This picture is cooler than you probably think

 

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The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by the Voyager 1 spacecraft from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) from Earth.  Wikipedia

No other picture of Earth has been taken from so far away and it was done with 1970’s technology.

I’m referencing this picture because Voyager 1 has just entered interstellar space, which means it’s in a region beyond the influence of the sun or solar winds. That thing has been traveling at 38,000 mph.

I bet millenniums from now it will be returned to Earth.

 

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Bag of Randomness

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  • I cooked and tasted quinoa for the first time yesterday.  It’s one of those “super foods” and I liked it enough that I want to incorporate it into my diet.  Here’s a good comparison between it and brown rice.
  • DaughterGeeding is now strong enough to open the refrigerator on her own, that’s both a good and a bad thing.
  • WifeGeeding (a former kindergarten teacher) once told me that when a child hands me a drawing to not ask what it is or try to figure out stuff about it, but rather ask the child to tell you about the picture.
  • My Verizon Fios install is today.  Two days a contracting crew buried a fiber-optic cable and yesterday afternoon a Verizon truck was outside the house for the longest time.  I decided to talk to the guy outside and Fios was out for the entire block . . . gulp, not a good sign since that’s why I’m leaving Time Warner.  Well, it turns out that contracting crew that buried my line yesterday screwed up service for the block but cutting into a conduit, so yesterday afternoon and until past 11:30 PM a crew that ranged from one to six at times were working on someone else’s mistake, even setting up lights, using a digging excavator, and installing large spools of wiring to get the job done.  I guess it’s good news for me to get this all done before my actual install, but I felt so bad for them I walked out and gave them some soft drinks and cookies WifeGeeding baked.
  • I have to admit I gave them drinks and cookies for two reasons, I thought they could use a pick-me-up and I’m trying to watch my calorie/fat intake so the less cookies the better.
  • That’s one way to do it, I guess – Church battles local hunger with food fight
  • I wish emails would have an option to Reply/Forward and then Delete option.  It would save me a step from actually replying/forwarding and then going back and deleting the message.  I actually suggested it to the Outlook team yesterday during their Reddit AMA.
  • Something for the ‘Breaking Bad’ fans, the Los Pollos Hermanos Yelp page.  Regarding Sunday’s episode, I hear that Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul both filmed their last scenes in this upcoming episode.
  • Los Angeles ice cream shop churns its products with pedal power
  • I see Alabama over Texas A&M by 15 because I don’t like what I’ve seen out of A&M’s defense this year.
  • I really didn’t know what to think about Texas Tech’s football uniforms last night.
  • See what dancing on campus leads to – Baylor students indicted for mushroom growing operation, marijuana
  • I was a student at Hardin-Simmons when Baylor lifted the dancing ban and I recall a few sacrosanct classmates of mine saying that was the beginning of a slippery slope of Baylor losing their morals.
  • The First Lady is criticized for encouraging drinking an additional glass of water a day.
  • I would have thought the new Big Tex would have been revealed by now, I mean, he’s been dead longer than three days.
  • The Texas Giant will reopen this weekend, I’m sure that’s going to be an ominous atmosphere.
  • An actor playing a zombie in ‘The Walking Dead’ was hit by a military vehicle per a 911 call.
  • I don’t think modern church buildings have an area actually named Fellowship Hall.
  • That’s a headline you don’t see everyday, time to send in Nolan Ryan: Herpes-infected monkeys terrorize Florida
  • Microsoft offering $200 trade-in for your iPad towards purchase of a Surface
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