An advertisement-free blog about motorcycling, Northern life, home improvement, power plants, submarines, nuclear stuff, and a few other off-beat subjects. Comments are welcome. (Image is the Selway Crags in Northern Idaho)
Pretty cool NASA interactive web page, showing all (known) asteroids orbiting the sun.
Highly recommended if only for a brief visit! https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/asteroids/#/home
Below: Asteroid Ida, Imaged by the Galileo space probe in 1993, while on its way to Jupiter.
"It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron." - H. L. Mencken
"The things you need are few and easy to come by; but the things you imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied." - Epicurus
"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." - George Orwell
I was reminded of a brief sci-fi story when I encountered this article.
If you don't follow the link, the article describes how the state of Oregon no longer requires High School graduates to show proficiency in reading, writing, or mathematics to graduate. How does an Oregon High School graduate know that they have the correct diploma if they are illiterate and can't even read it?
In the spirit of the society that the Oregon educational system is producing - one where an illiterate student has the same valid diploma as an honors student - here is Kurt Vonnegut.
Should be back to routine blogging here in a bit. Thanks for your patience, kind readers.
In the meantime, here is an interesting read.
A thoughtful article that I recently read... thought it would be good to share.
Elections wont fix what ails the west.
The four horsemen of the apocalypse: Death, Famine, War, and Conquest. Image courtesy of wallpapercave.
"I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he doesn't want to do." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln
"A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.
When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal.
And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to yourself." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
