20120805-11 Curiosity and News.
This blog turned out a little longer than usual, mostly because of Curiosity. This is really the second half of the "Summer" post, which started with our trip to see friends in Miami!
We've let Diablo II dungeon crawl it's way back into our day (but it never really left our hearts)!
In Fitness:
We've started a walking habit: 3.1 roundtrip (or 2.5 with the dog). Hoping to find a nice breakfast/lunch place near the midpoint and go once a week!
I've hit the next stop on my Hobbit Walk! Taking much longer without fitness classes, must work something out...
Started the NerdFitness 6 Week Challenge for Aug-Sep. Not doing so hot: why'd I start a fitness challenge that included the one week I have of actual vacation? Because that's when it officially started. I won't do as well as I hoped, but I can certainly make good on most of it! Going out to eat so much has really put me behind!
In the world:
We learned July was the hottest in recorded history, booo Global Warming! Pair that with the (little older) news of 40% melt of the Greenland ice sheet, and it might be time to worry!
An unfathomable amount ping-pong ball sized pumice rocks are floating off the coast of New Zealand. The mass stretched 100,000 sq miles or 26,000 square kilometers (the size of Belgium). The article says no known volcanic activity can attribute for it.
Perseid Meteor Shower ... Saturday night. I'll probably miss it.
Curiosity, an unmanned camera-wielding roving robot safely landed on Mars and has been sending NASA beautiful color photos. Hasn't run into his little brother yet.
My cousin and his wife had their second boy-child, a wrinkly red 9lb 9oz baby born on Aug 09! That's a lot of nines. Ah, the wonders of up to the minute info via social media!
We've let Diablo II dungeon crawl it's way back into our day (but it never really left our hearts)!
In Fitness:
We've started a walking habit: 3.1 roundtrip (or 2.5 with the dog). Hoping to find a nice breakfast/lunch place near the midpoint and go once a week!
I've hit the next stop on my Hobbit Walk! Taking much longer without fitness classes, must work something out...
Started the NerdFitness 6 Week Challenge for Aug-Sep. Not doing so hot: why'd I start a fitness challenge that included the one week I have of actual vacation? Because that's when it officially started. I won't do as well as I hoped, but I can certainly make good on most of it! Going out to eat so much has really put me behind!
In the world:
We learned July was the hottest in recorded history, booo Global Warming! Pair that with the (little older) news of 40% melt of the Greenland ice sheet, and it might be time to worry!
An unfathomable amount ping-pong ball sized pumice rocks are floating off the coast of New Zealand. The mass stretched 100,000 sq miles or 26,000 square kilometers (the size of Belgium). The article says no known volcanic activity can attribute for it.
Perseid Meteor Shower ... Saturday night. I'll probably miss it.
Curiosity, an unmanned camera-wielding roving robot safely landed on Mars and has been sending NASA beautiful color photos. Hasn't run into his little brother yet.
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| Curiosity's descent was caught by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. |
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| Three seconds after jettisoning its heat shield, it snaps a pic of it. |
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| Curiosity's Hi-Res of the Gale Martian Crater. |
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| Full color panorama of the crater on Mars. Awesomely: exactly as you imagined it would be. SQUEE. |
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| The MarsDial. Created by Bill Nye, The Science Guy, the sundial attached to Curiosity not only allows NASA to color correct (see the colored corners on Nye's?) but also allows them to "determine the time, date, season, and latitude on a planetary surface". "The global spirit of space exploration is symbolized by the decoration on the “face” of the sundial—the names of Mars in 16 languages, including ancient Sumerian, Mayan, Inuktitut, and Hawaiian." -ref. -Wiki. |
My cousin and his wife had their second boy-child, a wrinkly red 9lb 9oz baby born on Aug 09! That's a lot of nines. Ah, the wonders of up to the minute info via social media!
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