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A Dragon spotting
So last Friday I watched SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launch during the Weekly Space Hangout. The rocket was to launch the Dragon capsule to supply the International Space Station.
So then Saturday evening when we had a bunch of family over for Easter, I got an email announcing an ISS passing. So I thought it would be cool to show everybody.
When we were all out on the deck watching the ISS pass through the sky, people starting notice something else following it. I immediately thought it could be the Dragon capsule, but I wasn’t even sure it would be visible.
So when we went back inside, I did a little Googling, and yep, we saw the Dragon capsule!
Talk about a perfect time to check out the ISS. I don’t often go out to look at it. I mostly do it when people are over. People are always amazed at how bright it is and how they have never seen it before. If you want to know when it passes over just sign up for alerts here.
I love sharing my limited space knowledge and views through my telescope. I think most people love all things space, they just don’t take the time to do a little research and look up.
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Free Speech
via XKCD
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“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?”
~Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
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Boop!
