Tag: exploration
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March 30, 2009 03:51 PM EDT --
Having returned home around noon today,
I thought I would post a short note here on Gather.
I've been gone since the 17th of the month and I'll
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October 08, 2009 06:35 PM EDT --
NASA spacecraft to slam into the Moon in search of water
Full Disclosure, my brother has worked for NASA for over 20 years, even before he left Auburn University.
But I'm not convinced space . . .
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April 09, 2009 05:43 PM EDT --
Hesitant step off beaten track
Hop back on, for there's a someone
Going, trying, getting back on
Concrete impressive, tip their hats
Pieces cracked with broken luster
Sawn broken boards loiter . . .
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December 12, 2009 05:24 PM EST --
LEGENDS OF LOVE
Legends of love Indescribable unbound volumes Expanding In circles like endless ripples
Erasing traces Rewriting scripts Forming unknown realities Of invisible energies
Providing . . .
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October 25, 2006 09:11 PM EDT --
Living through the times
Creature of ancient wisdom
Teach us how to live
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December 16, 2006 12:16 PM EST --
I want to go.
European Space Agency astronaut Christer Fuglesang and Astronaut Robert L. Curbeam, Jr., participate in construction on the International Space Station. Image credit: NASA - December 14, . . .
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July 07, 2007 02:16 PM EDT --
Explore the deepest seas of the world to learn more about our planet or would you rather go to the greatness of outerspace to study our universe?
Which do you think would benefit us more? . . .
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October 08, 2007 11:12 AM EDT --
Today I awoke with thoughts on my mind of cleaning this house and minding the bills. Today I was not going to Gather, not me, today I was going to be full of industry! But between raising this . . .
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September 13, 2008 11:12 AM EDT --
Over the years I have found it to be very useful to write poems for specific occasions. The one here was written for a memorial service I conducted for a 23 year-old woman who died of cancer, . . .
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May 26, 2006 05:05 PM EDT --
Here at the dawn of the twenty-first century, following several sad failures and more triumphs of NASA's important space voyages of discovery, there seems to be a movement afoot in some scientific . . .
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September 08, 2009 10:29 AM EDT --
Surfing around my news sites this morning as I usually do, I came across a couple of articles I thought that fellow "science aficionados" might find interesting. Both stories relate to . . .
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December 22, 2006 07:09 AM EST --
The International Space Station as seen from the departing Space Shuttle Discovery. Image credit: NASA - Dec. 19, 2006.
Which picture do you like best?
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June 09, 2007 07:52 PM EDT --
Columbus the Man
History books teach us that Christopher Columbus was Italian, born in 1451 to the wife of a Genoese weaver. As time goes by, and more facts come to light, it is more probable . . .
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December 06, 2007 11:52 AM EST --
Does this bother anyone else?
On the way in this am, I heard that NASA is having sensor problems again, delaying today's launch. OK. But then, they suggested that the window to launch . . .
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January 21, 2008 02:21 AM EST --
I haven't seen anything about this posted on Gather; I guess the folks on Gather aren't as much into the scientific news sphere as they are in other places. But I thought it was interesting. . . .
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October 02, 2007 02:54 PM EDT --
Fifty years ago this week, the Soviet satellite Sputnik jolted Americans when it soared into space. Its beeping signal from the heavens was like an alarm clock to an America that suddenly feared . . .
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August 21, 2006 10:46 AM EDT --
Ascherson in his book Black Sea mentions that the European portion of the Inner Eurasian trade routes, at least by the evidence he has presented, and those from High Medieval Europe who traveled it like . . .
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December 22, 2006 05:49 PM EST --
Space Shuttle has landed safely at Kennedy Space Center in Forida. Well Done.
Image credit: NASA TV.
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August 19, 2008 06:05 PM EDT --
These are the first three chapters of my scifi novel, The Centauri Generation. I'm going to submit it to agents and publishers soon (I promise!) I would appreciate your thoughts.
The Centauri . . .
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June 23, 2009 11:03 PM EDT --
Buzz Aldrin, former Apollo astronaut and moon visitor:
"By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that . . .
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