nice planet

Where did it all go, 20 meters of snow takes a long time to melt, unless it's extra warm. I can remember ice cold temps and lots of snow and ice on Big Bear in the middle of July when the temp down on the desert floor was 120oF.

I don't think it is a rainbow, it's a snowbow. The arc is produced by the angle of the sun, yourself and the nature of the prism producing the "bow". With a rainbow the sun is behind you and the arc is produced as part of a circle around the axis extending from the sun through you toward the rainbow. In this case I believe the sun was just above the picture and the two bows were parts of circles around the sun. Clearly the prismatic effect in the ice crystals was different from what happens in rain drops.

But it does not need to be that in order for the earth to be a nice plane t.

The subject line is "nice planet", not "nice snowfield".

er putting an Off Topic in the subject line. Some kind of put-down seemed t o be called for. Sorry the point wasn't obvious to you, but I do aim at sli ghtly more intelligent readers than you - there are a lot more of them. Fee l free to tell us when you can't recognise what is going on - we'll make th e appropriate allowance when we read you stuff, if we bother.

" nice planet " is not going to be on topic. Only a person of little inte llect would feel obliged to point that out.

Perhaps. But one would imagine that more of the planet would be involved th an one isolated snowfield. A planet (or at least the one we live on) offers a wide variety of environments, and a single snowfield isn't a represemnta tive sajmple

u think it is your responsibility tell them what is obvious.

Wrong. I'm just being snotty about John Larkin's posting habits. I won't cu re him, but I may move his triviality threshold up a bit - he is probably s till our most profligate poster, and when he posts more stuff than Phil Hob bs or Win Hill something is definitely out of kilter.

When Slowman assumes, he is always right. It's an Aussie thing I think. I am running across more and more of them who think they know what is best for the US.

Bizarre logic. I'm not making any assumptions about the USA when I point that a small segment of California snowfield isn't enough evidence to make a claim about the planet as a whole.

I think Bill is just sour whenever he contemplates someone who is clearly enjoying making worthwhile things that earns enough to give them the financial independence and supports a pleasant lifestyle. Especially someone who often takes this wonderful planet's beneficence for granted.

Let's not forget though...

There is no Planet B.

Musta gotten up on the wrong side of the bed to have a dour attitude upon seeing an awesome double rainbow / snowbow!

Didn't notice it at all, which is a bit embarrassing.

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Can't say I can see much of that in my attitude. I've got financial indepen dence, a lifestyle I find pleasant, and I've made a few worthwhile things in my time, most of them an order magnitude or two more complicated than Jo hn Larkin's "complete the design in a fornight" products.

John Larkin doesn't just take the planet's beneficence for granted - he swa llows great chunks of self-serving propaganda that claims that the planet i s a whole lot more beneficent and abuse tolerant than it actually is.

Amen.

By that reasoning, a post with the title of " Beautiful Woman " ought to be a represemntative sajmple of women.

Dan

As Aldo Leopold?perhaps America?s most famous naturalist?noted, ?If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.?

You don't need much income to appreciate the sky. And even someone who compulsively designs electronics can take a break on a holiday weekend, and look up instead of down.

I was skiing at Squaw on Monday, which I shouldn't have done. Every time I ski Squaw I get hurt.

We got so much snow that tens of thousands of trees around the cabin are bent over or broken. Mo names all our trees, and now we call this one Bender.

I think it will straighten out on its own, but she wants me to get ropes and straps and gadgets to pull it upright. It was basically horizontal until I wedged that 2x4 under it as a start.

At the summit, where it got 800", there's still a lot. Lower down, it's been warm and most is melted. There's not much snow left below

The Truckee is usually knee-deep and runs at a walking pace.

Oroville Dam got whacked by lots of snow followed by a rapid thaw.

Maybe next year we can have our global warming and perpetual drought back.

Totalitarians are like that.

Maybe Australia is so awful that he thinks we live on an ugly planet.

Australia is a neat place. I don't know why they don't deport Slowman. ...Jim Thompson

d than one isolated snowfield. A planet (or at least the one we live on) of fers a wide variety of environments, and a single snowfield isn't a represe mntative sajmple

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Not exactly. If the picture presented an image that covered a representativ e sample of the whole woman - a full length portrait - nobody is going to q uibble about not being able to her other side. You 'd expect to be able to recognise an individual woman from the image.

John Larkin's example represented a very small portion of the planet - clos er to presenting the image of an individual hair follicle and labelling it as "nice woman".

You really should check with whoever it is looks after you before exposing your cognitive deficit to the public.

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I am running across more and more of them who think they know what is best for the US.

Since I'm not a totalitarian, that doesn't make a lot of sense.

Krw's logic would seem to be that since I approve of socialism, I'm a socia list, and since communist claim (falsely as it happens) that they are socia lists, I'm a communist, and - since some communists were totalitarians - th at would make me a totalitarian.

In fact it is a prime example of that fact that krw couldn't reason his way out of a paper bag.