And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, June 3, 2017
Jupiter Juno Perijove, set to some creepy 2001 A Space Odyssey music
Perijove = nearest point of a flyby of Jupiter. Cool word.
Background info: An apsis (Greek: ἁψίς; plural apsides /ˈæpsᵻdiːz/, Greek: ἁψῖδες) is an extreme point in an object's orbit. The word comes via Latin from Greek and is cognate with apse. For elliptic orbits about a larger body, there are two apsides, named with the prefixes peri- (from περί (peri), meaning 'near') and ap-, or apo- (from ἀπ(ό) (ap(ó)), meaning 'away from') added to a reference to the thing being orbited.
I wonder what colossal dose of radiation little Juno absorbed while zipping by that monstrous planet?
I wish Galileo and Copernicus were alive to see this.
Awesome. More mysteries shown in three minutes than can be known in a hundred lifetimes.
ReplyDeleteWe truly are living in incredible times!
Truth! What happens in the next twenty years will be even more amazing.
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