The Godless Particle and why you need to water your grass.

WOW - if you want to see a beautiful site, get up about 3:30 in the morning and look east.  Saturn, Venus and the moon are outstanding.  I have never ever seen Venus so bright. It's brighter then the moon.

Yea - I was walking Blake at 3:30am, he got up a half hour early.  Then as I'm back in bed about 4:00 he's rooting around the house following the walls (he stays close to all the walls now) and  AH WOOF!! What?  He barked? he never barks.  AH WOOF  AH WOOF!!   hmmmm  I get up and there he is wedged between the  bathtub and toilet.  Can't go right, can't go left and I guess backing up's not an option.  sigh

Anyway - get up tomorrow morning for two reason - the above Saturn, Venus, Moon trifecta (maybe I'll take photos) and the coming aurora borealis.  Sun had a HUGE explosion and it's coming our way. Hide your children, vaporization is imminent. 

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I'm surprised there is not a lot of talk about one of the biggest discovery's ever.  Scientists have been working on this for 50 years.  The Large Hadron Collider has uncovered new evidence of a new elementary particle, the Higgs particle.  Fundamental physics has all of a sudden changed.  Space is NOT a vast void of nothing.  It's actually SOMETHING.  The forces that govern our existence actually interact with what we thought was empty space.

All of a sudden we find out that empty space contains the seed or our existence and empty space actually contains . . . .something.

The problem (as I understand it) was that we all knew that there was a big bang. Heck, scientists have actually been able to HEAR it but the thing was that how could this happen if there was nothing BEFORE the BIG BANG. You can't have an explosion out of nothing right?   Well, what we thought was nothing is actually something.

The Large Hadron Collider reinforces a couple of uncomfortable possibilities.  The first is that everything we know, the universe, us, earth  . . .everything is an accident.  We are the ultimate silly puddy.

The 2nd is that creating something out of nothing is not that hard.  There seems to be a lot more to nothing then we thought.  Space is not void.  Before the big bang there was nothing but space, an endless void of nothing.  But out of nothing BANG, everything.

"The Higgs particle is now arguably more relevant then God".   OH - don't ask me what the heck it is or even how "we" as in humans, found it. 
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Water your grass.  YUP, better water it. Not to make it green but to save it.  You see the crown is dehydrating and will soon die.  Grass does become dormant but there is a limit. If the crown dies as the ground temp gets near 80 you will be faced with a few hundred dollars in bills next year reseeding and watering your dead lawns. No rain is one thing but add in extreme heat - it's death to lawns.

The crown needs on average about 1/2 an inch of rain every 2 weeks.  We have had 1/2 inch of rain in a little over 6 weeks and are constantly in the 90s.  Going to be a lot of dead lawns next year.  And don't give me this BS about how expensive water is. it's a myth.  Good grief.   Water is not expensive at all.  Only because we get billed once a month do we THINK it's expensive.
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Did you know the average teenager texts 3,7000 texts a month?  And they 1/3 of all smartphone users get online before getting out of bed?

That's it - gotta get to work.

Cheers
Rod