Beautiful Things

That’s a good one SJ

ScottyJack wrote

This one doesn't look too intimidating......more like it's yawning.

Orcas.

I’ve seen a lot of videos of people sup-ing and Kyacking around those things and beautiful as they are I would be terrified.

Leopard seals!  Pretty bad ass. They are segment in the march of the penguins documentary - which is awesome

raisingarizona wrote

Orcas.

Are u old enough to remember the movie Orca?  I think it came out right after Jaws.  

Free (not Heel) Willy!

D.B. Cooper wrote

This one doesn't look too intimidating......more like it's yawning.

Right up until those teeth close on your arm or head!

I recall that but I’ve never seen it. Is it so bad it’s sort of good? I like those kinds of movies.

I haven’t watched it in like three plus decades but recall as a kid that I was fascinated by it.  Be interesting to watch it again.  

I saw Orca on cable at some point in the 80s I think. Pretty bad if I remember correctly. It started  Richard Harris I think

Map of galaxy filaments.  Size of the observable universe = 93 billion light years.  The universe is, at minimum 250x larger, more likely 10^23 times larger as calculated by cosmic inflation theory.

This means the universe is most likely 2x10^43 larger than the earth.  The earth is a big place, to us.  The universe is unimaginably big.

If the universe is really expanding, where is it expanding to?  That's something I have yet to understand.

BTW, I'm not high.

D.B. Cooper wrote

If the universe is really expanding, where is it expanding to?  That's something I have yet to understand.

BTW, I'm not high.

Neither am I nor was I when I made that post.

Nobody knows.  There are many theories on what the "bounds" of the universe may be, but what I was referring to above was matter.  Space and time may have no boundaries.  The matter in the universe seems to be expanding from our viewpoint.  It's not entirely certain that is true as something may be tricking us that we don't understand.  And even though we can't see it, more likely than not, the universe is far, far bigger than what we can see (and what we can see is HUGE).

I'm paraphrasing this, but there's something along the lines of the Chimpanzee analogy, in that, the smartest chimp can't understand what the dumbest human can, no matter how much it studies or learns.  Its postulated we've rapidly approached this in recent years in terms of human intelligence.  We can continue to observe, but we are, perhaps, a large leap away in intelligence from understanding.

Valley Fog... Pretty dismal day down below in town.  Thanks to the inversion, it's like a beautiful April day above 3000ft

Looking North toward the Chiwaukum range


Looking West at the Wenatchee Mtns... Ski Area is in the upper left center

Pretty cool!  Weather is a fascinating thing.  My youngest son is into geology, but meteorology wouldn’t be a huge diversion?