http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8767763.stm
http://tinyurl.com/25jkytx
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda <no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> check this out
> http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=47345
> http://tinyurl.com/4a7yvcr
> lots of videos and info there like this one
>
> Planck observatory full-sky imag (This is the first full-sky image of
> our Universe from ESA's Planck space observatory, which surveys the
sky
> in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum, Cosmic
> Microwave Background (CMB),The CMB is red and yellow in this image. In
> the foreground it is masked by emissions (blue and purple) from the
> interstellar medium, the diffuse mixture of gas and dust, of our own
> galaxy the Milky Way.....
> myself still a little bit shaky (not stirred [:D] ) after several
> aftershocks by this inocent looking beauty
> but always open for beauty and hope to forget and forgive
> enjoy
> (more about Ani Di Franco after "snipped quotation"...)
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" dhamiltony2k5@ wrote:
> > >
> > > It ain't round.
> > >
> > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12911806
> >
> > Round, potato-shaped, no matter. What it is is smooth,
> > something we tend to forget when walking around on it.
> > I find myself remembering a beautiful song by Ani Di
> > Franco, which tells the whole story in the first verse:
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMXuHke5jZQ
> >
> > From the depth of the Pacific
> > To the height of Everest
> > And still the world is smoother
> > Than a shiny ball bearing
> > So I take a few steps back
> > Put on a wider lens
> > And it changes your skin,
> >..
> > All the stars not to hide
> > Cuz by the time church let out
> > The sky was much clearer
> > And the moon was so beautiful,
> > That the ocean held up a mirror
>
> cute girl great charming poem--thanks for sharing
> especially affected by the way she sings that little part at about
2:50
> "open window" where her voice does this little crescendo and is just
> soaring at that level for the next few lines to more volume, more
> urgency,-- anyway those 20 seconds are a little piece of paradise in
> this song.
> Isn't there a sensation released from the wellspring of your heart
that
> moves so quickly it catches up with the breath and you are suspended
in
> the truth of that moment?--
>
