Perpetual Motion Devotion Community Group
A travel support group for those with wanderlust, gypsy blood, or a pathological need to be somewhere else all the time. On the road of life, getting there is ALL the fun, no matter where THERE happens to be. Where ever you are, you are already planning your getaway, forever ISO something, if only the meaning of the phrase "Wherever you go, there you are." (The only...
This week, the most sophisticated planetary probe ever made landed on the surface of the red planet, Mars. Once it has been checked out, it will start sending back more images of it's travels. Things are changing so fast. If you could travel back in time 100 years to 1920, to tell people that robotic vehicles from Earth would be exploring Mars a century later, what portion of the population would find the statement credible? At the time, automobiles and radio were just beginning to go mainstream in the US.
The probe carries sound recording equipment and a little helicopter for getting aerial views. The planned duration of the mission is one Martian year, which is about two Earth years long.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_2020
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Just thought I would join this group now that I am a widower. My wife passed away May 28th. She was "The Wind Beneath My Wings". When I met her, I was a drunken, dope smoking, fighting, hell raising biker. She told me if I could get rid of the inner storm within me, that I could be a blessing to people. God placed her in my path to stop me. I have been drug and alcohol free now for 53...
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For westerners, this is the other side of the world, where everything is exotic and unfamiliar. Piracy is still a problem on the Java Sea, and English is not widely spoken. The Java Sea is about 1,600 km long, 400 km wide, and loiters loosely between the islands of Borneo to the north, Java to the south, Sumatra to the west, and Sulawesi to the east. The equator is a few degrees north, so...
