Year of the Moon: China, Japan Ready Lunar Probes for 2007

Sounds fitting.  Larry Klaes passed these two notes from space.com and I'll
pass along.
- LRK -

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Year of the Moon: China, Japan Ready Lunar Probes for 2007

A renewal of robotic lunar exploration is ready for liftoff in 2007 - and
not by the United States. This year, China is set to launch its first lunar
orbiter, followed by the summer sendoff of a mega-powerful mooncraft from
Japan.

http://www.space.com/news/070102_asia_moonprobes.html


Full Moon Names for 2007

Full Moon names date back to Native Americans, of what is now the northern
and eastern United States. Those tribes of a few hundred years ago kept
track of the seasons by giving distinctive names to each recurring full
Moon. Their names were applied to the entire month in which each occurred.

http://www.space.com/spacewatch/061229_moonnames2007.html
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Where you are you probably have names for the full moons too.

We have been looking up at the moon and marking the completion of cycle
after cycle.  Strange that the rising marked a different spot on the horizon
that marched back and forth as the year marched on. 

As you thought about that you also noted the Sun rose at different spots on
the horizon each day.  Why was that?  There was that itch you got in your
head that made you question and search for answers to where we were and what
was our place in the Universe.

How would that itch change if you were on the Moon looking out into space?
- LRK -

Here is another link from L. Klaes.  Thanks much.
- LRK -

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Sputnik 4 Crashed Here

Manitowoc, Wisconsin

The galleries of the Rahr-West Art Museum contain paintings by Georgia
O'Keeffe, Picasso, and Andy Warhol. They also contain a piece not even the
Met or the Getty or the Louvre can equal -- a piece of space junk. It's not
here because it's art. It's here because it crashed right outside.

Full article with images and road map here:

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/sights/sightstory.php?tip_AttrId=%3D12959
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When I read the above I thought about how little we value the events in
history when they happen and it isn't until later that we recognize what has
happened.  Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system, we toss the data, sputnik
crashes with a piece landing in the street and is kicked into the gutter.

Don't feel bad if you make history and it isn't recognized, but do it
anyway. 

Thanks for looking up with me.

Larry Kellogg

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In our discussions on how to interest folks in building for living in space
you can do brain storming and just throw out ideas with no fear of reprisal
for those that don't work.  Creative ideas may show themselves.

You can also look at what motivated folks in the past to leave their homes
to strike out for new lands.  The human has been an adaptive animal which
has helped when things got rough.  Looking for food and shelter may be the
most important thing on your mind if you don't have the necessities.

If you are secure, then there is room for innovative ideas to excel.
Recognizing where you are in your ladder of needs can help in deciding what
course to take.
- LRK -

http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/maslow.html
Maslow hierarchy of needs.
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A New Year and time to reflect and maybe, if too much bubbly - LRK -


The weather changed,
the mountains rose,
Out Of Africa we see.

The potatoes rotted,
a new home for those who were left.

The seas rose, the atoll is soon under, chip away at
that log, we are going to a new island.

The ore field, a result of direct hit, is being
depleted, best we launch to find a new asteroid and
pick away at it before it picks at us.

Life is getting a bit crazy, let us take the
inflatable to a new height, maybe we can add it to the
new colony we see up there.

What are my options in this New Year, 2007, aaah, here
is to looking up.

Larry Kellogg
http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/

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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK

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