[Death by Mirrors]

The more I learn about your religion, the more I like it.

[Derpy McBlueEyes]

Derpy nods. "We accept and cewebwate all food and dwinks!"

[Coda]

My father-in-law is in the other room watching TV and I overheard a commercial for...

... a "2020 Battle for the White House collector's edition chess set".

I can't even begin to describe the WTF of this, so I'll just let them speak for themselves: https://www.chess2020.com/ -- I link this not because I think anyone should buy it, but because of just how absurd the whole thing is.

It doesn't even ship with the king and queen for the Democrat side because they don't know who the candidates are going to be (though they assume that Trump/Pence will be the Republican ticket). They call it a "keepsake to be cherished for generations to come" as if people are going to want to remember this dumpster fire.

[Kaderin Triste]

Ugh. Debating if I want to blow my Amazon gift card on nail polish and lost kitties toys or on more "useful" stuff...
Like maybe a fold out wall desk. Or if they still sell them, maybe a couple straight talk phone cards so I can have one less minor expense for a few months....

[Merskelly Metalien]

O_O; It's lunchtime! CRAP! I have to eat something!

[Stabbsworth]

mmmmmm went o'er to my older brother's today.

wanting to die isn't normal, and we're thinking abt getting me into therapy, potentially. because i haven't got a job, it's supposedly free, and if i am on the autism or adhd spectrum, i may need a carer / someone that can pal around with me while i do things bc i don't particularly like being alone.

then there's the whole fear of abandonment thing that i've never thought to bring up. i'm not sure why i have this fear or why it's stayed with me for so long tbh.

[Biomecha]

Not really interested in what 2020 has to offer. Or the rest of this year. Or day.

[KittyBeary]

Went out for sisters birthday tonight(its tomorrow though lol) and now I'm wired and slightly wasted from an espresso martini x_____X

[Stabbsworth]

> potentially need to get dental work done + a new toothbrush due to one of my canines rotting
> canine is apparently going black
> pretty sure one of the roots has gone at this point
> can possibly get dental work done for free thanks to being under 18
> self-conscious abt people seeing my teeth.
> sort of need space in my top jaw anyways bc of crowding (i.e: one tooth is... um. layered behind the other two that are adjacent to it.)

[mdom]

My mom to my sis: mdom should lose 150lbs

me: mom do you even know how much I weigh. that'd kill me

My mom: ok 100lbs then

[Merskelly Metalien]

;n; I got dishes...laundry...shower to do..
and my bro is playing smash with his friend in the other room.
<x'{ Why must I be kicked out of the room?! I wanna play too! </3
>:/ I'm watching videos without him now. Humph!

[DreadedMartian]

Lightning on Jupitor


In a new paper published in Nature today, scientists from NASA’s Juno mission describe the ways in which lightning on Jupiter is actually analogous to Earth’s lightning. Although, in some ways, the two types of lightning are polar opposites.

“No matter what planet you’re on, lightning bolts act like radio transmitters -- sending out radio waves when they flash across a sky,” said Shannon Brown of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, a Juno scientist and lead author of the paper. “But until Juno, all the lightning signals recorded by spacecraft [Voyagers 1 and 2, Galileo, Cassini] were limited to either visual detections or from the kilohertz range of the radio spectrum, despite a search for signals in the megahertz range. Many theories were offered up to explain it, but no one theory could ever get traction as the answer.”

Enter Juno, which has been orbiting Jupiter since July 4, 2016. Among its suite of highly sensitive instruments is the Microwave Radiometer Instrument (MWR), which records emissions from the gas giant across a wide spectrum of frequencies. *

“In the data from our first eight flybys, Juno’s MWR detected 377 lightning discharges,” said Brown. “They were recorded in the megahertz as well as gigahertz range, which is what you can find with terrestrial lightning emissions. We think the reason we are the only ones who can see it is because Juno is flying closer to the lighting than ever before, and we are searching at a radio frequency that passes easily through Jupiter’s ionosphere.”

While the revelation showed how Jupiter lightning is similar to Earth’s, the new paper also notes that where these lightning bolts flash on each planet is actually quite different.

“Jupiter lightning distribution is inside out relative to Earth,” said Brown. “There is a lot of activity near Jupiter’s poles but none near the equator. You can ask anybody who lives in the tropics -- this doesn’t hold true for our planet.”

Why do lightning bolts congregate near the equator on Earth and near the poles on Jupiter? Follow the heat.

Earth’s derives the vast majority of its heat externally from solar radiation, courtesy of our Sun. Because our equator bears the brunt of this sunshine, warm moist air rises (through convection) more freely there, which fuels towering thunderstorms that produce lightning.


Read More Below:

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/jun...iter-lightning

[KittyBeary]

I have become my family's personal caretaker x_X

[Kaderin Triste]

Blew my Amazon gift card on nail polish and lost kitties toys. Thought about using it for adult things, but until I get my life sorted out a bit more, I don't know what I REALLY need plus, as a friend said, Christmas is for fun. So I got things that make me happy.

[Merskelly Metalien]

>:D I'm so excited to finally be able to have a bowl of cereal again!
<x'D I feel so accomplished, because I haven't had a bowl of cereal in almost a full year, as I gave cereal up as a challenge for 2019.

And now,
at last!
>:D 2020 is almost here...
and I am going to have a nice bowl of Christmas Captain Crunch!

[Coda]

Why cereal, in particular?