A recent comment on one of my good friend Ray Ward’s reports, has encouraged me to communicate with you these following words:
In a recent book, and a film, called The Other Side of Heaven, John H. Groberg tells the story of an elderly Tongan sailor.
It reads: “In Tongan the word hala means road or path, but is incomplete by itself and needs to have a modifier, such as hala uta (path on land) or hala tali (path on sea). I became convinced that many of those old captains were as sure where they were on their sea paths as we are on our land paths. The ocean is home to them and they develop a feel that is hard for us to comprehend. Let me give an example: I remember returning home from a long voyage in very contrary weather with heavy seas, strong winds, and a cloudy, rainy sky. We were out of sight of land all afternoon, all night and into the next morning. I became a little concerned and asked the captain if he knew for sure where we were.
We’ve had a few days to digest the bombing of the moon by the NASA LCROSS project. Now it’s time to step back and ask a few pertinent questions of the whole deal. Let’s first recap the event. NASA stated on their LCROSS mission page, that the mission is simply to “search for water on the moon.” This was to be done by impacting a several ton rocket onto the surface of the moon creating (in their words) a “big impact and creating a crater, throwing tons of debris and potentially water ice and vapor above the lunar surface.” A second craft will follow the first in collecting data with the goal of discovering how much water is in the surface.
