Buddy and Astronomy

Ron Carpenter · Post by **Ron Carpenter** » 8 Jul 2001 11:18 am

Guys, I was looking at the member profile on Mr. Emmons. It lists his hobby as astronomy.
Knowing Buddy's sense of humor, I wondered if he was referring to the backside of all the stars he's observed over the last few decades. That would be something a scientis has not seen! They are still trying to prove the black hole exists!

Bobbe Seymour · Post by **Bobbe Seymour** » 8 Jul 2001 11:59 am

Why do you think they call it"asstronimy"

Geoff Brown · Post by **Geoff Brown** » 8 Jul 2001 2:00 pm

My theory is that Buddy is an alien. And when the planets and stars are in the proper alignment, he is visited by the mothership, in his backyard. He and his alien buds throw some ribs in the smoker, tip a couple of brews, and trade licks for a couple of days. He picks up some new ideas, says goodbye to his buds, and plays more amazing gigs and makes more other-worldly recordings. Makes perfect sense to me. Buddy's abilities are not the stuff of this world.

Ernie Renn · Post by **Ernie Renn** » 8 Jul 2001 4:15 pm

Buddy is into astronomy. He has a really cool telescope, too!

I do agree he has looked at the back side of a lot of "stars", but that isn't what he was referring to in his profile.

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Rick Collins · Post by **Rick Collins** » 8 Jul 2001 4:38 pm

Facts:

1. Jupiter's mass is greater than all of the other planets in our solar system and their moons combined.

2. In comparing our earth's mass to the sun: If the sun were a cookie jar one could take the top off and put 1,300,000 earths inside.

3. The mean distance between the earth and the sun is approx. 93,000,000 miles, taking the light from the sun over eight minutes to reach the earth.

4. Buddy's playing is "far out", somewhere beyond Pluto.

Rick

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 8 Jul 2001 5:35 pm

More facts...

Jupiter is 1/10 the diameter of the sun, but rotates 100 times faster. Volume is diameter cubed, and momentum is 1/2 of velocity squared. Thus, the Sun has 1000 times the volume of Jupiter, but Jupiter has 5 times the angular momentum!

Venus rotates backwards, and actually radiates more energy than it receives from the Sun. It is also closer to the Earth (in size and mass) than any of the other planets in the Solar System.

The third and fifth strings of the major triad on the E9th should be inverted. Then the finest string of the triad would be picked by the thumb. The natural picking of this finer string at a further distance from the pickup would help even out the tonal differences.

The Earth has the largest, and most distant satellite in the Solar System. In fact, the Moon is not a satellite at all...the Moon and the Earth actually form a binary planetary system that rotates around our Sun.

Buddy's playing does not follow Bode's law.

Allen · Post by **Allen** » 8 Jul 2001 7:53 pm

Sounds like a few steelers may have other hobbies. Another thread in this forum was looking for "ham" radio ops. Maybe we need to know who all is into astronomy. If so count me in.
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Herb Steiner · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 8 Jul 2001 8:15 pm

Is it not true that if the events in the country song "Stop the World and Let Me Off" were to actually take place, the Earth would fall out of orbit and go hurtling into the Sun, thereby making cold beer and jukeboxes that play a country song completely irrelevant? Donny and/or Rick please comment.

Les: Good one.

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Bill Sharpe · Post by **Bill Sharpe** » 9 Jul 2001 5:27 am

Sooooooo, that's what flew over Hermitage

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C Dixon · Post by **C Dixon** » 9 Jul 2001 6:00 am

Einstein said,

E is equal to mass times the speed of light squared.

I strongly dissagree!

E has NO equal.

carl

Rick Collins · Post by **Rick Collins** » 9 Jul 2001 6:26 am

Yes Herb, your assumption is correct. The earth is moving in it's orbit around the sun at 18&1/2 miles/second, taking 365&1/4 days to complete one trip. If it suddenly came to a screeching hault, at that speed, it would probably hurl all of us several miles into space; but the good news is that it would hurl the beer and juke boxes along with us.

The earth would fall in a straight line into the sun.

If the orbital speed decreased slowly, the earth would gradually move into a smaller and smaller orbit, closer and closer to the sun. When the earth got close enough to the sun, the strong gravitational field of the sun would begin pulling the earth apart and our earth would soon look like a ring of debris around the sun, like the ring around Saturn.

At this point you would have to ask yourself, "do I really like very, very warm beer"?

Rick

Herb Steiner · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 9 Jul 2001 6:39 am

"...do I really like very, very warm beer"?

And undoubtedly, the jukeboxes would be filled with nothing but Billy Gilman songs.

Sheesh! I'll take my chances being hurled into space, thank you.

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Rick Collins · Post by **Rick Collins** » 9 Jul 2001 6:42 am

E has NO equal.

Indeed, Mr Carl Dixon; or stated mathmatically the equation would read:
E = E

Rick

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 9 Jul 2001 7:45 am

Yes Herb...were the world to stop suddenly, we would all be no more...in a fraction of a second! Considering the Earth's diameter is roughly 25,000 miles, and it rotates once every 24 hours, our speed at the equator (not even considering the revolution in orbit around our Sun) is over 1000 miles an hour...about the speed of Buddy's "4-Wheel Drive" intro.

Rick Collins · Post by **Rick Collins** » 9 Jul 2001 8:52 am

Considering the Earth's diameter is roughly 25,000 miles, and it rotates once every 24 hours

Not quite, Donny:

The circumference is roughly 25,000 miles, the true diameter is 7,918 miles (through the equator), 27 miles shorter from pole to pole, (because of the centrifugal force from rotational speed), the earth is not a true sphere; but an oblate spheroid.

The earth rotates once every 23hrs, 56min, 4.09sec. Because the earth is also moving in it's orbit, it must turn a little bit more to realign the same given point with the sun, then making it a true 24hrs.

I must say, you are right on the money about the "Four-wheel Drive" recording.

Rick

Buddy Emmons · Post by **Buddy Emmons** » 9 Jul 2001 9:05 am

I'm not sure about Four Wheel Drive, but this thread sure has given me a chance to bone up on my astronomy.

Thanks guys.

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 9 Jul 2001 9:11 am

Gosh...I'm sorry Rick! I sometimes get circumeter and diamferance mixed up!

Dennis Detweiler · Post by **Dennis Detweiler** » 9 Jul 2001 2:40 pm

Circumeter? Now I'm mixed up? I thought a Circumeter was used to measure proper distance from stub to stretch for accurate circumcision?

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 9 Jul 2001 6:20 pm

No, Dennis...you're thinking of a "yardstick".

John Sims · Post by **John Sims** » 10 Jul 2001 7:29 am

My 10" f6 made by Richard Fagan is awesome. I used to draw maps of Mars and send them to Lowell Observatory for their map making process. Astronomy is my favorite hobby.

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Rick Collins · Post by **Rick Collins** » 10 Jul 2001 9:59 am

Astronomy is my favorite hobby.

Yes John, it's out of this world.

I've been to the Lowell, it's in Flagstaff, AZ. I've heard that Percival Lowell was the brother of the poet, Amy Lowell (?).

Percival never knew what he was missing, I feel certain he didn't play pedal steel.

Rick

Mike Cass · Post by **Mike Cass** » 12 Jul 2001 10:02 pm

B Cole,...that lady(?) would have been the one hanging out by Abe & Ray's "cage" on Saturday nights at closing time,when one went to get paid for the weeks work.
It was always fun to try to evade her. A trip to the mens room however was not a deterrent, more like an invitation

.Minneapolis' equivalent of Broadway Mae, I guess. Man, you sure jogged my memory, even if you weren't serious.....

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Gene Jones · Post by **Gene Jones** » 13 Jul 2001 2:39 am

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