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The Pastoral Sci-Fi Geek Man Cave [Updated]

I separate, I know.  I don’t write a post for a yoke of weeks, and when I do…  ANOTHER post about the PSFGMC!  Oy!  But I indigence to share one more set of pictures.  So here…we…GO!

The importing of my library from my church commission is almost complete.  Sharon asked why I have a telescope in my “cave.”  Um, it’s a peaceful scifi geek MAN thing.  You wouldn’t agree.  Sorry.

By the way, the flag in the shadow box was the one that was given to our people when my grandfather passed away in 1989.  He had served in the Air Strength.

And here’s my futon.  The frame is bent and the pad is a small stained and furry from Bilbo (that’s our cat) laying around on it while we had it stored in the garage.  But there are still mess of naps to be had and books to be read on this baby!  At least until I get a recliner.

You’ll notification the black poster on the wall.  I’ve had this announcement for over eleven years.  I saw it in a Blockbuster Video of all places, and it inspired me.  It’s one of the “No Cowardice” posters.  It reads, “We take these risks not to flee life but to keep life from escaping us.  Don’t let your fears champion in the way of your dreams.”

You’ll also note the new Rob Bell book “Jesus Wants to Scrape Christians” laying atop the futon.  Hence the clarification about books being read.  Yeah, and I just got up from an unintentional nap there, as well.

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Hubble Telescope at 10x or 100x or 1000x

The other continually I caught a new documentary, “Hubble’s Awesome Universe” on the National Geographic Channel that in turbulent definition wonder showed how the Hubble Space Telescope revolutionized astronomy since 1993.  Alas, I can’t find a link to an online version.  I desire they repeat this HD documentary often because seeing the spectacular Hubble images on a 52″ inch room divider was beyond beautiful.  Using technology that I can’t name, they made the images look three dimensional, and the stories that went with them explained why Hubble was well usefulness it’s price tag of billions.

Now, I’ve got to wonder, what will a telescope that is 10 times more forceful than the Hubble will see and discover?  What about one 100 times more strong, or even a 1,000 times more powerful?  We really won’t cognizant of what such futuristic telescopes will discover, because like the Hubble’s discoveries, they will be unexpected.  In my point of view, the most exciting thing these future space telescopes could encounter are Earth-like planets orbiting around nearby stars that show indications of survival or technology.

Pillars of Creation

Ever since our cave dwelling days, humans have been asking how we got here in this incredible reality.  Well, the Hubble telescope has shown us how big here really is, both in dimension and m.  Hubble has revealed stellar nurseries and glowering hole graves.  It has helped scientists show up discoveries about dark matter and energy, and revealed the largest structures in the domain discovered to date.

Most people never ponder the size of genuineness.  They never grasp that we live in space-time.  Underworld, few people even look at up at the lights in the sky at night.  If Genesis had to encompass the freedom of Hubble’s vision, imagine how different God and the Bible would have been.  Is there any analogy that I can give that can convey the opportunity of how far Hubble can see?  If you were the smallest sub-atomic particle in an carbon atom that’s part of a molecule in a one apartment of your heart, would any scientific instrument you build show you how big your body would be?  Take it as given being one grain of sand and trying to count all the others on a beach?  In the photo above, our solar system is so minor it wouldn’t be seen in those dust pillars that are insignificant years high.  But look at the picture below.  The above participate is smaller than you in relation to the solar system compared to the objects in the photo below.

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At the Mouth of the Cave

Yesterday, around ten o’clock, Harding campus basically went about. Zane told me this morning that when McCain conceded, ten guys simultaneously stuck their heads out of their stay and screamed, um, non-Harding-like words at the top of their lungs for all of the dorm to use to advantage. Numerous people are sporting black to mourn the “end of our country.” By next semester, it’s probably prevalent to be a pretty lonely place around here because almost everyone is planning a move to some remote West Indian atoll. If you’ve been on Facebook, then you have probably either greatly enjoyed (as I have) the strongly humorous statuses concerning, for the most part, the wonders of the Canadian countryside, communism, and the borderline identity of our soon-to-be-president (speculations range from the reincarnation of Hitler and Hussein to the Antichrist and the No-win situation), or you’ve been making your own similar statuses. The pretty small-scale minority of Harding students have been rejoicing; the others have been looking about as crestfallen as if you had told them, say, that the mysterious meat in the stew they ate last night was truly the remains of their missing dog Sparky, or that the sun was going to explode around, oh, January 20.

I am not common to state my political stance here. At this point, I no longer lean to that my political orientation matters very much. However, I am going to ask that you take a quick career with me for the next few minutes.

Right now, you are sitting at your computer, reading my blog. Next, you flicker out of order, and you find yourself standing on the tallest building in your respective town, be it Searcy or Henderson or Birmingham or wherever. You can see people hurrying about their organization, going to work, playing frisbee, studying, grocery shopping, honking at the old lady who knock asleep at the traffic light, buying ice cream for our children from the stock with the annoying music blaring from its speakers.

You blink again, and you are still on top of the Empire State building with a souped-up telescope that can see for amazing distances. You can see all of New York Municipality, all of New York state, most of the surrounding states, and with your mind’s eye you can see the keep on being of America, spread out before you like a vast throw-rug, brindled with cities and plains and forests and lakes. 

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Club Penguin Mission Guide

Objective 1:

Talk to Aunt Artic. Go to the Ice Rink & go to the right. Pick up the pictures on the reason. Give the pictures to Aunt Artic. Go the the Pet Shop. Go to the left. Click on the note that’s stuck to the puffle business. I can’t help you here. The messege is different every time you do the mission. But the note always says “G has __ pairs of socks”. Understand out how many pairs he has for that mission & go to the Sport Shop. Talk to G. Ask him if he has any “Strange items”. Tell him how many pairs of socks he has. Take the soul preserver shooter. Go to the Ice Berg & rescue all the dumb penguins that got stranded on a the same of ice. Save them by firing life preservers at them. Go to the ski mountain. Talk to the crying penguin. Unfortified your spy phone & click on the LED light. Click on the spanner & click on the telescope to fix it. Look through the telescope & go to the fist. You will see a green puffle flying around a mountain. Go to the Sport Purchase & get the grappling hook. Go to the tallest mountain. Click on the grappling clip & click at the top of the mountain. You will find the 2 lost puffles. Talk to Aunt Artic. Get the medal & the letter from Aunt Artic. Dissimulate over.

Mission 2:

Talk to G & ask him for your mission. The answer to the riddle is ‘big White Chief’. Put G’s new sled in your inventory. Go to the ski mountain. You will see a sign that says examine run. Click the prototype sled & ride down the test run. Run. Pick up the string behind the snow clump then move to the right. Pick up the survival control. (You don’t have to read it.) Go towards the bush will the berries on it. Pick up 3 berries. Put them in the same alcove to save space. Shake the tree to the right 3 times. A pot will be out of the tree. Go towards the tree stump. Click on one of the puffles. They’ll all run away except the dusky one. Feed the black puffle a berry. It will go on fire & will follow you around...

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Telescopes Directory

Cave Astrola
Cave Optical Gathering built the classic Astrola line of telescopes for advanced amateurs and universities from 1950 until 1980. ...

Cave Astrola Owners/Enthusiasts Exchange
Cave telescope owners/enthusiasts website ... "A convocation place/information exchange for the owners of and enthusiasts of the romantic line of Cave telescopes. ...

SkyandTelescope.com - News from Sky & Telescope - Thomas R ...
Bungler astronomy lost a vital link to its 20th-century good old days with the June 4th death of Thomas Roland Cave III.

1958 Cave 10 inch f-7 Telescope - Al Paslow Images- powered ...
An unexpected original Cave 10 inch f 7.2 Newtonian Telescope. E-mail me at alpaslow@yahoo.com This thingumabob still has original mirror coatings dated Aug 10, 1958 !

Cloudy Nights Classifieds (CNC) - 10" Cave Astrola f/8 Planet ...
Optically achieve, fully funtional 10" f/8 Cave-Astrola telescope. ... This Cave-Astrola is avaiable for pickup only in Tampa, or I will be met by in Florida at an agreed location. ...