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- L. on Your Sunday Sermon Notes: 3rd Sunday after Easter (N.O. 4th of Easter) 2024: “I remember only the joke at the beginning of the homily: Priests get four weeks of vacation per year. Some…”
- on “you must not remember your forefathers…” Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “My children at one of the solid Chesterton Academies have been taught science and theology by an amazing young Catholic…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “What is it that changed about the Catholic Herald? Interesting interview by George Farmer. (If only the faithful could be…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Wonderful news about Candace Owens and George Farmer. Thank you for continually pointing out that Holy Orders is one Sacrament.…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 31 (-10): The Parish™…. what’s next?: “Just Some Guy: Perhaps others will get back to you before twilight’s last gleaming.”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 31 (-10): The Parish™…. what’s next?: ““This beautiful sunny yet cool Roman day started by the sun’s rising at 06:19 and it will end at 19:59.”…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes: 3rd Sunday after Easter (N.O. 4th of Easter) 2024: “We are in the process of moving to the Lehigh Valley so this Sunday after the closing on our new…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes: 3rd Sunday after Easter (N.O. 4th of Easter) 2024: “So, I usually attend a TLM at an FSSP parish at home. I was traveling this weekend, however, and opted…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 32 (-9): Happy Birthday Rome!: “acard: That’s fettucine alla bolognese. And they were good with a Lazio Syrah. The addition of the rosemary was a…”
- on ASK FATHER: Kissing the priest’s hand in the Latin Mass v. the liturgical spirit of Judas. Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “It seems more likely that medieval court rituals were based on the Mass, rather than the other way around. That…”
- on ASK FATHER: Kissing the priest’s hand in the Latin Mass v. the liturgical spirit of Judas. Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “Excellent overview Fr. Z! For those who are interested in a defense of the royalism or courtliness of the TLM,…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 32 (-9): Happy Birthday Rome!: “That pasta dish looks yummy! What is the name of that and ingredients?”
- on Faith practice declining far and wide…. except…: “Charivari Rob – Unfortunately I have been forced to switch computers twice recently and have lost the reference. The numbers…”
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NASA and Latin
This is pretty cool. From the Beeb: Mars images to go on social media feeds in Latin By Zoe Kleinman Pictures of the surface of Mars, taken from Nasa’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), are to be captioned in Latin on … Read More
Weightless Water Wringing
This is very cool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8TssbmY-GM&feature=player_embedded I may have to get out my Yaesu radio later on and see if I can pick up the ISS during a fly over.
17 April 1970 – Odyssey returns to Earth
On this day 43 years ago, the Command Module Odyssey splashed down. Apollo XIII I remember – as if it were yesterday – being glued to the TV watching the coverage of this glorious disaster. It was inspiring. But we … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged Apollo 13, Apollo XIII, NASA, POTUS, Pres. Obama
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JUST TOO COOL: Of Niobids and Rovers
This is simply too cool. Every once in a while, we find something from antiquity that we knew about but thought lost. Check this out, from Gazzetta del Sud. Dorothy King’s PhDiva has a lot of photos. With a biretta tip … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged Curiosity, Mars Rover, NASA, Niobe, Ovid
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Cool spacey stuff: bouncing on Titan and Martian carwashes
First, The Huygens probe has landed on Saturn’s moon, Titan. There is a description and animation of how it hit the surface and then bounced, slid and wobbled into its resting position. HERE. Huygens was ferried to Titan by the … Read More
Curiosity’s curious visual odometry system
Here is something for your Just Too Cool file. This got my attention not only because it deals with Curiosity, but also because of my budding interest in ham radio. The newest Mars Rover, Curiosity, is tagging Mars… with Morse … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged Curiosity, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, Mars, Mars Rover, NASA
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Blue Moon… you saw me standing alone…
Blue moon Now I’m no longer alone Without a dream in my heart Without a love of my own From Spaceweather: BLUE MOON: Tonight’s full Moon is the second full Moon this month. According to modern folklore, that makes it … Read More
Happy Birthday VOYAGER!
From NASA (and remember that Pres. Obama has killed the manned space program… just another reason to vote against him): August 20, 2012 Thirty-five years ago today, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, the first Voyager spacecraft to launch, departed on a … Read More
New Mars Rover images coming in!
The other day I was pretty excited about the safe landing of the new Mars rover Curiosity. The dangerous entry and landing built a real excitement. Then the first images came in. Very cool. Now that Curiosity has been on … Read More
Watching Curiosity Land. Just Too Cool
This was so cool. I stayed up to watch the landing of the Mars Rover. I felt like a little kid again. First images: UPDATE New photos from Mars Rover Curiositas: UPDATE: I watched it again and it gave me … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!, What Fr. Z is up to
Tagged Curiosity, JLP, Mars, Marvin the Martian, NASA, rover
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Just Too Cool: US Flags still standing on the Moon
This is for your Just Too Cool file. As you read this, keep in mind that The First Gay President has killed our manned space program, thus enervating our collective imaginations and making us dependent on those who don’t like … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged Apollo, flag, manned space program, moon, NASA
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As it turns out, standard physics prevailed: Pioneer Spacecraft Anomaly solved.
For your “Just Too Cool” file. From NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab comes a fascinating story about the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecrafts. When last contacted they were mysteriously slowing down. Someone figured out why. It was, as it turns out, … Read More
Just Too Cool: Panoramic View on MARS!
From poor little Spirit’s twin, Opportunity, comes this panoramic view. HERE. It is stitched together from 817 images taken between 12 Dec 2011 and 8 May 2012 while Opportunity was stationed on an outcrop called “Greeley Haven” during the Martian … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged Mars Rover, NASA, Opportunity, Spirit
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Curiosity about Curiosity is not just Curiosity
After posting about the Seven Minutes of Terror, I was curious about Curiosity, the newest Mars Rover heading to the Red Planet. Intrepid little Spirit isn’t working any more, since it became mired and died. Opportunity is working, but depends … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged curiositas, Curiosity, JPL, Mars, Mars Rover, NASA, Opportunity, Spirit, studiositas
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Geeky and Beautiful
For your “Look! Up In The Sky!” file, you Transit of Venus fans will want to watch the ultra-hi-def video of different views of the transit. This is from the Sun people at NASA and Astronomy Pic of the Day, … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!, O'Brian Tags
Tagged APOD, gralloch, NASA, Pres. Obama, Transit of Venus
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Of touch downs and splash downs
Today Discovery, heading to her tomb in Washington, touched down safely at Dulles Airport on the back of the 747. Today in 1970 the stricken Odyssey of the Apollo 13 Moon mission splashed down safely on the back of courage, ingenuity … Read More
Posted in Look! Up in the sky!, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Apollo 13, Discovery, NASA, Odyssey, Pres. Obama, space program, Space Shuttle
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36 Comments
EXPLOSION ABOARD ODYSSEY! 42 years ago on Friday 13th
Jimmy Akin reminded me today that it is the anniversary of the day an oxygen tank exploded in the Service Module of Apollo 13 on its way to our great natural satellite’s Fra Mauro Highlands, named after the 15th c. … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!, The future and our choices
Tagged abortion, Apollo, Apollo 13, Ares, Constellation, Fra Mauro, Gemini, infanticide, Mars, Mercury, moon, NASA, Pres. Obama
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“Ebb and Flow”… the Mooncraft
For your Just Too Cool file from NASA: Montana Students Pick Winning Names for Moon Craft January 17, 2012 PASADENA, Calif. — Twin NASA spacecraft that achieved orbit around the moon New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day have new … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged Ebb and Flow, Moon Craft, NASA
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Our traces on the Moon
I don’t have a Truly and Fantastically Super Cool category, but if I did, this would be in it. NASA has clear photos of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites. The photos show the twists and turns of … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool
Tagged Apollo, Emily Dickinson, moon landing, NASA, photos, POTUS
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12 Comments
Can you spell CYLON? NASA wakes up Robonaut 2!
For your Just TOO Cool! file, comes thos from CBC and NASA. Robot astronaut wakes up in space NASA’s humanoid robot has finally awoken in space. Ground controllers turned Robonaut 2 on Monday for the first time since it was … Read More
L. on Your Sunday Sermon Notes: 3rd Sunday after Easter (N.O. 4th of Easter) 2024: “I remember only the joke at the beginning of the homily: Priests get four weeks of vacation per year. Some…”
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