When you look out in the great Expanse: you know the Fat Lady never sings

Just a couple of days after the orbiting observatory was brought back online, Hubble aimed its prime working camera, the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), at a particularly intriguing target, a pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies called Arp 147.





Universe, without End, Retrieved by Pat Darnell

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Blazing light surrounds space shuttle Endeavour, eclipsing the light from the nearby full moon, as it roars into space from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy...



Blazing light surrounds Launch Pad 39A and glows in the nearby water as space shuttle Endeavour leaps into the sky on the STS-126 mission from NASA's...



Nearly 40 years after their historic flight, the crew of Apollo 8 reunited as part of a special public program produced in cooperation with the Newseum...



Palmetto trees frame space shuttle Endeavour as it rolls toward Launch Pad 39A after earlier moving off Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center...



The deck of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit was so dusty that it almost blended into the dusty background in this image assembled from frames taken...

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I Plan to Wallow in the Stuff

Why I Hang on to Blogging, Part I
by Pat Darnell

I would like to share with you why I hold on for the sake of MooPig Wisdom, my evolutionary advance in self-publishing public journalism. To be published is a dodgy thing. To be self-published is a sure thing.

"You see, Timmy, if you don't speak up, then you have to write up." If you don't have the gift of gab, then you have to have a gift of Pen... no?

I had difficulty raising my hand to speak in classrooms. After being called on, it seems everything I wanted to say would not get past my Adam's apple. So I developed my writing at early age. Using pen and paper I took long hand notes, shortened those notes to phrases, then started just plain new-fashioned free verse. I found combinations of language that no one else had found.

One semester, after the moon walk, in my first High School computer science class, I had a chance to see the future. I and about ten others took the course because we felt the computer age was upon us. I like all others dreamed of the internet back in 1970. Thirty-eight years later, it has just now reached the level of "usefullness" it should have thirty-four years before... no?

So, like a child seeing snow the first time, or a bird-dog seeing a pond full of ducks, I plan to wallow in the stuff until I either get frost bit, or drown.
pd

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