Well done Beagles. Following your directions with one finger on your narrative and another on the google map and making it bigger and smaller and switching between road and satellite views I was able to zone in on the dam and the various rivers and lakes that make up the inland waterway. As NPR was discussing the James Webb Telescope which is launching on Christmas Eve I was envisioning Indians slipping their canoes into narrow slippery rivers.
What an exciting thing it must have been to be traveling along the rivers and lakes of the inland waterways. They must have wondered if they took a left instead of a right and kept on going what would they run across. What if they just kept going, what was out there in the big wide world?
And so goes the James Webb. Well we already know what is out there, or more precisely what it looks like from here. And it is not going that far from the earth, but it will be looking deep into space, deep into where the big bang banged long ago. But that is not what is getting all the ink. What is getting all the ink is little green men. Well we are social animals we want to, you know, have someone to chat with during those long years before the sun explodes or, surviving that, when the universe is nothing but sparse cold smithereens.
There doesn't seem to be that much to the patriotic war. Seems like just a bunch of malcontent Canadians and opportunistic Americans, and neither Canada or the USA had wanted much to do with them. Most of them ended up shipped to Australia. There was a shadowy group of soreheads who became the Hunters' Lodge and I wonder if they were a forerunner to Michigan's famous militias.
Solstice tomorrow morning. Days will be technically getting longer but it seems like there are a couple weeks of stutter stepping before we begin to gain one or more whole minutes per day.
>>Well we are social animals we want to, you know, have someone to chat with<<
ReplyDeleteExactly agree with you there Uncle Ken. I believe it was Stephen Hawking that said, "In an infinite universe, there must be other life." I hope that we not only find life as in bacteria, but actual intelligence 'sapiens' that we dogs can bark-to indeed. I suppose weekend visits would be out of the question due to the vast distances involved and there being no such thing as the faster-than-light drive, but we could blink our lights at each other, or send radio waves at the frequency of helium or similar, in order to send birthday greetings across the light-years.
Perhaps, silly cat images.
I too am glad for the Webb scope as the Hubble has been getting very long in the tooth. HAPPY SOLSTICE, Beagles. :)