04-Anur

To the Moon

Korea Aerospace Research Institute of South Korea is exploring the moon with Danuri.

This Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter is tasked with surveying lunar resources such as water ice, uranium, helium-3, silicon, and aluminium, and will produce a topographic map to help select future lunar landing sites.

Ballistic Lunar Transfer

Mission is scheduled to be launched today, 4 August 2022, on a Falcon 9 launch vehicle.

rocketlaunch.live <- look for video from 2022

31-Neva

Sportsman

Pit Stop at Starbucks

On his way from Nevada to the Raceway at Laguna Seca in California.

The wheel is driven or forced by means of its engine or motor. The energy is not in the wheel which is passive to this driving agent. So it is with every manifestation of energy; and with every human motivation – it has its human impulse or impelling motive to impart motion.

THE WORD – A PHILOSOPHY (1958) by Edna Sarah Beardsley (re: power)

“In the face of the danger which confronts our time, no individual retains, or can hope to retain, the right of personal choice which free men enjoy in times of peace.” –FDR (1940)

NOTHING TO FEAR by Alan Axelrod (2003)

28-Case

Surrealism

Lofty Lucidity

Don’t worry about tomorrow; who knows what will befall you today?

Yiddish folk saying

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

You’re at that age when everything Mother Nature gave you, Father Time is taking away.

Milton Berle

27-Mist

Spoutings

July 29, 2019 at 1:15 PM

THAT for six thousand years

—and no one knows how many millions of ages before

—the great whales should have been spouting all over the sea, and sprinkling and mistifying the gardens of the deep, as with so many sprinkling or mistifying pots; and that for some centuries back, thousands of hunters should have been close by the fountain of the whale, watching these sprinklings and spoutings

—that all this should be, and yet, that down to this blessed minute (fifteen and a quarter minutes past one o’clock P.M. of this sixteenth day of December, A.D. 1851), it should still remain a problem, whether these spoutings are, after all, really water, or nothing but vapour

—this is surely a noteworthy thing.

Moby Dick; or, The Whale (Chap. 85: The Fountain) by Herman Melville

22-Miss

Aviation

DECINZO (click for color)

There is an art, or rather a knack, to flying.

The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Most people fail to miss the ground, and if they are really trying properly, the likelihood is that they will fail to miss it fairly hard.

Clearly, it’s the second point, the missing, which presents the difficulties.

One problem is that you have to miss the ground accidentally. It’s no good deliberately intending to miss the ground because you won’t.

You have to have your attention suddenly distracted by something else when you’re halfway there, so that you are no longer thinking about falling, or about the ground, or about how much it’s going to hurt if you fail to miss it.

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING, Chpt 9, by Douglas Adams