Solstice
Picard mistakenly saying "Lt. Broccoli."
Best Trek line ever.
And with that, I retire to mine holodeck.
Still only about 1/2way thru the comments, but I see that Vic, MP4, and Sefton have dropped out. Not that the rest of the horde aren't fun, but I feel like I miss the A-team when I get here late.
46 days until the days quit getting shorter, awful attempts at astronomic alliteration notwithstanding!
Did that seem like an especially long night to you?
Morning, Glories! Cool and foggy morning in NE OK. Supposed to be in the 50s today. I'll take it!
rickl: "...The specifics may be different for other latitudes. I believe it has something to do with Earth's elliptical orbit."
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Now! The solstice at last! Sure, the worst of winter is still ahead. No, the dawn doesn't come dramatically sooner, nor the sunset noticeably later, at first.
Now! The solstice at last! Sure, the worst of winter is still ahead. No, the dawn doesn't come dramatically sooner, nor the sunset noticeably later, at first.
Lurk lurk lurk
So many half-thought-out replies come to mind, and incipient wanna-be jokes and quips; but they don't coalesce into comments, so I lurk.
Solstice is 11:11a CST on Dec 21, per
http://www.archaeoastronomy.com/2013.html
As of today, the sun will begin setting later. Yesterday marked the end of the earliest sunsets for 2013.
Posted by: Mike Hammer