While we were having our own excitement on the board, out in the scientific world this truly was an exciting weekend.
-- Cassini thinks it found water on a moon of Saturn, water pretty close to the surface
-- Mars orbiter makes a perfect orbit insertion. (Y'all speed it up, I want to live to see the manned landing.)
-- An incredible new species of white lobster, and a mammal thought to be extinct for millions of years are found.
As someone who started reading Robert A. Heinlein in the fourth grade, I find the two space events particularly exciting. We may not yet realize how important these two items are.
Is this a joke that I don't get? The man died this weekend...no trial for him.
Oh, he's on trial all right. At least that's what his own belief system teaches. (Eastern Orthodox Christianity believes in divine judgement, heaven and hell.)
Cissy wrote: LVN wrote: As someone who started reading Robert A. Heinlein in the fourth grade, I find the two space events particularly exciting. LVN, my favorite quote attributed to Robert Heinlein is "The plural of spouse is spice." Do you know if that attribution is accurate?
Gosh, I don't know, but it sounds like something he would say. I haven't read him in years. I loved the juvenile novels, and as a teen and young adult I read the adult novels, but in later years I haven't had as much patience for him as I used to.