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I've thought about downloading something along those lines, and I'm sure those are fine. I went from someone who downloads a lot to someone who only downloads what is needed and will be in regular use. Loading up computers just slows them and no longer interests me. Isn't there a "Google sky" or something like that as well?
In general, I still use XP. My own software qualifies as "legacy" software, and beyond XP I have to use stuff like TameDOS.
With most web stuff going towards smartphones and tablets, and the general life of technology platforms being only a couple years, I'd rather not spend my money on "upgrades" and instead buy things that will last longer than a bottle of milk.
I've thought about downloading something along those lines, and I'm sure those are fine. I went from someone who downloads a lot to someone who only downloads what is needed and will be in regular use. Loading up computers just slows them and no longer interests me. Isn't there a "Google sky" or something like that as well?
It hasn't changed for me, this kind of community thinking. Wouldn't Sky-Talk be helpful in every community these days. It has to do with Rain and Resurrection which the Talmud compares. Today, every minute, it's Recycling and Resurrection. I feel all alone in my community and any community when it comes to "I've got the Sun in the morning and the Moon at night". Being on the 3rd and highest level, and immediately having an open balcony and a catwalk, I'm in tune with it all the time. It effects the climate inside my home so I suspect it does with other homes in my building.
Instead of Internet, just simply local with our own eyes discussions in local neighborhoods. TV has lots of weather stuff. I tried to start one-on-one casual ideas like this in neighborhoods both as tenant and home-owner and I think they think I'm nuts. We have a community newsletter and they weren't interested in publishing the exact sky for us. All communities are interested in is the value of their homes, not the value of their lives. I love the way Hugh Hefner lives with his girls. However, I'd prefer simply Sky Talk and who needs boys
This is the purpose of my thread. Get Y'all Thinking Community-Wise Part of Green Living
It's not about me. It's about community "we". I can only talk for myself about "we". I can't talk for "we". Start with something tangible like your Tenants Association or your Board of Directors Community Associations where your home is. If you don't have a Community set up as under a Board of Directors, then it's impossible to be "we".
The first thing that I use "direction" for is maps for road instructions. But now roads include airspace so roads are not only community fences on the ground but includes vertical fences where a lot of spying is going on and also security monitoring along these roads.
It's all part of green living. You do not drive alone and you really don't live alone. It's all of us together in the USA. Tikkun Olam. HaSekhel HaYashar. In your own community. With your neighbors and family and friends.
Fwiw.. living just barely below the Arctic Circle, pretty darned close to the North Pole, I can tell you that in the summer the sun "rises" (lifts off the horizon) in the NNE and "sets" (kisses the horizon) in the NNW... it doesn't go below the horizon at "night" just spins around the northern horizon. In winter, the sun "rises" (peaks over the horizon) in the SSE and "sets" (slides back below the horizon) in the SSW... it doesn't ever really rise much above the horizon during the "day" just spins around the southern horizon.
Using the sun and moon for (absolute) direction is dicey unless you know the time, and using them to tell time is dicey unless you know the direction and what height they should be for the season in your area. Stars and constellations can also be tricky, because they also move (well, we're the ones actually moving... anyway) with the time and season. Using the sky, without a sextant and other map tools, navigating by the sky is just approximate. Without maps and compasses on hand, you're a little better off using landmarks that you already know for relative direction.
Fwiw.. living just barely below the Arctic Circle, pretty darned close to the North Pole, I can tell you that in the summer the sun "rises" (lifts off the horizon) in the NNE and "sets" (kisses the horizon) in the NNW... it doesn't go below the horizon at "night" just spins around the northern horizon. In winter, the sun "rises" (peaks over the horizon) in the SSE and "sets" (slides back below the horizon) in the SSW... it doesn't ever really rise much above the horizon during the "day" just spins around the southern horizon.
Using the sun and moon for (absolute) direction is dicey unless you know the time, and using them to tell time is dicey unless you know the direction and what height they should be for the season in your area. Stars and constellations can also be tricky, because they also move (well, we're the ones actually moving... anyway) with the time and season. Using the sky, without a sextant and other map tools, navigating by the sky is just approximate. Without maps and compasses on hand, you're a little better off using landmarks that you already know for relative direction.
Isn't that amazing. TNX. I know when I went to an Elderhostel stay at Ft. Davis TX McDonald Observatory: it was the first time I actually "felt" the earth at night spinning on its axis. That's because it was closer to the equator. Now with my getting old and decrepit life and grateful to have a 17.5' horizon N.E. view in the DC metro area, I actually can see the "dome" that the ancients saw. I sort of live like them now. I just wish I had an Internet access in the whole area controlled by the trust called Leisure World of Maryland so I could forum with others among the 8500 people who see the same sky I do. Each home sees a different sky. The higher up one is the better the view. Clouds are simply skyscapes that are constantly moving so slowly that it's a slide show. Just wonder what chemicals make up the differences in each slide. Drones could sample all this. Could even be part of the weather report.
You'd get a real kick out of visiting "Big Sky Country" where light pollution and human habitations are few and far between... the sky stretches on and on for miles with no interruptions. The stars in places like Montana, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Alaska, Maine and rural Canada are AMAZING, and if you're far enough north the Aurora Borealis will knock your socks off!
Another little fun-fact about our place here in AK, in the winter when the moon is full and reflecting off the snow, it's actually brighter during the night than it is during the 2-3 hours of daylight Bright enough to even generate power on solar panels!
You'd get a real kick out of visiting "Big Sky Country" where light pollution and human habitations are few and far between... the sky stretches on and on for miles with no interruptions. The stars in places like Montana, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Alaska, Maine and rural Canada are AMAZING, and if you're far enough north the Aurora Borealis will knock your socks off!
Another little fun-fact about our place here in AK, in the winter when the moon is full and reflecting off the snow, it's actually brighter during the night than it is during the 2-3 hours of daylight Bright enough to even generate power on solar panels!
Funny you should mention that. At night when there's snow on the ground I see the same thing. In fact, it's hard to distinguish when the snow has melted because the pavements reflect like snow at night. So I have to look at the sodded areas to see for sure.
After all is said and done, the solar garden lights that's used during the Winter Solstice holidays are no more than direct current circuits Edison-style.
Also the moon keep us informed of the whereabouts of OUR STAR all night long. I love it when both are almost side-by-side. That's one icon I love from South of the USA border: Sun/Moon icons. It's really STAR/MOON icon.
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