A tad chilly

this is winging it (from cp's state).

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/canada-politely-firmly-escorts-1-500-illegal-rafters-back-u-n636301

Joseph-S -- I think it would have to be the lampreys running Lake Superior's used buoy business!

I was thinking when I first read of that yesterday that raft flotillas of refugees isn't something that Canada has had to put up with very often!

That particular article you linked was interesting. They enjoyed repeating "illegal" and "unsanctioned" for an event that never required any licensing in the first place. As for the people being terified of entering a foreign country without documentation, the specific problem is leaving the U.S., not going to another country. Getting into Canada is easy-- they don't give a shit. People here on the border worry about getting back into the U.S. if they forget their papers on a jaunt to Canada, because the US border guards are such jerks at handling routine matters that should be easily resolved.

There's a pretty large mass of rain that's been moving through the eastern UP today, but it tapers to a string down through the lower peninsula.

I mentioned that Lake Superior's surface waters finally hit 60°F a couple days ago. Today the Gaylord NWS put up this graphic shpwing higher than normal water temperatures in Lake Michigan this year, and a rapid decrease of a few degrees over the past week due to high winds mixing up surface and lower waters.

      Anybody see this ?                                                                                               http://www.cnn.com/videos/tech/2016/08/26/black-hole-breakthrough-lee-pkg.cnn

it doesn't look so good for golf this weekend.

Space X rocket blew up this mourning with a Facebook satellite on board.             http://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/01/when-a-rocket-blows-up-space-insurers-pay-for-it.html

Yeah, SpaceX was worried about the weather for Saturday's scheduled launch. I don't think this particular Falcon 9 rocket is going to be doing any barge hand stands or other parlor tricks for Elon.

Looks like Zuckerberg should have launched Amos-6 on Ariane.

Zuckererg actually had no say in where Amos-6 was launched, of course. He was just going to purchase bandwidth on the satellite. It's the Israeli company SpaceCom, the operator, that should have selected Ariane.

Al-- has your raft come ashore yet?

i rode a wave to the 19th hole. 

  KER SPLOOSHHH!

Just don't land it in the rough there.

BTW, did everyone notice that Philae has finally been found? Seen in an image taken 3 days ago:

This was sort of a last second discovery. The Rosetta spacecraft, which has been orbiting and observing the comet ever since the Nov. 12, 2014 landing of Philae, is scheduled to be landed/crashed into the comet on September 30 to end the mission. Rosetta has better instruments than the Philae lander and will approach the comet more slowly than Philae did, and should gather nice data right up to the end.

I'll bet Al's spent longer looking for one of his shanked drives than the 22 months it took them to finally find Philae.

pretty cool stuff, cp. thanks.

and, "i never slice"!!

Yeah, but Philae had to do a good contortion to sell the impression. Two of the lander's three legs are visible in the photo, one of them sticking straight up as Nessie's neck. Philae is described as about the size of a washing machine. The images were taken from a distance of 2.7 km. Here's some diagramming of what can be seen: