h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Lets all boogie all down as we party like we have done before to the groovy music of the mid 70's.

Will write that again: Lets all boogie all down as we party like we have did in the mid 70's to the groovy disco music.

Shagbarksun ??? we've only seen pictures of it over here, we haven't seen it for real for at least 5 years, apart from the odd 3 day glimpse

Our 'sun' is looking quite 'wet' at the moment. But that is summer in Florida

I threw my last bottle of sun tan cream outit was 7 years past it's sell by date

various areas of the world, are all suffering some form of climate changewhat you'd normally expect for your area at different times of the year have now gone out the windowand the weather folk and ALL the technology at their hand, now can't predict a few days aheadlet alone weeks etc

I guess when stonehenge was buit they had a lot more sunny days

stonehenge was a stop, but they miscalculated when es were going to be invented

I think that the the UK being an island, as generally it is harder to to predict the weather than if the UK was part of a mainland continent.

But thousands of years ago when they built Stonehenge it was still an Island. Maybe the job of Meteorologist was held by a pagan priest who knew somethingts modern Weather forcasters don't

So was it cloudy there this Morning?

At the risk of being serious and informative here;

The shape of the clouds and colour of the sky are key to forecasting weather without a helpful idiot on the TV or radio.

'Mackerel skies and mare's tails
make tall ships carry low sails'

Red sky at night, sailor's delight
Red sky at morning, sailor's take warning.

Both are based on sound meteorological study.

F S

My point actually was that in 2011BC, due to climate change, there might have been fewer days with red skies ( or grey skies) in the morning, and more days with red skies at night

over here, if we have sun for more than 4 days they'll tax it

They (politicians) only pass laws and do things that we don't want, i.e tax us but they have a Ferengi attitude to worker's rights (any laws to protect us are voluntary i.e, payday loan companies, cold telesales telephone calls and the manufacturing industry which has been decimated since the 80's and they have made it too expensive to run these business with all the taxes and other laws they have passed.

Michigan is in a period of transition. The laws still protect the current union contracts until they expire. Once that happens union membership becomes optional and employers will get to act more like Ferengi over here. Plus our Obamacare health care become fully effective next January, and employers are debating how many people to fire in order to keep their profits up when it happens.

Meanwhile an important day in history passes relatively unobserved.The federal Fair Labor Standards Act was passed 75 years ago tomorrow, June 25. It established a federal minimum wage and basic labor protections that have kept workers secure for decades. Learn more about the FLSA's history - and why a fair minimum wage is still relevant today - in the blog: http://social.dol.gov/blog/75-years-of-rewarding-work-and-responsibility/.

so what can we say about June 28?

aparently a good day to get crowned, killed or start a war.
1461 - Edward is crowned following The First War of the Roses
... At the age of 19, Queen Victoria is crowned, with Prime Minister Lord Melbourne acting as her political advisor...1914 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is assassinated in Sarajevo, triggering WWI....
1922 - The Irish Civil War begins with Free State forces' shelling the Four Courts in Dublin.

June 28th;

1776 Colonists defeat British attack on Charleston, SC (Palmetto Fort)

1778 Molly Pitcher carries water to the troops at the Battle of Manmouth, before taking her fallen husband's place on the gun.

1884 US Congress declares 'Labour Day' (1st Monday in September) a legal holiday.

F S