I was out yesterday and what did I see?

[SpeareChucker]

I saw the sky.
I saw the sky in its place.
I saw people.
I saw people at their pace.
I saw a world.
I saw a word in order.
I saw a business.
I saw a business fill my order.
I saw people.
I saw people going about their lives.

I saw virus.
I saw the fear of virus.
I saw a mask.
I saw that was not really us.
I saw no mask.
I saw no mask on most people.
I saw a handshake.
I saw friends, acquaintances, gleeful.
I saw people.
I saw people engaged in their lives.

I saw people.
I saw adults, happy confident adults.
I saw hope.
I saw people in paradise with some faults.
I saw energy.
I saw energy as it always was.
I saw life.
I saw life never submitted because.
I saw cowed.
I saw cowed still living full lives.

I saw not.
I saw no angry child.
I saw no shout.
I saw no prophets dire and wild.
I saw peace.
I saw peace of indomitable mind.
I saw purpose.
I saw the calm we all should find.
I saw proud.
I saw proud people living good lives.

I saw death.
I saw death’s hovering hand.
I saw present.
I saw present as future upon the land.
I saw evil.
I saw evil that should have been shunned.
I saw myself.
I saw myself and I was stunned.
I saw loud.
I saw loud that tried to take our lives.

I see now.
I see now how we were fooled.
I see how.
I see how we had been schooled.
I see children.
I see children suddenly ashamed.
I see cowards.
I see cowards to now be blamed.
I see them.
I see they thought to control our lives.

 

[surdeep]

pandemic been berry berry good. to me

 

[SpeareChucker]

You're from the DR?

 

[LupusDei]

I saw an airplane.

Before, the ever increasing crowding of the sky was up to the point it wasn't anything special to count seven high altitude aircraft over the horizon at once. Then, there was none. For probably several weeks, none. Now, since last week, I hear or see about one airplane a day.

 

[SpeareChucker]

I remember a day when the sky went empty.

 

[SusanHaack]

Blue Skies Meteorological Services

Climate Analysis and Environmental Impact
Infrared satellite image
Climate Analysis and Environmental Impact
(Jump to Environmental Impact)

Climate Analysis
Climate is often described as “the sum of the weather,” but that simplified description fails to capture the importance and the utility of climate information for diverse industries and businesses.

A detailed examination of past weather and future climate projections from Blue Skies Meteorological Services can tell you what type of weather and climate you can expect in the future. A climate analysis can be as straightforward as calculating the average first day with a high temperature over 85 degrees at a new beach resort or as complex as projecting rainfall frequency and intensity at the site of a proposed industrial complex.

Such climatological information can greatly inform environmental impact analyses, construction design, and business planning decisions. Especially when combined with our data analytics services, a weather and climate analysis can answer such questions as whether a given location experiences winds that are reliably strong enough to support a new wind farm, which energy efficient construction and design practices would be most effective at a given location, whether frequent heavy rainfall events could cause severe runoff during the construction of a proposed new housing development, or whether changes to the recurrence interval of major floods have increased the vulnerability of business assets in a particular location.

Our climatological studies evaluate the following variables, among others:

Temperature (averages, trends, variability, and extremes)
Precipitation (averages, trends, variability, and extremes)
Dewpoint and relative humidity
Wind direction and speed

Solar intensity and direction
Cloud cover (e.g. percentage of cloudy and sunny days)
Environmental conditions (e.g. drought, fire weather, areal flooding)
Seas (tides, storm surge)


Our detailed, customized studies of past and projected weather and climate serve diverse industries, including but not limited to:
Environmental assessment
Construction and development
Energy efficient design and retrofitting
Insurance
Risk management
Investment
Energy production
Utilities


Environmental Impact Assessments
Many environmental projects require or could greatly benefit from meteorological or climatological analysis, yet most small to mid-sized environmental firms do not have the resources to retain a full time atmospheric scientist on staff.

Blue Skies Meteorological Services recognizes the need of such firms to access meteorological and climatological expertise on a contractual, project-by-project basis, and we offer a diverse range of fully customizable weather and climate research and analysis services in support of environmental projects.

No project is too small or too large, too simple or too complex — we do it all, from a straightforward average monthly rainfall climatology to a nuanced analysis of extreme precipitation events during the past century, from a detailed reconstruction of a past weather event to projections of future weather and climate at a specific location, from a seasonal wind climatology to an analysis of sun angles and heating and cooling requirements throughout the year.

At Blue Skies Meteorological Services, we specialize in helping our clients meet the needs of their clients by leveraging expertise in climate and extreme weather, experience in the fields of natural hazards mitigation and sustainable development, and proven skill communicating complex meteorological information to diverse audiences and stakeholders.

Emissions Inventories and Analyses

In addition to more traditional climate and weather analyses, Blue Skies Meteorological Services is experienced in comprehensive greenhouse gas emissions inventorying and offers emissions analysis within our suite of environmental services. The need to address global climate change concerns is expected by most policy analysts to result in greenhouse gas emissions restrictions, whether through a carbon tax or cap-and-trade regime. Forward-thinking business and industry leaders are proactively inventorying their company emissions, and therefore their climate impact, in preparation for the enactment of such policies, often as a component of a more comprehensive environmental impact analysis.

If you have any questions about our services or about how a climatological or environmental impact analysis might serve your business or other interests, please contact us via email or phone. Initial consultations for all of our services are complimentary.

 

[SusanHaack]

Why Is the Sky Blue?
The Short Answer:
Sunlight reaches Earth's atmosphere and is scattered in all directions by all the gases and particles in the air. Blue light is scattered more than the other colors because it travels as shorter, smaller waves. This is why we see a blue sky most of the time.


Watch this video about why the sky is blue! Voiceover provided by NASA scientist Dr. Moogega Stricker.

It's easy to see that the sky is blue. Have you ever wondered why?
A lot of other smart people have, too. And it took a long time to figure it out!

blue sky and clouds illustration

The light from the Sun looks white. But it is really made up of all the colors of the rainbow.

A prism separates white light into the colors of the rainbow.
When white light shines through a prism, the light is separated into all its colors. A prism is a specially shaped crystal.

If you visited The Land of the Magic Windows, you learned that the light you see is just one tiny bit of all the kinds of light energy beaming around the universe--and around you!

Like energy passing through the ocean, light energy travels in waves, too. Some light travels in short, "choppy" waves. Other light travels in long, lazy waves. Blue light waves are shorter than red light waves.

Different colors of light have different wavelengths.
All light travels in a straight line unless something gets in the way and does one of these things:—

reflect it (like a mirror)

bend it (like a prism)

or scatter it (like molecules of the gases in the atmosphere)


Sunlight reaches Earth's atmosphere and is scattered in all directions by all the gases and particles in the air. Blue light is scattered in all directions by the tiny molecules of air in Earth's atmosphere. Blue is scattered more than other colors because it travels as shorter, smaller waves. This is why we see a blue sky most of the time.

Atmosphere scatters blue light more than other colors.
Closer to the horizon, the sky fades to a lighter blue or white. The sunlight reaching us from low in the sky has passed through even more air than the sunlight reaching us from overhead. As the sunlight has passed through all this air, the air molecules have scattered and rescattered the blue light many times in many directions.

Atmosphere scatters blue light more than other colors
Also, the surface of Earth has reflected and scattered the light. All this scattering mixes the colors together again so we see more white and less blue.



What makes a red sunset?
As the Sun gets lower in the sky, its light is passing through more of the atmosphere to reach you. Even more of the blue light is scattered, allowing the reds and yellows to pass straight through to your eyes.

Red sky at sunset
Red Sun at sunset.
Sometimes the whole western sky seems to glow. The sky appears red because small particles of dust, pollution, or other aerosols also scatter blue light, leaving more purely red and yellow light to go through the atmosphere.


Is the sky blue on other planets, too?
It all depends on what’s in the atmosphere! For example, Mars has a very thin atmosphere made mostly of carbon dioxide and filled with fine dust particles. These fine particles scatter light differently than the gases and particles in Earth’s atmosphere.

Photos from NASA’s rovers and landers on Mars have shown us that at sunset there is actually the opposite of what you’d experience on Earth. During the daytime, the Martian sky takes on an orange or reddish color. But as the Sun sets, the sky around the Sun begins to take on a blue-gray tone.

The orange-colored Martian sky during the daytime. The blue-tinted Martian sky at sunset.
The top image shows the orange-colored Martian sky during the daytime and the bottom image shows the blue-tinted sky at sunset. Both images were captured by NASA’s Mars Pathfinder Lander. Credit: NASA/JPL


Related Resources for Educators
Our World: Sunsets and Atmospheres

article last updated April 21, 2020

 

[SpeareChucker]

There's a form of spamming I've never seen here before...

 

[oneblueye]

hey ...

I saw the brown eye of promise and heard it telling me lies...

 

[SpeareChucker]

Don't tell me no lies
and keep your hands to yourself!




(actually it's don't hand me no lines, but I wanted to play off your post)

 

[HisArpy]

Clowns to the left of me
Jokers to the right
Here I am...

 

[SpeareChucker]

Stuck in a riddle with you...



Or is that middle?
I get confused since no one acknowledges a middle here.
You're either with us or a Trump/Satan minion...

 

[HisArpy]

Stuck in a riddle with you...



Or is that middle?
I get confused since no one acknowledges a middle here.
You're either with us or a Trump/Satan minion...

*ahem*

This is Lit.

So, whatever is "stuck in the middle" is probably a staple.

 

[SpeareChucker]

~~~ tee hee ~~~



I get that.

 

[enigma3]

Clowns to the left of me
Jokers to the right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q38Y5FLK63k

 

[SusanHaack]

Lifestyle
Science Behind a Fear of Cockroaches & The Way to Overcome It
By Annette Anthony- May 27, 2018
Do you have a fear of cockroaches?

You’re at home alone, and watching a crazy-ass thriller movie. It’s late at night, and you’ve got the lights turned off and your blanket is covering you up.


Just as you see the cop pull the trigger in the climax scene, you feel something moving beneath your blanket. Bloody fella’s damn small, and he’s just touched your toe.

fear of cockroaches
Image: Pest Management Professional
That’s it lah. You freak out and you jump off the couch and throw the blanket away. You see a cockroach scuttling away, and you wanna go and kill the bugger, but you’re also scared that it might FLY BACK your way.

Think about it for the moment – your fear of cockroaches. Is it something you were born with or was the fear created as you grew up?

Here’s what you wanna know about it la hor.

Why Do You Fear Cockroaches?
Well, the thing with cockroaches is that they almost always tend to creep up on you. And it’s definitely happened at some point in our lives.


When this happens, the phobic part of your brain’s storing the bad info on roaches. It automatically links cockroaches with being something that’s super, duper dangerous.

Consider it as a form of augmented reality a.k.a. your imagination.

fear of cockroaches
From then onwards, every single time you see a cockroach, it causes you to go into alarm mode. The official term for it is Katsaridaphobia, but you can also call it “小强phobia” (sounds so much better, isn’t it?).

It doesn’t help that the pesky insects can potentially transfer harmful bacteria onto you. We’re talking about major strains like Salmonella and E.Coli.

I mean, who wants to fall dead and die because of shock (heart attack) or have a bad infection?


Thankfully, though, there is hope for all of us cockroach haters.

How to Get Over Your Fears
For one, you could try hypnotherapy. This method will take one full session or two, and work on cancelling your phobia towards those winged creatures.

There’s another method that’s being made famous. Known as decoded neurofeedback, the technique is used to overwrite a person’s fear memories without having you experience the fear itself.

fear of cockroaches
Image: Los Angeles Times
Sounds like something out of a Hollywood movie, I know!

If you’re interested in getting a DIY method to try at home, do this. Read about cockroaches – informative stuff only ya, not the disgusting gory details.

When you’re done, look up for some pictures of cockroaches online. Seek out ones that look educational and not the ones that make you wanna throw up. If you want to keep your coast 100% clear, ask your friend to help you with this.

Finally, head over to YouTube and watch a video about cockroaches that’s made specifically to help you overcome your fear of the bug, and not gross you out.

By the end of this three-step process, you’ll find that while you might not have taken a liking to cockroaches, you won’t feel as disgusted and scared of the bug.

And if you ever encounter one in real life, act normal and don’t go yelling your head off. Don’t trigger the fella, and he won’t fly right at you!

http://goodyfeed.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/c1.jpg

 

[SpeareChucker]

I'm not reporting you,
but I think you may be
on the way to banishment.

At least this incarnation...

 

[Saint_Ann]

I saw the sky.
I saw the sky in its place.
I saw people.
I saw people at their pace.
I saw a world.
I saw a word in order.
I saw a business.
I saw a business fill my order.
I saw people.
I saw people going about their lives.

I saw virus.
I saw the fear of virus.
I saw a mask.
I saw that was not really us.
I saw no mask.
I saw no mask on most people.
I saw a handshake.
I saw friends, acquaintances, gleeful.
I saw people.
I saw people engaged in their lives.

I saw people.
I saw adults, happy confident adults.
I saw hope.
I saw people in paradise with some faults.
I saw energy.
I saw energy as it always was.
I saw life.
I saw life never submitted because.
I saw cowed.
I saw cowed still living full lives.

I saw not.
I saw no angry child.
I saw no shout.
I saw no prophets dire and wild.
I saw peace.
I saw peace of indomitable mind.
I saw purpose.
I saw the calm we all should find.
I saw proud.
I saw proud people living good lives.

I saw death.
I saw death’s hovering hand.
I saw present.
I saw present as future upon the land.
I saw evil.
I saw evil that should have been shunned.
I saw myself.
I saw myself and I was stunned.
I saw loud.
I saw loud that tried to take our lives.

I see now.
I see now how we were fooled.
I see how.
I see how we had been schooled.
I see children.
I see children suddenly ashamed.
I see cowards.
I see cowards to now be blamed.
I see them.
I see they thought to control our lives.

Poetry is so gay.

 

[SpeareChucker]

Is my handle gay too?

 

[Saint_Ann]

Is my handle gay too?

IDK. Is it in some guy's butt?

 

[SpeareChucker]

No, it's in my jeans.

 

[SpeareChucker]

There's a Longfellow joke dangling low out there now...

 

[Saint_Ann]

(2) Guys pissing off a bridge.
(1) Boy, that water is cold.
(2) And it's deep too.

 

[SpeareChucker]

(1) I think I just got a nibble...

 

[Saint_Ann]

That kinda reads like Eric Carle.