Re: cassini huygens
Eric Cordian
> touchdown on Titan!
Yes, and we even have a picture from the surface, showing a somewhat flat
plain with chunks of some sort of ice on it.
A triumph of modern technology.
--
Eric Michael Cordian 0+
O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division
"Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"
satyagrahas
satya
"hornpipe" <hornp...@yahoo.ca> a écrit dans le message de news:
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>
> touchdown on Titan!
> --
> hornpipe
satyagrahas
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 05:46:32 +0100, "satyagrahas"
> <satya...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >yes, that's great, i am impatient to take some time to see the photos :)
> >
>
> family was at a lake and all the people with cabins were gathered
> around on the shore looking up trying to see it or pretending to see
> it or maybe they saw it, but even at that age I could feel the awe. I
> think now there was probably fear in some, because it was the
> Russians, but I doubt if there was much fear. Mostly awe I think. I
> didn't know what they were looking for. I thought they had spotted
> "witches" flying up there. Not that I was much scared of "witches",
> just that's all I could think of.
>
> In my teens my first science-fiction book was Brian Aldiss "Hothouse"
> which was just an incredible book to read about Earth in the far far
> distant future when the earth's rotation has slowed to show only one
> face to the sun, and because the moon shows only one face to the
> earth, so the two have become relatively stationary. The Earth facing
> the sun is a hothouse of plantlife and the few remaining humans live
> as tribes in huge trees, and the book is the story of the adventures
> of some of their young coming of age and exploring. The kids explore
> the forest floor, other trees, other tribes with very different
> characteristics (evolution). This is the twilight of the Earth and
> the greatest mystery is what is at the upper branches, because there's
> a taboos about going there. There are taboos about going high except
> for when they get old and they feel that the time is right the adults
> of the tribe climb to the top branches, never to return. Near the end
> of the book the adventurous kids break the taboo and follow their
> mother on her climb...
>
> But what they find, that's the heart of the story so I'll say no more.
> It was a great adventure story to read as a teen and I started reading
> science-fiction like crazy, everything I could find. I like this way
> of looking at space. Setting foot on the moon, putting a rover on
> Mars, touching down on Titan!
>
> --
> hornpipe
yes, there is some magic at watching the stars; always ;))
i love it myself and i am a big fan of the hubble website.
did you see the pastel soft blue of titan?
did you see also the stones how round they are, here in french we call them
"gallets" and they really are looking like having been washed and rolled in
water so much. i like those kind of soft stones a lot; they are very nice to
look at and inspiring and also usually special to touch, almost like the
gemstones !!!!!
in my teens i was also devoring books but alas not science fictions ones
then, essentially sociologicals and very serious books, the libraries of the
schools i was were not big enough for me; but i had issues to deal with and
i was fanatically searching in silence.
i devored science fictions books 10 years later during the soft long night
winters on the vulcanish island where i was living, warm and confortably
cuddled in the rocking chair my husb bought for me after some severe
illness. those were wonderful moments of my life that i cherish a lot, and
the science fiction books were just wonderful, stimulated even more my
imagination and my crative energy :)
thanks for the nice memories you are lifting up now.
i don't remember having read the book you are talking about, i must add it
to my list of "books to buy" next time i decide to have a trip in a big
city. until then i still can play and imagine the differents possible ends
that *i could imagine ;))
often, the feeling that i get in loving it so much in the stars gives me the
feelings back to be able to love it here down on earth; it always widen
(english?) my heart and spirits as well as my moods.
thanks a lot, and i hope you are having a nice day !!!
satya
who loves a lot to have stories told to