Earth Day 2010

HAPPY EARTH DAY! Wikipedia has a cool write-up on the Earth and since today is Earth Day - I think we can all spend a few minutes today learning, or re-learning, neat things about the Earth. Life has been on Earth for billions of years but human civilization has been around for only a few thousand. That's like the blink of an eye!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth

Enjoy.

Oh, the picture of the Earth above is from one of the Appolo missions back in the day.

Pictures From NASA

Well, here are some pictures from NASA. The above picture: the Sun, up close and personal.

Above: someplace far away where stars are born, not Hollywood.

Spiral galaxy.

And here is a picture of that volcano that is cancelling flights around large parts of Europe. This is the only picture from here on Earth. There's a joke going around Iceland (or so I've heard) that says England asked for some money that Iceland owes England. The English said "Give us some cash" and because Iceland's language doesn't have a 'C' in it, they said - "OK, we'll send you some ash".

They Found Water On The Moon!

Well, I heard they found water on the moon. They, meaning NASA. I thought the moon was a barren piece of rock orbiting around our lovely planet Earth. Why, with water on the moon, it might mean life. So let's get excited. After all, water on the moon means great things.





So here is a picture that represents an advance forward in space exploration.

Apparently the original astronaughts did not drink from this mighty water fountain because their gloves were too big to let them push the button that says "push here" and they could not drink from the mighty fountain of moon youth. Too bad.

Well that means there will be more water there for me when my ship arrives.

Happy belated April Fools' day. I waited until now because I cannot fool anyone until several days after Apr 1st because everyone is too alert for that kind of thing.

Project: Coffee Mug Picture

I was looking through my mug collection and found that I had a see-through mug that I could put a picture in.










My last blog post was a picture from one of the Mars Rovers roaming around on the planet, and it's a wide-angle shot, so I thought it would look good in that mug.





You put the picture inside the bottom part of the mug, then the top part of the mug goes in.

A Little bit of Krazy Glue goes a long way. I only stuck my thumb to the mug once during the whole process. Wow, that's about 3 times less that usual.




Here's the finished product. I don't know if it will be waterproof, so I'll probably have to wash this out carefully after using.

A Nice Mars Landscape

Yes, here's a A Nice Mars Landscape. Mars, as in the planet.

Someday we'll be able to go visit this place. But, for now, here's a picture.

Astronomy - Orion & Cygnus

Here are a couple really cool pictures from apod.nasa.gov.

First, Part of the Orion constellation - 3 stars on the left are easy to see at night, but then when you zoom in with some really powerful telescope - so much more. Cool. This picture is from many pictures 'digitally stitched' into one.

Plus, here's a black hole - this one I don't think is a photo. Looks like an artist's picture, but very cool anyway. Cygnus X-1 is the name. Rush made a cool song about this decades ago. They had an album, A Farewell To Kings, and their big song was Closer To The Heart. They had another song, Cygnus X-1 - great song, but no one cared about it if they heard Closer To The Heart. Oh well, I guess black holes don't make good songwriting material compared to songs about the heart. Makes sense.

Astronomy Picture Of The Day

My 75th post - yeah!

Here's a cool site (if you're into astronomy) from NASA. It has a new picture every day related to something astronomical.

http://apod.nasa.gov

I like many of the pictures I've seen on this site. Plus there are often links to other sites that go into more detail about the subject of the day.

Oh, and follow your dreams.