September 2008
11 posts
Love is the One who masters all things;
I am mastered totally by Love.
By my passion of love for Love
I have ground sweet sugar.
O furious Wind, I am only a straw before you;
How could I know where I will be blown next?
Whoever claims to have made a pact with Destiny
Reveals himself a liar and a fool;
What is any of us but a straw in a storm?
How could anyone make a pact with a hurricane?
God is working everywhere his massive Resurrection;
How can we pretend to act on our own?
In the hand of Love I am like a cat in a sack;
Sometimes Love hoists me into the air,
Sometimes Love flings me to the ground.
Love swings me round and round His head;
I have no peace, in this world or any other.
The Lovers of God have fallen in a furious river;
They have surrendered themselves to Love’s commands.
Like mill wheels they turn, day and night, day and night,
Constantly turning and turning, and crying out.0
- Rumi (translated by Andrew Harvey)
“For chemists, physicists, material scientists, astronauts and dreamers across the globe, the space elevator represents the most tantalizing of concepts: cables stronger and lighter than any fiber yet woven, tethered to the ground and disappearing beyond the atmosphere to a satellite docking station in geosynchronous orbit above Earth.
Up and down the 22,000 mile-long (36,000km) cables — or flat ribbons — will run the elevator carriages, themselves requiring huge breakthroughs in engineering to which the biggest Japanese companies and universities have turned their collective attention.
In the carriages, the scientists behind the idea told The Times, could be any number of cargoes. A space elevator could carry people, huge solar-powered generators or even casks of radioactive waste. The point is that breaking free of Earth’s gravity will no longer require so much energy — perhaps 100 times less than launching the space shuttle.”
(Via:timesonline)
Good job NASA, way to come in second. Must the Japanese beat us in everything technology related.
“Where were you when they built the Ladder to Heaven?”
NASA burnt all the techinical plans from the Apollo Program. The USA is now last in the space race, behind India. Blame Nixon.
sraz:
(via forwhenifeellikesharing)
mandatory*
as much as a love heroes, you are absolutely right.
Yep
Irma Thomas - It’s Raining
“I’ve got the blues so bad I can hardly catch my breath
The harder it rains, the worse it gets
This is the time I’d love to be holding you tight
But I guess I’ll just go crazy tonight”
This is straight-up old school New Orleans. The soundtrack to my childhood, and that of my mom and her sisters. Good luck, New Orleans. Be well, Irma.
Oh man, my heart is sinking again. Good luck New Orleans.
