It’s Fry Day!!
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If you enjoy Parks & Recreation, then I am sure this has you laughing hysterically right now.
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I am a little saddened about the final flight of the Space Shuttle concluding today. I always wanted to see the spectacle of a shuttle launch, and even planned several trips over the years that were called off due to launch delays. I even kept an eye on launch dates and airline tickets for these last few missions. After 30 years and 135 missions, the remaining shuttles are headed to museums. They were originally expected to last only 100 missions over 10 years, so I agree it is probably time to retire them.
I have always been fascinated by space, I am sure mostly because of Star Wars / Star Trek. But regardless, I paid attention to the shuttle program from a very young age, here are some highlights:
So the big question, is what will become of our space program now that the shuttles are grounded? How many years will our astronauts have to hitch rides in 1960s-designed Russian Soyuz rockets until NASA can come up with something new?
Will it be the end of the space age? I hope not! But the way the US and world economy is right now, I could see it sitting on the back-burner for a while unless private commercial space efforts take a huge leap forward.
Will it truly shift its focus to deep space exploration? I hope so. The Shuttle program was designed as a re-usable orbital – basically just a cargo hauler to launch satellites and bring supplies to the International Space Station. So while it did that successfully and outlasted its predicted lifespan, it didn’t really push human expansion into outer space. Now is the time to think big and start sending humans deep into space. It might also be a good time to make an international space agency to pool our resources across nations for this grand human endeavor to ‘go boldly’, and so forth.
(By the way, if you think NASA was not completely successful due to the loss of two shuttles, I am not sure a 1.48% disaster rate is all that bad when you consider the bazillion things that could go wrong propelling a metal box 17,500 mph into orbit strapped to two giant rockets and 2.5-million pounds of explosives, then letting it fly for millions of miles through the thermosphere before bringing it back in for a safe landing. So hopefully with time, space travel will be as safe as modern airliners, in which the chance of fatal crash is one in 53,000,000, but for now I’d say they are doing pretty good.)
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This Taco-Mergency food truck, has been spotted around San Francisco recently, but sadly is only a movie prop and not serving tacos at this time.
Source: Uptown Almanac
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Ella’s latest mix is titled “Rock Star”, here is her song selections, as eclectic mix as ever:
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These time-lapse videos show a wall of dust over 1-mile high and 50-miles wide moving through the city of Phoenix, Arizona yesterday.
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Found this crazy-cool cave on National Geographic’s website. The vast size of this cave is mind-blowing. Just check out how tiny the people are in this photo – and this is only the mouth of the cave – it gets bigger and includes underground jungles too.
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