Archive | March 17, 2019

THE SPHINX—–ANIMALS

Mar17

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https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/15/boeing-737-max-grounding-1223072

https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresaghilarducci/2019/03/16/why-did-boeing-put-technology-in-the-737-max/#653417675d92

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The Editor:  How are the animals doing, LL ?

Marlin Perkins Cat:  Buzzards are working their way to DC.

https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2019/03/08/vultures-taking-over-mount-holly-burlington-county/

If you can’t patch holes and keep a clean house get some of these.

https://news.yahoo.com/pest-control-experts-warn-plague-rats-resistant-poison-163551974.html

I wonder what effect the Fukushima radiation has on  ocean life.  The government says a little won’t hurt you.

https://www.bakersfield.com/ap/national/flight-of-the-jellyfish-eel-and-barnacle-along-the-california/article_b2dd53a9-1e88-501b-93ad-d0f49a6c9641.html

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/29/national/seven-years-radioactive-water-fukushima-plant-still-flowing-ocean-study-finds/#.XIfVzrh7nIU

Here are more stories.

https://nypost.com/2019/03/12/rodent-gets-trapped-inside-change-dispenser-of-mta-machine/

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/03/11/outlaw-feeding-squirrels-pigeons/

https://nypost.com/2019/03/12/scientists-are-one-step-closer-to-reviving-woolly-mammoths/

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Mar17

M106: A Spiral Galaxy with a Strange Center
Image Credit: NASA, ESO , NAOJ, Giovanni Paglioli; Assembling and Processing: R. Colombari and R. Gendler

Explanation: What’s happening at the center of spiral galaxy M106? A swirling disk of stars and gas, M106‘s appearance is dominated by blue spiral arms and red dust lanes near the nucleus, as shown in the featured image. The core of M106 glows brightly in radio waves and X-rays where twin jets have been found running the length of the galaxy. An unusual central glow makes M106 one of the closest examples of the Seyfert class of galaxies, where vast amounts of glowing gas are thought to be falling into a central massive black hole. M106, also designated NGC 4258, is a relatively close 23.5 million light years away, spans 60 thousand light years across, and can be seen with a small telescope towards the constellation of the Hunting Dogs (Canes Venatici).

Tomorrow’s picture: orange sky horse