[meteorite-list] Tucson Show

From: Adam Hupe <raremeteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:08:23 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <450257.12068.qm_at_web30707.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

I don't know what the temperatures have been running in Tucson but if they are anywhere near as hot as it is here in Laughlin, then you could definitely fry eggs on the pavement.

It gets so hot here that not a single temperature gauge sign can be seen anywhere in town because it is bad for the tourism/casino businesses. The weather station must be buried below ground because the weather channel will report temperatures 10 degrees cooler than Bullhead City, Arizona which is in the same valley, so close that I could throw a rock and hit it from the Laughlin, Nevada side of the Colorado river. The water right off of the cold side of the tap is hot enough to create steam when taking a shower. Our air-conditioner (life support unit) struggles day and night to keep the inside house temp at 80 degrees.

I went past a sign yesterday in Bullhead City that said it was 127 degrees! It was so hot that I had to wear gloves to touch the black door handle and steering wheel on my truck. I used to think those windshield reflector things were geeky but now realize they serve a genuine purpose. This is my first summer here in the Mojave desert so it takes getting some used to.

I hope it cools down to below 100 degrees so that I can do some meteorite hunting soon, maybe in a month or two. I am ready to rock!

Best Regards from extremely hot, yet very friendly Laughlin, Nevada,

Adam


 

--- On Fri, 8/28/09, Michael Blood <mlblood at cox.net> wrote:

> From: Michael Blood <mlblood at cox.net>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Tucson Show
> To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Date: Friday, August 28, 2009, 2:35 PM
> Well,
> ? ? ? ? It is the second day of temps
> over 100% in SD - and there isn't
> Even a Santa Anna (wind reversal from the usual cooling
> breezes
> Blowing from the ocean eastward to HOT winds blowing from
> the
> Desert westward).
> ? ? ? ? Wonder how hot it is in Tucson
> right now?
> ? ? ? ? Speaking of which, if we can
> take a break from the
> non-meteoritic topic of aliens..... Does anyone know the
> Dates of the Tucson Show in 2010? The auction and the
> Birthday Bash are always on the weekend after the
> technical
> "beginning weekend" (when dealers are still straggling in)
> And the weekend before the close of the show (when dealers
> start
> To leave on Fri, Sat or Sun).
> ? ? ? ? RSVP on list, please.
> ? ? ? ? Thanks, Michael
>
>
> On 8/28/09 11:24 AM, "Darren Garrison" <cynapse at charter.net>
> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:07:32 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >> My basic point is, humans are too stupid to figure
> out how life got started
> >> here on Earth.?
> >
> > Now that, is unmitigated BULLSHIT.? The fact that
> a question has not been
> > fully
> > answered yet does NOT necessiate that a question is
> unanserable.? More is
> > becoming known about how life could have begun with
> each passing year-- and
> > will
> > likely have good, solid answers in time.? Science
> is still young-- the wonder
> > isn't that there are still questions for which answers
> have not been found,
> > but
> > that so many answers HAVE been found in the past 2 or
> 3 centuries.? Maybe YOU
> > are too stupid to figure it out, but that doesn't mean
> that there aren't
> > smarter
> > people than you working on it.
> >
> >> there is other life that spontaneously generated
> on some other planet long
> >> ago and in a faraway galaxy.
> >
> > Are you denying that spontaneous generation happened
> on Earth?? Because it
> > seems
> > pretty clear that you are making religious arguments,
> not scientific ones.
> > You
> > seem to think that you are being rational and
> scientific, but you aren't.
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