A reminder of just how important we are, just in case social media isn't enough (sarcasm).

Reminds me AGAIN......What a BIG GOD we have that considers this Little Rock his footstool!

Reminds me of Twain's Captain Stormfield. An unauthorized race with a comet ended him at the wrong gate to Heaven. It took Saint Peter's guys some time going over huge maps to find what the good Captain called Earth. It turned out we were listed as "Wart" on the map.

Phil, I thought you quick smoking the weed?

Perspective is everything when perception turns to opinion. Nice find.

akgreg wrote:Phil, I thought you quick smoking the weed?

Ha ha. Actually it's because of flying up from Southeast yesterday. Hundreds of miles of staggering beauty, at least a hundred whales sighted on the way up. And no one in the air but me. Kind of a Jonathan Livingston Seagull moment and with no "my sky" folks to interfere.

And then last night i went down the rabbit hole of "why are flowers so pretty? why do we think anything is pretty? why don't dog's think flowers are pretty? why does the earth never stop rotating? what set the rotation in motion in the first place? why doesn't the sun's gravity pull the earth into it? why doesn't the centrifugal force of the earth's orbit send it out of the suns grip? how did all this get set up precisely? why are there tides? how insignificant are we really? of course I already knew the answer to that but it was fun finding that video as a reminder.

Eventually I ended up at "what are the odds?". That rabbit hole led me to the theory of "multiverse", which we've all heard spoken of in some Sc-Fi show but which i didn't really know what it meant. Simple, if earth is a gazillion to one shot which makes our galaxy and universe a gazillion to one shot- there are actually a gazillion minus one other universes out there without an earth. Wow, interesting theory.

I think I'm going to go flying again.

And then last night i went down the rabbit hole of "why are flowers so pretty? why do we think anything is pretty? why don't dog's think flowers are pretty? why does the earth never stop rotating? what set the rotation in motion in the first place? why doesn't the sun's gravity pull the earth into it? why doesn't the centrifugal force of the earth's orbit send it out of the suns grip? how did all this get set up precisely? why are there tides? how insignificant are we really? of course I already knew the answer to that but it was fun finding that video as a reminder.

That's a lot of questions.

On a more practical note: If I put Wing X on my backhoe to work on my septic system should I lean towards wheel landings or 3-point?

For septic, I'd go with the Sportsman bucket teeth over the Wing X. General excavation - sure, Wing X, but not for septic specific digging. YMMV

Barnstormer wrote:A reminder of just how important we are, just in case social media isn't enough (sarcasm).

I honestly thought the end of that video would have a guy putting a cork back on the bottle of his experiment.....

daedaluscan wrote:On a more practical note: If I put Wing X on my backhoe to work on my septic system should I lean towards wheel landings or 3-point?

Geesh! I can't believe you guys missed daedaluscan's question entirely.

With a Wing X backhoe I think it safer to wheel land, unless of course you are working a very restricted area and need the bucket to arrest the landing, if that's case three point would be better.

But guys, we may be approaching a level of thread drift here that will prompt a Zzzzzz intervention....of course I guess that's a matter of perspective isn't it.

Phill,
Plato said the unexamined life is not worth living.

We are living in a most remarkable time, in a most remarkable land, with laws in place providing safty unimagined in most of the world with freedoms many have died for.

It is after these so called Zen moments when the world blows our mind that I ask myself, what is my duty to my children and their future to help others in the world attain this dream we live? What must need be done today to keep this future in place? We have a big responsibility as keepers of this dream, our aviating.

Rocket

Phil, this isn't so meta, but I really like it. Maybe it's because I work in the space industry and want to be an astronaut.

Remember that there have been humans continuously in space for nearly 19 years on the ISS, and they see a full orbit every 90 minutes. Imagine the sunrises, sunsets, and diversity of vistas.

Barnstormer wrote:

akgreg wrote:Phil, I thought you quick smoking the weed?

Ha ha. Actually it's because of flying up from Southeast yesterday. Hundreds of miles of staggering beauty, at least a hundred whales sighted on the way up. And no one in the air but me. Kind of a Jonathan Livingston Seagull moment and with no "my sky" folks to interfere.

And then last night i went down the rabbit hole of "why are flowers so pretty? why do we think anything is pretty? why don't dog's think flowers are pretty? why does the earth never stop rotating? what set the rotation in motion in the first place? why doesn't the sun's gravity pull the earth into it? why doesn't the centrifugal force of the earth's orbit send it out of the suns grip? how did all this get set up precisely? why are there tides? how insignificant are we really? of course I already knew the answer to that but it was fun finding that video as a reminder.

Eventually I ended up at "what are the odds?". That rabbit hole led me to the theory of "multiverse", which we've all heard spoken of in some Sc-Fi show but which i didn't really know what it meant. Simple, if earth is a gazillion to one shot which makes our galaxy and universe a gazillion to one shot- there are actually a gazillion minus one other universes out there without an earth. Wow, interesting theory.

I think I'm going to go flying again.

Cool photo. If the weather didn’t suck 95% of the time I think I’d move here. Hahahaha.