Mangosteen Article
It is apparently ok to get canned or frozen mangosteens.
Here is a link to the article I was talking about.
Here is a link to the article I was talking about.
2004-02-28
Mostly to Rabidfangurl
Hi. I dunno where you were all day and hope the take-homes went well; you never called, so I never came over. Dropped by after dinner to see if you or fiddledragon wanted a mangosteen, but no one was in.
There ought to be Wolf's Rain at some point this evening; I'll try calling again before we watch. Just called and no one answered.
Are you all at the SWIL Kegger which I stupidly forgot about?
I dunno how sociable I am feeling; maybe it would be better for me to not go and stay away from large groups of unfamiliar people this evening. Especially since Plenary is tomorrow and I will need sleep at some point.
There ought to be Wolf's Rain at some point this evening; I'll try calling again before we watch. Just called and no one answered.
Are you all at the SWIL Kegger which I stupidly forgot about?
I dunno how sociable I am feeling; maybe it would be better for me to not go and stay away from large groups of unfamiliar people this evening. Especially since Plenary is tomorrow and I will need sleep at some point.
Hubble
I get shivers down my spine every time I see the famous footprint.
I cry when I read The Martian Chronicles. (No, says the rational part of my brain, that's not what it's like. But, says the other part, it captures something of the spirit and the hope, and that's enough).
I happily stay up 'till four am to get the chance to see a possible meteor shower.
In short, I'm a space buff.
Do I think that the shuttle program is old and the whole idea of using shuttles needs to be updated? Yes!
Do I think that exploring the moon again and maybe even going to Mars is a good idea? Yes!
Do I think that we have to shut down the Hubble Space Telescope to do any of this? No!
The gains from even one more servicing mission would give us back what we spent in money far more than priceless scientific data.
They'd give us hope.
People are visual creatures.
It's all well and good to talk about going to the moon and Mars (which, sadly, I believe is an election-year ploy--show us the money, Mr. President, and then we'll believe you), but when do people really get excited? When they see pictures--pictures of ice on Europa. When they see that footprint.
If people see pictures, even pictures of impossible-to-fathom things, these things become real.
Hubble has done more than anything since the moon landing to get people interested in space. It's given people hope when they look at the sky and given people hope when they look into the eyes of the people they're traveling on this little rock with.
It's made us feel that the universe we are told that we live in is real. It's made us feel that we immensely small creatures can strive to understand something immensely large and sometimes even succeed.
Here's some pictures of some things that are impossible to fathom.
Look! The impossible exists!
I cry when I read The Martian Chronicles. (No, says the rational part of my brain, that's not what it's like. But, says the other part, it captures something of the spirit and the hope, and that's enough).
I happily stay up 'till four am to get the chance to see a possible meteor shower.
In short, I'm a space buff.
Do I think that the shuttle program is old and the whole idea of using shuttles needs to be updated? Yes!
Do I think that exploring the moon again and maybe even going to Mars is a good idea? Yes!
Do I think that we have to shut down the Hubble Space Telescope to do any of this? No!
The gains from even one more servicing mission would give us back what we spent in money far more than priceless scientific data.
They'd give us hope.
People are visual creatures.
It's all well and good to talk about going to the moon and Mars (which, sadly, I believe is an election-year ploy--show us the money, Mr. President, and then we'll believe you), but when do people really get excited? When they see pictures--pictures of ice on Europa. When they see that footprint.
If people see pictures, even pictures of impossible-to-fathom things, these things become real.
Hubble has done more than anything since the moon landing to get people interested in space. It's given people hope when they look at the sky and given people hope when they look into the eyes of the people they're traveling on this little rock with.
It's made us feel that the universe we are told that we live in is real. It's made us feel that we immensely small creatures can strive to understand something immensely large and sometimes even succeed.
Here's some pictures of some things that are impossible to fathom.
Look! The impossible exists!