17 and 18 July
Yesterday we went to Disney's Blizzard Beach. Wonderful Park with an artificial beach and some water-rides: "serious job" for the children, game for adults. But the news came today: Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral. Yes, you read it correctly!
The legends of the middle of the past century still live there. The Apollo-Project (17 missions to Moon in which 9 people walked on it) as well as the modern Space Stations (the Hubble and the International one) were lauched from there. Fantastic place, unique in the world with a unthinkable glory. But that is a big discussion. What is the role of NASA today, in relation to 50 years before? Officialy it is to launch devices in space, where experiments can be done in weight-less environment and extraterrestrial signals can be better "heard". Unofficialy it is to keep the american space-military superiority. For the latter, as well as for the need to maintain the general military superiority, I still cannot find a reason but that is another discussion.
The clue is that NASA's space program has to "dig" deeply in the modern needs of the US if it is to be continued. Either case, it will not get from the Congress the huge amount of money that is needed. Searching for alive neighbors in other planets is romantic but not sufficient, because lately we have serious problems with our neighbor in earth... (see the crisis here)
Their a serious, acute and heavy problem here with the FOOD. Everywhere fat, sugar, junk- and fast-food, fried "things" and beverages reign. NO MORE FAT, PLEASE! In every american table there must something fried, even vegetables are. In every corner candy, coke and other sweetings are cheaply sold while the healthy food is expensive, if found. All healthy gain that the people have through not smoking is lost because of the huge weight they have. I want to state it as such:
Yesterday we went to Disney's Blizzard Beach. Wonderful Park with an artificial beach and some water-rides: "serious job" for the children, game for adults. But the news came today: Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral. Yes, you read it correctly!
The legends of the middle of the past century still live there. The Apollo-Project (17 missions to Moon in which 9 people walked on it) as well as the modern Space Stations (the Hubble and the International one) were lauched from there. Fantastic place, unique in the world with a unthinkable glory. But that is a big discussion. What is the role of NASA today, in relation to 50 years before? Officialy it is to launch devices in space, where experiments can be done in weight-less environment and extraterrestrial signals can be better "heard". Unofficialy it is to keep the american space-military superiority. For the latter, as well as for the need to maintain the general military superiority, I still cannot find a reason but that is another discussion.
The clue is that NASA's space program has to "dig" deeply in the modern needs of the US if it is to be continued. Either case, it will not get from the Congress the huge amount of money that is needed. Searching for alive neighbors in other planets is romantic but not sufficient, because lately we have serious problems with our neighbor in earth... (see the crisis here)
Their a serious, acute and heavy problem here with the FOOD. Everywhere fat, sugar, junk- and fast-food, fried "things" and beverages reign. NO MORE FAT, PLEASE! In every american table there must something fried, even vegetables are. In every corner candy, coke and other sweetings are cheaply sold while the healthy food is expensive, if found. All healthy gain that the people have through not smoking is lost because of the huge weight they have. I want to state it as such:
"A thin american is either influenced by a foreign culture or is sick."
Tomorrow: MIAMI!
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