• January, February 2008

Posted: **Tue Dec 18, 2007 10:14 am**

Woot. February's a busy month, celestially speaking.

January 8 - New Moon.
January 22 - Full Moon. *cue Ozzy Osbourne's Bark at the Moon*

February 1 - Conjunction of Venus and Jupiter. A conjunction is the apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies along the eliptic.
February 7 - New Moon.
February 7 - Annual Solar Eclipse. But only visible over some parts of Antarctica. A partial eclipse will be visible throughout New Zealand and some parts of eastern Australia.
February 21 - Full Moon and total lunar eclipse. Visible throughout most of the Americas, Africa, and Europe.
February 24 - Saturn at opposition. Saturn, Earth, and the Sun are aligned. Saturn is closest to Earth in its orbit and fully illuminated by the Sun. Best time for viewing and photographing the Ringed Planet. But we know it means more.

Posted: **Tue Dec 18, 2007 10:22 am**

So, anybody got their woolies packed to head to Antartica for the 7th of Feb?

Posted: **Tue Dec 18, 2007 10:35 am**

I'd love to go there! I don't know the schedule though; I know it's not always possible to get a helicopter there.

I'm willing to bet there are spooks there already though.

Posted: **Tue Dec 18, 2007 10:38 am**

You guys still have a bunch of stations down there, don't you?

Posted: **Tue Dec 18, 2007 10:45 am**

Yip.

There's a lot of cool stuff going on there.

Posted: **Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:58 pm**

God, all these alignments can not be good for the dimensional fabric. Going to be alot of summonings going on, thats for damn sure.

Also, no joking about Antartica, I know of three "things" imprissoned in the ice up there, and thats just off the top of my head. For a long time, both poles have been popular dumping grounds for imprisoned supnats. Not to mentions all the cursed artifacts and other shit. :roll:

Posted: **Tue Dec 18, 2007 2:38 pm**

Yea we'll more or less calm again until August (shout out to Leo

). Though before August we'll have both the Vernal Equinox and the Summer Solstice. Not much else, though I really have some numbers to crunch to find out more about next year. That info will be forthcoming as I complete them.

Posted: **Tue Dec 18, 2007 2:39 pm**

I can't really talk about Antarctica. There's plenty of normal science going on there that one could talk a long time before getting to the paranormal and supernatural research going on.

Posted: **Tue Dec 18, 2007 3:06 pm**

Just as long as it doesn't mess with the penguins.

Posted: **Tue Dec 18, 2007 3:08 pm**

Where do you think the Penguins came from?

Posted: **Tue Dec 18, 2007 3:24 pm**

We talking evolutionarily speaking, or what?

Posted: **Tue Dec 18, 2007 3:38 pm**

Well I was mostly joking. But some creatures on Earth didn't start here.

Posted: **Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:11 pm**

Ah, I always wondered where Chinchillas came from.

Posted: **Tue Dec 18, 2007 6:01 pm**

Chincillas from Andes mountains in South America.

They might come from outer space but not Antarctica I'm pretty sure.

Posted: **Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:02 pm**

Natasha wrote:Yip.

There's a lot of cool stuff going on there.

I never been there. I, too, would take the chance if offered. It's been a long time since I traversed a glacier come to think of it. I know the science is cool and all but that's not me.

February's looking pretty nasty. I'd like to clear my plate so I can get ready for it.

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:09 am**

GhostSpider wrote:Also, no joking about Antartica, I know of three "things" imprissoned in the ice up there...

[whisper] Um... GS... the globe goes the other way.

Droopy

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:15 am**

There's a geology professor at Harper College who goes down to Antarctica during his summer break... He's done some pretty nifty science experiments down there. He collects meteorites and studies them... Apparently, Antarctica is one hellaciously awesome place to find meteorites.

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:23 am**

Once the meteorite hits it sinks far enough in to the ice that weathering is negligable. Plus lots of white stuff to look for black rocks on. Meteorites fall all over the place, they're just easier to find there.

Droopy

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:25 am**

Yeah, but according to him, all the biggest meteorites fall there. Maybe it has to do with the ozone holes...?

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:30 am**

Possibly the gravity well differs there.

Found this online:

Meteorites fall on all parts of the Earth. Resembling ordinary rocks, they are often difficult to recognize. In Antarctica, however, meteorites stand out on the windswept, ice-covered landscape and are easy to locate. The slowly flowing glacial ice also acts like a conveyor belt. It concentrates the meteorites in regions where the flow is obstructed by hills, and where wind and evaporation rapidly remove the ice and snow.

Droopy

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:33 am**

Kewlness. Didn't know that.

Learn something new every day.

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:14 am**

Had a friend that was really interested in all that . . . then something ate his brain.

I still owe that bat winged thing something special for that one.

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:30 am**

DroopyDawg wrote:Possibly the gravity well differs there.

Found this online:
Meteorites fall on all parts of the Earth. Resembling ordinary rocks, they are often difficult to recognize. In Antarctica, however, meteorites stand out on the windswept, ice-covered landscape and are easy to locate. The slowly flowing glacial ice also acts like a conveyor belt. It concentrates the meteorites in regions where the flow is obstructed by hills, and where wind and evaporation rapidly remove the ice and snow.

Droopy

Like she said, you can spend all your free time with the science going on in Antarctica. There are also unique microbiology there, found only in Antarctica (or similar environments of which there are none on Earth).

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:45 am**

It's a fascinating world right on our own planet and at times more difficult to explore than the ocean depths, which in my opinion are equally fascinating places.

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:25 pm**

Both environs have some strange shit hidden deep inside. GS got that one right.

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2007 11:21 pm**

I've got my SCUBA license, but it's only basic Open Water... I need to go back and take more classes to get my Advanced Open Water and Night Diving cert's...

Posted: **Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:31 am**

I heard rumours about Bahamas Blue Holes. I think they are only partially true...

Posted: **Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:22 am**

I think diving on the Bahamas Blue Holes is probably worth the trip itself, without any results.

Posted: **Thu Dec 20, 2007 10:45 pm**

That it would be.