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Carol H Tucker
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Be warned:in this very rich environment where you can immerse yourself so completely, your emotions will become engaged -- and not everyone is cognizant of that. Among the many excellent features of SL, there is no auto-return on hearts, so be wary of where your's wanders...
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the future is coming
Today is the 2nd day of the 43rd week, the 24th day of the 10th month, the 298th day of 2016, and:
- 40-Hour Work Week Day -- the Fair Labor Standards Act, limiting the workweek to 40 hours, went into effect on 76 years ago ((one of the great accomplishments of organized labor))
- Black Thursday 1929
- Bloody Friday 2008
- Food Day
- Independence Day: Zambia from United Kingdom in 1964
- Lung Health Day (Monday of Respiratory Care Week)
- National Bologna Day
- National Crazy Day ((so if you think you want to cut loose, today is the day))
- National Good and Plenty Day
- Shemini Atzeret
- Take Back Your Time Day – time to stop celebrating the workaholic
- United Nations Day – on this day, the UN charter took effect in 1945 and the cornerstone of its headquarters was laid in 1949
- World Development Information Day
- World Polio Day
ON THIS DAY: In 69 forces under Marcus Antonius Primus, the commander of the Danube armies, loyal to Vespasian, defeated the forces of Emperor Vitellius in the Second Battle of Bedriacum. In 1260 Chartres Cathedral was dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France; the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In 1851 William Lassell discovered the moons Umbriel, and Ariel, orbiting Uranus. In 1861 the first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States was completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express. In 1901 Annie Edson Taylor became the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. In 1926 Harry Houdini's last performance took place at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit. In 1946 a camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket took the first photograph of earth from outer space. In 1992 the Toronto Blue Jays became the first Major League Baseball team based outside the United States to win the World Series. In 1998 the Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission launched. In 2003 the era of supersonic jet travel came to an end as three British Airways Concordes landed at London's Heathrow Airport. In 2014 the China National Space Administration launched Chang'e 5-T1 which looped behind the Moon and returned to Earth.
The first picture of the Earth from space was grainy and in black and white -- it didn’t get anywhere near the attention that the “big blue marble” picture that was taken 26 years later by the Apollo 17 astronauts. For one thing, it was part of a series of test firings conducted by the Army of captured German rockets as the US started puzzling out rocket science. For another, it was a composite of images stitched together, not a single snapshot. And last the description of the picture has having been taken in “"the little-known reaches of the upper air" wasn’t quite as catchy as being identified as having been taken in space – it wasn’t until later that “space” was somewhat arbitrarily defined as anything above 100 kilometers or 62.5 miles. So even though it was part of a spread in an issue of National Geographic almost a year later, it just didn’t grab the public’s attention no matter how enthralled the scientists were and the future snuck in while no one was looking.
Somewhere out there, maybe in that ubiquitous garage, maybe in a lab, maybe in a backwater room, someone is tinkering on a device, writing a paper, or making a decision that will literally change everything. And we know nothing about it. Even if we look at a YouTube, hear about it on social media, or read about it in the news, we won’t understand what just happened any more than people who glanced at that picture and moved on did. The historians of the future will point back to that moment, that person, that place, that happening -- and identify it “this is where it started”. Our kids or grandchildren will be incredulous that we didn’t realize what was happening. And we will be left asking ourselves how we missed it without realizing that most things happen while we are distracted with something else, without the vast sea of humanity surging around at the time having a clue.
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