If you are wondering what Muslims are like, hear me when I say that nearly all the ones that I've met are admirable, good people ( Read more... )

Fifty years ago, Surveyor 1 landed on the moon. June 2, 1966. Here is how it appeared to me.

NASA had conducted a good number of programs by that time, and I knew how they went. The first couple of missions were "test" flights; after all, they always failed. For instance, the first satellite program, Vanguard, was not a good "vanguard" at all. ( Read more... )

This year it won't matter if you catch this today or tomorrow. Every third of June, this song runs through my head. But last year I said that the translation into French put it on the fourth. Don't ask me why ( Read more... )

I paid a visit to a grave I remember in Second Life, an artificial world on the web.


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Unless you've lived both in the northern and southern part of the United States, I do not know if you have had the chance to see northern and southern fireflies ( Read more... )

Shown with Lego people.

If 100 people lived on Earth, 14 could not read or write.

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Sixteen are underfeed, and one of those is starving.

(Since there are over 7 billion people on Earth now (plus 3 to six or seven orbiting all the time), then each Lego person represents 70 million Earthlings.

Just today, a person in Sweden was fooling around with his handheld radio, and started hearing someone speaking Russian.  For reasons I do not yet understand, he thinks he was receiving from the International Space Station.

So he made a recording of it all.

Quote:  "Published on Apr 23, 2016  I think I just received the International Space Station ( Read more... )

Ladies and Gentlemen, meet the future.

towndock.net/newsextra/bathroom-re-opens-with-on-duty-compliance-officer

"We will not be tricked." This is the Plan B.

(Removed drawing of invasive medical examination procedure.)

Otherwise, Plan A is to produce a birth certificate.

The Wordsmith had a good post about this possible response to the Senate's refusal to consider the new Supreme Court nominee. Here were my thoughts on the matter:

Here's the first thing,

>> "He can give them notice that if they don't act, it constitutes a waiver of their right to participate".

1990. Precedent.

Hussein invades Kuwait, and the ( Read more... )

Please raise a glass to Sir James Milne Wilson, the 8th Premier of Tasmania, who died on his 17th birthday, in the 1800s. This article says he was quite a guy.


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