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Mars Rover Curiosity: Watch for News of Glenelg
__________ Glenelg may yield big Mars news. Notice by the color shadings in the photograph above how Glenelg rests as an intersection point for three quite distinct geological areas. Also notice that the word “Glenelg” is a palindrome (it reads the same … Continue reading
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Tagged America, flight, life on mars, Mars, NASA, space exploration
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Cyborg Lobster Watch: A Remote-Controlled Plane as a Tool for Vision
Some questions: Is an extension of man, man? Where does the self end and our tools begin? And when we look-in on the “flights” of another person’s consciousness, extended and carried via a remote-controlled plane, does that become us as well? Or … Continue reading
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Tagged consciousness, cyborg lobsters, cyborgs, extensions of man, flight, imagination, lobsters, the self, tools
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Jeb Corliss Grinds the Crack: Insane Wingsuit Flyer Laughs at His Near Death Experience
Daedalus’s son Icarus famously flew too close to the sun. Ecstatic Jeb Corliss nearly flew too close to the rocks (which would have made him Dead-alus). Yes, this is real. He cuts it incredibly close. Then laughs.
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Tagged balls, carpe diem, daedalus, death, flight, jeb corliss, laugh, laughter, life, near death experience, wingsuits
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Toy Helicopter with Camara Buzzes Venice
The beach. The one in California.
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Tagged beach, beauty, California, flight, helicopter, life, mental health break, summer, Venice
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Think big thoughts: two images from the 1909 Paris Air Show held at the Grand Palais
Maybe your life’s vision is set too low. Take the Paris Air Show of 1909 for inspiration, and think of how far people with vision, intelligence, ambition, and imagination managed to reach in just the past one hundred years. Can you imagine … Continue reading
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Tagged exhibition, flight, life, Motivation, Paris, planes, progress, reason, science, space, technology, vision
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We Can Fly, We Can Fly, We Can Fly!
At least in our dreams. At Slate today, Mason Currey recounts a “lucid dream” (a dream in which you are conscious of dreaming, and act on that consciousness) that he had: I’m walking up a path into the lobby of an … Continue reading
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Tagged creative writing, dream, dreams, fleetwood mac, flight, Freud, lucid dreaming, night, peter pan, sex
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