Posts Tagged 'explore'
Cave Diving El Toh – Yucatan [video]
Published June 10, 2016 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Cave Diving, caving, diving, El Toh, explore, Mexico, scuba, spelunking, underwater, video, Yucatan
This is Shanghai [video]
Published June 17, 2013 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: China, explore, JT Singh, photography, Rob Whitworth, Shanghai, travel, video
Great New Time Wasting Site – Globe Genie
Published October 31, 2012 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: expedition, explore, globe-trotting, Google Street View, journey, sightsee, travel, wanderlust
Globe Genie takes you to a random spot on earth via Google StreetView. Just click the ‘Teleport’ button to be transported to another random location. I like to find an interesting random spot and explore from there. It’s like traveling the world without getting off your butt.
Kennedy Space Center Now On Google Street View [video]
Published August 9, 2012 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Cape Canaveral, explore, Florida, Google Street View, Kennedy Space Center, NASA, science, space flight, video
Neil Armstrong Talks About Time On Lunar Surface
Published December 14, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Apollo 11, Buzz Aldrin, explore, lunar, moon, NASA, Neil Armstrong, science, technology
Well, this doesn’t happen every day.
In yesterday’s post, I talked about Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s walk across the lunar surface back in 1969 and wondered, how come they walked such a modest distance? Less than a hundred yards from their lander?
Today Neil Armstrong wrote in to say, here are the reasons:
* It was really, really hot on the moon, 200 degrees Fahrenheit. We needed protection.
* We were wearing new-fangled, water-cooled uniforms and didn’t know how long the coolant would last.
* We didn’t know how far we could go in our space suits.
* NASA wanted us to conduct our experiments in front of a fixed camera.
* We [meaning Neil] cheated just a little, and very briefly bounded off to take pictures of some interesting bedrock.
Chinese Sending Dogs Into Space – Why? – They Taste Good
Published May 15, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: aerospace, astronaut, China, diet, explore, Huajiang dog, Laika, science, Shenzhou, space dog
Yang Liwei, the 44-year-old military pilot who commanded the Shenzhou Five mission in 2003, revealed the menu on-board the spacecraft in his autobiography, The Nine Levels between Heaven and Earth. “Many of my friends are curious about what we eat [in space] and think that the astronauts must have some expensive delicacies, like shark’s fin or abalone,” he wrote. “Actually we ate quite normal food, there is no need to keep it a secret,” he added. He listed a menu including braised chicken, steamed fish and dog meat from Huajiang county in Guangdong, which is famed for its nutritional benefits in China. A local proverb in the south of China is that “Huajiang dog is better for you than ginseng”, referring to the medicinal root that plays a vital role in traditional Chinese medicine.