Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Space exploration is one of the things I get passionate about.
The pic is usually entitled "Earthrise". It was taken in 1968 by astronaut Bill Anders, during the Apollo 8 mission. Apollo 8 was the first manned mission to orbit the moon. I have a 22" by 16" laserprint reproduction of that photo, purchased from the Kennedy Spaceflight Center's souvenir shop, hanging on our living room wall. :)
I should have made clear that I only posted the last two stanzas of that poem. The full poem appears in Heinlein's story "The Green Hills of Earth"; in the story it's attributed to the blind minstrel Rhysling, a spaceman until an accident blinded him.
This is horrible!
I'm not much of an Elf-defender, but I'll try.
Melkor stole the Silmarils
You left out that in doing so he killed Fëanor's father, Finwë, king of the Noldor Elves. Fëanor gave Melkor the name "Morgoth", by the way; the "Black Foe of the World".
So you see those elves were backstabbers from the start.
Just Fëanor and his kids. They were a nasty bunch.
Galadriel was part of that bunch that had to journey through the northern wastes.
Yup, Galadriel was Fëanor's niece, daughter of his half-brother Finarfin. JRRT says that she was the most beautiful of the Noldor, "her hair was lit with gold as though it had caught in a mesh the radiance of Laurelin," Laurelin being the golden Tree of Valinor.
Yeah I did, thanks for adding those details. ;^)
When were you at Kennedy? I'm about 40 minutes south of there. We've been a few times, it is an awesome place. Espaecially when you go out to the building where they have the Saturn(?) rocket suspended over your head, that thing is HUGE!
Oh, it would have been in 1979 or so. My family was in the Tampa area visiting my grandparents, and my aunt and I took a day long bus tour across the peninsula to the Cape. It was a great tour; the only thing I missed was seeing the interior of the Vehicle Assembly Building. It was closed to visitors that day because they were testing something. I have a lot of cool photos from that tour, though! :)
If I hear any more of that "Islam means Peace" crappola, I'm gonna puke...
My daughter, Elizabeth, is the one on the right. (She has the red, whit, and blue car)
My wife is the one with the plaid shirt in the middle. This was at last year's teen camp. The went to a place called Peace River. They have to canoe all of their stuff a couple miles down the river, and they rough it for a week. The only running water is the river.
From everything I've heard, you're right. If you go to my church's website (linked above) and select Ministries, on the left-hand side of the screen, and then choose Youth Ministry you can see more pics of the Peace River trip. One of the guys even caught a little alligator and is showing it off in one of the pictures.
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