You are sitting and listening to Sur La Route on XM (French sung modern/classic pop, folk, jazzy blues and rock) in Pine Hill Lakes Park while Carol finishes her walk.
A pleasant morning after a safe Saturday/Sunday trip home. I still don’t have much to say but writing acknowledges my self-existence so I don’t have much choice. Funny, how that is.
Just like your fiction, boy. The Dead have a choice to say, “I’m here”, or “I choose to be privately quiet”. What else would you expect? – Amorella
People are enjoying the park. Lots of students are running, led or followed by the coach on bicycle. A fish stocking truck is pulled up to the lakes and unloading. The beginning of a good day.
You sorted mail and stopped for ice teas at Kidd Coffee, as you are moving into the old routine. Errands and chores to do but Tim just mowed and trimmed the yard (for a fun return home).
I need to buy a new sonic toothbrush and electric razor – both are about a decade or so old and frankly worn out. Where to go – Walmart or Target? Such a decision. For instance, if I go to west to Target all might end well, however, if I head south to Walmart a small plane could crash onto Mason-Montgomery Road and I could unknowing drive right into it in the freakiest of accidents, then I would be dead. Or, it could be the other way around. Such things happen.
You are ready to handle the day either way, boy. So it goes. – Amorella
It would help if I did my exercises first; then make a list of what-to-dos. Checking online I find good stuff!
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6 August 2012 Last updated at 01:33 ET
"Nasa's Curiosity rover successfully lands on Mars"
By Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent, BBC News, Pasadena
The US space agency has just landed a huge new robot rover on Mars.
The one-tonne vehicle, known as Curiosity, was reported to have landed in a deep crater near the planet's equator at 06:32 BST (05:32 GMT).
It will now embark on a mission of at least two years to look for evidence that Mars may once have supported life.
A signal confirming the rover was on the ground safely was relayed to Earth via Nasa's Odyssey satellite, which is in orbit around the Red Planet.
The success was greeted with a roar of approval here at mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.
The first pictures from Mars began to be fed back immediately; high-resolution images will come later
Within minutes, the robot was returning its first low-resolution images - showing us its wheels and views to the horizon. A first colour image of Curiosity's surroundings should be returned in the next couple of days.
Engineers and scientists who have worked on this project for the best part of 10 years punched the air and hugged each other.
The rover's Twitter feed announced: "I'm safely on the surface of Mars. GALE CRATER I AM IN YOU!!!"
The descent through the atmosphere after a 570-million-km journey from Earth had been billed as the "seven minutes of terror" - the time it would take to complete a series of high-risk, automated manoeuvres that would slow the rover from an entry speed of 20,000km/h to allow its wheels to set down softly.
The Curiosity team had to wait 13 tense minutes for the signals from Odyssey and the lander to make their way back to Earth.
Data suggested the vehicle had hit the surface of Mars at a gentle 0.6m/s.
"It looked at least with my eyeball that we landed in a nice flat spot. Beautiful," said Adam Steltzner, who led the descent operation.
The JPL director, Charles Elachi, added: "Tonight was a great drama that was played. I felt like I was in an adventure movie but I kept telling myself this is real; and what a fantastic demonstration of what our nation and our agency can do."
That sense of national pride was picked up by US President Barack Obama's chief science adviser, John Holdren.
"Landing the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity on the Red Planet was by any measure the most challenging mission ever attempted in the history of planetary exploration," he said.
"And if anyone has been harbouring doubts about the status of US leadership in space, well there's a one tonne automobile-sized piece of American ingenuity sitting on the surface of the Red Planet right now."
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Curiosity - Mars Science Laboratory
Mission goal is to determine whether Mars has ever had the conditions to support life
Project costed at $2.5bn; will see initial surface operations lasting two Earth years
Onboard plutonium generators will deliver heat and electricity for at least 14 years
75kg science payload more than 10 times as massive as those of earlier US Mars rovers
Equipped with tools to brush and drill into rocks, to scoop up, sort and sieve samples
Variety of analytical techniques to discern chemistry in rocks, soil and atmosphere
Will try to make first definitive identification of organic (carbon rich) compounds
Even carries a laser to zap rocks; beam will identify atomic elements in rocks
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This is the fourth rover Nasa has put on Mars, but its scale and sophistication dwarf all previous projects.
Its biggest instrument alone is nearly four times the mass of the very first robot rover deployed on the planet back in 1997.
Curiosity has been sent to investigate the central mountain inside Gale Crater that is more than 5km high.
It will climb the rise, and, as it does so, study rocks that were laid down billions of years ago in the presence of liquid water.
The vehicle will be scouring Mount Sharp in the crater's centre looking for evidence that past environments could have favoured microbial life.
It is a region that Curiosity project scientist John Grotzinger told the BBC's Horizon program me reads like a "book about the early environmental history of Mars".
Scientists warn, however, that this will be a slow mission - Curiosity is in no hurry.
For one thing, the rover has a plutonium battery that should give it far greater longevity than the solar-panelled power systems fitted to previous vehicles.
"People have got to realise this mission will be different," commented Steve Squyres, the lead scientist of the Opportunity and Spirit rovers put on the surface in 2004.
"When we landed we only thought we'd get 30 sols (Martian days) on the surface, so we had to hit the ground running. Curiosity has plenty of time," he told the BBC.
Initially, the rover is funded for two Earth years of operations. But many expect this mission to roll and roll for perhaps a decade or more.
From: BBC
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To have lived so long! Awesome!
Chipotle/Panera for a late lunch, over to Target at VOA Center for a new Norelco razor and Sonic toothbrush, then to Graeter’s for a kid’s dip of mint chocolate chip and as a special treat you split a piece of yellow cake with thick and creamy chocolate fudge icing. To the bank; then a trip to Kroger’s on Tylersville for food for chicken salad for supper. You are continuing with a busy day. – Amorella
Fortunately the one great shady spot in handicap parking was open and I took it. This is probably illegal because I didn’t go in the store but one would have to be a fool to be cricket and sit in the hot sun instead. – I was thinking, according to you (the book) being dead is pretty simple, one says ‘hello’ and enjoys the company or one ‘sits’ alone with herorhis thoughts.
No education is involved with being dead, boy. Humanity is all one is working with. No advanced degrees either. – Amorella
I am thinking of the hierarchy of angels. How do you Betweeners advance?
Think of stratification of the earth. – Amorella
Does the following from Wikipedia relate?
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Stratification is the building up of layers. Stratified is an adjective referring to the arranging of layers, and is also the past form of the verb stratify, to separate or become separated into layers. They may refer to:
In the earth sciences
Stratification, the layering (strata) of rocks
Stratification (archeology), the formation of layers (strata) in which objects are found
Stratigraphy, the study of geological (or archaeological) stratification and strata
Atmospheric stratifciation, the dividing of the Earth's atmosphere into strata
Geographic stratification, the dividing of geographic areas
(Selected, Added To and Edited From: Wikipedia offline)
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Yes, this will give you something to think about when you are considering your concept of ‘Angels’. Betweeners are ‘figuratively’ a different breed altogether. Post. - Amorella
Are Betweeners the framework of physical reality?
No, we are not. Heartsansoulsanminds are. How else could the Dead continue to exist? – Amorella
Are Betweeners the framework for souls?
Betweeners are a conditional stage in/on which souls may appear to exist. Humanity is a conditional in/on which heartsanminds may appear to exist.
This above comment is for my consideration?
You see an example of non-physical stratification straightaway. Post. - Amorella
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