Enterprise on the Hudson, Land it like Sully

Retrieved by Pat Darnell | June 14, 2012 | Bryan TX
In January, 2009, on the other hand, a search for new heroes is embodied in the phrase "Land it like Sully," a reference to the hero of US Airways Flight 1549, Chesley Sullenberger.

Today the Enterprise floats on the Hudson reminding us of yesteryear. Of course, all agencies with the resources for it conduct deep-think consumer/culture research.  [LINK]

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Enterprise on the Hudson
Enterprise, the prototype for the space shuttle fleet, arrived at the Intrepid Museum in New York City on Wednesday, June 6, 2012, to the museum's Space Shuttle Pavilion, which will open to the public on July 19. Thousands however, got a sneak peek as they watched the shuttle move up the Hudson River.

In this image, the shuttle is being towed by barge from a port in Jersey City, N.J. to the Intrepid, a retired World War II aircraft carrier that is now used to house aerospace and maritime exhibits.

Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Page Last Updated: June 6, 2012
Page Editor: Yvette Smith
NASA Official: Brian Dunbar


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http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2275.html
http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2012/03/on-knowing-what-gives-us-pleasure-by.html
http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2011/06/nasa-talk-endeavour-lands-wednesday.html
http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2010/11/lets-keep-on-keeping-those-passengers.html
http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2010/06/come-on-land-it-like-sully-its-only.html
http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2009/01/urbanity.html

"On Knowing What Gives Us Pleasure," by Samuel Butler - Classic British Essays - Classic Essays, Speeches, and Letters

"On Knowing What Gives Us Pleasure," by Samuel Butler - Classic British Essays - Classic Essays, Speeches, and Letters:

Samuel Butler spoke a hundred years before faceBook in his "The Way of All Flesh (1903), a biting document of Victorian sensibility." In the following essay, drawn from The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, he encourages us to be honest about expressing our likes and dislikes--"to make sure of our ground and be quite certain that we really do like a thing before we say we do."

'via Blog this'

"...A man had better stick to known and proved pleasures, but, if he will venture in quest of new ones, he should not do so with a light heart. (Samuel Butler) ..."

When we "LIKE" something today on faceBook, it means we "read it." And, we acknowledge that a clever attempt at a clever comment has been made by our friends and acquaintances.

Then out of the cacophony of chatter, commentary, and silly-gisms we derive our windfall of pleasure.


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http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/butlerpleasure.htm

NASA Talk :: "Endeavour Lands Wednesday Morning in Cover of Darkness"

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Retrieved by Pat Darnell  |  June 1, 2011  |  Bryan TX

EXCERPT  |  " ... Bright lights also illuminated the landing strip for Kelly, who made the 25th night landing out of a total of 134 shuttle flights.

The Endeavour astronauts -- all experienced spacemen -- departed the 220-mile (354-kilometer) -high orbiting outpost over the weekend. They installed a $2 billion cosmic ray detector, an extension beam and a platform full of spare parts, enough to keep the station operating in the shuttle-less decade ahead.

Their flight lasted 16 days and completed NASA's role in the space station construction effort that began more than 12 years ago.

The official tally for Endeavour, after 19 years of flight, was 170 crew members, 299 days in space, 4,671 orbits of Earth and 122,883,151 miles (197,752,094 kilometers). ... "
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Let's Keep On Keeping those Passengers Alive !!

Qantas grounds its Airbus 380 superjumbo jets after engine blows out
The jet makes a safe emergency landing in Singapore with 459 people aboard.
The Associated Press  |   November 4, 2010  |  7:13 a.m   |  EXCERPT
" ... [S]hooting flames and raining large metal chunks before making a safe emergency landing in Singapore with 459 people aboard.

It was most serious midair incident involving the double-decker A380, the world's largest and latest airliner, since it debuted in October 2007 with Singapore Airlines flying it to Sydney -- the same route that Qantas flight QF34 was flying when it was stricken. ... (SOURCE)"

Come On -- Land it like Sully -- It's only Hurricanes and Earthquakes, ... and Oil Spills ... and Storm Surge ...

Alex, Atlantic's 1st hurricane of season, rumbles toward Mexico, Texas coastlines

Wed, 2010-06-30 19:48.
By: The Associated Press
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" ... MIAMI - The first Atlantic hurricane of the year has strengthened to a Category 2 storm with sustained winds of near 100 mph as it plows ahead toward a collision with the Mexican Gulf coast and south Texas.

The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Alex will make landfall in northeastern Mexico sometime Wednesday night.

The storm is far from the Gulf oil spill, but cleanup vessels were sidelined by the hurricane's ripple effects. Six-foot waves churned up by the hurricane splattered beaches in Louisiana, Alabama and Florida with oil and tar balls.

Hurricane Alex flooded roads and forced thousands of people to evacuate fishing villages.

The eye was about 55 miles  northeast of La Pesca, Mexico, and about 105 miles  south of Brownsville, Texas. ..." (ap, 2010.06.30, hurricane alex)

-- MEANWHILE -- ... Back at the Haciendo ...

Why NOT name Earthquakes like we do Hurricanes?
[SOURCE]   |  " ... An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 struck southern Mexico early Wednesday, the US seismological authority USGS reported on its website.
A 49-year-old man from San Andres Hauxpaltepec was killed when the ceiling of his house fell onto him, a civil defence official told The German Press Agency dpa.
The quake, which struck the Oaxaca region some 350 kilometres south of Mexico City at about 2:20 am (0720 GMT), had little other effect, local officials said.
Numerous buildings were evacuated in the wake of the 30-second quake. Power was lost in some regions, but communication networks remained intact - in contrast to earlier earthquakes in Mexico.
The epicentre of Wednesday's quake was located at a depth of 20 kilometres, according to the USGS. ... " (Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:43:51 GMT. By : dpa. Category : Nature Environment) ... "

UPDATE: Land it in the Hudson -- Urbanity

A Landing in Search of a Song, Retrieved by Pat Darnell Commercial Jetting-- Still the safest mode of transportation. Just Park It Like Sully, and you don't even have to feed a parking meter.


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January 27: Land it in the Hudson

An expression used to encourage yourself or someone else when it appears an endeavor is headed for a disastrous outcome (due mostly to external conditions). Based on when Sully averted tragedy by successfully landing US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River. See also, "Land it like Sully."

The company is on the brink of failure, so let's Land it in the Hudson.

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