Sorry for the bandwidth, but if anyone would know about this, someone on
this list would!
While remodeling the kitchen/dining room in my older home, I found a $1.00
token for Sears Grocery and Bakery of Albany Oregon buried under a wall
heater. It feels like it is made of tin, and is about the size of a $.50
coin. It doesn't have a date or other identifying marks.
I have talked with locals, and they don't remember Sears every having a
grocery / bakery.
I have been searching the web including using Goggle, but have turned up
nothing.
If you have any information or suggested sites for searching I would
appreciate it.
Thanks,
Paul Scott
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-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
Behalf Of Wirt Atmar
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 1:56 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [HP3000-L] WOT: SOFIA
The following is wildly off-topic, but interesting enough to post here
anyway. Besides you may see this material on a transcontinental flight soon
anyway.
The subject is the formation of planetary systems around newly born stars.
Every bit of theory we now have says that a star forms from the
gravitational
collapse of a dense nebula (a cloud composed primarily of hydrogen, but also
of other higher elements; the percentage of these higher "metals" determines
the type of star that it will be). In the conversion of gravitational
potential energy to kinetic energy of planetesimals impacting on the planets
accreting from the nebula, two forms of heat (entropy) are generated. One
source goes into planetary residual internal heat, and the second into the
radiation of a large number of infrared photons as the nebula collapses.
The search for the infrared radiation accompanying the collapse of
protoplanetary nebulae into planetesimals is one of the ideas that has
underlain the 20 year planning and construction of SOFIA, the Stratospheric
Observatory For Infrared Astronomy, a large infrared telescope that has been
mounted on a massively modified 747. SOFIA is based at Moffett Field, just
up
the road from Cupertino, and will soon begin flying.
Because United Airlines will maintain the SOFIA aircraft, they're going to
begin showing soon a 14-part series of 4 minute videos on their flights
outlining the nature of the SOFIA missions. Five of the videos are already
made and are available on-line at in QuickTime format:
http://www.united-sofia.com/Farout_2_frm.htm
If you have the time, the video clips are worth watching. And if you can
think of any way to claim that you're a science teacher in a public school,
you could even get a ride on the aircraft for at least one mission.
Wirt Atmar
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