incredibly cold on the other side (shade side). It was a major problem, a huge engineering hurdle of the worst kind.

Without thermal controls, the temperature of the orbiting Space Station's Sun-facing side would soar to 250 degrees F (121 C), while thermometers on the dark side would plunge to minus 250 degrees F (-157 C).

[donk]

Man do I love the Pacific Northwest!! You forget what humidity is until you get a little relief from it

[skippy]

Glad to be back in the village.. They are trying to bring Jesus back to life in the other threads. Here something completely different, but very practical these days... Almost 40 degrees now in the heart of Paris.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=EukG92Evw3Q

[1inMany]

I get this!

Much Love,

[eaglespirit]

Just don't gargle with it, Skippy : )

[ulli]

Welcome back, Nora.

We all took care of your garden while you were gone.

Love, Love, Love

[ulli]

Wine and cheese party at an art gallery opening:


Contemporary Caribbean art...

a blending of old world domination and new world aspirations.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-r9utH7pmsM

[Sierra]

Posted by 1inMany (here)


I get this!

Much Love,

Gramma forgot to kiss the TOESIES!

[ulli]

Morning meditation session brought this up. From the writings of Baha'u'llah

Tear asunder, in My Name, the veils that have grievously blinded your vision, and, through the power born of your belief in the unity of God, scatter the idols of vain imitation.

Enter, then, the holy paradise of the good-pleasure of the All-Merciful.
Sanctify your souls from whatsoever is not of God, and taste ye the sweetness of rest within the pale of His vast and mighty Revelation, and beneath the shadow of His supreme and infallible authority.

Suffer not yourselves to be wrapt in the dense veils of your selfish desires, inasmuch as I have perfected in every one of you My creation, so that the excellence of My handiwork may be fully revealed unto men.

It follows, therefore, that every man hath been, and will continue to be, able of himself to appreciate the Beauty of God, the Glorified.

Had he not been endowed with such a capacity, how could he be called to account for his failure?

If, in the Day when all the peoples of the earth will be gathered together, any man should, whilst standing in the presence of God, be asked: "Wherefore hast thou disbelieved in My Beauty and turned away from My Self," and if such a man should reply and say: "Inasmuch as all men have erred, and none hath been found willing to turn his face to the Truth, I, too, following their example, have grievously failed to recognize the Beauty of the Eternal," such a plea will, assuredly, be rejected.

For the faith of no man can be conditioned by any one except himself."

[araucaria]

Posted by skippy (here)
Glad to be back in the village.. They are trying to bring Jesus back to life in the other threads. Here something completely different, but very practical these days... Almost 40 degrees now in the heart of Paris.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=EukG92Evw3Q

My sympathies Skippy, Paris yesterday doesn't bear thinking about. Neat tip for cooling a drink, if you haven't got compressed air, next best is to hold it in a stream of cold running water. Water to wine: I take it you know how to open a bottle of wine without a corkscrew?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mJf40dE93KI

[Guest]

Posted by ulli (here)
Welcome back, Nora.

We all took care of your garden while you were gone.

Love, Love, Love

Awesome place Ulli beautiful! and serene. You're hired

A little eerie, I've been thinking about putting in some flowers for next year; gladiolus, snap dragons, lavender, lilacs and morning glories on part of the fence to add some color and life. The terrain is rugged (sometimes treacherous) lol with a few scrub oak, old holly tree, lots of red oaks, a few pines, sage, manzanitas and a couple of vines all in a sort of natural state of chaos around the yard.

It's good to be back and Love Love Love



Nora

[Dennis Leahy]

Micro mashup video of George Carlin and Bill Hicks, philosophizing:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cvz9uSK3zXo

Dennis

[Dennis Leahy]

Posted by Carmody (here)

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by araucaria (here)

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by araucaria (here)

Posted by Ol' Roy (here)
Will you all be nice to me? My Uncle helped design the Apollo space AC. Anyway he was my hero. I took

Ol' Roy, that must have been the early take-off model can we have the rest please?

LOL

Until Ol' Roy returns we could play a guessing game.
Fill in the dotted line.

I took.........................

While "off" was the first word that popped into my mind the missing link here might have been an elaborate story, about Ol'Roy taking his kids to see the space capsule. Anything could have happened....

Nothing doing. I can't get past working out what AC means. I think it means Abort Control and this is all we are getting

Air Conditioning?

bingo! IMO.

Incredibly hot on one side (sun side) of the capsule, incredibly cold on the other side (shade side). It was a major problem, a huge engineering hurdle of the worst kind.

Without thermal controls, the temperature of the orbiting Space Station's Sun-facing side would soar to 250 degrees F (121 C), while thermometers on the dark side would plunge to minus 250 degrees F (-157 C).

So, why not rotate the space station? There would be a speed that was, as Goldilocks said, "just right."

I guess an A/C unit would be good, for a backup - if the spin functionality got out of whack.

Dennis
P. S. Roy's sentence:
I took a few semesters of Esperanto.

or maybe

I took magic mushrooms at a Pink Floyd concert.

or maybe

I took the road less traveled by.

[Sierra]

Nora, I'm so glad you are back. I have missed your Tuck into bed time messages, they make me relax so. . The fire crackling, the soup steaming, the light fading, the intense quiet.

Sierra

[Guest]

Have a request to the Village Wizards

A few days ago I awoke to awful back pain in my lower spine area. The kind of pain that makes you want to take quite a few sips of whiskey.
Instead of resting it for a day or two, I continued on with the chores and unpacking. Then while shopping I had a muscle spasm in the same area -near L4-L3 on the right side. Ouch, I've never had a muscle spasm. Stretching, arnica ointment and Epson salts bath all bring some relief, but there is still a lot of pain. Hoping some of the Wizards in the house will work a little of your magic. Thanks


Love

Nora

[ulli]

Posted by Nora (here)
Have a request to the Village Wizards

A few days ago I awoke to awful back pain in my lower spine area. The kind of pain that makes you want to take quite a few sips of whiskey.
Instead of resting it for a day or two, I continued on with the chores and unpacking. Then while shopping I had a muscle spasm in the same area -near L4-L3 on the right side. Ouch, I've never had a muscle spasm. Stretching, arnica ointment and Epson salts bath all bring some relief, but there is still a lot of pain. Hoping some of the Wizards in the house will work a little of your magic. Thanks


Love

Nora

Poor you. I too have suffered from back pain, many times,
once, about 15 years ago it lasted for a several months, gradually getting worse,
and I could hardly walk at all in the end.
I had hurt my sciatic nerve, all the way down my left leg.

I did everything at the time, chiropractor, vitamin B shots, Voltaren shots, traction, jacuzzi, massage, acupunture...
but the best pain relief was from hot salt packs.
Looking back now I realize my mistake...not enough rest in the earliest stage.
Sending a healing prayer your way.

[PurpleLama]

This past tuesday morning, I awoke to be informed that the water pressure was down in the house, so as it got light out, I checked the meter and it was going ninety to nothing. Therefore I proceeded to find where there was water coming out of the ground in a few places, and dug a few holes in the sopping wet earth around a hickory tree until I found the pipe that had come apart around the roots. Too big a job for my patry plumbing skills, I called a real one and my water was back on by the afternoon, and so too did the lower back spasms begin by that afternoon. So, tuesday afternoon, all day wednesday, and into thursday morning, I would suddenly have these spasms that would cause my knees to buckle, and I would go to the floor. Quite literally a major pain in the rear. I just kept trying to slowly stretch it out, back straight and knees locked, trying my best to get a 90 degree angle, until the muscles finally began to relax.

Its fine now, and the moral of the story is, when you work your ass off, make sure you stretch it out afterwards. It was also my first experience with muscle spasms.