Good Morning, my Girl Of The Stars,
That was one of the comments in the Taya Iv photo you posted last night. I saw it right before I went to bed. Yep, I love astronomy, and another thing I wanna get is a Mars globe. I already have my Moon globe that Dad got me for Christmas in 1969, but now I need a Mars globe, too, so I will know the terrain and locations at a quick glance. They are kinda expensive, from what I see on Amazon, about a hundred bucks.
Well, Ad, Mars ain't cheap.
Right now I am absolutely fascinated by the Valles Marineris, aka "The Grand Canyon Of Mars". It's amazing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valles_Marineris - and in pictures it looks like a giant scar. It looks like it was burned into the landscape, and indeed, from what I am reading was probably caused by a massive electrical phenomenon of some type, millennia ago.
A place I wanna go back to is Palomar Observatory, near San Diego. Dad took me there when I was about six. At the time it was the world's largest telescope, and I remember being really impressed (and we got to look through it), but I was far too young to appreciate it. Now it would be incredible. Mount Wilson, too. That is a famous old observatory near Pasadena, I'm sure you've heard of it. Many famous astronomers worked there, including Edwin Hubble, and Dr. Robert Jastrow was the director for a while. Mt. Wilson is a lot closer, only about 40 miles away as opposed to 125 for Mt. Palomar. Well, there's a little Space Stuff for ya.
We have a little break in the rain at the moment. Vickie didn't come over but I may try to do some shopping anyway. It is supposed to start pouring again, though, so on second thought.........
It would be awesome to go see King's X again tonight, but the show in is Corona, waaaaay out in the boondocks in Riverside County. It's about an 80 mile drive (an almost unheard-of trek for Angelenos), and also there was supposed to be some flooding out that way, so, as much as I'd like to go, I will stay home. I think the guys will be back, and this time we won't have to wait five years. At least I hope so.
I know it is still cold in Middleton, and I imagine this has gotta be one of the harshest Winters ever up there, but now we are in March, so things have gotta get better soon! And we are gonna have an awesome year (and we already are, anyway). You and I have so many interests, and we always have something interesting to think about, and to share. I hope your day is a good one, you brilliant woman, you!
I may go shopping or I may chicken out, I'm not sure yet. But either way, I will mostly be around all day.
I Love You, my Baby! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
10pm : I love that tattoo, that's the Eternal Us, even when we are skeletons. Well, Sweet Baby, I was lucky tonight. I managed to get in a full walk for the first time in three days. The rain stopped for just long enough, and I'm glad, cause I gots ta get my excercise.......
(back in a few minutes at the usual time)
11pm : I hope all this stuff doesn't sound too nerdish or academic, but I love these subjects! It's funny, cause I never was what you'd call a nerd, and as a kid, my reading material tended toward sports biographies. But I developed interest in all things cosmic as I entered into adulthood. With me, it was never specifically a scientific interest, and I don't say that critically because I love and respect science. It's just that I was not interested in the clinical aspect of discovery (what I always refer to as the "measurement" aspect of science), so much as I was interested in the spiritual aspect as it related to me, a Human Being. You know, the typical " why am I here, what am I, what is the Solar System, a Galaxy, the Universe".
I've always been interested in the mystery of these subjects, beyond the observable facts. And so that led me, years later, to Sagan - a scientist who wasn't afraid to propose unvarified theories - and then to Dad's book by Spengler, "The Decline Of The West", in which I discovered the philosophical concepts of "becoming" vs. "become". It just sounds abstract when I state these learning progressions in brief sentences, but I know you get the idea. There is something inside some of us - and I am convinced we are not many - that innately knows things. Things that lead back to the barrier of creation, or who we are and how we came to be. Not merely as humans, but.........well, you know.
This is where the notion of glimpses came from, because those of us who know things are always on the fringes of a Glimpse. We go shopping, tie our shoes, watch a movie, visit with friends, go to work or school.........but that fringe is always there.
If a nerd kid is more interested in the mathematical (i.e. measurement) wizardry of the phenomenon, I was always more interested in what was elusive. What could never be measured. What couldn't be seen, and only momentarily imagined. I was interested in this aspect (and it became a major study in my life), because something inside me was always pulling me that way .
I would be living my life, watching a baseball game, reading a Stephen King book, listening to a record, eating dinner or mowing the lawn........and there were always the glimpses. Always this other side, inside of me, attracting my attention away from the physical.
As I got more accustomed to it, and especially as I read more from geniuses like Oswald Spengler and now Dr. Farrell, I discovered that what I was glimpsing was indeed physical, but just to a different degree.
At any rate, whether it's nerdish or not, just so long as it's not boring!
A while back, a read a book called "Jupiter" by a guy named Ben Bova, who was a writer for a magazine called "Omni". The book was pretty good, in an Arthur C. Clarke sci-fi vein, and I am not a huge reader of that stuff. I am more a horror guy, as far as fiction goes.
But I was thinking about all the stuff we have been talking about recently, and I was reminded of that book, and Bova's description of the surface of Jupiter. It is a "gas giant". Okay, but what the hell does that mean? Well, in the book, he describes the surface as a gradually thickening layer of clouds, or hydrogen, that become denser and denser until - at some point, thousands of miles inward - the gas becomes liquid.
But according to Bova, a scientist himself and a famous writer, there is no demarcation line. There is no point on the "surface" of Jupiter (which you could never stand on), where you can tell the difference between gas and liquid. One just turns into the other, without a boundary.
That's the kind of stuff that blows my mind.
And so I keep reading............
Right now it is Mars and mythology. But it's all part of the mystery.
I Love You, my Darling Elizabeth, and I will see you in the morn. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
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