This picture, taken in 1969, shows the Parkes Observatory's main 64-metre (210 ft) diameter radio telescope dish, around the time that it received transmissions from Apollo 11, with a crescent moon visible in the background.
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COMMENTARY
Sunday, July 21, 2019
Saturday Lauren and I left for the Big Apple at 7.00am.
Visiting my daughter, Lauren’s cousin, Kat.
The weather a comfortable 80* when we started out.
85* as we drove through Connecticut and 90* when we arrived at the Carnegie Deli in NYC.
The Carnegie being where part of Broadway Danny Rose was filmed, my favorite Woody Allen movie, sentimental schmuck that I am.
Or make it “Fool that I am,” as I reached the address to find a shuttered façade.
Carnegie gone.
How long ago I have no idea.
Had lunch at the deli next door.
While it lacked the Carnegie Deli cachet, the Hot Pastrami Sandwich on Rye with mustard was quite good
From there we drove to the Met and parked nearby.
We discovered that the oppressive heat drove people to the air conditioned temple.
The lines to get in were very long.
All the negatives were forgotten, however, with our visit to the exhibition, Camp.
Brilliant.
Fabio Cleto calls camp “..a question (mark) that won’t let its line be straightened into an exclamation (mark).”
A panoramic view of the last room of the exhibit.
Mind-boggling..
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Tracking Postings-tracking-time
Tracking Weather
Sunday, July 21, 2019
Our 471st consecutive posting, committed to 5,000.
After 471 posts we’re at the 9.42 percentile of our commitment, that commitment a different way of marking the passage of time.
Posting always done by 6.00am the day of, but usually by 6pm of the night before.
On this day Boston will present residents with a hot day, a high of 97* but a feels-like of 106* with a mix of clouds.
The toilsome heat ends today.
Tomorrow ends this wave of heat.
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Dinner
Posted today, Sunday, July 21, 2019
Friday nights dinner included an array of delicious appetizers from the Eataly salad bar.
Then a Pesto sauce that I made and served over Monica’s gnocchi.
We had goose that would have benefitted by a pour of delicious goose/duck gravy which I had on hand and forgot to serve.
A cheeseboard followed and then cannolis.
No guns.
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Chuckle of the Day:
Sunday, July 21, 2019
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson go on a camping trip.
After a good dinner and a bottle of wine, they retire for the night.
Some hours later, Holmes wakes up and nudges his faithful friend. "Watson, look up at the sky and tell me what you see."
"I see millions and millions of stars, Holmes" replies Watson.
"And what do you deduce from that?"
Watson ponders for a minute.
"Well, Astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of “planets.
“Astrologically, I observe that Saturn is in Leo.
“Horologically, I deduce that the time is approximately a quarter past three.
“Meteorologically, I suspect that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow.
“Theologically, I can see that God is all powerful, and that we are a small and insignificant part of the universe."
“But I asked what does it tell you, Watson?"
Watson is silent.
“My dear Watson, someone has stolen our tent!"
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Sunday, July 21, 2019
This from Sally C, a sweet anecdote of American life.
Dear Dom,
You don’t remember such heat? We had worse not so long ago. The summer of 1988 was one for the records.
Phillip and I lived on the top floor of an apartment building in Woburn, without air conditioning. I spent the summer sewing woolen uniforms for our advent into Civil War reenacting. I usually sewed late into the night, needing to get the work done, but knowing that it was useless to go to bed (and expect to sleep) before WBZ in Boston reported that the outside temperature had dropped (finally) to 80 degrees. Sometimes that didn’t happen until after midnight.
The heat wave extended long enough to force the temporary shut-down of the Woburn library, a large 19th Century stone structure. The stones heated up and radiated the heat inside. Its interior became too hot to bear, so the library had to close for the duration, the only time it has ever done so, before or since. It takes a long time to heat stone that way, and a long time for it to cool afterward.
Maybe it’s good if one does not remember extended unpleasantries (like washing down the kitchen – ceiling to floor - after the heat forced several bottles of my mother’s root beer to explode – icky-sticky). But other happenings afflicted me with goofy, giddy sillies. It’s all relative.
Sally
Web Meister Responds: Great memories. Thanks for sharing.
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Today’s Thumbnail
Sunday, July 21, 2019
The Parkes Observatory is a radio telescope observatory in New South Wales, Australia, located 12 mi north of the town of Parkes.
It was one of several radio antennae used to receive live television images of the Apollo 11 Moon landing on 20–21 July 1969.
Its scientific contributions over the decades has led the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to describe it as "the most successful scientific instrument ever built in Australia" after 50 years of operation.
The observatory, which opened in 1961, is run by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), an independent Australian federal government agency, as part of the Australia Telescope National Facility network of radio telescopes.
It is frequently operated together with other CSIRO radio telescopes to form a very-long-baseline interferometry array.
This picture, taken in 1969, shows the Parkes Observatory's main 64-metre (210 ft) diameter radio telescope dish, around the time that it received transmissions from Apollo 11, with a crescent moon visible in the background. The photograph is part of CSIRO's ScienceImage archive.
This picture, taken in 1969, shows the Parkes Observatory's main 64-metre (210 ft) diameter radio telescope dish, around the time that it received transmissions from Apollo 11, with a crescent moon visible in the background. The photograph is part of CSIRO's ScienceImage archive.
Antenna of UTR-2 low frequency radio telescope, Kharkiv region, Ukraine. Consists of an array of 2040 cage dipole elements.
Oleksii Tovpyha - Own work
Photograph credit: CSIRO
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Today’s Thumbnail
Sunday, July 21, 2019
The Parkes Observatory is a radio telescope observatory in New South Wales, Australia, located 12 mi north of the town of Parkes.
It was one of several radio antennae used to receive live television images of the Apollo 11 Moon landing on 20–21 July 1969.
Its scientific contributions over the decades has led the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to describe it as "the most successful scientific instrument ever built in Australia" after 50 years of operation.
The observatory, which opened in 1961, is run by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), an independent Australian federal government agency, as part of the Australia Telescope National Facility network of radio telescopes.
It is frequently operated together with other CSIRO radio telescopes to form a very-long-baseline interferometry array.
Antenna of UTR-2 low frequency radio telescope, Kharkiv region, Ukraine. Consists of an array of 2040 cage dipole elements.
Oleksii Tovpyha - Own work
Photograph credit: CSIRO
I keep a pair of 8-power binoculars at hand at all times.
Birds, stars, plants, sea-life, they’re all the same to me.
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Good Morning on this Sunday, the twenty-first day of July, 2019
Our lead picture presents the Parkes Observatory and our Thumbnail adds a bit more info to that.
Our commentary relates to a day starting poorly but finishing with a flourish.
We posted the menu from Friday night’s entertainment, Boston’s weather report, the ticking calendar, and the growing number of posts as calendar markers.
We posted a chuckle from the annals of Holmes and Watson.
And a lovely piece by Sally C re: hot summer memories: life in America,
And now? Gotta go.