Don't open it. It's not a letter but a 1st day cover.

Don't open it. It's not a letter but a 1st day cover.

That envelope is worth a bit of cash. Don't damage it or the stamp.
I may be wrong. But was there a few letters hand stamped on the moon. This may be one of them.

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Don't open it. It's not a letter but a 1st day cover.

That envelope is worth a bit of cash. Don't damage it or the stamp.
I may be wrong. But was there a few letters hand stamped on the moon. This may be one of them.

Not to mention a golf ball somewhere on that YUGE sand trap...

I would be mind-boggled if that envelope had been to the moon, but there is something inside it, and that intrigues me, too. It's safe and sound back in the bank box. I just took it home to scan a picture of it.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Don't open it. It's not a letter but a 1st day cover.

That envelope is worth a bit of cash. Don't damage it or the stamp.
I may be wrong. But was there a few letters hand stamped on the moon. This may be one of them.

Not to mention a golf ball somewhere on that YUGE sand trap...

I would be mind-boggled if that envelope had been to the moon, but there is something inside it, and that intrigues me, too. It's safe and sound back in the bank box. I just took it home to scan a picture of it.

A dollar bill autographed by Neil Armstrong, "Buzz" Aldrin & Mike Collins & dated :-)

Just checked on ebay. They are selling for $3-5.00

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Well, it's the thought that counts, as they say... It's nice my parents wanted to leave me a memento.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

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GROSS! ‘Urine Test’ Reveals up to 75 Litres Of Pee In Public Swimming Pools

“The test works by measuring the concentration of an artificial sweetener, acesulfame potassium (ACE), that is commonly found in processed food and passes through the body unaltered,” explained The Guardian in a report. “After tracking the levels of the sweetener in two public pools in Canada over a three-week period they calculated that swimmers had released 75 litres of urine – enough to fill a medium-sized dustbin – into a large pool (about 830,000 litres, one-third the size of an Olympic pool) and 30 litres into a second pool, around half the size of the first.”

The study also revealed that hot-tubs were even more likely than pools to contain higher concentrations of urine.

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Oh. Em. Gee.

We have a sewer problem at work. Downstairs in the same room where I work. The whole room stinks and the halls around it. We have closed for the day and moved into the room next door.

You know what they say about stink on S***. Are they going to disinfect?

I had to move some stuff back to my area about half an hour before leaving. There was nobody downstairs, the lights were off, and a fan was running. Still stunk, maybe not as bad or maybe I'd gotten used to it.

Today is the county teacher's institute day and I'm going to a different building.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

GROSS! ‘Urine Test’ Reveals up to 75 Litres Of Pee In Public Swimming Pools

“The test works by measuring the concentration of an artificial sweetener, acesulfame potassium (ACE), that is commonly found in processed food and passes through the body unaltered,” explained The Guardian in a report. “After tracking the levels of the sweetener in two public pools in Canada over a three-week period they calculated that swimmers had released 75 litres of urine – enough to fill a medium-sized dustbin – into a large pool (about 830,000 litres, one-third the size of an Olympic pool) and 30 litres into a second pool, around half the size of the first.”

The study also revealed that hot-tubs were even more likely than pools to contain higher concentrations of urine.

Want gross?! Every bit of water on earth is dinosaur pee!
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/22/la-considers-1-billion-toilet-to-tap-water-program.html

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Wait a minute. Some of our water is freshly delivered from space every day. Here is a story from Science Magazine.
Tracking Fresh Water From Space.

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Now I am wondering if there are space dinosaurs.
I would say that is just as likely as other forms of life.
That would really be something to see, but of course they would most likely not resemble earth dinosaurs.

Steve

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Warning, addicted to SETI crunching!
Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group.
GPUUG Website

Now I am wondering if there are space dinosaurs.
I would say that is just as likely as other forms of life.
That would really be something to see, but of course they would most likely not resemble earth dinosaurs.

Steve

It will be very interesting to see how life evolves on several different planets. Interesting to see if plants, animals, fungus are on other worlds or if it takes an unrecognizable path.

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It will be very interesting to see how life evolves on several different planets. Interesting to see if plants, animals, fungus are on other worlds or if it takes an unrecognizable path.

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Oh. Em. Gee.

We have a sewer problem at work. Downstairs in the same room where I work. The whole room stinks and the halls around it. We have closed for the day and moved into the room next door.

You know what they say about stink on S***. Are they going to disinfect?

I had to move some stuff back to my area about half an hour before leaving. There was nobody downstairs, the lights were off, and a fan was running. Still stunk, maybe not as bad or maybe I'd gotten used to it.

Today is the county teacher's institute day and I'm going to a different building.

I was there for a couple of hours and then came back to mine. I smell nothing, but I haven't gone down for a look.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Water from space. What if a passing ufo flushes the zero-g toilet as it is passing us?

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Remember the fun and games at the Oroville Dam and it's spillway?
Some very interesting pictures showing the extent of the damage to the spillway. Not only that, but the pool at the bottom of the spillway has been filled in by all the debris washed down (estimated at 1.7 million cubic yards), and that in turn has stopped the operation of the hydro power station (the tail race is blocked), which then further reduces the ability to lower the dams water level, as well as taking out over 800MW of power capacity from the network.
Oroville dam update.

I suggest watching the video in full screen mode to get a better appreciation of the scale of the damage caused by the spillway failure.
And towards the end of the still shots are some of the Auxiliary spillway erosion damage. The only way that can be of future use is if the whole damn thing is concreted, otherwise the damage will just re-occur in an un-concreted area.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Oroville dam from space, 22nd Feb, 2017 (12MB file).

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Grant
Darwin NT

when the park does issue a bill(they are late, I'm not), then I will have two keys made

That doesn't make any sense? Bills are demands for money that have to be paid. So why will paying a bill give you money you don't have now to buy new keys??

I was just thinking that myself - you must surely know (to within a few cents) what your monthly park bill is going to be, so either you have the money to buy the keys now, or you are going to have to wait until after your next "pay" cheque arrives - I would guess that you are probably going to have to wait for the cheque as this is a rather unfortunate, unplanned, expense that you could do without (as would most of us here - changing locks or getting new keys cut is all too often a grade one PITA...)

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Ok the Rent Bill is here, the total is $426.03, a difference of $81.70, which I can use elsewhere

Or save for emergency use.

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Grant
Darwin NT