2012 Fraud – More Comments January 27, 2009
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I know that the year 2012 is going to be insane about this ‘end of the world’ topic, and I also know there really isn’t anyway to prevent it, but I have to try. Maybe I’ll get through to a few people that see how silly it is. The biggest problem I have is with people writing sensationalist books, trying to con people out of their hard-earned dollars.
Having said that, I would like to point out an news article I read about this topic. In particular, some very telling comments were made.
For instance, Lawrence Joseph wrote a book called “Apocalypse 2012″ and outlines “terrible possibilities.” The article says,
“But Joseph admits he doesn’t think the world is going to end. “I do, however, believe that 2012 will prove to be… a very dramatic and probably transformative year,” Joseph said. The author acknowledged he’s worried his book’s title might scare people, but said he wanted to alert the public about possible dangers ahead.”
This is all great. There are “possibilities.” Of course there are. There are terrible possibilities every day of every year. We don’t have to wait until 2012 for that to come true. Also, every year is transformative. Would anyone want to deny that 2008 was a significantly transformative year? Funny, no ancient cultures or psychics predicted that one.
Another of these people is half truthful:
Another author said the doom and gloom approach is a great misunderstanding of 2012.
“The trendy doomsday people… should be treated for what they are: under-informed opportunists and alarmists who will move onto other things in 2013,” said John Major Jenkins, whose books include “Galactic Alignment” and who describes himself as a self-taught independent Maya scholar.
Yes, the trendy doomsday people will move on to something, but so will the other trendy opportunists, such as John Major Jenkins.
Here is the basic facts. The Mayans had no idea there was any such thing as a center of the galaxy. The Mayan calendar doesn’t end in 2012, it is merely the end of a cycle. The Sun is eclipsing the center of the Milky Way every year and has been for decades.
Here are some other facts. There is a great possibility that something will happen in 2012. There is also a great possibility that something will happen in 2009, 2010, and 2011, as well as 2013, 2014 and every other year after that. Face it, something happens just about every year that we wish didn’t happen. This doesn’t have anything to do with Mayan, the center of the galaxy, or 2012. Its just life.
So, if you want to study the Mayans, learn about their rich and wonderful culture. Maybe make a trip to Belize or Guatemala and see their culture first-hand. But, for goodness sake, don’t waste your money by giving any of it to these charlatans.
Annular Eclipse – January 2009 January 25, 2009
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There is an annular eclipse of the Sun tommorrow (January 24). This is an eclipse where the Moon is between the Earth and the Sun, but is at or near the far point in its orbit around the Earth. As a result, the Moon appears smaller in the sky and doesn’t block out the entire Sun. In the best view of this it appears as a fiery ring. This ring is called an annulus, hence the name of the eclipse.
The eclipse is occurring over the Indian Ocean, but you can follow it on live webcams on the website for the International Year of Astronomy. Even after the eclipse is over, this is still a good website to check out. (more…)
More Bad News For Global Warming Skeptics – Antarctica is Warming January 24, 2009
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One of the arguments global warming skeptics like to make is that Antarctica isn’t warming and this is proof that global warming doesn’t exist. This is a false argument in that saying a small percentage of the Earth isn’t warming doesn’t prove anything about the rest of the planet.
In fact, this anomaly has long been explained. There are large air currents circling Antarctica, isolating the atmosphere over the continent from the rest of the planet. Meanwhile, the ozone hole that appears over Antarctica every year changes the atmospheric dynamics down there. This theory is supported by the fact that the Antarctica Peninsula juts out beyond these circumpolar currents and is known to be experiencing warming along with the rest of the planet.
Well, now the skeptics have lost even the little bit they had in this case. New analysis of satellite data shows that Antarctica is actually warming. You can read the report here at Science News or here at Live Science.
Here’s the image showing the continent with the changes in temperature between 1957 and 2006 shown in colors. The pale blue areas are places where the temperature has dropped over the time interval. The red areas are where the temperatures have gone up. The redder it is, the more the temperature has risen.
Well, what about the circumpolar currents? Does this mean the climatologists were all wrong about those all this time? Unfortunately, no. The belief is that this is still correct and it was working to help keep Antarctica cooler than it would otherwise be. The good news is that with reductions in CFCs, the ozone hole is diminishing and may be gone as soon as 2050. The bad news is that this will lead to even greater warming of Antarctica and its ice sheets. This ice is on land, so melt water from this ice mass is being added to the oceans and there is enough ice there to raise the ocean levels several meters.
That’s bad enough, but there is concern that the western ice sheet (the area colored the deepest red in the image) could slide off the continent and into the ocean. This would be catastrophic. The sudden increase in ocean levels would not give coastal communities time to adjust. And, the tidal wave resulting from such an event would be almost unimaginable in its destructive effect.
Could this happen? Absolutely. But, how likely is it to happen? That’s the big question and one that needs to be studied. The good answer is that if it were to ever occur, it will not be for some time yet. So, while we need to be concerned about it, we don’t need to worry about it happening right away.
So, once again, we find that the scientific data does not support the arguments of the global warming skeptics.
Why Winter Storms Are Evidence of Global Warming January 13, 2009
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There is a major winter storm heading down from Canada this week that is really dropping temperatures across the country. As usual, global warming skeptics are citing this as ‘proof’ that global warming doesn’t exist.
I have always maintained that a necessary and logical result of global warming was that winter storms would become more severe and more frequent. This has frequently been met with, to put it politely, skeptical comments. My argument has always been that global warming is not predicting the end of winters, what it is predicting is that the amount of heat stored in the atmosphere is rising due to man’s activities. One of the results is that winters will become shorter and milder, but they will still come. Winter is a result of the tilt of the Earth’s axis relative to the Sun’s equator and no amount of global warming is going to change that tilt. As a result, each polar region experiences long periods of darkness in the winter – the exact amount of darkness is dependent on the location’s latitude with the poles experiencing six months of nighttime (with some of that nighttime being twilight). This will result in the air masses over the polar regions getting very cold. If nothing happened, that cold air would just sit there. It takes a great deal of energy to move that cold air mass and that energy is stored in the atmosphere. The more energy there is available, the more air can be moved.
To use an analogy, suppose we have an ice factory that makes big blocks of ice and loads them on a train. The train, and the ice, isn’t going anywhere without fuel for the train. The more fuel there is, the more frequently the train can run, the further it can go, and the faster it can go. Well, the polar regions are the ice factories and the atmospheric currents are the train. Energy stored in the atmosphere is the fuel for the currents.
So, just how much energy are we talking about? I did some order of magnitude calculations that I thought I’d share with you.
Looking at the weather map, I used 5000 kilometers as the size of the continental U.S. as a scale to estimate the current cold air mass shown on weather maps to be about 2500 kilometers in diameter. This gives the air mass a surface area of about 5 x 10^12 square meters (5 trillion square meters).
Not all of the atmosphere is moving. I used an estimate that air below 30,000 feet is moving and anything above that is separate from this storm system. 30,000 feet is about 9000 meters. I then calculated the pressure at 30,000 feet and came up with 3,100 pascals. In comparison, the standard pressure at sea level is 101,000 pascals (a pascal is a newton per square meter). Now, this calculation is based on a temperature of 260 K (about 10 degrees Fahrenheit), which is way too high based on news reports of temperatures in the minus 40s. What that means is I’m underestimating the amount of mass and that’s good.
What I did next was to subtract the air pressure at 30,000 feet from the standard pressure to get 70,000 pascals. My line of reasoning is that the pressure at the bottom of this air mass is equal to the pressure caused by the mass of the storm system plus the mass of the air above the storm system. So, subtracting the pressure at 30,000 feet (which is due to the mass of the air above the storm system) from the pressure on the ground will give me the pressure that is due only to the mass of the system. Stay with me.
Well, a pascal is a newton per square meter and we already calculated the number of square meters of the system, so multiplying the two of them will give us the weight in newtons of the storm system. This calculation gave me 3.5 x 10^17 newtons. If we divide this number by the strength of gravity (9.8 meters per second-squared) we get the mass of the storm system – about 3.6 x 10^16 kilograms. To put this in perspective, this is roughly 85,000 times the mass of all the people in the world combined.
In order to estimate how much energy is needed to move this air mass, I needed to estimate how much the friction force is. This is the iffiest part of this calculation. I choose to use an frictional acceleration of 1 meter per second-squared. Compared to gravity (9.8 meters per second-squared), I thought this seemed reasonable. It certainly is not more than a factor of 10 too big or a factor of ten too small. I think it is probably on the small side of the estimates, which would be a conservative estimate and that’s what we want. Using that acceleration and the previously estimated mass of the system, I come up with a force of about 3.6 x 10^16 newtons that are required to keep this mass moving in the presence of friction.
Next, I needed to estimate how fast this system is moving. The news reports I’ve seen show this thing moving about 3000 kilometers in roughly 72 hours. This comes out to be about 11 m/s, or about 26 mph. That seems reasonable.
The reason I need the force and the velocity is because the equation for power is P = F x v. Using the values we just calculated, we get an estimate of about 4 x 10^17 watts. A watt is a joule per second and we want the number of joules, so we multiply this number by the number of seconds in the 72 hours it will take to move the mass to get 10^23 joules of energy.
Let’s put that in context. 10^23 joules is about 10,000 times the amount of yearly power production of the United States. It is more than 10 million times the amount of energy released by the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. That’s a lot of energy!
Obviously this energy must come from somewhere and its coming from the energy stored in the atmosphere. With global warming, there is more energy than before being stored and available for storms, winter and summer both. So, you see, a massive winter storm doesn’t disprove global warming, it is actually evidence in support of it. If winters are getting shorter (they are, the measurements are undeniable) and milder (again, the evidence is undeniable), why are storms getting more severe?
Now, these calculations here are only estimates, but I tried to be conservative in all of my estimates, so the actual amount of energy consumed by this current storm system is probably even greater than what I calculated here. I feel confident I’m not off by more than an order of magnitude or two.
Did Scientists Predict A New Ice Age? January 11, 2009
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One of the arguments by global warming skeptics is that scientists in the 1970s were predicting we were heading for a new ice age. Their claim is that if scientists were so willing to change their predictions once before, then what’s to stop them from doing it again? Clearly, they say, the scientists were wrong back then and they are just as likely to be wrong today.
This, of course, is a totally invalid argument. But, as it turns out, it is also false. A survey of scientific literature between 1965 and 1979 shows that only seven scientific papers were written predicting global cooling. At the same time, there were 44 papers written warning of global warming. There were another 20 papers that were neutral or made no prediction. The principle paper about global cooling that is cited by global warming skeptics is a 1971 paper written by a then graduate student at Columbia University named Stephen Schneider, which appeared in the journal Science. This paper said that a four-fold rise in atmospheric aerosols could lead to a downward spiral in global temperature.
However, we have learned a lot about atmospheric sciences since 1971 and Schneider, now a climatologist at Stanford University, says this new information has made his 1971 paper no longer valid. Schneider says, ‘The likelihood of new evidence to overthrow the concept of global warming is small. Warming is virtually certain.’
So, the evidence shows that, contrary to the claims, the scientific consensus in the 1970s did not predict a new ice age and the majority of the community did not change its mind about the evidence.
Nostradamus 2012 – Just the Facts January 6, 2009
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I could go on about how the show Nostradamus 2012 on the History Channel should have been called “The Three Stooges 2012″, but I won’t. I figure most people are smart enough to realize that for themselves and if you believe in this nonsense, there is positively no possible way that you can be convinced otherwise. Instead, I want to go through and address a few of the factual issues of the show. This is only a sampling. Without editorializing, there are literally so many factual errors in this show that I could not list them all here. I have to limit myself to the highlights.
Let’s begin with the conjunction of the Sun and the galactic center. The premise of the show is that the Sun’s path through the sky will pass through the galactic center in 2012 with the Sun being in conjunction (a visual lining up) with the galactic center on the winter solstice (about December 21). Somehow, they say, this will set in motion cataclysmic events.
The fact is, the Sun lies in conjunction with the galactic center every year and nothing has ever happened the other times it has occurred. No explanation is ever given of why this should happen in 2012, but not any of the other times it happens.
Another key claim is that the Mayan calendar ends in 2012. Can it possibly be coincidence that the Mayan calendar ends the same time the Sun is in conjunction with the galactic center?
Actually, yes it can be a coincidence, and not even a very big one. First, the Mayan calendar doesn’t ‘end’ in 2012 any more than the western calendar ends on December 31. That is merely when one cycle ends and another begins. The Mayan calendar is based on the cycles of Venus, which was very holy to them. The Mayans called Venus Kukulcan and made human sacrifices to it. Venus goes through five full cycles every eight Earth years, where a cycle consists of going from being the evening star, to the morning star, and back to the evening star again. The time Venus spends in the sky as either the evening star or morning star is 260 days. This is the basis of not only the Mayan calendar, but some calendars still in use in Central America even today. If you watch the 260-day cycle, it comes into phase with the 365-day calendar every 52 years. This 52-year cycle is known as the Calendar Round and is the period of the Mayan calendar. It is the end of a Calendar Round that occurs in 2012 (with the start of a new Calendar Round right after that). So, it is merely a 1 in 52 chance that the Calendar Round would end in 2012. Given all of the hundreds of different calendars in the world, it is not surprising at all to find one that correlates with 2012. The cycles of Venus are available to anyone with the simplest of observational tools and patience, both of which the Mayans, and other cultures, had in abundance.
The show was very dependent on the possible interpretations of Nostradamus quatrains. As I have said before, this is more than questionable. Individual quatrains have been claimed to have predicted several different events. At one point in the show, they are speaking of one particular quatrain, saying it ‘exactly’ predicted the Katrina disaster in New Orleans and then go on to say that it even predicted other storms. How can they claim it predicted Katrina while at the same time claiming it predicted other storms? The fact is, if you take a detailed historical timeline and sit down with the quatrains, you can make them match up with as many historical events as you want. Each quatrain is so vague and meaningless that it has whatever meaning you wish to assign to it. They cannot be considered to be predictions by any meaningful definition of the word.
They also spent a great deal of time on the so-called ‘Lost Book of Nostradamus.’ This is a series of painted pages that were painted hundreds of years after Nostradamus died. Through a terribly convoluted argument, some people are claiming they were actually predictions by Nostradamus, even though its well known he couldn’t draw. But, using these drawings, they read what they want to see and use it as ‘evidence.’ All of which is very questionable.
One picture had a drawing of the Sun and a Lion, which they claimed was predicting the conjunction of the Sun with the galactic center in the constellation Leo. Unfortunately, the conjunction will occur in Sagittarius.
Another had a swirl next to a scorpion. Somehow, this was supposed to show that Nostradamus had knowledge that the Milky Way galaxy is a spiral galaxy. I really couldn’t see how this interpretation could be justified. Again, the center of the Milky Way is in Sagittarius, not Scorpio.
Another one had a banner swirling around a sword. They claimed the S-shape of the sword showed the S-shape of the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The problem is that I cannot see any S-shape. Take a look for yourself here.
This was a continuing problem throughout the show. Basically, they wanted to find some supporting evidence and they went out and interpreted even the most obscure things as such. The ball game played by Mayans was supposed to be a representation of the Sun’s conjunction with the galaxy center. One of the Lost Book cards had three eclipses on it and they stated 2012 is a very rare year with three eclipses. Not so. Three eclipses is very common, especially since they were not limiting themselves to eclipses of the Sun or Moon.
The three pyramids of Giza were supposed to represent the belt of Orion and they claimed the ancient Egyptians were warning us of the 2012 event with these. The argument was that the pyramids represented Orion and the Sun was in Orion six months out from Sagittarius. The problem with this claim is that the Sun never passes through Orion.
They found four animal carvings and interpreted these as being the four constellations the Sun passes through in the zodiac. But, the Sun passes through all 12 constellations in the zodiac, which is why those constellations draw attention. [The Sun actually passes through part of a 13th one, but that isn't an issue here.]
They talk about the 2004 earthquake that caused the disastrous tsunami, saying that there was a 9.0 earthquake in a region that was not even previously known to have a fault. The fault was actually well know, well mapped, and well studied. There is a mountain of data on this fault.
They say that if America stopped shipping food there would be a massive famine. They even claimed that 500 million people would die of famine in Africa within a year. In 1980 Jimmy Carter ordered a grain embargo because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the world markets didn’t even hiccup. The loss of the American food crops would be bad, but wouldn’t cause hundreds of millions of deaths in just a year.
They talked about a ‘cosmic super wave’ that will irradiate the Earth with a beam of gamma rays on December 21 from the center of the Milky Way. There is simply no such thing as a death ray like cosmic super wave. The black hole in the center of the Milky Way will, aperiodically, suck in a star and emit large amounts of gamma rays. These gamma rays go in all directions and the center of the galaxy is so far away that they are harmless to us.
They say this alignment could trigger a massive volcanic eruption. This is completely non-physical. As I said before, the Sun actually aligns with the galactic center every year and nothing happens. But, there can’t be an eruption without an influx of lava. These kinds of influxes take tens of thousands of years to occur. No alignment can suddenly cause such a influx.
These are just a few factual errors they make in this show. There are many more. In fact, almost everything said in this show is a falsehood. But, that’s the problem with all of these kinds of claims. And, yet, people believe in them anyway. Come December 21, 2012, there will be all sorts of news stories of the people getting ready for the end of times.
The problem is that if any kind of tumultuous event should happen, such as what we see on a regular basis, they can say, ‘See? We told you so!’
Nostradamus: 2012 – First Comments January 5, 2009
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[Note: See also my post: Nostradamus 2012 Just The Facts]
I started watching the show Nostradamus:2012 on the History Channel and I just wanted to make my first comments. It’ll take me a little while to get my full comments down because there is so much nonsense in this show that I couldn’t write fast enough. It will take me some time and I really don’t want to write some book-long posting detailing every silly mistake they make. But, I’ll start out with a few notable ones.
First, the so-called Lost Book of Nostradamus wasn’t even written by Nostradamus. It was written hundreds of years after he died. I wrote a posting on this topic before.
They freely through out qualifiers like ‘might’, ’seems’, ‘possibly’, and ‘could be’ as if this somehow makes the statement more credible. The statement ‘The Sun might rise tomorrow’ is less credible than the statement ‘The Sun will rise tomorrow’. The question is, why don’t these people realize that? Saying ‘2012 could be an important year’ is not made more credible with the ‘could be’ thrown in. Saying, ‘The Mayans seems to have realized this’ is not more convincing with the words ’seems to’ included. What these kinds of words do is to make the statements nothing more than conjecture and hyperbole. There is no substance, but at the same time, there is nothing that is being said that they can be held to task for. If things don’t work out, then they merely say, ‘Well I only said that it ‘might’ happen.’ In the meantime, they make a bunch of money by sucking in a bunch of gullible people.
Another point, contrary to what is being said, Nostradamus never predicted anything. ANYTHING! What he did was to write a bunch of vague quattrains that are basically meaningless. Most experts generally agree that he was writing in code about the political activities and the national figures of his day. Many people look at these meaningless statements of his and say, ‘Hey! You could interpret this to mean what is going on today!’ The problem is that you could make this statement at just about any point since Nostradamus died. In fact, his quattrains appear to predict hundreds, if not thousands, of events. How can it be a prediction when it happens over and over? When do you say, ‘Well, we can’t say this quattrain is predicting today’s events because it has already been established he was predicting events that happened 100 years ago, and 50 years before that, and another 75 years before that one, and…’
The fact that this show is such garbage is evident by the fact that they have no contrary individuals in it. They didn’t include anyone that would say, ‘No, what these people are saying is false because ….’ You really have to wonder about any show that only includes people that are selling a single bill of goods. This becomes more and more of an issue the more radical the bill of goods becomes. Claiming the world is going to end in 2012 is a big one, too.
So, I’ll be back with more detailed comments about this rubbish. I will leave you with one question to ponder. When the world doesn’t end on December 21, 2012, will any of these people wise up?
More Nostradamus Bunk January 3, 2009
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We were walking along in NYC last week when I looked over and saw this billboard advertising a show on the History Channel: Nostradamus 2012. I thought, ‘Great! Here’s another piece of crap I have to watch so I can debunk my students questions!’
I’ll watch the show so that I know what these people are saying and make a posting here next week. But, briefly, these kinds of things are the equivalent of Nigerian email scams. They are preying on the gullible and trying to take their money. Don’t buy into it! Watch the show, but do so with a mind open to the idea that there are alternatives to what they are trying to feed you. The show is first airing on Sunday, January 4th at 9 PM Eastern time.
Times Square on New Year’s Eve January 2, 2009
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I got home from my holiday trip last night, after spending several days with friends and family in the Northeast. It was great visiting everyone and we all had a nice, quiet time.
After leaving New England I headed to New York City with my girlfriend for a couple of days. I love Manhatten and have a few favorites to see and do while trying to always do something new. We got around and saw a lot of the city, including the Dakotas (where John Lennon used to live), Strawberry Fields, Soho and Greenwich Village (both very cool places), a lot of Central Park, and the American Museum of Natural History (my girlfriend’s idea and the first time she had ever been to the granddaddy of all natural history museums). We went down Fifth Avenue and I felt like I didn’t have enough money to be allowed to walk down the sidewalk. The displays were incredible. We went shopping in Saks and the prices were mind boggling. Saks had these holiday window displays that apparently quite the thing. I sure hope so because there was an hour long line to see them. We also went in to see a couple of cathedrals, St. Patrick’s and St. Thomas’. Both were beautiful, but the crowds went for St. Patrick’s, the home of the archbishop. That was unfortunate because I thought St. Thomas’, while smaller, was much more beautiful. We did most of all of this out doors, even though it was very cold and snowing.
We ate in some nice restaurants and visited a real classic pub that has been in business since 1860. We stopped to get hot dogs from a street vendor, one of my favorite traditions, and had some authentic New York cheesecake (so yummy!). We also went to see the musical Mama Mia!, which was very good. I’m intrigued with this idea that these guys wrote a musical without writing a single note of music. What a deal.
Of course, the big event, and the reason we were there, was New Year’s Eve. What madness!
They didn’t start putting up the barricades until some time between 2 and 3 in the afternoon. All of the traffic was rerouted and the streets became big sidewalks. I’m sure they waited that long so they could keep the crowd under more control. Last year I know they had some barricades up as early as 8 in the morning and people stood there for 16 hours in order to see a 10 second drop of a ball.
What they do is create these pens in the streets with cross sections between them. Once you’re in a pen, that’s it. There are no bathrooms and no eating or drinking. The pens are in the middle of the street, so there is no shelter from the cold and wind except the mass of people crowding around you. You can leave, but you can’t get back in. Once a pen is filled, they open up the next one further out and fill that one.
We were out in the crowd up until about 7:00 or so. By that time, the crowd was backed up to 53rd street. Since Times Square begins at 42nd, that means there were already 11 blocks of people five hours before midnight, and they were rushing in. My girlfriend and I were crossing a street one time when they opened the barricades and let people in. I’m not exaggerating one bit when I say it was like being caught in a river flood. I just held onto her hand and we worked our way through the torrent. There were a couple of times when I thought we were going to be knocked over. You better believe we were on the lookout to avoid a repeat of that experience.
But, the temperature was 19 and the windchill was 7 and I think they understated it. With the canyon effect between those buildings the wind was really roaring through there. We were severely cold and not enjoying ourselves, so we watched the rest of the night from our hotel room. We couldn’t see the ball drop from our room, but they had giant screens up in the streets so everyone could see it and we had a perfect view of one from our room. We just opened our window shortly before midnight and watched from up there. I invited my girlfriend’s daughter and a friend of her’s to come down and enjoy the show with us. The two of them went down about 30 minutes before midnight and they said it really wasn’t anything. They couldn’t see anything except the crowd around them and then everyone started cheering right before midnight.
They had performers all evening and then fireworks right after dropping the ball. And then, that was it. They broke down the barricades, turned out the lights, stopped the performances and shut off the big screens by about 10 minutes after midnight. Clearly, they wanted to get everyone out of there. Watching from our room we could see the crowds just scattering everywhere. They not only closed the streets to traffic, but they also closed the subway entrances for several blocks in every direction to keep a giant mass of people from trying to squeeze in. What that meant was that all of those people were then fanning out over the city to find transportation home. Good thing, too, because there were about 1 million people out there. In comparison, there are only 730,000 people in all of South Dakota.
It was all very exciting and we all enjoyed it, but I’m not sure I would ever want to do it again. Once is good enough.
So, it was a good time, but I’m glad to be home. The midshipmen return Sunday night, all of the admin stuff starts Monday, and classes start on Wednesday. My son comes back from his mom’s Sunday evening and I have a ton of chores to do around here. So, it’s right back to the grind for me.
Wishing everyone a Happy New Year’s.
