Autumn leaves ?

[lcarreau]

Hey, are you guys awake up there ???

This Utah member took a great picture of recent fall colors, already appearing in the high country.

http://www.summitpost.org/castle-rocks/814977/c-814986

Anybody else

[ZeeJay]

Thanks Larry, the maples are a bright red, but the aspens are just barely starting to turn.

[lcarreau]

So ..... WHERE is everybody else?

Oh ... they must be watching Cougars .....

[lcarreau]

[Vitaliy M.]

rofl

[lcarreau]

Thanks for the advice ... I was outside today getting friendly with leaves ... then, I saw the neighbor's dog relegated to awesome CHORES ...

[lcarreau]

My prediction is this thread will (now) drop like autumn leaves dipped in liquified iridium.

[dan2see]

My prediction is this thread will (now) drop like autumn leaves dipped in liquified iridium.

Normally, an autumn leaf leaves its tree due to the abscission layer. The same thing makes an apple drop out of its tree.

Iridium is the chemical element with atomic number 77, and is represented by the symbol Ir. A very hard, brittle, silvery-white transition metal of the platinum family, iridium is the second-densest element (after osmium) and is the most corrosion-resistant metal, even at temperatures as high as 2000 °C.

That's even hotter in Fahrenheit.
Iridium melts at 2739 K, 2466 °C, 4471 °F
Iridium boils at 4701 K, 4428 °C, 8002 °F
Its density is 22.56 g·cm−3
So a pink tricam made of iridium would weight about a half a pound.

It is thought that the total amount of iridium in the planet Earth is much higher than that observed in crustal rocks, but as with other platinum group metals, the high density and tendency of iridium to bond with iron caused most iridium to descend below the crust when the planet was young and still molten.

So there's plenty down there.

[mrchad9]

What happened to my baby-faced angel?