Life
“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
David Russell
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-18
RT @Unstrung Beautiful crescent moon above the western horizon. Check it out if you can! #
RT @NASA: More NASA satellite views of that Iceland volcano ash plume spreading over Europe. http://tinyurl.com/y5ucox7 #
RT @creepingsharia: First man on moon, Armstrong: Obama NASA plan ‘devastating’ http://kl.am/aORY #
RT @WeatherPlanet STS-131: mission management clears Discovery’s heat shield for reentry. http://ff.im/-j9cP0 […] http://bit.ly/cf18oj
Life
“The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing.”
Michael E. Gerber
Fear
“You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.”
Eric Hoffer
(1902 – 1983)
Education
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
Will Durant
US historian (1885 – 1981)
Science
“I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.”
Carl Sagan
US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 – 1996)
Science
“If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.”
Stephen Hawking, Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005
English cosmologist and physicist (1942 – )
Astronomy Picture of the Week – Distant Nebula
This nebula, designated as N 49 or DEM L 190, looks like puffs of smoke or sparks from a fireworks display. It is one of the most distant nebulae ever observed, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way. The nebula is the result of a large supernova, whose light […] http://bit.ly/degze4
Cynical
“Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.”
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
US author & satirist (1842 – 1914)
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-11
Rover Spotted On The Moon:
The Russian Lunar rover Lunokhod 2 was recently spotted on the Moon’s surface. As show… http://bit.ly/9146zg #
RT @Spacedotcom Space Junk Threat Invisible to Astronauts in Orbit: http://bit.ly/c7P4d6 #
RT @science Data from Europe’s Venus Express probe suggests Venus is still volcanically active http://bit.ly/9IsUJx #
Astronomy Picture of the Week – M27 Or Dumbbell […] http://bit.ly/9YtkXB
Rover Spotted On The Moon
The Russian Lunar rover Lunokhod 2 was recently spotted on the Moon’s surface. As shown in the photo below, the black arrow indicates where the tracks begin, while the white one shows the resting place of the rover. The arrows were placed by Phil Stooke, geography professor at University of Western Ontario.
Richard Garriott, a successful […]http://bit.ly/9A6gBL
Corporate Stupidity
“As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building using individual security cards. Pictures will be taken next Wednesday, and employees will receive their cards in two weeks.” (Microsoft Corp. in Redmond WA) “What I need is an exact list of specific unknown problems we might encounter.” (Lykes Lines Shipping) “E-mail is not to be used […]
Cynical Wisdom
“Only the shallow know themselves.”
Oscar Wilde, “Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young”, 1882
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
