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Rob Kailey is a working schmuck with no ties or affiliations to any governmental or political organizations, save those of sympathy.
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Tue Jul 24, 2012 at 21:05:06 PM MST
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| Sally Ride took her third and final leap away from Earth when she died yesterday. The ability to stay calm and think clearly that was reportedly a factor in the decision to allow her in the space shuttle program was a likely gift to the professional windbags who chose to speak of little more than little more than her girlie bits
It is too bad that we are still stuck with a class of professional windbags who choose to overlook the lessons she leaves behind.
When I was an astronaut, I spent hours gazing down at the Earth below. Our planet is beautiful. It's home to everything we know and hold dear.
When I looked out the window, I could see winding rivers emptying into blue oceans, mountainsides of a tropical rain forest, and muddy waters of river deltas. I could see city lights twinkle at night and contrails of airplanes crisscross the sky.
More than anything, though, I could see how fragile Earth is. When I looked toward the horizon, I could see a thin, fuzzy blue line outlining the planet. At first, I didn't know what I was seeing. Then I realized it was Earth's atmosphere. It looked so thin and so fragile, like a strong gust of interplanetary wind could blow it all away. And I realized that this air is our planet's spacesuit--it's all that separates every bird, fish, and person on Earth from the blackness of space.
In the last few decades we've started to change that atmosphere. Some of the changes, like the smog hovering over Los Angeles, are even visible to astronauts in space. Others are invisible to the eye but are now easy to measure. The most dangerous--the one that will affect everything on our planet--is the warming that we now know we humans are causing.
http://www.amazon.com/Mission-...
My condolences to Tam O'Shaughnessy. Goodbye Sally Ride. |
| Carla Augustad :: Goodbye Sally Ride |
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