Daddy Wouldn’t Buy Me a Bow-Wow

Same caveat as yesterday’s post.

(My math is off somewhere and I don’t have the desire to figure out where I’ve gone wrong, so I’m editing this post, as well as the following one with no references to actual numbers.)

Eldrad must live!

(The sound files are in chronological order by serial.
K-9 and Company: A Girl’s Best Friend is out of place.
I don’t care to correct its placement on the list.
These new mp3s will be found at the bottom of the page.
I’m far, far too lazy to put in an anchor to make your life easier.
xoxo)

The Hand of Fear

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KaTe Bush
30 July 1958

I didn’t, but I’ll tell you anyway. When I get them all posted, there will be 55 and all from The Hand of Fear. I probably went a little overboard, especially when I’ve got five of S!J!S! declaring that “Eldrad must live!” And when there’s one where she doesn’t say a word because she’s bamboozled and unable to come back with a witty and sarcastic rejoinder for the first time ever.

Yeah. It’s pretty hardcore fangirl stuff, this.

From wikipedia:

Launching at 9:34:00 am EST on 26 July 1971, Apollo 15 would take four days to reach the Moon. After spending two hours in orbit around the Earth, the S-IVB third stage of the Saturn V was reignited to send them to the Moon

On the fourth day they entered into lunar orbit and prepared for lunar descent…The crew still traveled to the edge of Hadley Rille. Returning to the LM (lunar module) for the last time, (David R.) Scott dropped a falcon feather and his geology hammer to prove Galileo Galilei’s theory that in a vacuum, objects of different mass fall at the same rate…On LRV 1, a plaque was attached bearing the inscription:

MANS (sic) FIRST WHEELS ON THE MOON, DELIVERED BY FALCON, 30 July 1971

And the signatures of the Apollo 15 Astronauts.

I’ve seen the earthquake reported at a whopping 5.8 and again at a not-so-whopping 5.4. What’s the correct magnitude? Is there really much of a distinction to those among us who don’t eat and breathe this type of thing?

I tend to think not; picture frames and Doctor Who figures would have still fallen off the bookcases. Mrs. Coulter would have still ended up between two bookcases, totally unreachable until the bookcases are moved. Mrs. Coulter’s daemon would have still had a giant pinecone fall on him as they tumbled from the bookcase. The shades still would have swayed. I still would have looked around in utter disbelief and when realization hit, do the only thing I could think of: sit on the floor and ask, “What the fuck?”. The five seconds it lasted would have still seemed like forever and my emm still would have called me about a millisecond after the last rumble, crying a little. JVL would have still called me just as I was hanging up with my emm and I still would have called BG1.

So, in the end, I don’t care if it was 5.4 or 5.8. I just wish the reports would be consistent.

(map found at the usgs website)

From wikipedia:

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation’s public space program. NASA was established on 29 July 1958, by the National Aeronautics and Space Act…After the Soviet space program’s launch of the world’s first human-made satellite (Sputnik 1) on 4 October 1957, the attention of the United States turned toward its own fledgling space efforts. The U.S. Congress, alarmed by the perceived threat to U.S. security and technological leadership (known as the “Sputnik crisis“), urged immediate and swift action; President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his advisors counseled more deliberate measures. Several months of debate produced an agreement that a new federal agency was needed to conduct all non-military activity in space. DARPA was also created at this time and many of DARPA’s early space programs were soon transferred to NASA.

Explorer 1, officially Satellite 1958 Alpha, was the first Earth artificial satellite of the United States, having been launched at 10:48pm EST on 31 January 1958. On 29 July 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, establishing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). When it began operations on 1 October 1958, NASA consisted mainly of the four laboratories and some 80 employees of the government’s 46-year-old research agency, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). A significant contributor to NASA’s entry into the Space race was the technology from the German rocket program, led by Wernher von Braun, who became a naturalized citizen of the United States after World War II. He is today regarded as the father of the United States space program. Elements of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (of which von Braun’s team was a part) and the Naval Research Laboratory were incorporated into NASA.

Warrior’s Gate

Modeled after “School Reunion.”
“Goodbye, my Sarah Jane!’

Doctor Who photo session

Originally uploaded by Mickelodeon on 27th July, 2008