I'm a freelance writer and space enthusiast who writes a column on Space exploration. Looking forward to following humanity's collective voyage of discovery.
Do Changing Cosmologies require Changing Theologies? – The Search for Truth. You might recall that I am a member of the Sacred Space Blog and a supporter of the work done by the Vatican Observatory. Full story here. https://t.co/slqHzaZrww
Islamic Theology and Extraterrestrial Life: Discussing how belief in life beyond earth is already incorporated into Islamic belief with author and history professor Jorg Matthias Determann. Full story here.
https://t.co/Y3ESJABzNy
When we crashed into this asteroid, we found:
- it was more rubble than solid
- we changed its orbit
- we changed its shape
Great info to help protect Earth from the next big one.
Details here: https://t.co/crpky7b6TY @NASA
Waxing philosophical with a Harvard Astronomer: Avi Loeb reflects on what ET "life" would be like and why we should care. Read the full story here https://t.co/61p3aWRGsb
Humans have looked to the stars since the beginning of time. Stargazing is the great equalizer. Nobody owns the skies, although in recent times, certain deluded powers and corporations sure seem to think that they do. Read the full story here https://t.co/HNv1yMkP5g
So I am at Walmart scanning and bagging my almost $300 worth of groceries while the employee "monitors" and then this happened.
Her - why are you double bagging all of your groceries?
Me - excuse me?
Her - you are wasting our bags!
Me - if you don't like the way I'm bagging the groceries, feel free to come on over here and bag them yourself.
Her - that's not my job!
Me - okay, then I will bag my groceries how I please if that's all right with you.
Her - why are you using two bags?!
Me - because the bags are weak and I don't want the handles to break or the bottoms to rip out.
Her - well that's because you are putting too much stuff in the bag. If you took half of that stuff out and put it in a different bag then you wouldn't need to double bag.
*10 seconds of me just staring at her.
Me - so you want me to split these items in half and put half of them in a different bag so that I don't have to double bag.
Her - exactly.
Me - so I would still be using two bags to hold the same number of items.
Her - no because you wouldn't be double bagging.
*me pressing two fingers to my left eye in an attempt to make it stop twitching.
Me - okay so here I have a jug of milk and a bottle of juice double bagged. If I take the milk out and remove the double bagging and just put the milk in the single bag and the juice in that single bag I'm still using two bags for these two items.
Her- no because you are not double bagging them so it's not the same number of bags.
*me looking around at about 10 other customers who at this point are enjoying the show.
Me- is this like that Common Core math stuff I keep hearing about?
Her- never mind you just don't get it.
And with that, she went back to her little Podium so she could continue texting or playing games on her phone or whatever it was she was doing before she decided to come over and critique my bagging skills
54 years ago today, #Apollo11 launched…Eagle soaring from Earth atop the Saturn V, bound for the Moon. It seems like only yesterday that we embarked on the mission of a lifetime – a mission for all mankind, a mission I hope will continue to inspire well into our future.