As you’ll see in the side notes, on Jul 12 we will see pictures from the new Webb Space Telescope for the first time. I respectfully suggest we haven’t dealt yet with the archive of data we have from earlier telescopes . . . and I think it matters.
Let me explain. In 2016, NASA published this video showing images of Pluto.Their website waxes eloquent about the former ninth planet.
Pluto – which is smaller than Earth’s Moon – has a heart-shaped glacier that’s the size of Texas and Oklahoma. This fascinating world has blue skies, spinning moons, mountains as high as the Rockies, and it snows – but the snow is red.
This week I saw this colour-enhanced photo.
Before we do *anything* else, and dwarf planet or no, I think we need an answer to this question: WHO MADE THAT FOOTPRINT?
Isabel
Wow! When one star-gazes it’s amazing what one sees!
Tom
Tom – It’s like the Friendly Giant: Look up, look waaay up.
Oh, come now! Isn’t it obvious that walking through the universe is a lot easier — and more efficient — than building all these pathetic flying machines to get through “empty” space?
Jim T
Jim T – What was I thinking? 🙂
Hmmm? The man in the moon? When he can’t be seen from earth.
Judith – 🙂 A good guess.
Isabel – I guess it is definitely an ‘off’ day for me as I can’t seem to find the footprint. Perhaps that’s because I just read the following article about the possibility, or lack thereof, of intelligent life in the universe.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/intelligent-life-really-can-t-exist-anywhere-else?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Well that certainly puts a new twist on the “I’m Okay You’re Okay” fad of the 1970s. I’m an accident; you’re an accident; and we’re both unlikely/improbable/impossible.
But we’re here. Maybe Peggy Lee was right: “Let’s break out the booze, and have a ball…”
Jim T
Jim T – 🙂 I suspect C.S. Lewis wouldn’t have agreed about the accidental nature of our presence here — and the more unlikely, the better he’d find the case for a divine driver.
John – 🙂 I’ll draw a line around it.