“This will hopefully protect the endangered animal—the only known white giraffe in the world—from poaching.”

Mrs. Z picked up a bunch of masks in March that have the ties for around the neck and back of the head... no back-of-ear chafing.  Works well for me as I wear hearing aids . They also have a nice pocket where I can put in a piece of 13 MERV furnace filter...

“Therefore, Arecibo is the best instrument in the world to study the properties and trajectory of any potentially hazardous asteroid moving toward Earth.”

Brutal. Subtle, but brutal.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I was trying to figure that out. If I read it right, Sabine and Ahoska take off on their quest to find Ezra in the year 5 ABY. The Mandalorian takes place in 9 ABY. So.. they are back and either did or didn’t find him(?) Maybe(? ) It occurs to me that a “forest planet” with all its life would be strong with the Force…

Exactly. I won’t relax until Joe’s hand is on the bible.

I agree. As long as the Republicans in power continue to support him and abet his actions, the Biden presidency is jeopardized. Now that Esper has been fired it will be up to the new guy to say “no” to dispatching troops to “quell the violence” in the cities. We’re talking Martial Law here. Once that button is pushed…

Which reminds me: Once I have applied fertilizer and weed killer (“Weed and Feed”) to my lawn, has it been Weeded and Feeded or Wed and Fed?

yeah.. I am not well-versed in the old EU nor do I travel far outside the movies and (now) weekly Star Wars episodes. I also do not tweet. I am aware there differing schools of thought on the matter. I am here now but depending on what happens later.. my position could change. And I will be ok with that.

So, I Google-mapped Stromness and learned, much to my surprise, that the small burg up the coast named Leith has a Pizza Hut, a “Cold Rock Creamery and Cryrobank” as well as an Apple Store. Heading the other way, just around the Husvik peninsula there is a Starbucks.....

From Wookie-pedia: “Jango Fett was a renowned Mandalorian bounty hunter, assassin, mercenary, and the “father” of Boba Fett, a genetic clone of his, whom he raised as a son. A Human from Concord Dawn, Fett was adopted by Mandalorian warriors following the murder of his parents and the disappearance of his older sister …

Also, environmental conditions during the Late Cretaceous were vastly different than those of the Hadean (the planet was already teeming with life, for example),

oof.. I missed that. Doesn’t get more ‘80s than that, does it?

I do recall, I believe it was part of Niven’s “Known Space” collection, a species of tree that grew to massive size. I don’t recall the precise mechanism but when it matured, it launched a pod that could escape the gravity well and travel through space. Evidently it could also survive re-entry and would then…

Seems like plants, even sentient plants, would be a threat limited to a single planet... do they make their own ships? Are there Drengir space pilots? Drengir engineers? welders? So. Many. Questions.....

I’d say sooner rather than later. Bobba Fett want his armor back. And it is actually Fett that is the Mandalorian that was reported to be on Tattooine. It is his “father’s” armor after all. He has no love for the Jedi and will have his own agenda when it comes to returning the child.

“Vision’s slightly-off-angle soul stone” sheesh.. even I know better than that...

thank you

George Lucas had the “Human-God” interface figured out in 1971...