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The Nieces Quienceanera #34

Posted by: GardenGrrl, 13. kesäkuuta 2012 klo 00:17 (GMT)

Hi All, thanks for coming by the last blog and leaving your thoughts about whats next in space exploration.

I'm back from vacation and here is a quick blog. Will be working OT for rest of month starting tomorrow so won't be around much. Eat, sleep, work.

We went to Beavers Bend State Resort Park in beautiful Oklahoma. It is the part of the Ouachita Mountain Chain which is made of sedementry rock thrust upward during a collision of North American and South American plates.

I snapped 525 pictures. Here is a quick peak. Have some really neat shots yet to come. Saw lots of wildlife and had a great time hanging out with some of the nicest folks you could ever meet outside of WUville. Our hosts and guides have been coming to Beavers Bend since 1969. They have known each other since grade school and still are tickled with each others company. It was just as fun being with them sharing stories at their camp as walking the trails together.

Time to call it night and get ready for the long work month. Thanks for stopping by.

Sunflowers

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Updated: 25. kesäkuuta 2012 klo 03:05 (GMT)

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Celebrating Space Exploration

Posted by: GardenGrrl, 5. kesäkuuta 2012 klo 17:43 (GMT)

This is an amazing year for space exploration and star gazing. Watching the live feed of Spacex Dragon docking to the International Space Station put goosebumps on my arms.

Science fiction has long predicted we would explore the cosmos. The day the Dragon docked to the ISS marked the real start to space travel. It's not the government, but private industry who will colonize the galaxies. Each generation their own group of genuises that bring us new tech.

Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell; American giants followed by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce who invented the pivotal semi-conductor chip. We now have Elon Musk and his associates to bring us new marvels.

This is truly a historic time. It seems fitting that we have the Venus Transit across the the sun. The world will not see this again until 2117. What fancies will become reality then? Will we "surf" planet orbits to skip through the galaxy? Discover "space currents" to sail? The biggest question, will we perfect FTL?

Each generation is a wonderful time to be alive.