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When We Finally Fight A Galactic War, This is the Flag We’ll Be Fighting Under

    The Flag of Earth symbolizes the Earth (the center blue disk), the Sun (the yellow disk on the left), and the Moon (the white disk on the right). The Earth and its most important celestial neighbors – the Sun and Moon – are overlaid on a backdrop of the darkness of space. The Flag of Earth [...]
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Peace

Because we all hold the world in our hands. If you liked that post, then try these...The Week in Review on December 13th, 2009Tribute to the Natural Woman on March 10th, 2009Daily Twitterisms on December 6th, 2009What it means to be "Uncontacted" on May 30th, 2008I now walk into the wild on August 20th, 2009
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Sleeping with Mother Earth

I’m a very good sleeper. My wife has observed that I can lie down in bed, squirm a bit while I wriggle into the Optimum Comfort Position, and then I can say, “Watch this,” and fall directly to sleep. And she’s right, for the most part. When I get tired I can go to sleep. [...]
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Earth and Moon as seen from Mars

NASA pic culled from Brent_Zupp: If you liked that post, then try these...The Truth about Spirit Animals on July 17th, 2008Lunar Eclipse on February 21st, 2008Arm & Hammer on August 7th, 2008Green Power on October 7th, 2007Gross Scientific Failure [Global Cooling] on May 1st, 2008
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Earth’s Hum

Earth has a low-frequency hum that is inaudible to human ears. Although some residents of Taos, New Mexico have reported hearing a low hum for years. Earth is mum on the cause of the hum. But this story’s brought something else to mind for me: Following the devastating Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami of 2004, reports [...]
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Aurora Borealis

This, my friends, is pretty cool. (Click for full-size image.) Notes from NASA.gov: STS123-E-008018 (21 March 2008) — While docked and onboard the International Space Station, a STS-123 Endeavour crewmember captured the glowing green beauty of the Aurora Borealis. Looking northward across the Gulf of Alaska, over a low pressure area (cloud vortex), the aurora brightens the [...]
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Arthur C. Clarke

Photo by shesnuckinfuts. The pic comes with a quote from Sir Arthur that I’m in total agreement with: “How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean.” ~ Arthur C. Clarke  My wife once observed that if there were Martians, and if we ever were to meet them, that they would call our planet “Water.” Also, Arthur [...]
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Suspension of Disbelief – The Theory of the Second Moon

Suspension of disbelief is a useful tool for writers, especially to writers of speculative fiction. But how much artistic license are readers willing to allow a writer? Like most authors, I read quite a bit about the craft of writing, and I read an article sometime last year concerning the suspension of disbelief. I don’t [...]
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