Chuck Holst wrote: > > >> > Hmmm, so if the Y2K bug doesn't get you on 1/1/00, the moonbeams on the > Dec 22nd will. If I could absolutely be certain of that I could just > skip worrying about doing any Christmas shopping. :-) > > ralph > >> > > Don't forget that 2000 will also be the year of the solar maximum, which > could affect phone service, satellites, and the power grid. So don't > throw out your old blubber lamp just yet. :-) > > In reply to Matt Broze, I doubt that the moon's gravitational attraction > will set a 133-year record, since the moon reaches perigee once a month, > though it is true that perigee is not usually aligned with the sun. > (There would be a bigger pull on the earth if perigee coincided with the > new moon.) The spring tide will probably be a little bigger than usual, > but again, I doubt it will be a once in a century tide. > > Chuck Holst > I don't know about you guys, but on the 22nd I am going up on my Manhattan brownstone's roof, assembling my double Klepper, filling it with provisions (I have some blubber left over from Maligiaq's NYC visit; turns out he prefers the spicy cheroot shaped beef sticks, the kind you buy in delis; he must take after the non-Greenlandic half of his family's roots), and waiting the situation out. Reminds me of the novel published in 1998 called A Scientific Romance by Ronald Wright. The scene is the end of 1999 and the main character takes a Klepper with him in a time machine built by Tatiana Cherenkova, former mistress of H.G. Wells and brilliant assistant to an eccentric scientist in electromagnetics. In the story, the hero goes 500 years into the future with the time machine, which he has located in an abandoned old building in London. He hopes that by going into the future he can find a cure for the illness that is killing him and had killed the woman he loved. He is expecting that sea levels would have risen and needs the boat for getting around. I did a whimsical review of the book in my newsletter titling it The Ultimate Folding Kayak Voyage. ralph -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Dec 15 1999 - 08:16:38 PST
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