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| Happiest of birthdays to  kare! I hope That it was wonderful for both you and Lori! | |
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| Originally posted by meridian_rose at Google Privacy Issues: Web HistoryOriginally posted by sheryden at Google Privacy Issues: Web HistoryOriginally posted by anjak_j at Google Privacy Issues: Web HistoryIf you are going to do this, you need to do it before March 1st. It has been said that users will not be able to do anything about this after that date.With reference to Google's policy changes and how everything you do with your Google account will be tied together into their super-cauldron of information, you will probably want to clear your Google Web History out - if you turned that feature on - before month's end. After that, you won't be able to clear it, and everything you search for will be connected with your account. To check settings and/or clear out your Web History: 1. Go to Google. If you aren't signed in already, do so. 2. In the top right-hand corner you'll find your email address or name, perhaps an icon if you have a Plus account, and a little downward facing arrow. Click on the arrow and a menu will pop up. 3. Click to 'Account Settings'. This will take you to a page called 'Accounts'. (If you have a Plus account, you might go via a Plus sign-in page.) 4. Scroll down to a section called 'Services'. Here you'll find an option called 'View, enable, or disable web history', which has a link next to it. Click on the link. 5. If you never turned web history on, you'll get a page asking if you want to turn this service on. Just click 'No Thanks' and all is good. If you did turn it on, you should have a list of your searches. At the top there is a button that says 'Remove All History'. Click this and follow the instructions which will remove all items from your Web History and pause the feature so nothing else will be added in future. Also, you can completely remove Web History as a service from your account by clicking THIS LINK, checking the tick-box and confirming you want to remove Web History. To be safe, it is probably best to do the steps above first to remove any history that might have already been collected. This entry was originally posted at http://archane.dreamwidth.org/607835.html. You can view  comments there, or add your own using an Open ID login. | |
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Columbia
01 February 2003 “The same Creator who names the stars also knows the names of the seven souls we mourn today. The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home.”
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Rick Husband
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William C. McCool
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Kalpana Chawla
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Laurel Clark
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Ilan Ramon
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The arching sky is calling spacemen back to their trade
“All hands! Stand by! Free falling!”
And the lights below us fade.
Out ride the sons of Terra, far drives the thundering jet,
Out leaps the race Earthmen,
Out far and onward yet.
We pray for one last landing
On the globe that gave us birth,
Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies,
And the cool, green hills of Earth.
We’ve sailed the endless vacuum, seen many wondrous things
From the harsh bright soil of Luna to Saturn’s rainbow rings.
We’ve tried each spinning space mote, and reckoned its true worth;
Take us back again to the homes of men and the cool, green hills of Earth.
My final watch is over, my travels nearing their end
And my only wish is to feel home soil beneath me once again.
Let the sweet fresh breezes heal me as they rove around the girth
Of our lovely mother planet of the cool green hills of Earth.
We pray for one last landing
On the globe that gave us birth,
Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies,
And the cool, green hills of Earth.
--Robert A. Heinlein, The Green Hills of Earth | This entry was originally posted at http://archane.dreamwidth.org/607678.html. You can view  comments there, or add your own using an Open ID login. | |
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Challenger
28 January 1986 The sacrifice of your loved ones has stirred the soul of our nation and, through the pain, our hearts have been opened to a profound truth—the future is not free, the story of all human progress is one of a struggle against all odds. We learned again that this America, which Abraham Lincoln called the last best hope of man on Earth, was built on heroism and noble sacrifice. It was built by men and women like our seven star voyagers, who answered a call beyond duty, who gave more than was expected or required, and who gave it with little thought to worldly reward.
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Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds,—and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind swept heights with easy grace,
Where never lark or even eagle flew—
And while with silent, lifting mind
I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
—John Gillespie Magee, Jr., “High Flight” | This entry was originally posted at http://archane.dreamwidth.org/607393.html. You can view  comments there, or add your own using an Open ID login. | |
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27 January 1967
| Tragedy struck on the launch pad during a preflight test for Apollo 204 (AS-204; later renamed Apollo 1 at the request of the widows), which was scheduled to be the first Apollo manned mission, and would have been launched on February 21, 1967. Astronauts Edward White, Virgil Grissom, and Roger Chaffee lost their lives when a fire swept through the Command Module. |
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“If we die, we want people to accept it. We're in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.”
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“You’ll be flying along some nights with a full moon. You're up at 45,000 feet. Up there you can see it like you can't see it down here. It's just the big, bright, clear moon. You look up there and just say to yourself: I've got to get up there. I've just got to get one of those flights.”
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“I think you have to understand the feeling that a pilot has, that a test pilot has, that I look forward a great deal to making the first flight. There's a great deal of pride involved in making a first flight.”
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But think of it, then choose. Now, which?
Born to raw Earth, inhabiting a scene,
And all of it no sooner viewed, erased,
As if these miracles had never been?
Vast circlings of sounding fire and frost,
And all when focused, what? as quickly lost?
Or us, in fragile flesh, with God's new eyes
That lift and comprehend and search the skies?
We watch the seasons drifting in the lunar tide
And know the years, remembering what's died.
—Ray D. Bradbury, They Have Not Seen the Stars | This entry was originally posted at http://archane.dreamwidth.org/607168.html. You can view  comments there, or add your own using an Open ID login. | |
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| There's a reason I get to bitch about politics as much as I please:  This entry was originally posted at http://archane.dreamwidth.org/605073.html. You can view  comments there, or add your own using an Open ID login. | |
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| This journal is locked. It's not because I have anything to hide from the general public, but for my job I have to maintain an online presence under my legal name, and I try to limit the possibility of someone accidentally stumbling across my non-professional interactions. If you want to be added to my access filter, just let me know. This entry was originally posted at http://archane.dreamwidth.org/604116.html. You can view  comments there, or add your own using an Open ID login. | |
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