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March 28, 2010
Quote I Just Found
"Two novels can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other involves orcs."
Another Reason to Fund NASA
A photo of the Eagle Nebula courtesy of NASA...
Volcanoes and stars! What is better? Though I guess I don't really want to be too close to either. But the images remind me why I write science fiction.
The Iceland Eruption from Space
The plume to the left is the eruption. The plume to the right is (probably) where the lava flow reaches snow and ice.
The police are allowing tourists close to the eruption, and I have run across one ad on the Internet for a photography tour to the volcano. I am not much of photographer, but the idea of going is appealing. Eleanor hearts volcanoes, until they do something big and ugly.
March 26, 2010
More Eruption Photographs # 2
As far as I can tell, these are from the current eruption, though the site is in Icelandic; and my Icelandic is very rough.
Look at that lovely blue sky!
According to the news today, the volcano is now spewing poisionous gas. I assume it was not doing so when this photo was taken, since there are two people standing next to all the smoke.
A Reason to Fund NASA
Most of the future has been shipped to other countries, but we still have a little left here: Preparing Discovery for flight at Capa Canaveral.
Shanghai Skyline
This is the National Geographic photo of the day. Patrick looked at it and said, "So that's what they've done with the future."
I said, "Yeah. They shipped it to China."
March 25, 2010
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