I was driving around listen to the radio, they were playing a piano trio but by the time I got home that was all I remembered. I don’t think it was this one but this one works for the last Sunday in August.
Enjoy, Jack
Piano Trio op1, no.1 by Ludwig Von Beethoven
Performed by the Atros Trio
Formed in Berlin, Germany in 2003 by Annette von Hehn (violin), Thomas Hoppe (piano) and Stefan Heinemeyer (violoncello) the ATOS Trio has established itself as one of the finest piano trios performing before the public today.
jack, thanks. was curious about that number 1 designation so looked to wiki for info about it:
himself back in 1801, portrait by reidel. an image quite different from the usual brooding one
monday is moon day
Why NASA Is Interested in the Moon Again – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Pat
one reason for a moon flight is that we have to prove we can handle ourselves in space before we can even think about a manned mission to Mars. If we can do a 3 day trip, how can we ever do a 3 year trip to mars.
As to the 100 billion, Biden just proposed spending 350 billion just to get the youth vote.
100 billion wouldn’t even get you a good war in some 3rd world country. It is pocket change these days.
Jack
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/24/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-student-loan-relief-for-borrowers-who-need-it-most/
“A typical single public school teacher with an undergraduate degree (making $44,000 a year) would pay only $56 a month on their loans, compared to the $197 they pay now under the most recent income-driven repayment plan, for annual savings of nearly $1,700.”
If anyone is “outraged” by this student loan forgiveness plan, go check yourself.
How to Watch Artemis launch tomorrow
The moonshot is suddenly on the front burner because of China’s ambitions. Space exploration is interesting, but what could be done with that money, focus and energy on Earth? Quite frankly, with the extreme weather events, wars, plagues, and social chaos, it seems kind of a pointless endeavor.
Jack
Absolutely wonderful Sunday Serendipity post this week. Love the Beethoven trio.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/28/us/eric-liu-american-democracy-resilient-cec/index.html
“Eric Liu says there are civic scriptures that every citizen should know. Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural address…is a classic speech extolling the healing of a divided nation.”
“American history is a record of small groups of people who keep remaking this country over and over, and who reveal to us all that the perpetual remaking is the greatest statement of fidelity to our creed and our national purpose, which is not to be like Russia, white and stagnant and oligarchic, or like China, monoethnic and authoritarian and centralized, but to be more like America, hybrid and dynamic and democratic and free to be remade.”
“We are trying to be planet Earth’s first multiracial, multicultural, and multifaith democratic republic at scale. That hasn’t existed before. To those who conclude it’s not possible, I would say it’s too early to say that. And by saying that, you’re dooming the project. The only way to determine whether this project is possible is to act as if it’s possible — that is, to commit over and over again to become that country we’d like to see.”
“The narrative of Make American Great Again assumes that America once was great for everybody, something went wrong and now you have to fix it. But I would say that the story of we’re all better off when we’re all better off also contains some assumptions, and the assumption is, we haven’t yet had a country that felt great for everybody, and when we do it will be great for everybody.”
“I’m a champion of national service. It would be great to have more widespread expectation of national service for young people. I’m a champion of a year in the civilian or the military service, where you are coming together with a group of people unlike yourself, of having to work on something together to deepen your appreciation for one another and for the breadth, beauty and the diversity of our country.”
“An education that forces every student to avoid the uncomfortable parts, to steer clear of anything that might cause White students discomfort, is going to leave all students more emotionally brittle, more civically weak and less capable of governing themselves.”
“That kind of forced indoctrination is more befitting China than America. It’s more befitting a country that wants top-down indoctrination of correct thought other than viewpoint diversity.”
Did you hear that, Greg Abutt? You’re making Texas like China.
What to do to recover barren lands
Planting a tree every day
This man has been planting a tree every day since he was just 16 years old. Now, almost 40 years later, he has grown a forest that is larger than New York City’s Central Park.
I would rather see moonshot money go to planting trees, providing food and housing and education, eh, so many things we need more than to go to the moon, again. Yes, it’s interesting, it’s a shiny project that gets attention, but it’s not sorely needed.
BiD
The moonshot money will do all of that. It is money spent in our local economy, high paying jobs to people who will spend that money, which will create more jobs, with more money spent to to and so forth. People with money to spare plant trees, work at food pantrys, donate food and clothing and send their kids to college.
Also, all the way down that chain you have local governments collecting taxes that will help solve many of your issues. The great thing is you can sell it, where as your list, not so much.
Jack
jamie, per chance that guy you mentioned was related to johnny? or at least inspired by?
Jack, That is true. Good point. Sadly, it’s also true that my list isn’t sellable. People.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/28/politics/beto-orourke-bacterial-infection/index.html
“Beto O’Rourke off the campaign trail in Texas with bacterial infection”
And there will passengers of sorts on Artimis
Inside Orion will be three mannequins, toys and even an Amazon Alexa, along with historic and educational items plus Snoopy and Shaun the Sheep. The mannequins are stuffed with all sorts of equipment.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/28/politics/free-at-home-covid-test-government-program-ending/index.html
If you want more covid tests, order them now, as the program is suspended as of September 2nd.
what’s old is new, again
So, concerted scientific discovery may represent the human specie at its best, and achievement in one area doesn’t preclude progress in another, but there’s nothing impressive about a society that accepts school and mass shootings as an unavoidable fact of life, which is nonsensical
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