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    Quote Originally Posted by chrisrenrut View Post
    Cool picture of northern Utah from the International Space Station. Looking from the north by northwest, taken in October 2017.

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    I can see my house.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Rocker Ute View Post
    I can see my house.


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    Damnit. I blinked.

    When is the next photo?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rocker Ute View Post
    I can see my house.


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    Heck, I can see me. I cant remember if I was waving or flippin' the bird.

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    Quote Originally Posted by concerned View Post
    Heck, I can see me. I cant remember if I was waving or flippin' the bird.
    Isn’t that a copy of Mother Jones magazine you’re waving?

    "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
    --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

    "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
    --Yeats

    “True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”

    --John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell

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    https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6964

    The Super-Earth that Came Home for Dinner

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    It might be lingering bashfully on the icy outer edges of our solar system, hiding in the dark, but subtly pulling strings behind the scenes: stretching out the orbits of distant bodies, perhaps even tilting the entire solar system to one side ... Breadcrumb number three: Computer simulations of the solar system with Planet Nine included show there should be more objects tilted with respect to the solar plane. In fact, the tilt would be on the order of 90 degrees, as if the plane of the solar system and these objects formed an "X" when viewed edge-on. Sure enough, Brown realized that five such objects already known to astronomers fill the bill."

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    Quote Originally Posted by tooblue View Post
    https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6964

    The Super-Earth that Came Home for Dinner

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    It might be lingering bashfully on the icy outer edges of our solar system, hiding in the dark, but subtly pulling strings behind the scenes: stretching out the orbits of distant bodies, perhaps even tilting the entire solar system to one side ... Breadcrumb number three: Computer simulations of the solar system with Planet Nine included show there should be more objects tilted with respect to the solar plane. In fact, the tilt would be on the order of 90 degrees, as if the plane of the solar system and these objects formed an "X" when viewed edge-on. Sure enough, Brown realized that five such objects already known to astronomers fill the bill."
    It seems crazy to me that with all of the space discoveries and advances that have been made over the last few decades that it could be possible that there is another big planet out there that has yet to be formally discovered, but it sure looks like that's the case.

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