I Had Enough Time To Look Up

I was wrong yesterday when I said I would not have time to write on my

Blog

today.

I have at least a half hour so I need to get down to business right away.

And what better way to start,

but to talk to about

2019

and what is coming up.

The best article I could find was in

Businessinsider.com

2019 will be an extraordinary year in space — here's what NASA, SpaceX, and the night sky have in store for Earth

By Dave Mosher

When it comes to events in space, 2019 is going to be an extraordinary year. That's not to say 2018 will be an easy act to follow. After all, SpaceX debuted the world's most powerful operational launch system (called Falcon Heavy), sent a car beyond Mars, and helped lift off more orbital rockets than in any year since 1990. With a few exceptions, NASA also had a momentous 12 months: The US space agency announced its first-ever commercial astronaut crews, began a new hunt for Earth-like planets, sent a probe to "touch" the sun, and landed its InSight robot on Mars. China, meanwhile, crashed an old space station into the ocean and launched a small fleet of moon satellites. But 2019 will be a doozy — a sentiment that NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine highlighted after NASA's recent Mars landing. "Right now at NASA, there is more underway than in I don't know how many years past," Bridenstine said during a live broadcast. "It's a drought, and then all of the sudden there's all of these activities."

Follow the

Link

and you will be able to mark on your calendar for some of the biggest events that you can expect from

Aerospace Companies,

Government Space Agencies,

and

The Night Sky

next year.

This is,

Looking Forward To Another Great Year In

Space Exploration

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“It is a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.”
- Alan Shepard -

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Someday I Will Find One

This first one is actually a true story.

"When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300°C. The Russians used a pencil."

"A redhead, a brunette, and a blonde, all working for NASA, were discussing where to go on their next expedition. Let's go to the Moon, the brunette suggested. No. Let's go to Mars, said the redhead.
The brunette and redhead sat there arguing until the blonde finally yelled, Stop arguing you two! I know where we should go on our next trip. Let's go to the Sun! The redhead and brunette looked at each other and began laughing. We can't go to the Sun, exclaimed the brunette. We would melt or burn up before we even got close! Duh! Not if we go at night! replied the blonde."

This story is also true.

Well, only the part where they do shoot chickens at aircraft.

"Scientists at NASA have developed a gun built specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets and the space shuttle, all traveling at maximum velocity.The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields. British engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshield of their new high speed trains. Arrangements were made. But when the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurtled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to smithereens, crashed through the control console, snapped the engineer's backrest in two and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin. Horrified Britons sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield, and begged the U.S. scientists for suggestions.NASA's response was just three words, Thaw the chicken."

"What does NASA stand for? Need Another Seven Astronauts"

"How does NASA organize a party? They planet."

"What is an astronaut's favorite place on a computer? The space bar."

"How do you get a baby astronaut to sleep? You rocket."

 

 Doing

Jokes

today because I will be gone tomorrow.

See you on

Saturday!

This is,

Always Looking For A Good Joke

And Someday I Will Find One

Jim Hauenstein

And,

“Don't tell me the sky is the limit. There are footprints on the Moon.”
- Joseph Shellim -

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Live Action Bebop

On

Thursday,

March 10th,

2016,

a day which will live in infinity,

I wrote my

Six Favorite Japanese - Non Hentai - Anime Series

 Inuyasha

because my kids were still young

and we could watch this program together.

 Furi Kuri

because who doesn't love a female character

el kabonging

people with a guitar.

Samurai Champloo

because the story lines were good

and they had a drunk main character I could relate to.

 

Neon Genesis Evangelion 

because this was the very first anime that I thought had a provocative story to tell.

Trigun

because he is the quintessential hero where his own problems never get solved

but he always helping others.

 Cowboy Bebop

because it was a good story until the very end.

But still a favorite.

Now for the good news

Netflix is developing a live-action ‘Cowboy Bebop’ series with anime’s director

By Rick Marshall for Digital Trends.com 

In news certain to prompt howls of either joy or sadness, Netflix announced that it is working on a live-action Cowboy Bebop series based on the popular anime of the same name. Long rumored to be in the works as a movie with Keanu Reeves once attached to star in it, the live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop is now headed to Netflix, and will take the form of a 10-episode series co-produced by the streaming service and Tomorrow Studios. Thor: Ragnarok and Star Wars Rebels screenwriter Christopher Yost will pen the script for the first episode of the series, with original anime series creator and director Shinichiro Watanabe serving as a consultant on the project. The original Cowboy Bebop anime premiered in 1998 and encompassed 26 episodes, a special, and a feature-length animated film, and is widely regarded in both in the U.S. and internationally as one of the greatest anime series of all time. Set in the year 2071, the show followed the crew of a spaceship known as The Bebop as they tracked down wanted fugitives around the galaxy and tried to earn a living as bounty hunters. The colorful cast of characters aboard The Bebop included Spike Spiegel, a skilled marksman and fighter whose laid-back demeanor hid a dark past; the hulking ship’s pilot and chief engineer, Jet; and the femme fatale Faye Valentine. Later episodes added the eccentric hacker Ed and a Welsh Corgi named Ein with a genius-level intellect.

Netflix

all ready did a fine job making

Death Note

and

Fullmetal Alchemist

into live action movies!

This is,

Will Always Have A Soft Spot In My Heart For Good Anime

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Hackers are nerdy, pasty, tubby, little geeks with triple thick glasses and this is probably a demented otaku with smelly feet. So catching him will be a breeze!”
- Keiko Nobumoto, Cowboy Bebop Film Manga, Volume 1 -

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Pink Slim Meat

I have talked about food before on my

Blog.

Mainly in my

Post

called

Clean Meat.

Which tells the story about the future of growing meat in a

Petri Dish.

You don't believe me?

Read my story

Clean Meat

then to find out the truth.

I have worked in a

Packing House

for six years during the late nineteen-seventies.

In that time,

I ended up in charge of mixing all the chemicals that is put in all the different kinds of meat products that the company was selling.

I worked directly with the

Chemist

who came up with different combinations to spice

and preserve the different products.

I have seen what goes on first hand.

Mainly,

it is all business.

Whatever makes the company the most money.

The issue I would like to bring up today is

Pink Slim.

Pink slime (also known as lean finely textured beef or LFTB, finely textured beef, and boneless lean beef trimmings or BLBT) is a meat by-product used as a food additive to ground beef and beef-based processed meats, as a filler, or to reduce the overall fat content of ground beef. In the production process, heat and centrifuges remove fat from the meat in beef trimmings. The resulting paste is exposed to ammonia gas or citric acid to kill bacteria. In 2001, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved the product for limited human consumption. LFTB prepared using ammonia gas is banned for human consumption in the European Union. Wikipedia

There is a reason that;

About 80 percent of antibiotics produced in the U.S. are given to farm animals. This steady stream of antibiotics contributes to the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and superbugs that cannot be killed by standard antibiotics. Clean meat does not require the use of antibiotics. Clean Meat

Now they are putting a cleaning product in our food?

Ammonia!

The reason I am bringing this up,

since there was a big backlash during

2104

is,

if we don't keep a watchful eye on this industry,

they will again try to slip tainted products out to the public instead of taking a financial loss.

If you go to

FoodSafety.gov 

you will find that there have been

24 Recent Recalls

in

2018

alone.

Example:

Swift Beef Company Recalls Ground Beef Products due to Possible E. coli O157:H7 Contamination

 That is what the

Ammonia

in our food is suppose to kill.

E. coli.

Why do I worry about such things?

I have kids

and grandkids

and great grandkids

who have to eat this

Soylent Green.

 This is,

I Already Quit Eating Fast Food Years Ago

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“When am I going to learn to stop questioning authority and just eat the Soylent Green?”
- Red Tash -

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A Oneway Ticket To Mars

What would you do if you had a

Billion Dollars?

Or

11,361,750,000 Yen?

Or

6,721,710,000 Russian Rubles?

Exactly,

I would do the same thing.

I would start my own

Space Program,

calling my company

SpaceX.

Practice

Take Offs

and

Landings

a few hundred times with my spaceship,

then fly myself

and a some of my best friends to the

Planet Mars!

Actually,

I will only take the ones who will listen to me

and follow my every whim.

But what the hey!

We are all equal on

Mars,

as long as everyone does what I say.

Because if it wasn't for me,

none of them would be in the life threatening situation they find themselves in.

Living on

Mars.

My name?

Elon Musk says he will probably move to Mars

By Hamza Shaban for the Washington Post on Chicago Tribune.com

Despite a high likelihood of dying even before arriving and daily conditions hostile to human life, Elon Musk said in an interview Sunday that he'll probably move to Mars. The SpaceX chief executive said there's a "70 percent chance" he'll get to Mars within his lifetime, with plans to permanently resettle on the Red Planet. Musk said his desire to colonize Mars is driven by the same passion that fuels people to climb mountains - for the challenge. "We've recently made a number of breakthroughs that I am just really just fired up about," Musk said during an interview with "Axios on HBO." Musk's remarks are the latest in a series of bold announcements that have defined his career in recent years, from his aim to transform the auto industry with electric vehicles made by his company Tesla to the goal of colonizing Earth's neighboring planet. SpaceX aspires to send its first cargo mission to Mars in 2022, according to its website, with a manned mission targeted for 2024. Musk announced last week that the company has renamed its massive Mars vessel the Starship (it was previously dubbed the Big Falcon Rocket). The rocket boosters that will allow the vehicle to escape Earth's gravity are called the Super Heavy. NASA, too, has ambitions to send humans to Mars, though sometime in the 2030s. China is also expanding its space program with the goal of launching a Mars probe around 2020. Scientists are interested in going to Mars for a host of reasons, from learning more about the origins of life to better understanding the rise and collapse of potentially life-supporting environments. During the interview, Musk compared the proposition to colonize Mars to explorer Ernest Shackleton's expeditions to Antarctica. He said the price of a ticket to Mars would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, with no guarantee of return or even survival during the trip or upon landing. But despite the daunting journey, Musk sees a worthwhile trade-off. "You know there's lots of people who climb mountains. You know why do they climb mountains? People die on Mount Everest all the time," he said. "They like doing it for the challenge."

This is the same guy who had to step down as

Chairman Of The Board

of

Tesla Motor Company.

He had some bad managerial practices.

All I can hope is,

that when he takes his one way ticket to

Mars,

he leaves me the rest of his money in a will.

 

 This is,

Did You Watch The

InSight Lander

Land Today?

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terra-form Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on. So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.”
- Elon Musk -

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Goodbye Twitter

I have written about my obsession

or should I say my addiction,

to my cellphone before.

As far back as

February 21st, 2014

in a

Post

called

Lesson Learned!

There have been others like my

Post

Help Me!

but my

Councilor

has told me I need to do something about it,

starting today.

I just got out of a

ATC Meeting.

An acronym for

Addicted To Cellphones Meeting.

Just like all the other help organizations out there making money from the down trodden,

we have a

Twelve Step Program

that I must follow religiously to get on a path of recovery.

Right now,

I am not going to go into every step I have to take

and I am not going to tell you I cannot be cured like alcoholics.

I just need to start by taking my first step.

"I admit I am powerless over my addiction and that my life is unmanageable when I am holding my cellphone."

 

 My first step is,

Deleting All The Twitter Feeds I Follow!

 Goodbye

@bbcdoctorwho

So long

@chuckliu

Adios

@StarTalkRadio

Bye bye

@BadAstronomer

Adieu

@F1

Toodle-oo

@WeAreLegion540

I am going to miss you

Anonymous.

Man,

does that hurt!

Withdrawal should only last

A Couple Of Weeks

my

Councilor

tells me! 

 This is,

A Made Up Scenario

I Am Not Addicted To Anything

Just Don't Ask To Touch My Phone

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“The girl told me that her mobile phone had proposed to her when it gave her a ring.”
- Anthony T. Hincks -

I might have gotten rid of the

Twitter Accounts

I follow,

but I still have my

Account.

@JimTwoBuckHowie

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James Hauenstein Is Going To Mars

 I might be a little too old to become an

Astronaut,

or will not be around when there is

Tourism

on

Mars.

But I bet my

Name

has beat your name to

Mars.

Unless,

of course,

you are one of the other

2.4 Million People

who signed up to get their name put on a

Computer Chip

going to

Mars

on the

InSight

lander.

 Your Name is About to Land on Mars!

On Monday, Nov. 26, 2018, just before noon PT (3 p.m. ET; 2000 UTC/GMT), NASA’s InSight mission will land on Mars! The spacecraft will plunge through the thin Martian atmosphere, heat-shield first, and use a parachute to slow down. Then, it will fire its retro rockets to slowly descend to the surface. Yours is among 2.4 million names that will be on Mars when InSight touches down. Once on the surface, InSight will study the deep interior of Mars to advance our understanding of the early history of all rocky planets, including Earth. Now is the perfect time to Retrieve Your Boarding Pass and share it online! Don't miss the opportunity to watch InSight's exciting landing. NASA will broadcast live from mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., starting at 11 a.m. PT (2 p.m. ET; 1900 UTC/GMT). Tune in to see the team receive signals from the spacecraft as it lands, plus interviews with NASA experts. Watch Online via NASA TV or Watch in Person at a viewing party near you. See you on Mars! Follow InSight on Twitter and Facebook.

I am in the

Mars Frequent Flyer Club.

It says I have been a

Martian

since

10/07/2017.

I have

301,223,981

points earned.

sorry,

it is a little late for you to sign up,

but I will keep an eye on the next

NASA Mission

where you can your name up in space. 

This is,

Going To Have My Name Stamped On A Computer Chip Right Next To

Matt Damon's,

I Hope

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“They say once you grow crops somewhere, you have officially ‘colonized’ it. So technically, I colonized Mars. In your face, Neil Armstrong!”
- Andy Weir, The Martian -

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Happy Thanksgiving America

This Is,

Hoping You

And Your Family Have Enough To Eat Today,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. (American Football) This is not coincidence.”
- Erma Bombeck -

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Happy Thanksgiving To A Giving Aaron Rodgers

Here is a

Happy Thanksgiving Story

which needs to be told over

and over.

I am sure everyone has heard about the

California Wild Fires.

All the destruction

and the loss of life it have caused.

Like me,

I hope most you have donated,

what you can,

to a charity which helps the victims.

Here is someone who is giving back to the

Community

and the

State

he grew up in.

Green Bay Packers' Aaron Rodgers donates $1m to California wildfire victims
The Guardian.com/sports
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has donated $1m to victims of this month’s wildfires in California. Rodgers was born, and spent much of his childhood, in northern California and said on Wednesday that he wanted to help his home state. In northern California, where I was born and raised, the city of Paradise burned to the ground, and many of the residents who got out are now displaced to my hometown of Chico and across the north state, Rodgers said in a video posted to his Twitter account. I personally reached out to my friends and the mayor of Chico to find out how to be of the most help. And raising money for both immediate needs and the long-term recovery is what is needed most right now.

Aaron Rodgers (@AaronRodgers12)

Please take a minute to watch this and if you can, take a few seconds to retweet this using the #retweet4good
All the money goes to a great organization for the immediate needs and the recovery efforts for the #CampFireParadise
Thank you 🙏🏻 #ButteStrong #payitforward pic.twitter.com/iQjMbUIHcI

This is,

 I Am Not Rich

But I Always Give As Much As I Can

Because I Believe In

Pascal's Wager

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.”
- Blaise Pascal -

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Happy Thanksgiving This Coming Thursday

I know I am a couple of days early,

but hopefully by hearing these songs now,

you will get into

The Thanksgiving Spirit!

If you haven't already.

I know the

World

doesn't celebrate

Thanksgiving,

but the idea behind it should be celebrated by all.

Be thankful for

Life,

Family,

and if you have it

Good Health.

If you are

Religious

be thankful for your beliefs.

If you are an

Atheist

be thankful for the truth.

If you are a

Creationist

you have nothing to be thankful for,

because you are being duped!

Be thankful that

NASA

will be selling tickets to outer-space.

Be thankful for your good fortune by giving to a charity of your choice.

I am thankful for a bright future for my

Family.

Yes,

I am an

Optimist

and I believe the future will be bright.

This is,

Wishing The World Has A Safe

And Happy Thursday This Week

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence.”
- Henry David Thoreau - 

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Furry Fandom

It has been a while since I even heard about a story about the

Furies,

that I thought the fandom had faded away.

Last night though,

I saw a program on

CNN

called

This Is Life With Lisa Ling,

subtitled

Furry Nation.

 "The furry fandom is a subculture interested in anthropomorphic animal characters with human personalities and characteristics. Examples of anthropomorphic attributes include exhibiting human intelligence and facial expressions, speaking, walking on two legs, and wearing clothes. Furry fandom is also used to refer to the community of people who gather on the Internet and at furry conventions." Wikipedia

I really liked the story because it explained how,

this is not a lifestyle for sexual deviants.

Like the people who dress up for

Comic Book Conventions,

these are people who take on the persona of the character they dress up as.

In turn,

they are releasing anxiety they feel from life

and in some cases,

become extroverts instead of introverts.

People who are socially awkward becoming social!

Anxious? Try becoming a 'furry'

Like the song says
Whatever Gets You Through The Night
by
John Lennon

This is,
I Admire Anyone Who Can Be Themselves
And Does Not Follow The Norm
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“So you're a little weird? Work it! A little different? OWN it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd!”
- Mandy Hale -

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