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Given the timing of the drone's first flight attempt I probably won't be watching the briefing live - unless by some bout of insomnia I'm awake at 3:30 a.m! - but I'm excited to see Ingenuity take flight on Mars this weekend/Monday morning. I hope it all goes well for the NASA team.
Nasa's page about Ingenuity with links to how to watch:
https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/#Watch-Online
eta: NASA has pushed the flight back to next Wednesday the 14th
Nasa's page about Ingenuity with links to how to watch:
https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/#Watch-Online
eta: NASA has pushed the flight back to next Wednesday the 14th
Happy Easter
Apr. 4th, 2021 09:13 amHappy Easter to those who celebrate!
Portrait of a Rabbit - Ksenia Buridanova
Portrait of a Rabbit - Ksenia Buridanova
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
Apr. 3rd, 2021 02:57 pmThe Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.
Piranesi is an astonishing book.
It's been on my tbr list for a year now but I never hurried to read it mainly because I abandoned Clarke's first book Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell without finishing it. Now I wonder if I should go back and push through that book because, frankly, I found the first half of Piranesi slow and at times repetitious. But when viewed as a whole that slow beginning was the perfect way to build the story to its crescendo. In that way it foreshadows the event that occurs in the latter part of the novel, an event which both smashes and completes Piranesi's world. What a unique, strange, and melancholy story.
The themes of Piranesi reminded me of a couple of my favorite quotes:
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.” - H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
"I have wandered in many lands, seeking the lost regions from which my birth into this world exiled me, and the company of creatures such as myself." - Bernard Shaw
Piranesi is an astonishing book.
It's been on my tbr list for a year now but I never hurried to read it mainly because I abandoned Clarke's first book Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell without finishing it. Now I wonder if I should go back and push through that book because, frankly, I found the first half of Piranesi slow and at times repetitious. But when viewed as a whole that slow beginning was the perfect way to build the story to its crescendo. In that way it foreshadows the event that occurs in the latter part of the novel, an event which both smashes and completes Piranesi's world. What a unique, strange, and melancholy story.
The themes of Piranesi reminded me of a couple of my favorite quotes:
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.” - H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
"I have wandered in many lands, seeking the lost regions from which my birth into this world exiled me, and the company of creatures such as myself." - Bernard Shaw
Flock of Starlings
Mar. 4th, 2021 02:47 pmThis video is pretty amazing - for a moment the enormous flock of starlings actually take the shape of a bird in flight. What a moment for the photographer to capture.
How Cute is This?!
Feb. 12th, 2021 03:21 pmI definitely need to pick up a copy of this one! (April's issue)
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Jan. 19th, 2021 11:40 am"I'm asking those who love the outdoors to post a picture on your page. A picture that YOU took. Just a pic. No description. The goal is to regain peace and harmony without negativity. Please copy the text, put a picture on YOUR page, and let's look at these beautiful pictures."
