I have just landed on Mars.
Next, I will be going to the moon.
My wonderous man is going too.
The kids, they are coming along for the ride.
Wish you could too?
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Phoenix, as it descends, has its’ photo taken by the Mars HiRISe camera, from ANOTHER mission.
Process that. We took a picture of ourselves descending. All on another planet.
Not moved? Umm, check your heart is still beating.
Phil says it better than I can. He has captured my sense of awe, of the return to
childlike wonder this has bought me.
Just when you wonder if humanity is worth it, we go and do something that makes you want to love us apes with a string of poetry all over again.
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…can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune’s spite; revive from ashes and rise.
The Phoenix has landed. I watched it live on NASA TV. It was an amazing feeling.
Phoenix has its’ own Twitter profile too!
…a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
Now, I have nothing against reasonable Christians.The non frenzied, not convert everyone, not demand it taught as scientific fact in schools types. They exist, but the loud nutjobs ruin it for the others. I respect your beliefs, UNLESS you start demanding I live my life by them. Like these people, or these, or these.
Idiots seeking to impose their bleiefs on others. Yes, idiots. One believes there is a splinter in your eye, zealots. And your stone throwing is inappropriate, as is your picking the bits of the Bible that suit, ignoring the fun in Leviticus, for example.
By the way, feel free to apply that rule of loathing fundamentalists on any belief system, be it religious or political. Fundamentalists are completely abhorrent absolutists who will impose their will on others, and that is just wrong. Democracy, people.
So in honour of the irrational ones:
Top Ten Signs You’re a Fundamentalist/Extremist/Crazy Christian.
10
- You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by
other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of
yours.
9 - You feel insulted and “dehumanized” when scientists
say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem
with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.
8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God.
7
- Your face turns purple when you hear of the “atrocities” attributed
to Allah, but you don’t even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah
slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in “Exodus” and ordered the
elimination of entire ethnic groups in “Joshua” including women,
children, and trees!
6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify
humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have
no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then
gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then
ascended into the sky.
5 - You are willing to spend your life
looking for little loopholes in the scientifically established age of
Earth (few billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing
dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and
guessing that Earth is a few generations old.
4 - You believe
that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those
who share your beliefs — though excluding those in all rival sects -
will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider
your religion the most “tolerant” and “loving.”
3 - While
modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to
convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking
in “tongues” may be all the evidence you need to “prove” Christianity.
2
- You define 0.01% as a “high success rate” when it comes to answered
prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you
think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.
1
- You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do
about the Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call
yourself a Christian.
…for his birthday.
A fortnight early I know, but you will forgive me when you look:)
This montage of planetary images was taken by spacecraft managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Included are images of Mercury, Venus, Earth (and moon), Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.The spacecraft are listed, together with which planet image they took. How wonderful!!!!
…who was a student of history and archeology to go back to a medieval period and really live it.
I am a complete history nerd. The more ancient, the more intruiged I am. A Time Team marathon can make me squeal like a little girl. So this is right up my alley, so to speak.
The animated history of Stonehenge. So very very cool:)
…or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
This is my new favourite April Fool’s joke ever.
“In a surprising and potentially troubling request, the new space station robot known as Dextre demanded that astronauts refer to it in the future at “Dextre the Magnificent.”
…philosophy teaching by examples.
I love history - a serious addict of it. So I was stoked to find that the BBC has released an interactive Timeline of British History . Fantastic for people like me, with interest in the subject, all the way through to scholars, no matter how potentially reluctant:)
…home.
The lovely (sort of;) ) Phil over at Bad Astronomer posts on the amazing shot of Earth and Moon, from Mars.
“Yeah, that’s us. That’s home. We were 192 million kilometers (115 million miles) from Mars when HiRISE turned around and took this picture.”
Wow. Just - wow.
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…we shape the world.
Watch this. I couldn find a flaw in this manś compelling argument. I challenge you. Go on. I dare you. Double dare. Whatever it takes to get you to watch.
You see, he asks a question at the very end - and I cannot answer it at all positively.
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