[meteorite-list] Long awaited Vesta Image link!

[MexicoDoug]

Chris - thanks so kindly for that.  Your are way too generous in giving 
my interpretation of the movie too much credit.  You are exactly right 
about the source.

Reading the quote again is of great sentimental value to me, in 
addition to being IMO perfectly applicable to the imaging for the first 
time of new worlds.  I'll pick up a copy of the book as you recommend 
and look forward to it ... especially now that I realize the plot is in 
African meteorite stomping grounds - amazing on how memory can adopt 
things to one's own culture.

Also two other private messages came to me on this and I want to thank 
both of you for taking a moment to share your knowledge.  One nice 
Canadian listmember told me that Bruce Lee's son Brandon actually has 
the whole quotation on his tombstone.  Not exactly one of those things 
to party about (deja vu: Johnstown diogenite), but a wonderful epitaph 
of a sort in any case.  I'm very happy we're all around to see Vesta 
like this!

Kindest wishes
Doug

bcc: Canada

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From: Chris Peterson <clp at alumni.caltech.edu>
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Sent: Mon, Aug 1, 2011 2:28 pm
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Long awaited Vesta Image link!


Doug- I guess you're thinking of The Sheltering Sky (a good movie, but 
better book- set in Africa, and not exactly Bonnie and Clyde, but I can 
imagine making that association). The narrator says: 
 
Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an 
inexhaustible well, yet everything happens only a certain number of 
times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you 
remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's 
so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your 
life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even 
that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 
twenty. And yet it all seems limitless. 
 
Chris 
 
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Chris L Peterson 
Cloudbait Observatory 
http://www.cloudbait.com 
 
On 8/1/2011 12:12 PM, MexicoDoug wrote: 
> http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/dawn/multimedia/pia14317.html 
> 
> Jaw dropping ... how many more times in our lifetimes will be see a 
> large solar system object like this (maybe only Ceres, Pluto and 
Charon, 
> if all goes well) 
> 
> Kindest wishes 
> Doug 
> 
> PS can anyone tell me the name of that movie which had a male 
southern 
> US narrator telling a story, can't remember if it was a Bonnie and 
Clyde 
> type, perhaps bootlegging movie set a few decades ago in the 
> hinterlands, but the narrator spoke of the full moon almost 
poetically 
> and compared it to life ... how many times will you see a full moon, 
how 
> few they really are; something like that. Its delivery made a great 
> impression on me I never shook since I saw it with my Dad. 
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