Take One Moment, Stop, pause Options

[djellison]

I know this picture doesnt look like much. It's grainy, it's bleached out quite a bit

But you owe it to yourselves to look at that picture, and think.

There is a rover climbing a hill on mars.

Isnt that amazing?

If you think hard enough - you can actually imagine being there. Walking with a rover, that we sent half a billion km's to a whole other world.

Sometimes, an image will just catch me off guard and I'll go "wow - LOOK at what we can do!"

Doug

[stevo]

One of my favorite images has the Hubble telescope docked with the shuttle, and two astronauts out there doing repairs, all with the Earth providing a backdrop. Visually stunning, and it reminds me that what was imaginative fiction in my youth is now, if not commonplace, at least a practical reality.

But now ... Consider, we have rovers (rovers, plural!) traversing the surface of Mars, multiple orbiters around Mars, another at Saturn, another craft about to crash into a comet just to see what is inside and many more in planning. And Voyager reaching the boundaries of the solar system. What extraordinary times we live in today and yet I also envy my children for what they will see tomorrow.

Finally, as a regular lurker I want to thank Doug for providing an exemplary forum; informed, intelligent discussion utterly devoid of grandstanding and petulant arguments. Well done.

[djellison]

an exemplary forum; informed, intelligent discussion utterly devoid of grandstanding and petulant arguments.  Well done.

I wish I could take credit - but the ammount of times I've had to get out the big bat marked 'Moderator' can be counted on one hand...in more than a year of the forum existing. It's down to the members.

Doug