Monday, March 24, 2008

passport snooping

I should be 'somewhat' concerned that any contracting agency in the world working with for for the US government including foreign governments as well have access to my life.

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Sunday, March 23, 2008

It started with a bang!


What a great way to start this blog by sharing a most incredible experience that we should all acknowledge with awe and wonder. A gamma ray burst was viewed and captured recently by NASA telescopes which apparently could have been seen without optical aid. It was the single most luminous object ever seen by the naked eye if you were lucky enough to have witnessed it
"No other known object or type of explosion could be seen by the naked eye at such an immense distance," said Swift team member Stephen Holland of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
The explosion occured a mere 7.5 b.y.a. so basically, before our juvenile planet earth was born. So you realize just how lucky you were had you witnessed this cosmic event and it truly becomes mind boggling.

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