Reader Joe Balazs sends along this unusual and spectacular photo of sunset on Killmanjaro.
(Note: original page was changed, so I’ve corrected the link to restore it.)
Reader Joe Balazs sends along this unusual and spectacular photo of sunset on Killmanjaro.
(Note: original page was changed, so I’ve corrected the link to restore it.)
Looks like the world is on fire.
The mount overloooks Kenya. From Kenya:
Munyakei, by this one act of unparalleled, unasked for, and unprovoked courage, woke us up out of our hypnotised stupor of apathy and abject submission, our fugue of fear and fatalism. Munyakei, in his extraordinary ordinariness, his �everyperson� demeanour, the moral obligation he imposed on each of us to do our part, however small, saved our country, our civic souls and our sense of agency. Munyakei, in his humility, his intelligence, his heroism and his victory, made us see that the implacable �gods� had feet of clay. He made us believe that difference and difference-making were possible. In the simplicity and ineffable complexity of his act, he made us understand that we need to save our country; you, me, and the person sitting next to you on the bus, in the matatu, in the office. He made us understand that we are each individually responsible as well as collectively accountable for the state of our state. All of us. Munyakei, in throwing down his gauntlet of simultaneous disgust and decency, set a new standard for us. He made us see that even the most powerful are only as powerful as we allow them to be. Munyakei, in what he gave up, in what he gambled, and in what he endured, made us a little braver, a little louder, and a little more demanding. He made us understand the nature of courage, the texture of hope, and the fine grain of our own power.
http://www.madkenyanwoman.blogspot.com/
He made us understand that we are each individually responsible as well as collectively accountable for the state of our state. All of us.
Mad woman, eh? Mad with sanity, courage, truth. Where are the mad women/men of Canada?
Way cool!
Back in the 1970s, (over a decade after Robert Ardrey’s African Genesis was published), The National Geographic ran an article about some earth satellite photos which showed an ancient scar on the side of a monuntain, (not far from that amazing photo you just posted). These ancient ashes, (the result of a plate shear-common in that area- exposed a deposit of Uranium that was so rich that it fissioned spontaneously and burned for a million years!!)
And Richard Leaky could not figure out why Australopithicine Man chose to bring so many Antelope Humerous Bones back to his cave in the Olduvai Gorge- it took a playwright/amateur Anthropologist from New York City to figure that one out- Australopithicine man used it as a WEAPON……..
Outstanding photo- that nuclear fire probably looked like that! (But of course- our human race is not a genetic freak of nature, (God took a rib from Adam to make Eve, and then He expelled them from the Garden- for eating from the tree of Knowledge).
It’s amazing what you can do with a camera – but Kate it’s labled as a sunrise not a sunset. though cool is cool.
The link should be updated to:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050711.html
Another Sunset:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040528.html
As Brian noted, the link Kate provides is for the home page for the Astronomy Picture of the Day, which is updated daily.
To see previous APODs, just click on “Discover the Cosmos!” at the upper left, and you will be taken to a list of past days’ photos.
And as you can imagine, in the age of Hubble, there are some astonishing pictures there, along with artists’ conceptions, as well as other links to photos, scientific explanations, etc.
I’ve been checking the APOD every day for a year or so now. It’s a wonderful site.
July 12: Ah yes… the beauty to be seen in the launch of a Redbird missile.
Lovely bit of irony, that.
“We’ll meet again. Don’t know where, don’t know when…”
Styptic’s 09:44 post is indicative of the increasingly hard line drawn between left and right, with a corresponding decrease in civility. Civility, manners, morals are the grease that smooth the gears of a society. (not a good analogy) (sorry) I’m not sure how far we can go or for how long before positions harden past the point of reconciliation. Personally, I’m no longer interested in reading what styptic and others of his ilk have to say. My own tipping point, I guess.
I’m sure that’s not snow I see in the foreground of that photo.
Because the Kyoto activists assured us that all of the snow melted on Kilimanjaro, forever, and it ain’t coming back. Because of my car. No – it wasn’t because of my car, it’s because I haven’t been paying enough tax on the gasoline in my car, and the government hasn’t been able to split enough of my tax money between themselves and their little buddies in corrupt socialist backwaters like Quebec and Congo. Or something like that. It must be true, ’cause I heard it on the CBC.