shorter days

[topless_mike]

ts 4:20 now, and i can see over the tank farm the sun setting.
i actually enjoy the winter and early sunsets.
does anyone else, or is the rest of the world obsessed with long summer days?

[chubbyknuckles]

ts 4:20 now, and i can see over the tank farm the sun setting.
i actually enjoy the winter and early sunsets.
does anyone else, or is the rest of the world obsessed with long summer days?

I actually hate the heat so i welcome the winter, shorter days only make me happier

[Gvac]

I despise this time of year. The short days, the sun low in the sky blinding me all day while I drive, the bitter cold, etc.

I have no idea how the people who live above the arctic circle deal with the cold and constant darkness.

[chubbyknuckles]

I despise this time of year. The short days, the sun low in the sky blinding me all day while I drive, the bitter cold, etc.

I have no idea how the people who live above the arctic circle deal with the cold and constant darkness.

I have a friend who lives in alaska, ands it's all about drinking and outside fires. But ya gotta watch out for, really, wild moose, they'll kill ya.

[Chigworthy]

I love the fall/winter part of the cycle. I don't understand people who wish for a sunny day all the time. Just about the time I'm sick of sweaty, long days, nature blows some fresh air through the area for a few months.

[jetdog]

I have a friend who lives in alaska, ands it's all about drinking and outside fires. But ya gotta watch out for, really, wild moose, they'll kill ya.

When I lived in Alaska, we had to use flashlights when we wlked to school.



In the freezing wind and snow.



Watching out for crazy moose and the occasional bear.



uphill both ways.

[topless_mike]

i would love to live in alaska for at least a year....

[BoondockSaint]

I love the cold and the snow so the short days don't bother me a bit.

[TooLowBrow]

When I lived in Alaska, we had to use flashlights when we wlked to school.



In the freezing wind and snow.



Watching out for crazy moose and the occasional bear.



uphill both ways.

.... on shards of broken glass.

but we were happy

[TheMojoPin]

Love, love, LOVE this season, love the shorter days.

[Lady Resin]

I want 85 degree days back.:sad:

[Furtherman]

I love this time of year... it's cold, but not February cold. And I like the shorter days during the week.

Although I don't like when it makes the weekends go to fast. As when you may have a long Friday night and by the time you get up on Saturday you have about an hour (sometime none) of sunlight! :drunk:

[A.J.]

I pray for Global Warming.

[topless_mike]

I pray for Global Warming.

thats Bush's answer to fighting high heating bills.

[King Hippos Bandaid]

I enjoy more sunlight and warmer weather

this time of the year sucks,

Im not racist , but I cant stand black ice, was slipping and sliding on weds night

fuck the winter

:king:

[Thebazile78]

I'm in total agreement with Gvac on one point: having to deal with the late afternoon/early morning crazy sun angles-sun glare stinks.

[grlNIN]

Love Autumn and Winter but it seems like we didn't have much of one this year.

Shorter days only make me more sleepy, which isn't a bad thing because im always in pj's when i get home from work.

I'm glad it's started snowing so early too, maybe this year it will be a white Christmas instead of 78*.

[ralphbxny]

I like both ends. Summer sunset over a beach or in the mountains is awesome. Also a Winter sunset over a snow covered mountain or while sitting in the house and drinkin some warm drinks....its awesome.

[Kevin]

Ralph.. Were you somebody else on the board?? I was shocked to see you have 9300 pots since 06. and i do not remember you posting that much.

[MadMatt]

I love darkness and love the cold. I think my years as a house painter, baking and sweating in the heat all summer, destroyed my enjoyment of long, hot, bright days.

But I have always been more of a night person - it is so much easier for me to stay up late than it is to get up early. I could probably settle for seeing the sun only one day a week for the rest of my life and be completely content.

[SatCam]

fuck the snow i have to be at work 3 minutes ago :flush:

[FUNKMAN]

i like the full mix of weather and day lengths we have here in the northeast, it's home and all i'm used to

[sr71blackbird]

I have a friend who lives in alaska, ands it's all about drinking and outside fires. But ya gotta watch out for, really, wild moose, they'll kill ya.


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[thejives]

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That's effing scary.
Moose are huge. the largest land animal in North America.
They're like furry dinosaurs.


... I love the guys in the truck driving away ass the massacre gets underway

[Fallon]

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[hunnerbun]

Meh...Alaskans are fuckin' pussies....Bering Sea moderated temps. Come to the central Boreal forest, no water nearby to warm the temps here.

[thejives]

http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/9361/liartp9.jpg

It took him three minutes to type those three sentences?
Wow.

[PapaBear]

I'm curious about something. On Monday, Ron said it was dark in Manhattan at 3:30PM. Is that because of all the tall buildings? It's been getting dark around 5 here.

[Devo37]

I'm curious about something. On Monday, Ron said it was dark in Manhattan at 3:30PM. Is that because of all the tall buildings? It's been getting dark around 5 here.

no, mr. B was telling the truth. it was strangely dark by 3:00pm. i thought one of those Independence Day mother-ships might have been hovering over-head.

[thejives]

I'm curious about something. On Monday, Ron said it was dark in Manhattan at 3:30PM. Is that because of all the tall buildings? It's been getting dark around 5 here.

Everything happens slower in the south.

[topless_mike]

It took him three minutes to type those three sentences?
Wow.

thank you time police.

[walking joint]

i hate this time of year. not that i love hot summer days either. it should always be spring or fall and with longer days. the only light i get during the day during the week is in my car. i drive to work in the dark and i drive home in the light, but by the time i get there its dark again.

[Mike Teacher]

I'm curious about something. On Monday, Ron said it was dark in Manhattan at 3:30PM. Is that because of all the tall buildings? It's been getting dark around 5 here.

Ron has always known his astronomy.

This is the time of year when the top of the planet is tilted away from the sun. That's it. That's all. Everything else is a result of that tilt. Teacher Mode is on so apologies in advance for lecture mode. This tilt remains the same; thats important to visualize; like a top in space thats spinning once a day, but tilted at an unchanging angle, 23 point blah blah degrees.

Go outside at noon this time of year. Look where the sun is. It's not very high in the sky. In the summer at noon the sun is nearly overhead. The tilt away from the sun at this time of year = days are shoter, and the suns path in the sky is lower, and skewed south; the sun rises in the SE, and sets in the SW. In summer in rises almost due east and sets due west. Again, it's all in the tilt.

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So; the shadows are not only longer at three, theyre longer all day long at this time of year; you never get that 'sun exactly overhead hardly any shadlows cast; you get in summer. The sun is hiding in the south all day long.

Opposite everything south of the equator. Damn I'm rusty on this, wordy, could be shorter.

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Oh as for peoples like and dislikes; the people stationed at Scott-Amundsen regularly, shit I forget the local term, but they fry. They can become terribly withdrawn, depressed, lacksidasical, feel ill constantly, become shells of themselves. Not seeing the sun at all for months at a time? No way for me.