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too larry said:
lol The financial lives of the poets. I bet that is a quick read.
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The more I think about this, the more possibilities I see.

Epicists, I imagine, keep meticulous books. On any case most were warm, dry, fat and drunk thanks to their usually having a rich andor highborn patron.

Sonnetists are another group who have a well-evolved sense of symmetry, so I expect their outgoes to be no more than their incomes.

Writers of odes and paeans are happy sorts, and that suggests to me they ain’t hurtin.

Limericists are one problem population. The tax bureau has it in for those irreverent social observers.

And Beat poets have typically been Broke poets, accepting the plausible correlation between their lack of funds and of meter.

Finally I wonder at the real-life fail tale that underlies the valuable truism: “never sell a Haiku master short.”

I do imagine that rap deserves a chapter too. Specifically the magnificent symmetrical ballistic parabola that marks M. C. Hammer’s rocket ride into, through and past riches is more poetic than most rap lyrics.

Oh yeah. Lyricists seem to do ok to very ok. As do the folks who wrote the most-quoted poetry of our age: advertising doggerel.

Doggerel ... gray zone. Are doggerel breeders and trainers poets?
 
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Some years back my adult kids and I were stargazing & I pointed out a satellite, not a single one of them believed me when I told them what it was.
When I was digging holes in the Caribbean Sea - on a moonless night you couldn't go 2 or 3 minutes without seeing at least one.

Much more can be seen when you remove light pollution from the equation.
 
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GreatwhiteNorth said:
Some years back my adult kids and I were stargazing & I pointed out a satellite, not a single one of them believed me when I told them what it was.
When I was digging holes in the Caribbean Sea - on a moonless night you couldn't go 2 or 3 minutes without seeing at least one.

Much more can be seen when you remove light pollution from the equation.
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As a kid I useta lie on the grass on a warm summer night and watch the jetliners pass overhead. DC area so there was much traffic along the Seaboard. About half of them blinked. It was a moment of epiphany some 20 years later when I realized that the nonblinkers were orbiting satellites. A sat in LEO has about the same angular speed as a jetliner at altitude.
 
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cannabineer said:
As a kid I useta lie on the grass on a warm summer night and watch the jetliners pass overhead. DC area so there was much traffic along the Seaboard. About half of them blinked. It was a moment of epiphany some 20 years later when I realized that the nonblinkers were orbiting satellites. A sat in LEO has about the same angular speed as a jetliner at altitude.
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I found for me the trick to spotting them was to not really focus on one particular spot and then it was easy to see them moving as their celestial counterparts appear not to.
 
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GreatwhiteNorth said:
I found for me the trick to spotting them was to not really focus on one particular spot and then it was easy to see them moving as their celestial counterparts appear not to.
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The thing that mystifies me is the delta vee penalty for no gain. You have to spend about 1 km/s extra to orbit retrograde. The half-penalty for a launch to polar orbit makes sense and is insensitive to launching north or south.
 
too larry

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I do most of my hiking {and all my weed tending} at night. I can get by without light most of the time, but have to turn one on to check out the patches. I worry about drones hanging around. So I scan the skies every few minutes, just to make sure any blinking red lights I see are moving. The high flying planes have to get even with me before I can hear them. We do have more light pollution than we used to pre Micheal. On my walks around the farm, I can see the lights from almost a dozen houses, on hills with gaps in the trees.

An aside: Practically every night I have spent at the river house, I've seen a shooting star. Pretty cool.
 
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