Thank you!

Hi!!

Why, we're almost neighbors!

Hi neighbor!

When I see beautiful pics from space like this it always makes me think of a story I originally would tell my son TY for posting it.

Now I sometimes bring it up in casual conversation, especially to younger people and kids, but there are people my age that amazingly still don't get this. I get the usual not again shrug from some people that have heard it 100 times, I don't care. I don't think there's too many times to hear story's like this one now a days.


It's a little more than 2 miles from 1 entering city limit sign to the other on the same highway in the little town I live just outside of.
I usually say if you have a big ball of kite string (I could buy 2k ft rolls of kite string at the local hardware store when I was a kid) we tie one end of the string to the first city limit sign then unroll it to the other city limit sign its about 2.2 miles, I measured on the car odometer. One could probably walk from sign to sign in 30 minutes or so. Not far at all.

Then imagine picking the end up and lifting that length into the sky. Now imagine if the end of that string we just measured 2 miles long between signs and lifted straight up was touching the inside of a clear ball that surrounds the whole planet.

Now imagine everything that lives on this planet, every living thing you've seen on TV or in school or with your own eyes, all of it everything. Your pets, your family, . All the forest creatures and river dwellers, even sea creatures!

Now understand that over 95% of all that life we know of not just on this planet, but in our solar system, in our galaxy, in our universe lives inside that clear ball the length of our little 2 mile long piece of string between our welcome to the city limits signs in our town. And over 95% of other little towns like ours and even the big cities with buildings a few barely a 10th of the length of our string between our welcome to the city limits sign and everyone that lives in them. Just about all life on Earth in that short length of kite string.

Just think about that.

I usually end it there and there's usually silence for a moment. Those moments are shorter today than when I first told it some 40 years ago. I think I was looking at some shuttle pics from orbit in a National Geographic and was mesmerized by that so very fragile thin blue line that has miraculously, in its many various forms, nurtured, embraced, protected all life we have ever known with a selfless grace that makes all of our egos however small or large just so insignificant and important at the same time.

One of the first times I told this to some younger kids, one of them said maybe we need a welcome to the city limit sign at the end of our string up there because all of our signs say please don't litter and I've seen trash fall from the sky. I think that kid got it out of the gate!

What didya just do to me??


Kinda cool
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Lake Berryessa (blue sport north of SF bay) is full as it's gonna get, so the millionaire welfare queen farmers have, like, three years of cheap government water in the bank.


People walk along State Route 128 to get a view of Lake Berryessa spilling over into the Glory Hole spillway at Monticello Dam. The spillway has now overflowed 28 times in the 67 years since it was completed with the last spill happening in 2019.

Where exactly is this gloryhole?

Lake Berrryessa. K
Noted


Thanks from the bottom of my glory hole!
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Hehe

He vacationed there before the dam was built, when Putah Creek was actually green with slime in the summer months (but the song is actually named after a lime soda extract he saw in a drugstore in Winters)

2023 was one of the wettest winter in the history for the state. We didn't get as much rain as last year but we are still over 130% of the average precipitation.