Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Your age on other planets

Cec just had a birthday.  He knows how old he is on earth, but what age would he be on Mars?  Well, that made for interesting birthday dinner conversation, so Dave looked it up on:   Omni Calculator

I just looked up my age on other planets.  

Planets in our solar system
Your age on Mercury is
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Your next birthday 🎁 on Mercury is Feb 14, 2023.
Your age on Venus is
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Your next birthday 🎁 on Venus is Feb 8, 2023.
Your age on Earth is
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Your next birthday 🎁 on Earth is Dec 14, 2023.
Your age on Mars is
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Your next birthday 🎁 on Mars is Mar 10, 2023.
Your age on Jupiter is
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Your next birthday 🎁 on Jupiter is Jun 30, 2030.
Your age on Saturn is
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Your next birthday 🎁 on Saturn is Feb 3, 2036.
Your age on Uranus is
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Your next birthday 🎁 on Uranus is Nov 23, 2031.
Your age on Neptune is
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Your next birthday 🎁 on Neptune is Nov 4, 2111.
Dwarf planet & the Moon
Your age on Pluto is
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Your next birthday 🎁 on Pluto is Oct 14, 2195.
Your age on the Moon is
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Your next birthday 🎁 on the Moon is Jan 23, 2023.

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Prince Harry - Spare

As I've said before, Harry should stop talking to the press and making money on his situation.  Yes, there are problems and they should be resolved privately.  I've watched most of his interviews and while I do see his pain, making it public is only going to make it worse.  He said he wants to be private!  Huh???

His brother knocked him down.  Most brothers fight.  It's not right, but it happens.  He resents Camilla for her role in her dad's life while his mom was alive.  Get over it.  King George is happy and that's what matters now.

Patty Davis, daughter of Ronald Reagan wrote a book about her dysfunctional family.  She's now 70 years old and regrets it.  Apparently she told her dad how sorry she was when he was dying.  He had Alzheimer's so he may not have understood what she said.  She had an interesting article in the Los Angeles Times yesterday.

Patty Reagan's message to Prince Harry

I don't know if time will heal this family, but I'm sure King Charles and Prince William will not forgive him for a long time, if ever.  

I spoke to a visiting Brit and asked him for his thoughts.  He said "they never should have taken away his military titles.  He was in the service for ten years and served time in a war zone".   His uncle Prince Edward still has 8 military titles and dropped out of military training.  

I won't buy the book or read it.  I'm not interested in his one sided view where others can't give their version of events.

With headlines like these, all of the Royal Family better have good security!





Monday, January 9, 2023

The Old Days - very unusual and interesting pictures

1. The 'Iter Avto', the 1930's version of a GPS.  Developed by Touring Club Italiano, this device was more like a “map guidance tool” and came with a set of paper maps.  It was tethered to the car’s speedometer that kept the scrolling of the map in proportion to the speed of the car. 

 2. A 'Tasmanian tiger' in captivity circa 1930. Also known as the thylacine, this carnivorous marsupial was native to the Australian mainland and went extinct in 1936.

 3. Airline reservations before computers, 1945 

 4. The 1950's '3-in-1 Kitchen Combination.' It came with a stove, a sink, and a fridge - all in one! 

 5. American photographer James Ricalton posing with two extra tall men, fondly remembered as the 'Giants of Kashmir,' in 1903.

  The photograph was taken in Delhi during 'The Durbar,' a celebration of the British monarch Edward VII’s (the great-grandfather of the current British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II) succession as the Emperor of India. 

 6. Television shopping in 1974. 

 7. A gas station on Brovarsky Prospect in Kyiv, Ukraine, 1979. 

 8. A woman standing in the doorway of an RV Camper at an exhibition in London, 1927.  It was also called the "Road Yacht." 

 9. Draft beer being served during a Lufthansa flight in the 1960's.

 10. The Esso Hibernia tanker under construction, Wallsend, UK, 1970. 

 11. Niagara Falls without water, 1969. (I looked this one up.  The US built a damn)

 12. An Empire State builder hanging on a crane above New York City, 1930.

 13. An elementary piano class in progress in 1947. 

14. Military bomber planes fly past Mount Vesuvius in Italy as lava and ash spurts from the top of the volcano.

    The devastating eruption ravaged the village of San Sebastiano and San Giorg
    in March 1944 and killed 57 people. Meanwhile, the Allied forces were battling for supremacy in the skies.

 15. The original Moulin Rouge, Paris, 1914.

 16. A Phillips fridge from 1956 with a built-in radio. 

17. A horse being rescued from a canal that it fell in - Amsterdam, 1929. 

 18. Control Room of the German UB-11 Submarine (First World War). 

 19. Swedish Warship 'Vasa' being recovered from the seafloor in Stockholm, Sweden, on the 24th of April, 1961. It stayed underwater for 333 years and was still astonishingly well-preserved.

 20. A young woman of the Ouled Nail tribe, Algeria, circa 1905. 

 21. Philadelphia Electric Co. street light maintenance vehicle, 1910. 

 22. A tree house of the Koiari people, east of Port Moresby, Papua, New Guinea, 1886. 

 23. A woman using a vacuum cleaner in 1906.

 24. The 1958 'Sir Vival.' Designed by Walter C. Jerome of Worcester. A unique two-section vehicle made to protect its driver and three passengers from death or injury on the road. The designer believed that, in case of a collision, the engine compartment would take most of the brunt and leave the passengers safe. 

Its standout features included a two-piece engine and cab, along with a driver turret. Unfortunately, only one Sir Vival was ever made, and it remains in the care of Bellingham Auto Sales in Bellingham, Massachusetts, even today.

 25. A Native American chief at the Canadian Rockies, 1938. 

 

 

 

 

Sunday, January 8, 2023

Letters to Santa that weren't mailed in time

If letters are mailed before the deadline they should be answered.  However, many arrive late and the elves don't have enough time to answer to get them back before Christmas.  I don't know how many arrived late but I volunteered to answer any late letters.  Many of our club members are going to Antartica on a cruise!  I hope they have a wonderful time.

In the last couple of days, I've sent over 350 post cards to answer late letters.  At least they get a reply.  One lady from the US sent a self-addressed US stamped envelope and asked I return her child's letter.  I wrote out a Canadian envelope and told her US stamps weren't accepted at the North Pole.  Her daughter was sent a post card and she got the letter back as a keep sake along with her US stamps!

Rachel Maddow

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