Thoughts on Thinking

"When somebody persuades me that I am wrong, I change my mind. What do you do?" John Maynard Keynes

"If you're unhappy with your life, change your thinking." Charles Fillmore

"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it." Eckhart Tolle

"People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them." Epictetus

"The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates

"Consciousness is a terrible thing to waste." PunditGeorge

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Water, Water, Everywhere...



I confess that I was startled many, many years ago when I first witnessed a “fire” burning in a vacuum inside a space craft.  No up, no down, no peak for the flame, in fact, I don’t recall “flame” but a globe of burning gas.  Normal activities (on Earth perspective) are quite different away from gravity.

In this clip from the International Space Station, Expedition Commander Chris Hadfield answers the question many people, I’m sure, have lost sleep over:  What happens when a spaceman wrings a wet rag?

Who’d have thought...







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