To: Cincinatus' Wife
Have you ever visited Hawaii? It's a national treasure. Consider the Polynesians and how they spread out among the south Pacific on small, frail boats. I'm sure that thousands never made landfall, instead drowning or starving on the Pacific, the twinkling stars over their boats coldly ignoring their fates.
But hundreds did survive. Their legacy of adventure and bravery should inspire us all to reach out beyond the earth.
12 posted on
01/21/2004 4:27:21 AM PST by
risk
To: risk
The Startracker imaged this spectacular shot of the sunrise, planets, and Moon. This color-enhanced image shows, from right to left, the Moon lit by the Earth, the terminator - or boundary between light and dark - into the dark side with the solar corona just rising over the limb, and the bright planets Saturn, Mars, and Mercury. Several dimmer stars can also be seen. The Startracker algorithm achieved a star match, realizing that the Sun and planets were not in the correct position to be stars, and ignored them. Source
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