“Death is nature’s way of portioning out the energy, wringing the rag of energy dry, exploiting every ounce of vanished mass at the core of the sun.” (from: Chet Raymo’s “Natural Prayers”) It would be irresponsibly selfish of me – or anyone – to wish for immortality, to not want to die. My atoms are your atoms, my […]
66°F 9:45pm Yes, you read that right, it’s been almost 3 years since my last (written) entry. I wish I woulda kept more journal entries but I didn’t. There were SO many times I went out observing, just never documented it in this journal. Some of them I did put on my website but it […]
I love the contrast between the Universe’s beautiful, ‘natural’ creations, and the exposing of them by man-made scientific equipment and technology, ie. The Space Station framing the Earth below. APoD Explanation: “Many wonders are visible when flying over the Earth at night. A compilation of such visual spectacles was captured recently from the International Space Station (ISS) and set […]