![]() ![]() We’re the bran muffin of journalism.īut you know what? We change lives. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.” My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. The $504 million car-size spacecraft is currently on an extended mission through at least September 2012.Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: LRO launched in June 2009, and first captured close-up images of the Apollo landing sites in July of that year. These details are visible in photos snapped by the probe while it was skimming just 15 miles (24 kilometers) above the moon's surface. In recent years, photos from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have also shown other unprecedented details of the Apollo landing sites, such as views of the lunar landers, rovers, scientific instruments left behind on the surface, and even the astronauts' boot prints. "Intuitively, experts mostly think it highly unlikely the Apollo flags could have endured the 42 years of exposure to vacuum, about 500 temperature swings from 242 F during the day to -280 F during the night, micrometeorites, radiation and ultraviolet light, some thinking the flags have all but disintegrated under such an assault of the environment," scientist James Fincannon, of the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, wrote in the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal. Most scientists had assumed the flags hadn't survived more than four decades of harsh conditions on the moon. Now, researchers have examined photos taken of the same spots at various points in the day, and observed shadows circling the point where the flag is thought to be. However, this wasn't considered strong evidence that the flags were still standing. Scientists have examined images of the Apollo landing sites before for signs of the flags, and seen hints of what might be shadows cast by the flags. "Astronaut Buzz Aldrin reported that the flag was blown over by the exhaust from the ascent engine during liftoff of Apollo 11, and it looks like he was correct!"Įach of the six manned Apollo missions that landed on the moon planted an American flag in the lunar dirt. "From the LROC images it is now certain that the American flags are still standing and casting shadows at all of the sites, except Apollo 11," LROC principal investigator Mark Robinson wrote in a blog post today (July 27). Now, lunar scientists say the verdict is in from the latest photos of the moon taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC): Most do, in fact, still stand. What will he change? Even at this stage of his career, he can still change hearts, offering emphatic testimony that soccer is indeed the beautiful game.Īn enduring question ever since the manned moon landings of the 1960s has been: Are the flags planted by the astronauts still standing? Messi can be enjoyed by a nation that now has some appropriate appreciation of his genius. Here is a man who has a rightful place in the conversation about the best players ever to kick a soccer ball. When Pelé came to the United States in 1975, he was 50 years too early. He shows that MLS has arrived, or that it is still just a rest home for stars past their prime. To this, I might say: Who cares? None of us really have any clue what effect Mr. Messi is simply cashing in one last time before retirement. Messi’s arrival will be a watershed moment for American soccer, or Mr. ![]() When the world is gripped in the first giddy moments of excitement, we often either bathe in the rosy glow of optimism or assume the practiced role of the skeptic. Messi’s career. At such a momentous moment, it is natural to ask momentous questions. At the end of one of the most storied careers in soccer history, the legend and World Cup hero is coming to Miami to play in Major League Soccer. Here is where we in the press insert countless breathless and portentous stories about what this means for American soccer, for America’s top professional league, and for Mr. By this point, many of you will have heard. ![]()
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