Daily Ramblings – Thankful Thursday – Far Cry 6

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Adventure, Enjoyable, Exploration, Far Cry 6, Fun, Grateful, Thankful, Video Games

Well, I’ve found another great game to play. It’s called Far Cry 6. These games fall into the roll playing genre, as you are running with someone who is a guerrilla and trying to take down a dictator of a small island in the pacific. It has a main mission thread, which progresses you through the game to its finale, but more interesting are the side missions, which are all over the place. Couple that with the plundering you have to do to build better and better weapons, and boy, you have a game that will keep you busy for quite a while. I also like these types of games because they allow co-op play. My brother can play too. It is terrific!

So that’s what I am grateful for today. Far Cry 6! It is a great game, has some terrific things to do, and more importantly, will last probably for the next few months. Call of Duty Vanguard is coming out in November, so that’s another one I’ll be playing.

That’s it for today, folks!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Thinking Thursday – NASA

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Exploration, Innovation, JPL, Landers, Mars, Nasa, photos, Science, videos

Photo Credit: www.nasa.gov

For those of you who are wrapped up with political or COVID news, this might be startling. NASA recently landed another exploratory vehicle called “Perseverance”. This is really excited because this lander is seeking evidence of life on Mars, amongst its other missions. Here’s a link (last about 1:45 minutes) showing the final stage of landing on Mars. I have always been in love with space exploration and to think we are actually on Mars looking around. Amazing!

https://flipboard.com/section/technology-ne0117oue7p3v4da/nasa-releases-first-high-speed-video-of-a-spacecraft-landing-on-mars/a-z_kt_yGjRYG60molf6WNmQ%3Aa%3A3153968-445731ce20%2Fflipboard.com

I hope you enjoy this and are interested in learning more. To see all the great stuff NASA is doing, head over to their website: https://www.nasa.gov/ It has some great articles, videos, and pictures to keep you entertained for hours (at least it does for me).

Have a great Thursday, folks!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – 5 Quotes

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Albert Einstein, Discovery, Exploration, Intellect, Mathematics, Physics, Science, Thought Experiments

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

Albert Einstein

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein If you’d like to read about Einstein, click on the link before this sentence.

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Ted Talk Tuesday – Margaret Hamilton: Software Engineer

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Exploration, Intellect, Margaret Hamilton, Moon Landing, Outer Space, Software Engineer, Ted Talk, TedEd

I hope you enjoy today’s little snippet featuring Margaret Hamilton, the first Software Engineer at NASA. Enjoy!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Spread Your Wings Sunday – Weekly Challenge

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Expanding, Exploration, Growth, Pushing Boundaries, Spread Your Wings, Variety, Weekly Challenge

This week’s challenge provided by the 5-minute Journal:

Take a cold shower. As cold as you can take it. For as long as you can.

This will be a tough one.

Alternate challenge:

Read something that is totally opposite of your belief system to open your mind. If you are liberal, read something conservative. If you are conservative, read something liberal.

Example:

Conservative reading: article on Rush Limbaugh’s site or the Daily Wire. Liberal reading: read an article on the NY Post, Washington Post, LA times, or CNN.

I try to read as broadly as I can. You’ll know when you’ve hit your boundary, you’ll be triggered. I believe we need to stop fighting from extreme positions and meet in the middle. There is no perfect ideology, no perfect political affiliation, no perfect opinion. They are just opinions. Each opinion is worth listening to or reading about to arrive at a truly informed position.

Post in the comments when you accomplish one of these. I look forward to your responses.

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Insight Mars Landing

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Exciting times, Exploration, Insight Mars Lander, Nasa, technology, Wow!

All, I’m going to bypass my typical posting for today. Today, the Insight Mars Lander is negotiating Mars’ atmosphere as we speak. I’ve attached the YouTube video below, in case you didn’t have a chance to watch it live like I am right now.

Very exciting time! It was just announced that the Insight Lander successfully landed on Mars. Wow!

I have always enjoyed watching things like this. I hope you are just as excited as I am. After a 6 month journey, the lander literally negotiated and landed itself successfully on Mars all by itself. This is just terrific!

Have a great week everyone! Oh! I also wanted to let you know that my posting on the 28th will not occur this week. I’ll be on a flight to AZ to see my niece get married.

Until next time…

Dave