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Zanzibar
Age. 39
Gender. Female
Ethnicity. that of my father and his father before him
Location Altadena, CA
School. Other
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This is my page in the beloved art community that my sister got me into:

Samarinda

Extra points for people who know what Samarinda is.
The Phases of the Moon Module
CURRENT MOON
Croc Hunter/Combat Wombat
My hero(s)
Only My Favorite Baseball Player EVER


Aw, Larry Walker, how I loved thee.
The Schedule
M: Science and Exploration
T: Cook a nice dinner
W: PARKOUR!
Th: Parties, movies, dinners
F: Picnics, the Louvre
S: Read books, go for walks, PARKOUR
Su: Philosophy, Religion
The Reading List
This list starts Summer 2006
A Crocodile on the Sandbank
Looking Backwards
Wild Swans
Exodus
1984
Tales of the Alhambra (in progress)
Dark Lord of Derkholm
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Lost Years of Merlin
Harry Potter a l'ecole des sorciers (in progress)
Atlas Shrugged (in progress)
Uglies
Pretties
Specials
A Long Way Gone (story of a boy soldier in Sierra Leone- met the author! w00t!)
The Eye of the World: Book One of the Wheel of Time
From Magma to Tephra (in progress)
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Harry Potter 7
The No. 1 Lady's Detective Agency
Introduction to Planetary Volcanism
A Child Called "It"
Pompeii
Is Multi-Culturalism Bad for Women?
Americans in Southeast Asia: Roots of Commitment (in progress)
What's So Great About Christianity?
Aeolian Geomorphology
Aeolian Dust and Dust Deposits
The City of Ember
The People of Sparks
Cube Route
When I was in Cuba, I was a German Shepard
Bound
The Golden Compass
Clan of the Cave Bear
The 9/11 Commission Report (2nd time through, graphic novel format this time, ip)
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Twilight
Eclipse
New Moon
Breaking Dawn
Armageddon's Children
The Elves of Cintra
The Gypsy Morph
Animorphs #23: The Pretender
Animorphs #25: The Extreme
Animorphs #26: The Attack
Crucial Conversations
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
A Great and Terrible Beauty
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Dandelion Wine
To Sir, With Love
London Calling
Watership Down
The Invisible
Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The Host
The Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Shadows and Strongholds
The Jungle Book
Beatrice and Virgil
Infidel
Neuromancer
The Help
Flip
Zion Andrews
The Unit
Princess
Quantum Brain
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
No One Ever Told Us We Were Defeated
Delirium
Memento Nora
Robopocalypse
The Name of the Wind
The Terror
Sister
Tao Te Ching
What Paul Meant
Lao Tzu and Taoism
Libyan Sands
Sand and Sandstones
Lost Christianites: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
The Science of God
Calculating God
Great Contemporaries, by Winston Churchill
City of Bones
Around the World in 80 Days, by Jules Verne
Divergent
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Old Man and the Sea
Flowers for Algernon
Au Bonheur des Ogres
The Martian
The Road to Serfdom
De La Terre � la Lune (ip)
In the Light of What We Know
Devil in the White City
2312
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Red Mars
How to Be a Good Wife
A Mote in God's Eye
A Gentleman in Russia
The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism
Seneca: Letters from a Stoic
The Juanes Module


Juanes just needed his own mod. Who can disagree.
Snow on Mars, A Second Look at Mercury
Friday. 10.3.08 9:20 pm
An exciting week in planetary science, as the Phoenix Mars Lander team announced that they had positively identified calcium carbonate


From the above image you can clearly see why this discovery was important.

Even cooler yet, virga (precipitation that falls from a cloud but evaporates before it reaches the surface) was discovered by the lander as it gazed up into the clouds with its laser. This is what virga looks like, though this was probably rain virga and on Mars it is most likely snow.


Here's a little animation of how it would look to sit on the surface of Mars and watch the clouds go by:


In other news, we got our first new picture of Mercury as our spacecraft prepares to make its second flyby of the planet scheduled for Sunday night/early Monday morning. I guess this means that Mercury wasn't destroyed since January. I requested not to go down to the science operation center at the NASA applied physics laboratory this time so that I could catch up on my homework and my javanese gamelan, but I was appointed as the leader of the "home" team. We might make t-shirts.

7 Comments.


Wow, calcium carbonate! That's swell! (Now what does it mean?)

Maybe there'd be like, a US expo and an Asia expo or something... an international one would be hard to do.
» randomjunk on 2008-10-03 09:41:10

Great! Now we can artificially create hard water when we colonize Mars. Because, really, nothing says "Welcome home" more than a warm shower with hard water.
» ranor on 2008-10-03 10:02:39

Neat
Some of the songs here sound familiar...
» middaymoon on 2008-10-03 10:40:03

cool :D
» jolenesiah on 2008-10-04 03:11:30

Calcium carbonate... I can't recall that Science class about it.
» Nuttz on 2008-10-04 10:15:26

About to soil myself through excitement.
Hey, can you read this article,

http://www.geraldschroeder.com/age.html

and tell me how much you trust it? Also if it makes you bounce off the walls. I'm going nuts over here.
» middaymoon on 2008-10-04 05:48:39

I knew about the "infinte universes thing"
Because I've read Douglas Adams's books. Hahaha. That guy was crazy. I avoid this as religious proof simply because it's inconclusive. Still amazing, though.

I've heard of Flatland, but never read it. In middle school, I read a book called "The boy who reversed himself", which is similar. A girl befriends a boy who is part of a secret society that knows all about worlds with more or less spacial dimensions than ours, and can in fact "peel himself" off of our plane of existence into the 4 dim. world. The main conflict is when the pair gets lost in the 4 dim world. The title comes from the tendency of people to come back "reversed". Imagine a B-shaped person in Flatland; they can move through two dimensions, and can only rotate around one. If you peeled him off and flipped him over, he'd be...reversed. In our world, nobody would really notice except for scars being on the wrong side of the body. The 4 dim creatures that reverse themselves in the 5dim world are outcasts because one of their eyes is in the wrong place relative to the other two (or something of that sort).

When ketchup is reversed, it becomes a narcotic. Hahaha.

I've never been able to find that book again. It was really good, and probably made me the way I am today.

I'll look into that lecture later. I'm supposed to be super busy right now.

Have you read "The Language of God" by Francis Collins? I have yet to finish it, but it's pretty good so far.
» middaymoon on 2008-10-04 10:40:33

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