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Post by J'aii-Gun Jiinn on Feb 6, 2007 20:23:07 GMT -5
;D LOL!
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Mon-Jas Charan
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Post by Mon-Jas Charan on Feb 7, 2007 16:26:15 GMT -5
The below-displayed photographs do capture the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis (NASA Mission STS-115) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 9 September 2006. The pictures were taken from the NASA/JSC WB-57 High Altitude Research aircraft.
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Post by Leda EmBorr on Feb 7, 2007 21:50:33 GMT -5
What a great perspective! That's too bad about Lisa Nowack. That just proves that anyone, no matter how smart or ambitious you are, can go nuts for love! Emotions defy logic, yet again!
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Post by Leda EmBorr on Feb 7, 2007 22:56:22 GMT -5
This is exciting news! Nasa plans to continue the search for Earthlike extrasolar planets with the Kepler spacecraft, to be launched into a heliocentric, Earth trailing orbit in Nov. 2008. www.space.com/businesstechnology/070207_kepler_mission.htmlI'm curious about why it will follow a heliocentric orbit. Can you imagine if we actually find an earthlike planet within the habitable zone of a star? Awesome.
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Post by Mon-Jas Charan on Feb 8, 2007 13:32:03 GMT -5
If you are having trouble keeping things in perspective, just look at these comparisons. Now, THIS is really fascinating - it's rather dazzling to see it presented this way. I certainly thought this was enlightening. beyond our sun ... It's a big universe. Antares is the 15th brightest star in the sky. It is more than 1000 light years away.
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Post by tailonkae on Feb 8, 2007 15:08:40 GMT -5
very fascinating indeed
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Post by Mon-Jas Charan on Feb 8, 2007 16:54:17 GMT -5
That's too bad about Lisa Nowack. That just proves that anyone, no matter how smart or ambitious you are, can go nuts for love! Emotions defy logic, yet again! That is why the Wizards Rules are so true:
I. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true.
II. The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
III. Passion rules reason.
IV. There is magic in forgiveness -the magic to heal! In the forgiveness, you grant, and more so in the forgiveness you receive.
V. Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.
VI. The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
VII. Life is the future, not the past
VIII. Deserve victory.
IX. Contradictions don't exist, in whole or in part.
X. Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.
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Post by himiko sabbrawrra on Feb 8, 2007 17:05:56 GMT -5
Intresting perspective.... Yeah it is a huge universe out there... compared that humans use to think otherwise with the Earth.
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Post by Leda EmBorr on Feb 8, 2007 19:35:28 GMT -5
What are the wizards rules, Mo-Jas? Aside from what you have written? That's an eye-opening series of images!
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Post by J'aii-Gun Jiinn on Feb 8, 2007 21:10:22 GMT -5
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Post by Leda EmBorr on Feb 8, 2007 22:10:06 GMT -5
This is an photograph of Earth, taken on February 14th, 1990, by Voyager 1 as it drifted beyond the orbits of Neptune and Pluto... About 3.7 billion miles away. The beams are rays of sunlight captured by the camera. Reflections on a Mote of Dust
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar", every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there---- on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is no where else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
---Carl Sagan from Pale Blue Dot
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Post by Mon-Jas Charan on Feb 12, 2007 18:45:23 GMT -5
That is so cool, nice find Leda ... I did not come up with the Wizard Rules ... The are from a book Series "Sword of Truth" by Terry Goodkind ... I have really enjoyed these books.
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Post by Leda EmBorr on Feb 12, 2007 22:54:02 GMT -5
It makes sense! Totally!
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Post by Leda EmBorr on Feb 12, 2007 22:57:17 GMT -5
Great strides are being made on the development of the Space Elevator. Check it out. I may get into orbit in this lifetime! www.liftport.com/
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Post by Jauhzmynn Enz on Feb 12, 2007 23:24:32 GMT -5
Space lift. A skyhook.:-D another step closer :-D Very cool.
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