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  • boston1450
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    Poland Spring Water is just a few miles as well
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  • Viking64
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    boston1450 wrote: »
    My bricks that I built my house came from Danville. I was across the road at the truck stop last night. You know the area I take it

    Actually, I haven't been there since the late 70s.

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  • OleBoot
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  • mrbigbluelight
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    Those are auroras.
    Several days ago the sun had a Coronal Mass Ejection that blew $- hit mega tons of plasma our way
    Supposed to have been the biggest CME in the last 75 (?)
    years with the equivalent energy of something like a Billion atomic bombs.

    .....that's a lot btw for those using the metric system
    Sal Palooza
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  • msg
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    Woh woh woh, this is supposed to be a family friendly forum! You can't just go around talking about CMEs.

    And since when did you acquire interest, skills, and knowledge in sients?
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  • BlueBirdMusic
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    msg wrote: »
    BlueBirdMusic wrote: »
    Picture taken in Bremen GA

    Same as @PSOVLSK noted; I have never seen the sky like this in West Georgia.

    @BlueBirdMusic @PSOVLSK - are these photos of Auroras? Did you guys know about this? I just saw an article that said this is a thing happening right now, talking about visibility as far south as Alabama.

    @msg - The solar storm that caused the auroras has been in news stories for a week or so. I read and listened to several of them and knew it was going to happen, but not the extent of what occurred. Tennessee was thought to be the most southern state where visible.

    I have known about the Northern Lights for most of my life and never expected to see anything like them. In Georgia, the auroras occurred all around north Georgia and all the way southeast to Tybe Island close to Savannah.

    Those pictures I posted were taken by my cousin about 50 miles west of Atlanta away from the city lights, and in the country. As a kid, I used to enjoy the sky not bothered by city or town lights.
    "Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"
    Harry / Marietta GA
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  • Viking64
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    I first heard of Jackie Stewart by looking at Aurora® slot car sets in the local Zayre® store as a child.

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  • Milito
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    nooshinjohn wrote: »
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    His real name is Peter Dingus Sr . But his five friends simply call him Little Dick

    I thought it would be "butt head."
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  • JayCee
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    Northern Lights (NL) 2 nights ago....really awesome! Couple of years ago I visited my son/DIL when they were stationed at Fairbanks, AK, and never saw the light show. Had to wait until the "NL's 2024 North American Tour...Lower 48". LOL

    Inland PNW. We used a light pollution map to find an area 20 minutes outside of our city for the best view. https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/#zoom=5.66&lat=47.4681&lon=-118.3720&state=eyJiYXNlbWFwIjoiTGF5ZXJCaW5nUm9hZCIsIm92ZXJsYXkiOiJ3YV8yMDE1Iiwib3ZlcmxheWNvbG9yIjpmYWxzZSwib3ZlcmxheW9wYWNpdHkiOjYwLCJmZWF0dXJlc29wYWNpdHkiOjg1fQ==

    Quick stop by Dairy Queen for Blizzards and off to see the show. Used my Samsung phone camera in manual mode where I was able to adjust aperture and shutter speed. Best pics taken when I laid on the ground facing up, rested the phone on the brim of my hat and right up next to my forehead. Used hands and brim as a tripod. Quite the funny sight I was.

    Hopefully, the animated GIF's upload properly and you can see them.....

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  • msg
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    These are great, guys!
    Good heads up on that light pollution map!
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  • mhardy6647
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    B)

    (ASR)
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  • mhardy6647
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    Photo from the fairly recent Munich hifi show.
    I have a funny feeling this link won't make it through Vanilla-filtration, but I'm game to try.
    https://www.my-hiend.com/vbb/showthread.php?13419-2024年德國慕尼黑High-End音響展實況報導-Munich-High-End-Show-2024

    If you want to look at the images (and there are many) and the link above doesn't work, one may glean it from the ASR post below. ;)
    https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/leo-yeh-‘my-hiend’-munich-coverage.54334/#post-1973356
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  • F1nut
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    Impressive!!!
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  • mhardy6647
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  • OleBoot
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  • treitz3
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    The new, culturally appropriate version of Sleeping Beauty. Ya' gotta wake her up and ask her permission before you kiss her.

    LOL.....it's just a story. Not reality.

    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • maxward
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    @audioluvr Is that Mt. Adams?
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  • mhardy6647
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    Full cloud cover here last night -- again. 3 out of 3 auroral chances. :(

    Meanwhile, the precursor to an internet meme? Only 2/3 complete, but...

    53718273836_6e2eb16e84_b.jpgVintage STEM Ad 334 - Koratron - 1967 by Johnny El-Rady, on Flickr
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  • audioluvr
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    maxward wrote: »
    @audioluvr Is that Mt. Adams?

    Yup. We only got a light show Friday night. Nothing since.
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    B&K M200 Sonata monoblocks refreshed and upgraded
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    Wireworld Silver Eclipse IC's and speaker cables
    Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)

    There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus
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  • msg
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  • mhardy6647
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    'twas a beautiful day in the neighborhood today...
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  • jdjohn
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    Not long ago, I purchased a different USB microscope for evaluating my stylus tips, and below are a few images from an Audio Technica AT32E, which has many hours of usage.

    This first shot is from the front, where you can see the profile of the wear spots. I didn't place the red lines directly onto the spots, but it's pretty easy to see the flat areas.
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    Next, from the bottom, and with only the microscope's ring light, the wear patches show as somewhat darker spots.
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    And finally, another bottom shot, but this time with side lighting, so the reflection of light from the wear patches appears as bright spots.
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    The results show that although this stylus has significant usage, it still has a fair amount of life left IMO.

    The key with contact patches (right and left) is that they shouldn't 'meet in the middle', forming a chisel point. When that happens, it indicates that the stylus is 'bottoming-out' in the groove (of your precious vinyl record), which is not a good thing.
    "This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
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  • msg
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    Very cool, and good and interesting info, @jdjohn
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