Planetary Alignment
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On the one hand, a friend of a co-worker is a professional astronomer. His name is John Chumak and he runs a very cool website over at http://www.galacticimages.com . My co-worker always passes along new visuals from John that, I suppose, just don't quite make the cut for his pro-for-sale catalog. Last weekend, he took these images of Jupiter and two of its moons (Europa and Io) from his backyard. Europa Io
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On the other hand, these images reminded me of the fondly remembered Wings recording Venus and Mars (more planets), which led my mind a bit further back in time to my high school Pizza Manor hangout. Boy, did they have great submarine sandwiches. And a pretty good jukebox, too. I used to love finding good "B" sides and loading the jukebox up with the lesser heard variety. Like this Mac flip to the classic "Hi Hi Hi"
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Love the images.....
Submarine sandwiches? I only know of the submarine sweet and the submarine shot.
Those pictures, taken from someone's backyard probably using a big ole honking telescope, just scream techie nerd geek.
Love it.
I've wanted to have a huge honkin' telescope for years.
That is just cool.
Anna, I don't know what submarine sweet and submarine shots are (although I assume at least one of them is alcohol related), but a submarine sandwich is a long sandwich (usually a foot long) full of different sorts of things, depending. They're also called grinders, hoagies, or dagwoods depending on what part of the country you're from. And probably a lot of other terms as well.
Ah, I see, thank you Groony :)
From wiki: one typically Greek spoon sweet is the snow-white and intensely aromatic Βανίλια [va'nilja], which is not made of vanilla, but of mastic resin, for which the Aegean island of Chios is famous. This is usually served as a spoonful of sweet on a spoon dropped into a tall glass of ice-cold water and called "βανίλια υποβρύχιο", 'vanilla submarine'.
The alcoholic submarine is a shot, sort of. You fill a low glass with beer, and inside it you put a shot glass filled with whiskey, and you drink the whole thing like a shot. It's a killer...
First, thanks to Groon for the blank-filling-in!
Nerd geek for sure, annie, but I love thos space pics and admire the talent to make em. Waay beyond my patience level.
Anna, thank you for the culture cuisine. the vanilla sub dounds delicious! 'Round these parts, the alcoholic sub is called a boilermaker - and yes they are killer!
Very Cool site. I have a lot of Hubbel pictures from Webshots, very many awesome pics there as well.
thanks for stopping by John, Mr. Chumack is quite the talent. it's funny, I just stopped by this post yesterday to listen to Mac.