Mind-boggling, isn’t it. Last night I was sitting around in my apartment and just casually looking through pictures that were taken just *seven*hours* before on the surface of *another*planet’s*moon*. Yikes.
Humans can occasionally be so incredibly clever - landing that probe, ‘alive’, on Titan being a class example of our cleverness in my opinion - but yet most of the time act so, so, incredibly dumb. Mad, no?
Meanwhile, in other news: sound from Titan. Blimey.
Or, as Feynman said: “But I would like not to underestimate the value of the world view which is the result of scientific effort. The same thrill, the same awe and mystery, comes again and again when we look at any question deeply enough. With more knowledge comes a deeper, more wonderful mystery, luring one on to penetrate deeper still. Never concerned that the answers may prove disappointing, with pleasure and confidence we turn over each new stone to find unimagined strangeness leading on to more wonderful questions and mysteries - certainly a grand adventure.”
Seven hours? Well fly over here to England and I can show you a few beaches that look like that!
I watched the news coverage on this and it started by telling you what scientist had predicted what Titan would be like…. funny how the 3D CGI’d version looks better than the real thing
Remember, if space is infinite then we are going to need more web space for the photo’s.
Erm, I didn’t manage to escape from England until I was twenty-nine, so I think I’ll give the idea of flying over there (up there, actually - I’m in Portugal) just to look at the cold, windy and titanesque beaches a miss.
Mind-boggling, isn’t it. Last night I was sitting around in my apartment and just casually looking through pictures that were taken just *seven*hours* before on the surface of *another*planet’s*moon*. Yikes.
Humans can occasionally be so incredibly clever - landing that probe, ‘alive’, on Titan being a class example of our cleverness in my opinion - but yet most of the time act so, so, incredibly dumb. Mad, no?
Meanwhile, in other news: sound from Titan. Blimey.
I have the words: I want to go.
Or, as Feynman said: “But I would like not to underestimate the value of the world view which is the result of scientific effort. The same thrill, the same awe and mystery, comes again and again when we look at any question deeply enough. With more knowledge comes a deeper, more wonderful mystery, luring one on to penetrate deeper still. Never concerned that the answers may prove disappointing, with pleasure and confidence we turn over each new stone to find unimagined strangeness leading on to more wonderful questions and mysteries - certainly a grand adventure.”
Seven hours? Well fly over here to England and I can show you a few beaches that look like that!
I watched the news coverage on this and it started by telling you what scientist had predicted what Titan would be like…. funny how the 3D CGI’d version looks better than the real thing
Remember, if space is infinite then we are going to need more web space for the photo’s.
Erm, I didn’t manage to escape from England until I was twenty-nine, so I think I’ll give the idea of flying over there (up there, actually - I’m in Portugal) just to look at the cold, windy and titanesque beaches a miss.
Thanks anyway.
You’re right about the web space, though.