We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked and dejected with a lost opportunity. The 'tide in the affairs of men' does not remain at the flood; it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is deaf to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residue of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: 'Too late.' There is an invisible book of life that faithfully records our vigilance or our neglect. 'The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on...' We still have a choice today; nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation.
~ Dr. Martin Luther King
View full size (AP Photo/Dave Martin)The Discoverer Inspiration drilling platform operates in the area of the Deepwater Horizon disaster on the Gulf of Mexico, Tuesday, July 13, 2010. BP officials have placed a containment cap over the leak in hopes that the flow of oil will be diminished.
Faster and faster the world "turns"
I do not write - for several reasons
(one is fear of being read and screamed at.
need to work at unleashing this demon......
the other reason goes along with this thread.....)
things move too fast; change is rampant
paradigms are shifting, as is Our Mother
writing is too slow; language constricts
words do not truly capture experience,
though some writing styles can approach making a common dream.....
interpretations differ amongst readers
no one has time or interest to read my crazy ramblings
I can document how my mind moves though.... the dots I archive.... in this format.
Safe for public consumption. Vet and share. Use your skills to do that.....
Tis a game; a simulation. We are electromagnetic creatures - in the physical at least.
We are light.
jj
Space Daily / SPX
Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:32 EDT
A blast of the brightest X-rays ever detected from beyond our Milky Way galaxy's neighborhood temporarily blinded the X-ray eye on NASA's Swift space observatory earlier this summer, astronomers now report. The X-rays traveled through space for 5-billion years before slamming into and overwhelming Swift's X-ray Telescope on 21 June.
The blindingly bright blast came from a gamma-ray burst, a violent eruption of energy from the explosion of a massive star morphing into a new black hole.
"This gamma-ray burst is by far the brightest light source ever seen in X-ray wavelengths at cosmological distances," said David Burrows, senior scientist and professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State University and the lead scientist for Swift's X-ray Telescope (XRT).
Although the Swift satellite was designed specifically to study gamma-ray bursts, the instrument was not designed to handle an X-ray blast this bright.
"The intensity of these X-rays was unexpected and unprecedented" said Neil Gehrels, Swift's principal investigator at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. He said the burst, named GRB 100621A, is the brightest X-ray source that Swift has detected since the observatory began X-ray observation in early 2005.
Now here is one of the more intelligent things I have heard said about the Gulf situation [jj]:
Wells said the test delay was ordered by National Incident Commander Thad Allen, who wanted to make sure everyone was clear on the steps involved and what the data gathered during the test might mean.
"This test is so important a decision was taken to give them another 24 hours to make sure this was the best possible test procedure we could execute," he said. But Wells declined to say that the company would definitely proceed with the "shut in" of the new cap, which was its planned course a day before.
The Vatic Project - It sounds like Allen is an excellent project manager! jj
Wow. For your musical entertainment! jj
Did you know "they say" that only human beings make music?
It is one reason other species are in awe of us.
(one is fear of being read and screamed at.
need to work at unleashing this demon......
the other reason goes along with this thread.....)
things move too fast; change is rampant
paradigms are shifting, as is Our Mother
writing is too slow; language constricts
words do not truly capture experience,
though some writing styles can approach making a common dream.....
interpretations differ amongst readers
no one has time or interest to read my crazy ramblings
I can document how my mind moves though.... the dots I archive.... in this format.
Safe for public consumption. Vet and share. Use your skills to do that.....
Tis a game; a simulation. We are electromagnetic creatures - in the physical at least.
We are light.
jj
Space Daily / SPX
Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:32 EDT
© NASA/Swift/Stefan Immler
The brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen in X-rays temporarily blinded Swift's X-ray Telescope on 21 June 2010. This image merges the X-rays (red to yellow) with the same view from Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope, which showed nothing extraordinary. (The image is 5 arcminutes across.)
The brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen in X-rays temporarily blinded Swift's X-ray Telescope on 21 June 2010. This image merges the X-rays (red to yellow) with the same view from Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope, which showed nothing extraordinary. (The image is 5 arcminutes across.)
The blindingly bright blast came from a gamma-ray burst, a violent eruption of energy from the explosion of a massive star morphing into a new black hole.
"This gamma-ray burst is by far the brightest light source ever seen in X-ray wavelengths at cosmological distances," said David Burrows, senior scientist and professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State University and the lead scientist for Swift's X-ray Telescope (XRT).
Although the Swift satellite was designed specifically to study gamma-ray bursts, the instrument was not designed to handle an X-ray blast this bright.
"The intensity of these X-rays was unexpected and unprecedented" said Neil Gehrels, Swift's principal investigator at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. He said the burst, named GRB 100621A, is the brightest X-ray source that Swift has detected since the observatory began X-ray observation in early 2005.
Now here is one of the more intelligent things I have heard said about the Gulf situation [jj]:
Wells said the test delay was ordered by National Incident Commander Thad Allen, who wanted to make sure everyone was clear on the steps involved and what the data gathered during the test might mean.
"This test is so important a decision was taken to give them another 24 hours to make sure this was the best possible test procedure we could execute," he said. But Wells declined to say that the company would definitely proceed with the "shut in" of the new cap, which was its planned course a day before.
The Vatic Project - It sounds like Allen is an excellent project manager! jj
Wow. For your musical entertainment! jj
Did you know "they say" that only human beings make music?
It is one reason other species are in awe of us.
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