For the history buffs - 5 millennia of religious expansion in 90 seconds.

http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/history-of-religion.html

Also: Wouldn't it be cool to name the first lunar currency LUnar CREdits?

Have decided to stay mostly at home today. Did go out to drop off a bit of drycleaning, do a wee bit of shopping and get some lunch, but after walking by a bookshop the consensus was that we'd be avoiding Pötterdämmerung for the moment.

In more interesting calendar events: Nine hours and 38 years ago, Apollo 11 landed on the moon.

Public holiday, which means catching up on the cleaning ( Read more... )

Gah, work is going nowhere. I still haven't been given basic access to the computers. So I sit around all day doing bupkis, dispensing the odd suggestion or bit of advice. Meanwhile, all the team members are so far snowed under it's not funny. If it was me, I'd scream ( Read more... )

Growing up in the 70s, I was immersed in the immediate aftermath of the Moon landings. My childhood was filled with images of real spacecraft, real astronauts, and real space launches ( Read more... )

From stardust we all came and to the dust we shall return ( Read more... )

Today has been very much a 'sitting around in boxers' day. Some minor domestic stuff, and mainly waiting for the moving company quotes to come in.

Ho hum.

"Roger me, wilco me, anything!" - Jazz

We walked and ran and rode and swam ( Read more... )

Project Orion may once again target the Moon.

The Prometheus Music video of Julia Ecklar's rendition of Leslie Fish's song Hope Eyrie is now available on Google VideoPersonally, I don't think the singer or the video does best justice to the song in this particular take, but it's a start. I'd like to hear a clearer version, matched up to a less ( Read more... )

Hope Eyrie

Words and music (C)1975 Copyright by Leslie Fish

Worlds grow old and suns grow cold ( Read more... )