Thanks, Bob. I find it amazing that within my lifetime I have seen us go from barely flying jets and knowing nothing about the solar system other than rudimentary knowledge, to cataloging thousands of planets around other stars in our galactic neighborhood. Truly exciting times for us all!
Walt On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Bob Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > Walt, > Thanks for the reference. > In '67 a close friend was graduating from MIT in Physics, and > heading to grad school in astronomy at CalTech. We talked about other life, > and > he point out how inevitable it was given the size of the universe. > This composite photo helps prove the proposition. > Regards, Bob S. > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Walter Hamler <[email protected]> wrote: >> http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html >> >> >> This is one to blow your mind. Be sure to click on the links that get >> you to the high res version so you can see all the smaller planets >> (like Earth!). >> If you ever wondered "are we alone in the Universe?", this pic goes a >> long way toward a possible answer. >> >> Walt >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
