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By accident, I deleted today's day in history.

This is yesterday's - includes date on Raoul Wallenberg.

We just warmed up to 0 degrees F here in the warmest city in Minnesota.

 

On this day in ?

 

* 1806, the first baby was born in the White House, the grandson of

President Thomas Jefferson.

 

* 1871, Andrew Hallikie received a patent for a cable car system that

went into service in San Francisco in 1873.

 

* 1945, Swedish, non-Jewish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with

saving tens of thousands of Jews, disappeared in Hungary while in Soviet

custody.

 

* 1946, the U.N. Security Council held its first meeting.

 

* 1991, in the first day of Operation Desert Storm, U.S.-led forces

hammered Iraqi targets in an effort to drive Iraq out of Kuwait; a

defiant Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declared that the "mother of all

battles" had begun.

 

Looks like futures pulled back slightly.

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"at least until the sun goes out and turns the earth into a huge iceball and . . .)"

 

I thought the sun was going to go supernova and fry us all.

 

And if you don't agree you're a #%@!!!!!!  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

First the sun is going to go supernova, then it will go out.

 

Now do you feel better, Drano?

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supernova.gif Drano, our sun is not massive enough to go supernova. It is most likely to end as a red giant and finally as a white dwarf - source.

 

Regards,

Vesselin

 

But Vesselin, suppose some very advanced alien race that hates the very thought of capitalism being spread throughout the galaxy once Earth achieves interstellar flight decides to preempt this by firing a small black hole into the sun?

 

Wouldn't that cause it to go supernova?

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<table><tr><td>supernova.gif</td><td>Drano, our sun is not massive enough to go supernova. It is most likely to end as a red giant and finally as a white dwarf - source.

 

Regards,

Vesselin</td></tr></table>

Ha ha ha--

 

well, I guess we'll find out some millenia from now.....at least I HOPE it's some millenia from now, but (spoiler do not read this if you're a Heinlein fan who hasn't read all his stories).................as I posted before his story about Kondratieff winter ended with a surprise supernova.......

 

and judging from some of Hypertiger's posts, that might be the BEST outcome!!!! :lol:

 

This board has some of the wittiest people anywhere. And you guys' ability to lay your hands on appropriate graphics and animations is just amazing.

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Glad, no, the black hole would just swallow the sun and its planetary system in an immense gravitational collapse. (Drat, almost wrote "deflationaly collapse". :grin: )

 

Regards,

Vesselin

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Don't forget to join me in Stooltrading today. I'm a little nervous about the first few hours. Day after opex is usually wild in the AM as positions are reset. Charts are updated every few minutes as needed. Comments every half hour.

 

Later!

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Thats odd, I didn't see this headlined.

 

Tokyo, Jan. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Mizuho Holdings Inc. forecast a 1.95 trillion yen ($16 billion) full-year loss, almost nine times its earlier estimate and the largest ever by a Japanese company, bowing to government pressure to write off bad loans faster.

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