Greetings from Jupiter
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Greetings from Jupiter, check out this cool pic from the Juno mission... Jovian Close Encounter | NASA[^] The above image is one among many in the mission's gallery... Juno Image Gallery | NASA[^]
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Greetings from Jupiter, check out this cool pic from the Juno mission... Jovian Close Encounter | NASA[^] The above image is one among many in the mission's gallery... Juno Image Gallery | NASA[^]
Makes me happy to share a planet with the people who can do this. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Makes me happy to share a planet with the people who can do this. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
It makes me philosophical about the process that brought us to this amazing achievement! By chance, today I was doing some rewrite work and came across this reference from a century ago, which testifies to the importance and influence of Jupiter in millenniums gone by. I wonder at those ancient observers' thoughts, if they could see the beauty we've since uncovered? Would they be awed the same way we are by these pictures? Or would their awe twist to terror and incomprehension? "The hypothesis that in later times at all events the King of the Wood [the central investigatory theme in James Frazer's work] played the part of the oak god Jupiter, is confirmed by an examination of his divine partner Diana. For two distinct lines of argument converge to shew that if Diana was a queen of the woods in general, she was at Nemi a goddess of the oak in particular. ... On the whole, then we conclude that at Nemi the King of the Wood personated the oak-god Jupiter and mated with the oak-goddess Diana in the sacred grove. An echo of their mystic union has come down to us in the legend of the loves of Numa and Egeria, who according to some had their trysting-place in these holy woods. "To this theory it may naturally be objected that the divine consort of Jupiter was not Diana but Juno, and that if Diana had a mate at all he might be expected to bear the name not of Jupiter, but of Dianus or Janus, the latter of these forms being merely a corruption of the former. All this is true, but the objection may be parried by observing that the two pairs of deities, Jupiter and Juno on the one side, and Dianus and Diana, or Janus and Jana, on the other side are merely duplicates of each other, their names and their functions being in substance and origin identical. With regard to their names, all four of them come from the same Aryan root, DI, meaning "bright," which occurs in the names of the corresponding Greek deities, Zeus and his old female consort Dione. In regard to their functions, Juno and Diana were both goddesses of fecundity and childbirth, and both were sooner or later identified with the moon. As to the true nature and functions of Janus the ancients themselves were puzzled; and where they hesitate, it is not for us to confidently to decide. But the view mentioned by Varro that Janus was the god of the sky is supported not only by the etymological identity of his name with that of the sky-god Jupiter, but also by the relation in which he appears to have stood to Jupiter's two mates, Juno and Juturna. For the
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Greetings from Jupiter, check out this cool pic from the Juno mission... Jovian Close Encounter | NASA[^] The above image is one among many in the mission's gallery... Juno Image Gallery | NASA[^]
:cool: It makes me happy we still do outer space stuff, rather than make movies & TV series about it.
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Makes me happy to share a planet with the people who can do this. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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:cool: It makes me happy we still do outer space stuff, rather than make movies & TV series about it.
Agreed. The picture itself is awesome, but all the imagination, engineering, and hard work that make it possible are simply awe inspiring. NASA does truly amazing work with their unmanned space program. I wish NASA could do the same with their manned space program. From 1969-1972, we went someplace...the moon. For the past 50 years (almost), the program seemed lost. They kept, literally, going in circles...first around the Earth (ISS) and soon, it seems, around the Moon (Lunar Gateway). It would be nice if they would pick a destination and simply focus on getting there :)
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DRHuff wrote:
Makes me happy to share a planet with the people
Ya, you sure lucked out crash landing on this planet. :thumbsup:
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Not so certain...have you met the folks who live there? They are an...ummm...odd bunch :)
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Not so certain...have you met the folks who live there? They are an...ummm...odd bunch :)
Eric Lynch wrote:
They are an...ummm...odd bunch
I thought they were an Odd Couple - or a Brady Bunch.
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Eric Lynch wrote:
They are an...ummm...odd bunch
I thought they were an Odd Couple - or a Brady Bunch.
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
Does a Brady Bunch even qualify as a "bunch"? I thought it was only Marcia, Marcia, Marcia :)