Dave...... I wish I had some world travels to post pictures of .... BUT I DON'T..... Would love to see more of yours, I know you must have hundreds! Mel and Marve ... you must have a substantial number too !
Based on the photos posted today, maybe there is life to your idea. Before adding a couple more of my own, I want to thank those who have shared their photos. Not only are they beautiful, but they demonstrate how universal we are. Dave Brock's Grand Canyon photos are fantastic. Thank you Dave. And Terri (Boo) has been so many places, especially China, it is hard to imagine.
A couple more from me:
1974 at the Taj Mahal in Agra, India
In front of the mesas at Monument Valley, around 1972. OOOH...so long ago....like 50 years. OUCH.
Oh well, they are still there and, gratefully, so am I. But they will still be there long after I'm gone.
To add to the 'China Colection', I wandered away from our tour group and came upon a photo shoot for China TV. It had something to do with warriors and a pricess, and the princess was sitting by hereself and posed for me.
A glacier 'calving' or breaking off surface ice. You can see the floating debris and the splash /spray in the background. This is at about a quarter mile distance.
Alaska--Whales feeding. The birds feed on the uneaten fragments the whales leave behind. We are at least 200 yards away from the whales--you are not allowed to 'chase' them.
Well... again nothing overseas but a place out of the past ... along the old route 66 just outside of the Petrified Forest.... the iconic Wigwam Motel... I remember it from a trip when I was 16 ! Was still there at 76 !
We'll it's me again .... I'm taking you along on our 7200 mile journey in 23 days from Mich to California to our granddaughter's wedding Oct 2022 ... traveled southern route there and northern route home visiting 9 national parks on the way !
Grand canyon early day majestic as ever ! As I wondered the path along the rim I found my mind drifting to and singing ( to myself) How Great Thou Art ... just marveling at God's magnificent creation... brought tears to my eyes ( glad I had sun glasses on) ... as wondering passed by the guy in the next photo just restin along the pathway ... look carefully to see his large antler's camouflaged a bit by the trees
A nice buck that fed with some regularity at our back step in Edwardsville (he was about 6' away). We feed the birds and the deer clean up the leftovers at night.
A Cardinal in the bush in our fron yard in Edwardsville
A full moon as viewed through a tree in our backyard in Edwardsville.
A nice buck that fed with some regularity at our back step in Edwardsville (he was about 6' away). We feed the birds and the deer clean up the leftovers at night.
A Cardinal in the bush in our fron yard in Edwardsville
A full moon as viewed through a tree in our backyard in Edwardsville.
Last night my love and I at a fundraiser banquet at Meijer Gardens and NOTE in the background the Gilhuly chandelier .... the minute I saw it I thought of our departed MAX as back in covid days he posted lots of Gilhuly art glass from him visiting his brother in Seattle where Gilhuly studio is located .... missing MAX on this forum ‼️
Jim Rookus and others, when you make a typo, which we all do, just go back and hit "Edit" on your entry and you can self correct your error without further posting. As an artist and admirer of Dale Chihuly, please forgive me for wanting to correct the spelling of his name. Your reference to Max is well deserved. And I humbly appreciate your thumbs up to me and Marv. We are both committed to all our Raiders '64 classmates and hope everyone of them are seeing what is posted on this website. It is an honor to be in the company of so many who have over a lifetime accomplished so much. I only wish everyone was as active as you have been in keeping us all involved. Many thanks to you and those who contribute. I would like to make special mention of Dave Long who never stops trying to find a way to draw people out of their silence. Looking forward to seeing everyone at the mini-reunion next week and the 60th in August. Much love and wishes for good health to all.
Moving on to beautiful SEDONA.... kind of like a mini national park of its own.... Chapel of the Holy Cross as though carved out of the rock formations .... Now Mel, I see I also spelled "Gilhuly" incorrectly also ! BUT now with your "edit" suggestion.... they are fixed !!! THANKS
Cadillac Graveyard, near Amarillo, Tx. There are more than a dozen Cadilac buried in the middle of a farm field.
4- Corners area of Arizona, where Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona meet. This is Navajo land, and they are very proud to be part of the Nation, and not part of the US. You may come and go freely (no Passport), but you will pay a small toll.
White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. It is near the White Sands Missile testing site, as well as Fort Bliss. The white material is gypsum and very loose and granular. It is used in sheet rock (dry wall sheets) and other construction materials
Just southeast of the 4- Corners area is the 2 Grey Hills area of New Mexico. The 2 Grey Hills is known for Navajo woven rugs, blankets. There are really 2 grey hills that are easily identified that are in the area.
NASA's new visualizations, available on Goddard's YouTube page, erase some of that enigma. The two visualizations are divided into one-minute trips rendered as 360-degree videos that allow viewers to look around during the trip, and extended versions with explanations to guide viewers on what they're witnessing.
The destination of the simulation is a virtual supermassive black hole with a mass 4.3 million times that of Earth's sun, a size equivalent to the monster Sagittarius A* located at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
A new immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer shows viewers what it would be like to plunge into a black hole.
The first simulation shows the viewer approaching the black hole from around 400 million miles away and rapidly falling toward the event horizon – a theoretical boundary known as the "point of no return" where light and other radiation can no longer escape. Like Sagittarius A*, the event horizon of the simulation spans about 16 million miles.
Cloud structures called photon rings and a flat, swirling cloud of hot, glowing gas called an accretion disk surrounding the black hole serve as a visual reference during the fall. As the camera reaches the speed of light, the accretion disc becomes more distorted as space-time warps.
Once inside the black hole itself, the viewer rushes toward the black hole's one-dimensional center called a singularity, where the laws of physics as we know them cease to exist.
The simulations were made using the Discover supercomputer at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation, and generated around 10 terabytes of data, which is about half of the estimated text content in the Library of Congress.
Second simulation shows viewer narrowly escaping black hole
Astronomers divide black holes into three general categories based on mass: stellar-mass, supermassive, and intermediate-mass.
Stellar-mass black holes, which form when a star with more than eight times the sun’s mass runs out of fuel and its core explodes as a supernova, are even less ideal to find yourself falling into than its supermassive counterpart, Schnittman explained.
“If you have the choice, you want to fall into a supermassive black hole,” Schnittman said in a statement. “Stellar-mass black holes, which contain up to about 30 solar masses, possess much smaller event horizons and stronger tidal forces, which can rip apart approaching objects before they get to the horizon.”
This occurs because the gravitational pull on the end of an object nearer the black hole is much stronger than that on the other end. Falling objects stretch out like noodles, a process astrophysicists call spaghettification. For this simulated black hole, it would only take about 12.8 seconds for the viewer to meet their end by spaghettification.
The alternate simulation shows a viewer orbiting close to the event horizon but escaping to safety before ever crossing it.
If an astronaut flew a spacecraft on this 6-hour round trip, the explorer would return 36 minutes younger than those who remained on a mothership far away, NASA explained. This is another concept that will be familiar to "Interstellar" fans and is due to time passing more slowly near a strong gravitational source.
"This situation can be even more extreme," Schnittman said. "If the black hole were rapidly rotating, like the one shown in the 2014 movie 'Interstellar,' (the astronaut) would return many years younger than her shipmates."
Eric Lagatta covers breaking and trending news for USA TODAY. Reach him at elagatta@gannett.com
Pictures from BRYCE CANYON NATIONAL PARK ..... 1st is the raad leading to BC with a natural tunnel through the rocks .... 2nd is the "Natural Bridge within BCNP elevation 8627 ft ....... 3rd is Aqua Canyon in BCNP elevation 8800 ft..... LETS SEE MORE PICS OF TRIPS ACROSS THE "POND"
Jim-- quite a view! I've not bee 'across the pond my contributions will be from the 'God ol' USA'.. I don't want to overwhelm you, so there will be more (I will try to avoid the doubles-like the other day).
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Alaska--Whales feeding. The birds feed on the uneaten fragments the whales leave behind. We are at least 200 yards away from the whales--you are not allowed to 'chase' them.
A nice buck that fed with some regularity at our back step in Edwardsville (he was about 6' away). We feed the birds and the deer clean up the leftovers at night.
4- Corners area of Arizona, where Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona meet. This is Navajo land, and they are very proud to be part of the Nation, and not part of the US. You may come and go freely (no Passport), but you will pay a small toll.
