I’m thinking about asking the city for a low-interest loan to convert my basement into a theater.
- The United States’ economic talks with China this week could lead to some good news for Boeing, the Seattle Times reports.
- The Times also has an Associated Press story that looks at Central Oregon’s aircraft industry. The manufacturers there include Cessna, which bought the former Columbia Aircraft last year and continues to ramp up production at the Bend plant.
- The St. Louis Post-Dispatch says a Belgian newspaper is reporting that Warren Buffett is supporting InBev’s $47.5 billion takeover offer for Anheuser-Busch Cos.
- Here’s a Wall Street Journal story on bulletproofing your nest egg.
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TUESDAY EVENING, 6/17/08 ABOUT 9:30 PM: A few minutes ago, I drove over the Kellogg flyover near downtown Wichita. From a point near Lawrence-Dumont Stadium, I noticed the almost full moon rising up from the southeastern horizon.
I recall the June full moon is known as the “strawberry moon” by the Shawnee Indians, presumably because its strawberry picking season no matter what your culture.
Technically, the full Moon is not full until tomorrow, Wednesday, June 18th. The Moon is precisely full when it reaches a point every 29 days on the opposite side of the earth from the sun. Checking a moon chart, I see the moon will be precisely full tomorrow just after noon … but, alas, for us here in Wichita, the moon will be out of sight, on the other side of the Earth, presumably somewhere over China at noon tomorrow.
But no problem. The moon will continue to look full tomorrow night and even the next night as it begins to wane away from the full moon position.
Tomorrow evening, Wednesday, June 18, the strawberry full Moon will rise at 9:22 PM over the southeastern horizon. A few minutes earlier, the sun will have set on the other side of the earth. The few minutes difference is due to geometry, parallax and dust/rain droplets in the atmosphere.
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By coincidence, and with no astronomical connection, the summer solstice on the longest day of the year and shortest night will take place a couple days later on Friday/Saturday, June 20th and 21st. Some people call the summer solstice the beginning of summer … I consider it the middle of summer because on that day the days begin to grow shorter bringing on the fall and winter months.
The summer and winter seasons are brought to us courtesy of the 23 1/2 degree permanent tilt of the earth to the line vertical to the horizontal line from the Earth to the Sun. So thank your Intelligent Designer for this wonderful life giving tilt.