We Choose the Moon

Here is an interactive walkthrough of the Apollo 11 moon landing from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum. You can see the step-by-step process, starting at launch. You can also read articles and see videos and photos from the actual mission along the way. Click here to go to the interactive walkthrough.

Welcome to the Darkside

An article I recently read by Ron Rosenbaum in the Smithsonian Magazine was an interview with Lisa Randall.  The title was, "Welcome to the Dark Side"  which I thought was hilarious since the recent events in Paul's Valley with Darth Vader.  I had told you that it really did change me somewhere deep inside and I meant it.  I know, it sounds like I may have taken a turn for the worse, I mean going to the dark side sounds evil, but in the interview, Lisa explains about dark matter and and dark energy and how little we know of it.

I have spoken in another post about the necessity of bad and good (dark and light).  It seems in this existence we need bad in order to understand good.  How do you even define good without bad? Supposedly 96% of combined dark matter and dark energy keep our universe together.  What does that say about life here on earth?

It is a very interesting article that really gets me thinking about this dark side and it makes me ask, "What does is really all mean?"  If we can only understand 4% of our existence then what, really, remains to be seen?  Will we ever see it?  I am not sure if we can even see it, with these eyes anyway.

 It is exciting to see such a promising woman and well-known scientist asking all the right questions like what is consciousness? I mean, a lot of the stuff goes WAY over my head, but that doesn't stop me from trying to understand it.  I exist here with others and we all have questions.  Maybe soon we will get answers to life's most delicate questions!