Friday Cat Blogging
To Leap or Not To Leap
Leaf or grass?
[Editor: Hadley paused to consider chasing a blowing leaf, but decided to eat some more grass.]
The Friday Ark for lots of animal pictures.
April 24, 2015 4 Comments
Hubble Turns 25
The ABC notes the silver celebration: NASA marks Hubble Space Telescope’s 25th anniversary with release of Westerlund 2 star cluster. There is a video of the cluster and a link to Hubble’s ‘greatest hits’.
The universe is filled with wonders that we only know about because of instruments like Hubble. Hubble has managed to affirm or refute many theories about the formation of our universe which make things more understandable.
April 24, 2015 6 Comments
ANZAC Day
It is ANZAC Day in Australia and New Zealand, which is similar to the American Veterans Day, in that it began as a remembrance of World War I, and has become more generalized over the years.
“Anzac Day commemorates the involvement of Australian and New Zealand troops in a World War I campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey.” This year is the centennial of the Gallipoli landing.
The Gallipoli Campaign began as a Winston Churchill [then First Lord of the Admiralty] plan that spun out of control and got a lot of people killed on both sides with nothing much changing, but then, that was quite common in World War I.
Peter Weir made a movie, Gallipoli, which, if nothing else, proves that Sergeant Alvin York, and T.E. Lawrence weren’t the only people who fought in World War I.
April 24, 2015 10 Comments
