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Bo D

#150
June 21, 2012, 01:27:22 PM
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."  Carl Sagan

Bo D

#151
June 21, 2012, 01:35:40 PM
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."  Carl Sagan

Henry Hawk

#152
June 21, 2012, 01:44:25 PM
Cool stuff Olias...  8)
"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left."
Ecclesiastes 10:2 - It all makes sense to me now...


"The future ain't what it used to be."– Yogi Berra

"Square roots are rarely found on any plant." FTW

libby

#153
June 21, 2012, 06:09:54 PM
Quote from: The Troll on June 20, 2012, 11:32:02 PM



  Here is a good question for you Libby.  If you were handed your "Libby's Book of Life" and in that book was the day, month and year, the time and the way you will died or killed. :dead:  Would you open the book and look to see how and when you die?   :eek:   :o  Think about it.  I would, for it would change the way I am living now.   :smile:
That's easy. I absolutely do not want to know. Thinking about what you'd do, what you'd change could drive you crazy.

At this point in my life, I don't think I'd change a thing. I hope I just go to sleep here and wake up there. Where/what "there" is is another matter for maybe another discussion one of these days.

Now I have a question for you: what if we've been here before and will come back again? Or maybe never left -- the body dies but the soul lives on? (I absolutely cannot imagine a time, before I was born, or after I die, that the consciousness that is ME did not exist or will cease to exist when my mortal body shuts down.)
All of life is a process of testing and initiation, always preparing for a higher level of consciousness -- and illumination. -- John Horn

libby

#154
June 21, 2012, 06:16:54 PM
Quote from: Palehorse on June 21, 2012, 12:30:33 AM
Some of the most brilliant people I have ever had the pleasure of knowing or working with had both education and real life experience. Typically they were individuals who were bored in High School, got jobs, and skipped college for about 10 or so years. Then they went to college and obtained a higher education with which to utilize their experience.

THOSE are the people who assure the continuation of the species, but they are becoming increasingly silent due to the aforementioned loudmouths who get the corporate controlled media's attention; which drives the sheep onto the path of doom.

That we still look to the skies centuries later is a good thing, however that we continue to lose ground to idiocy is the dangerous part of the formula. Should the trend continue I believe that Olias's forecast is more likely, and Locutus's the "best case scenario" surrounding the fate of the planet and species.

Troll: If there were such a book to foretell our future destiny as individuals I would NOT look; for to look is to change, past, present, and future. My life is what it is and will be and I am resolved to play the hand out to the last. If the last is 5 minutes from now or 50 years is of no consequence to me. If I look it changes everything between now and my expiration date, and I wouldn't want to miss one second of my destiny. . . for it makes me that which I am and will be. Now why would I want to change that?
I agree! Well said.
All of life is a process of testing and initiation, always preparing for a higher level of consciousness -- and illumination. -- John Horn

libby

#155
June 21, 2012, 06:26:15 PM
All of life is a process of testing and initiation, always preparing for a higher level of consciousness -- and illumination. -- John Horn

The Troll

#156
June 21, 2012, 07:42:36 PM
Quote from: libby on June 21, 2012, 06:09:54 PM
That's easy. I absolutely do not want to know. Thinking about what you'd do, what you'd change could drive you crazy.

At this point in my life, I don't think I'd change a thing. I hope I just go to sleep here and wake up there. Where/what "there" is is another matter for maybe another discussion one of these days.

Now I have a question for you: what if we've been here before and will come back again? Or maybe never left -- the body dies but the soul lives on? (I absolutely cannot imagine a time, before I was born, or after I die, that the consciousness that is ME did not exist or will cease to exist when my mortal body shuts down.)

  Here is a question Libby.  What if you knew that you were going to die in a car crash in 18 months.  Would you save money.   Would you take out long term bonds. Would you still worry about retirement.  Would you take a trip and visit people you would like to see before you died.  Would you cut loose and spend a little more money.

  Or would just keep doing what you doing knowing you can't stop the car crash.  What would you do.  You know we all have to die.  But for you if there weren't a god, you wouldn't know it, because you would be dead.  :dead:

Bo D

#157
June 22, 2012, 10:36:10 AM


2012 Noctilucent Cloud Season Begins

These electric-blue ice clouds hang 53 miles (85 km) above Earth's surface, at the edge of space itself, circling the north and south pole regions. Their origin is still largely a mystery; various theories associate them with meteoric dust, rocket exhaust, global warming — or some mixture of the three.

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."  Carl Sagan

libby

#158
June 22, 2012, 02:43:55 PM
Quote from: Olias on June 22, 2012, 10:36:10 AM


2012 Noctilucent Cloud Season Begins

These electric-blue ice clouds hang 53 miles (85 km) above Earth's surface, at the edge of space itself, circling the north and south pole regions. Their origin is still largely a mystery; various theories associate them with meteoric dust, rocket exhaust, global warming — or some mixture of the three.
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All of life is a process of testing and initiation, always preparing for a higher level of consciousness -- and illumination. -- John Horn

Y

#159
June 24, 2012, 11:33:34 PM
I absolutely love this stuff.  It really puts oneself, and humanity, in perspective.  No wonder it scares people.
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Law of Logical Argument - Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about.  ;)

"You've probably noticed that opinion pollsters go out of their way to include as many morons as possible in surveys ... I think it's dangerous to inform morons about what their fellow morons are thinking. It only reinforces their opinions. And the one thing worse than a moron with an opinion is lots of them." -- Scott Adams

In other words: Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.  ;)

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair

"Hitler is gone, but if the majority of our fellow citizens are more susceptible to the slogans of fear and race hatred than to those of peaceful accommodation and mutual respect among human beings, our political liberties remain at the mercy of any eloquent and unscrupulous demagogue." -- S. I. Hayakawa

Henry Hawk

#160
June 26, 2012, 11:19:14 AM
NASA expects '7 minutes of terror' before Mars landing

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/06/26/nasa-expects-7-minutes-terror-before-mars-landing/#ixzz1yuf9p9oX



In just six weeks, NASA's next Mars rover will attempt an unprecedented  landing on the Red Planet that will have mission engineers on the edge of their  seats with excitement and worry.
The 1-ton Curiosity rover— the centerpiece of NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission — is due to touch down inside the Red Planet's Gale Crater on the night of Aug. 5.  But it won't be easy.
"Entry, descent and landing, also known as EDL, is referred to as the 'seven  minutes of terror,'" EDL engineer Tom Rivellini, of NASA's Jet Propulsion  Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., said in a recent JPL video.

"We've got literally seven minutes to go from the top of the atmosphere to  the surface of Mars,  going from 13,000 miles per hour to zero in perfect sequence, perfect  choreography, perfect timing," Rivellini added. "And the computer has to do it  all by itself, with no help from the ground. If any one thing doesn't work just  right, it's game over."


"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left."
Ecclesiastes 10:2 - It all makes sense to me now...


"The future ain't what it used to be."– Yogi Berra

"Square roots are rarely found on any plant." FTW

Bo D

#161
June 27, 2012, 04:44:50 PM
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."  Carl Sagan

libby

#162
June 27, 2012, 11:33:11 PM
I love this thread.  :smile:
All of life is a process of testing and initiation, always preparing for a higher level of consciousness -- and illumination. -- John Horn

Locutus

#163
July 01, 2012, 09:10:20 PM
Ever since I was a teenager and listening to the Crosby, Stills & Nash version of 'Southern Cross', I've always been fascinated by the constellation.  It's always been a goal of mine to actually see the Southern Cross (formal name Crux) in the night sky sometime before I check out.  It would require a special trip to see it as it's primarily visible, and visible the most clearly, south of the equator. 

However, I have an awesome app for my iPhone called 'Star Walk' that allows you to point your iPhone at any direction in the night sky, and it will identify the constellations, in real time, that are visible in whatever direction you point the phone, from whatever location you're using it.  It uses GPS functionality to do this. 

The following image is from the app while pointing it straight south one night last week.  I was unaware that since I'm so far south, at certain times of the year, the Southern Cross is completely above the horizon from my location here in South Florida.   What the app doesn't tell you is that although the Crux is completely above the horizon, it's so low that it's impossible to see with all of the light pollution from the south Florida metro area.  The city of Miami lies just 15 miles south of me, and there's just too much light pollution at my location to ever be able to see the Southern Cross from here.

Anyway, I just thought it was interesting that it would be visible if I had a clear shot to the the southern horizon and no light pollution.  ;D

One of the gravest dangers to the survival of our republic is an ignorant electorate routinely feeding at the trough of propaganda.   -- Locutus

"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically."  -- Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Palehorse

#164
July 01, 2012, 09:17:19 PM
Dude. I'm downloading that app right now!  :yes:
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