| What you bring to the table matters not what the table brings to you. |
| Music – Aim |
| Musk Rose |
| I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. Jimmy Dean |
| Bear’s-Breeches |
| Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. John F. Kennedy |
| Purple Loosestrife |
| Time moves in one direction, memory in another. William Gibson |
| Red Dahlia |
| Our thoughts create our reality – where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go. Peter McWilliams |
| Who would have thunk it? Useless facts until you need useless facts. Charles Fort was one of the first writers to use the phrase Teleportation in his writings in 1931, where he also wrote about frogs raining down from the skies and ball lightning and spontaneous combustion. It soon became a trend, and everyone was using the term before long, from Buck Rogers to the Twilight Zone. Next time, carefully point a pocket laser pointer to the skies! You might blind an astronaut on the international space station! Once every 12 hours for eight minutes …. ants take a rest. The earth is not flat, but it’s not perfectly round. Do you know how we are always moaning that there is never enough time in the day? Our days are getting longer! Throughout millions of years, the earth’s rotation has been slowing down, adding roughly 2.3 milliseconds to the length of every day every century. Maybe not a lot these days, but less is more, as they say, and it all adds up. Considering that 4.6 billion years ago, the day was only 6 hours long! Now then, looking at, say, 620 million years ago, the day was 21.9 hours, up from the previous 19 hours! We are currently accustomed to a 24-hour day. However, this is also increasing by 1.7 milliseconds each day every century! So in one million years, our days will be 25 hours long!! Woot woot, right! I know, right! Who would have thunk it? |
| Wishing all you great folks a fabulous day! |
Earthly Comforts 
Great images!
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Many thanks 🙂
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Love the pics, especially the roses. If I live another million years, i doubt I’d be able to use the extra hour usefully
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Absolutely – quite exciting eh 🙂
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😂🤩
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Good morning Rory! Interesting facts and lovely photos! Have a wonderful day ahead!
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Hey Eibana, thank you, now wishing you a lovely Friday afternoon 🙂
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Most interesting facts and gorgeous photos, Rory!
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Hey Eugenia, many thanks 😉
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Always a pleasure, Rory.
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In a million years, the ants have probably taken over with their work ethic.
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Hahahaha 🙂
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The earth, I am told, is shaped like a golf ball — which is also not round. Maybe that’s why everyone famous plays golf.
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Stands to reason that the world is not this perfect;y shaped circle, l mean why would it be completely round anyway 🙂
Does a non round ball travel further in golf do you think?
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AS a non-golfer, I haven’t the slightest idea. I have to assume its shape is based on something, so that’s as good a suggestion as any.
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Strange though. And yet, researching the golf ball mystery l discovered that in fact they are pretty spherical, but because of the dents, they appear to not be round.
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Since I don’t golf, I’ll take your word for it.
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