At 04:15 PM Tuesday 12/23/2008, dsummersmi...@comcast.net wrote:
Yesterday was the Summer solstice here in the South Pacific and the day
before was cold - only 6 degrees celsius.
Global warming harumph.
The fact that it is colder in some places than normal may be a sign of
The Brin-L weekly chat has been a list tradition for over ten
years. Way back on 27 May, 1998, Marco Maisenhelder first set
up a chatroom for the list, and on the next day, he established
a weekly chat time. We've been through several servers, chat
technologies, and even casts of regulars over
On this day in 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around
the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed 10
lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures that became the famous
Christmas Eve Broadcast, one of the most watched programs in history.
They read from the book
