30th August: Rapunzel.
In 1862 in Northern Virginia, however, Major General John Pope was about to get his long awaited comeuppance. Lee was ready to take the offensive against the man he had come to despise, for his over confident bombast and disregard and disrespect of Virginia and the men he had come east to command.
Not heeding his subordinates’ requests for caution, Pope tried once again to break Jackson’s battered Corps(one Brigade did break, but others plugged the gap). On the union far left were only two brigades of Infantry and they were to be assailed by ten times their number. Three Southern Divisions, Hood’s, Kemper’s and Jones’ crashed onto the field, making short work of the outnumbered Northern troops.
Pope did well to recognise the danger when it appeared and sent four Brigades from three different Divisions to hold at Henry House Hill on his left. Remember this was ground fought over 13 months ago, by much the same men and officers, although most were now promoted.
This time around there would be no rout. Understandably, there was much jubilation on the side of the Southerners and a great loss of morale on the Northern side. This sense of martial superiority, begun last Summer at 1st Manassas, was to continue and come to a head on the field of Gettysburg another Summer from now.
New hot/cold planet 40 Light years away
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What a crazy planet one side hot (2500 degrees) the other side frozen… its crazy!
reminds me of the famous hot pocket skit by Jim Garretty on comedy central
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Pretty much makes it a certainty that it has no atmosphere. The moon has readical temp extremes from light to dark (about a 500 degree F variance). And Mercury has about an 1800 degree variance…
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You know they also say Mercury has polar ice caps… even if the equator is 450 degres. the poles are quite removed form direct sunlight and traped ice is said to be located in craters and in the shadows. That would be something to land on mercury… incredable!
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It is an effect we ahve in orbit and on the moon… sun side is 250 or so positive F, shadow side is 250 or so negative F. That is why designing a space suit is such a beotch… it has to curculate the heat to the cold side and the cold to the hot side fast enough to keep one side from freezing and shattering, the hot side from boiling.
And the closer to a source of sloar raditiona you get, the more intense the shift (as seen on Mercury)
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Do you mean Jim Gaffigan?
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Yea him. The official hot pocket spokesperson
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