He's not going to get re-elected, right...so he can just go for it! |
Human beings should be able to come up with something cool to do with this 'huge' space, |
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. |
I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room. |
If I had my druthers, I wouldn't have wanted the Forest Service to take over the property to begin with, ... Private citizens would do a better job maintaining it. |
If you're a betting taxpayer, over the next 30 years, would you rebuild the cities that were knocked down, in the same way? I would argue, maybe not. |
My dad was fascinated with sundials. He photographed hundreds of them and wrote a book about them. He designed a Nye family dial that kept time at our house in Washington, DC. |
Our world is driven by our remarkable ability to carefully measure and divide units of time. In a reasonable sense, the invention of clocks has had a greater effect on our lives than the invention of wheels. You can invent wheels relatively easily, if you live where trees fall over. |
That's all for now, |
The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it. |
There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm |
We can't send living things to another planet. That might screw it up, |
When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then? |
Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk |