A beautiful kitten, an Istanbul stray. I love the song at the link; there are not many songs about cats that are not sickly, but the “cute punk” style makes up for the slightly unformed lyrics.
With all that an independent USA has done for the world, we should celebrate this one. Yes, I know that the words are anti-British, but they had a point. May today’s Tea Party lead to as much freedom as did the original!
As usual, click the pic for music.
Cornwall again, although more specifically known as the Michigan Lily it is not native.
Saturn at equinox.
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Hat tip to Bad Astronomy.
It appears that NASA is going to bomb the moon. OK, not really bomb just drive a craft into it at high speed.
That is not the stupidity. There are very good reasons for doing this. The impact will penetrate deeper in the moon than we could on a reasonable timescale any other way, and imaging and sampling from another spacecraft (even possibly from the Earth) will allow us to analyse what is there, especially water. This is important if we are going to set up a permanent base on the moon, and there are sound (although I will admit debatable) reasons for doing that.
No, the stupidity is in the comments. Almost every one is against the project. Some for economic reasons, which I think have missed the point but could argue a case. The rest really do beggar belief. They think that NASA is doing significant damage to the moon. The actual moon. The 70-billion-billion-tonne satellite orbiting Earth. The one hit by huge numbers of asteroids with a lot of energy many thousands of times in its 4-billion-years or so. This one, with the scars that make it obvious it can take an impact.
I’m quite pleased with this picture. Taken with quite an old DSLR and 300 mm lens.
One suggests that we might shift the moon’s orbit and cause climate change of “omega” proportions.
I know I am supposed to be open, sceptical and doubtful, not scornful, but it is hard. It is difficult not to wonder why these people think they are knowledgeable enough to have something relevant to say. Are they arrogant enough to think that, despite little scientific education, they have seen some great catastrophe not considered by NASA engineers and scientist? Is the standard of world science education so low that people with scientific education can think these things? I can’t think of any other explanation.
It does strike me as significant in the environmental movement though. these are people who are worried about humans having an impact, however trivial. They have no sense of proportion at all. They have taken onboard the green lobby’s most extreme ideas and blown even those out of proportion, in scale or in time. Why are these people arrogant enough to think that humans could possibly do something in a universe of 100 billion galaxies, with maybe 100 billion stars in each that is relevant to except to us?
Hat tip to Instapundit.
Couldn’t think of a suitable musical connection this time. Not a lot out there with any theme of ‘creepy rabbit heads on stakes’. Updated to include Nor'Nor'wester's suggestion!
OK, so this time I didn’t take the photograph. Much as I would love to I have never flown that high, but it is an amazing shot, I couldn’t resist.
Just to break the monotony of long text posts, really. Not bad for a camera phone way back in 2006.
