Sun Rising

[cabinetman]

This morning the weather girl talked about the time the sun rising would be. So, I thought I'd grab a cup of coffee and go outside and watch it lift up.
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[gerti]

And? Did it?

[LCHIEN]

no pictures, didn't happen, as they say.

[cabinetman]

no pictures, didn't happen, as they say.

Nope...couldn't take pictures (dead batteries). But, here's what happened.

I went through two cups of coffee waiting, and the darkness decreased and it became light outside. I saw it and I'm positive there were other people that saw this happen.

Afterwards, I went indoors and called the news station weather girl. Got her assistant instead and she said the weathergirl couldn't come to the phone because she was experimenting with the teleprompter. So I asked her to tell the weathergirl that the sun doesn't actually "rise", although the sun does move as it orbits the center of the Milky Way Galaxy at about 225 Km/sec, and our Galaxy itself has a motion in its Local Group of galaxies of about 100 Km/sec.

Well, she said that's really too much information for her.
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[docrowan]

I know you're being tongue in cheek, but I wonder what it would be called if you chose to speak of it in a strictly scientific way, rather than as we experience it. I think the boundary between light and dark on a moon or other planet is called "limn" or something like that? Any astronomy buffs out there that can answer this?

[smorris]

Ask the weather person if that is the time for nautical or civil sunrise\sunset. They should know the difference and why it matters.

[TB Roye]

Call the weather girl back and tell her to contact the President on how to use a Teleprompter. The devil made me do it.


Tom