Still, 50 years after the Wright Brothers commercial aviation had come a
lot farther than commercial spaceflight has 50 years after Gagarin.
Having grown up on Heinlein, Asimov and Clarke, I'm pretty disappointed
by our progress (or more like lack of).
From: Walter Hamler
Thanks, Bob. I find it amazing that within my lifetime I have seen us
go from barely flying jets and knowing nothing about the solar system
other than rudimentary knowledge, to cataloging thousands of planets
around other stars in our galactic neighborhood. Truly exciting times
for us all!
Walt
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Bob Sullivan <rf.sulli...@gmail.com> wrote:
Walt, Thanks for the reference. In '67 a close friend was
graduating from MIT in Physics, and heading to grad school in
astronomy at CalTech. ?We talked about other life, and he point
out how inevitable it was given the size of the universe. This
composite photo helps prove the proposition. Regards, ?Bob S.
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Walter Hamler
<hamlerwal...@gmail.com> wrote:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
This is one to blow your mind. Be sure to click on the links
that get you to the high res version so you can see all the
smaller planets (like Earth!). If you ever wondered "are we
alone in the Universe?", this pic goes a long way toward a
possible answer.
Walt
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