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JohnW: “Agreed, since the last big one created the dinosaur extinction. Or so the theory goes…”

True enough, except for the birds, that now are understood to be actual dinosaurs (and some even look like it). As mentioned in voiceover in this video on a story of a Florida man attacked by “the most dangerous bird in the world” he was keeping as a pet. The man died.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBM7AI0yp78

And even more directly identifying birds and dinosaurs (some with very cute chicks):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK5azP5xJC0

So the asteroid miss some. Also something of a mystery why the turtles survived.

But, one would hope, “Dart” won’t miss its target on Monday. And might push it off its orbit around its bigger friend. For ever.

(Wonder where then it might go? .. Oh, nooo!)

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And it looks like I just cannot get the Wall Street Journal name and acronym right! Oh, the Horror!

But you’ll be able to see live, on your very own computer monitor, maybe even on your very TV screen, all of US taxpayers’ $308,000,000 crash on a small asteroid that all it has ever done is to orbit a bigger one and, together with it, follow good old Jupiter since for ever and, maybe soon, if this one is really redirected, those two asteroids will no longer have each other for company any more:

https://www.cnet.com/science/space/nasas-dart-crash-how-to-watch-live-as-spacecraft-collides-with-asteroid/#:~:text=NASA%27s%20DART%20death%20is%20primetime%20viewing%20on%20Monday%2C,3%20p.m.%20PT%2F6%20p.m.%20ET%20via%20NASA%20TV.

Quote:

“Our YouTube channel, CNET Highlights, will have two streams. The main livestream and a feed from the spacecraft’s DRACO camera. NASA notes that the feed will mostly be black once it switches on, but as the spacecraft approaches, the asteroid pair will come into view. It should be pretty thrilling.

Here’s how that time translates to different zones:

US: Sep. 26, 4:14 p.m. PT/7:14 p.m. ET
Brazil: Sep. 26 , 8:14 p.m. (Federal District)
UK: Sep. 26, 11:14 p.m.
South Africa: Sep. 27, 1:14 a.m.
Russia: Sep. 27, 2:14 a.m. (Moscow)
United Arab Emirates: Sep. 27, 3:14 a.m.
India: Sep. 27, 4:44 a.m.
China: Sep. 27, 7:14 a.m.
Japan: Sep. 27, 8:14 a.m.
Australia: Sep. 27, 9:14 a.m. AEST

Sounds awesome. Where can I find out more about DART?

We’re glad you asked.

When DART launched back in November 2021, CNET’s Monisha Ravisetti put together this handy explainer about the mission and its goals. The team at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory also has a ton of resources about the mission, including handy interactives and the latest updates.

Make sure to check back here for the livestream links closer to launch and check out CNET Science for more space stories.

First published on Sept. 20, 2022 at 9:45 p.m. PT.”

And more here:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2022/09/22/when-and-where-to-watch-live-as-nasa-intentionally-crashes-a-spacecraft-into-an-asteroid-for-the-first-time/?sh=5d2e8fe22285

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cyberSAR: I have used PM for ages and never saw anything like what is in your screenshot, except for now with Charlie and, I’m sorry to say, with another Lounger as well. There is likely to be more like them, I just don’t have the strength of character to try sending PMs to everyone in AskWoody. Particularly since AskWoody “swallowed the Whale” and there is now a whale of people here.

And as far as you are concerned, have you been able to send messages to anyone? Because that is also happening to be now another problem for some of us here, it seems. Or so I’m told.

You’ve heard of a science fiction short story by Harlan Ellison called: “I have no mouth and I must scream”? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scream)

Could it be that AskWoody has been finally taken over by the evil AM? (Allied Mastercomputer.)

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Pasted on the AskWoody page while editing a comment, as everyone does. And how knowing this helps you?

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Wow! Charlie! You know so much for someone that still cannot be reached on PM!

But OK, having said that, let’s get back to the NASA asteroid discombobulating mission.

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Fred: “Why not make this an international responsibility , and share the costs? So people have a chance to save the world from going down ?”

Making asteroid redirection into an international project would be a good thing, when the time comes, but this is just about testing one idea of how to do it, to see if it works, and that is best done by a single organization, such as NASA. International cooperative agreements are not easy to arrange (and don’t I know that!), take time, may be stopped by all sorts of things, such as getting their shares of funding approved by the participating governments, something that depends on the politicians in their respective countries.
Even if those negotiating are bound to be hit over the head by the same asteroid, were one to happen to come around and do that.

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Ohh! I see .. Sorry. Now I can’t find the one that I thought I’d linked …

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Fred: “Ehhh, the Brittish pay in £ Brittish Pounds….”

Converted in the WJS video to dollars for us, who have trouble understanding foreign things like pounds.

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The one I have linked in my opening comment here is an excellent Wall Street Journal video. The NASA article is a good one too, but I think the WJS one is better at explaining things and it is followed without interruption by the interesting reportage on the cost of the British Monarchy to the Brits, per head per annum; another on the huge loss to the Japanese National Treasury because of the combination of the most expensive ever Olympics there and the unhelpful effects of covid on the attendance to the games and consequent compensatory revenue, etc., etc. Fascinating watching, indeed.

And, by the way, I think that the NASA mission to bump and asteroid is a very good idea, in case someone here thought I am against it because of its cost. Mine was a tongue-in-check commentary.

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WCHS: “That Mozilla post is about setting the color in only the message window”

I thought that it was a recipe for changing the color of the window, not the emails contents when seen on that window. Or in the window of a recipient using any client. Maybe I sent you the wrong link?

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WCHS: Is this something like what you are looking for?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1271598

It is about a Mac version of TB, but maybe it’s not different for Windows.

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It looks like this might be something useful and already available for what I would like to do.

According to this, there is already out there some software that let’s one look at all the emails saved in some folder, displaying nicely all the metadata plus a link to each email file stored there, and precisely as I want to do this, it would seem, with the .eml file copies saved in a folder that I have created and not in one of those in the client:

https://www.macuncle.com/blog/open-eml-files-on-mac-os-x/

For further information:

https://www.macuncle.com/eml/viewer/

So this harks back to Susan’s advice to use some existing forensic email tool. That is less fun than making my own, but it would save me time and effort until I decide to make my own, and be available while I do that and also afterwards, as a back up.

Has anyone here ever heard about this one?
If someone has information on this one and wishes to provide a comment or some advice concerning it, then you have my thanks in advance.

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Yes Wavy, and answered it today. So of you didn’t get it already, there might have been a problem with that. On my side, the delivery looked like it had gone through normally. PM  is not working very well right now, it would seem.

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WCHS: You wrote a few comments back, I just realize: “To try to answer that question, I’ve tried deleting the Collected Addresses Address Book and importing the contacts in my bellsouth_net .cvs file under Collected Addresses, but afterwards, none of the addresses, including my own which is in that list, will automatically fill in the ‘TO’ line, ”

It was quite a while ago since, but I remember that when I first installed TB there was a way to get TB to import the addresses in the Mac’s address book, or else to link to the existing address book of my previous client. Something like that.

If my recollection is right, then deleting everything in the book and replacing it with a file of your own making was not such a good move. But spilt milk and all that.

Now I hope that someone more knowledgeable about the whys and wherefores of TB may come to the rescue. PaulK is a good one to ask. Maybe you could get his attention by messaging him with PM (that is having its own problems, with some people now unreachable because their info has disappeared from PM’s records, or something).

Or, as Kurt Vonnegut liked to write at the end of a rueful but witty comment on the troubles of this world: And so it goes.

 

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Well, to me that TB is”glitchy” is a fact verified by direct observation, meaning it behaves strangely and annoyingly off its own bat, such as when, but not limited to, showing text in tiny letters that needed wasting time figuring out how to make it behave and use a bigger font. And even after doing that, now and then, it surprises me with switches in font size when I am in the middle of writing an email. There is more, but this should be enough.

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