And now for something completely different

[chuck]

The German Miniature Wunderland has been closed to the public for about 6 months. This how they occupied their time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBNHmUT3GPg

Very clever! Normally the HO layout is stunning in and off itself with scale jet planes taking off and landing at their airport. About 6 minutes into the video it cuts to a behind the scenes/making of LGB musical layout. Incredible amount of engineering and work went into making this,

[webenda]

That was fun, thank you, Chuck.

I once tried to calibrate a pipette using a analytical balance. It was obvious something was wrong as I watched the balance get lighter and lighter after I finished with ten drops. The water was evaporating rapidly.

I was wondering how they managed to create the set-up before evaporating water made all the glasses out of tune. Clever solution they found.

[chuck]

Incredible group of people that work there. The level of detail that they go into plus all of their lighting and animation effects on the main layout. They were forced to close down to the public so they come up with this plan. As entertaining as the first part of the video is, the second part of the "back story" is really amazing. From building the "layout" inside the visitor space to creating the locomotive with the strikers to the array of microphones to catch the sound. Setting up the spacing to the glasses to deal with the different tempo's and of course just the issue of keeping the glasses in tune.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Probably, several of you excellent minds, here , already know this, but it is such news to me I had to share it with you, just in case...

Jupiter has 79 moons

Saturn has 82 moons

Also , I have accepted , for some time, now, what scientists have deduced, that Jupiter is a sun (considering its helium/hydrogen composition , especially, that didn't turn on. (Yet.)

What d' ya' think of that stuff

[gregj410]

It’s fascinating what went into pulling that off and not one broken glass! Musical engineering....who knew?! I was wondering how it was filmed and sure enough they were handing off cameras to each other. I thought a drone of some sort would have filmed it considering the amount of engineering required to build operate and maintain the facility. Something did get a little shaky in that tunnel around 4:32 but for humans handing off cameras to each other it’s pretty smooth. I have know idea what this was but it caught my eye?

[HONDO74]

Probably, several of you excellent minds, here , already know this, but it is such news to me I had to share it with you, just in case...

Jupiter has 79 moons

Saturn has 82 moons

Also , I have accepted , for some time, now, what scientists have deduced, that Jupiter is a sun (considering its helium/hydrogen composition , especially, that didn't turn on. (Yet.)

What d' ya' think of that stuff

I want to see Jupiter turn on as a SUN.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I want to see Jupiter turn on as a SUN.

Pull a chair and grab a cold drink, and start waiting.

[chuck]

You mean like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38EDhpxzn2g

[HONDO74]

You mean like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38EDhpxzn2g

Or this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Aan9eejfQ

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Some of the "stars" we see as single points of light are so far away from us that we cannot discern with an unaided eye that they are actually two stars, often a Red Giant traveling with a Blue Dwarf.

If Jupiter were to "ignite," we do not know how far its presence and heat would consume.

Thank you, Chuck and HONDO, for those two movie clips. It was fun to see those episodes again.

[chuck]

If Jupiter were to "ignite," we do not know how far its presence and heat would consume.

It would need to accumulate 12X it's present mass to have enough gravitational pull to initiate fusion. Not too likely. The smallest observed star is about the physical size of Saturn. If the monoliths were adding mass to Jupiter and that caused the shrinkage before ignition it would still have blasted all of it's own satellites out of orbit on ignition and produced enough radiation to kill all life on earth unless the earth was on the far side of the sun. The increased mass would also cause all of the planets orbits to change, significantly. Again more likely to be deleterious to life on our planet.

Makes for an interesting story/motion picture.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Yep.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

If Jupiter were to "ignite," we do not know how far its presence and heat would consume.

It would need to accumulate 12X it's present mass to have enough gravitational pull to initiate fusion.

Good to know that someone is not going to just wander out there and light it off just for fun.

[gregj410]

If Jupiter were to "ignite," we do not know how far its presence and heat would consume.

It would need to accumulate 12X it's present mass to have enough gravitational pull to initiate fusion.

Good to know that someone is not going to just wander out there and light it off just for fun.

That’s the plan for the next trip

[robert.]

"JUPITER IGNITES". staring Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel. You can't find more ironic named characters star in this movie? The Rock and The fuel.