NPR

tabascoboy wrote: ↑Tue Nov 01, 2022 8:41 am

tabascoboy wrote: ↑Tue Nov 01, 2022 8:41 am

Niegs wrote: ↑Thu Nov 24, 2022 9:24 pm Billy and Tammy wondered what Santa was up to. Thankfully, he'd just wiped the blood off his sickle and they wouldn't have a clue, for the moment...

(Why did old timey Santa carry a sickle!?)

Brazil wrote: ↑Fri Nov 25, 2022 9:17 am

Niegs wrote: ↑Thu Nov 24, 2022 9:24 pm Billy and Tammy wondered what Santa was up to. Thankfully, he'd just wiped the blood off his sickle and they wouldn't have a clue, for the moment...

(Why did old timey Santa carry a sickle!?)

To collect mistletoe and boughs of holly, obviously.

And going by what's in his left hand, heads for ritual shrinking.

Niegs wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 2:18 pm

Niegs wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 2:18 pm

inactionman wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 11:32 am

What happens during sunrise at Newgrange?

Newgrange, which has a stone age passage tomb that's older than the pyramids in Egypt, is located in the Boyne Valley, Co Meath. It features a 19m-long passage that leads into a chamber with three alcoves. 

The passage and chamber are aligned with the rising sun on the mornings around the Winter Solstice. 

Above the entrance is an opening called a roof box, through which a beam of light penetrates the roof box and travels up the length of the passage and into the chamber on the Winter Solstice. 

As the sun rises higher, the beam widens and the whole chamber is illuminated for 17 minutes.

The OPW says the solar alignment of the passage tomb at Newgrange to face the rising sun on winter solstice is a significant astronomical finding of global importance. 

Newgrange was re-discovered by Professor Michael J O’Kelly in 1967 and analysis of high-resolution imagery taken during last year’s research programme adds to a convincing body of evidence that the solar illumination was an intentional feature of the tomb.

Niegs wrote: ↑Wed Dec 21, 2022 8:45 pm

Marylandolorian wrote: ↑Sun Dec 25, 2022 2:26 pm

Gumboot wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 4:15 am

Marylandolorian wrote: ↑Sun Dec 25, 2022 2:26 pm

Reminds me of the time in '67 (or was it '68?) when I found my old man's stash of Playboy magazines and innocently proceeded to cut out all the cartoons I liked for my scrapbook. Was very confused when he got home and started angrily chasing me around the house! Probably explains the birthday card I drew for him a few days before the Apollo 11 moon landing in '69 - a bare-breasted woman popping out of a lunar crater and shouting "Surprise!"