Keith Cowing's Devon Island Journal 13 July 2007: Teaching About Roses on Mars

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Keith Cowing's Devon Island Journal 13 July 2007: Teaching About Roses on Mars
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Date Released: Friday, July 13, 2007
Source: SpaceRef Interactive, Inc.



I am in the high arctic less than a thousand miles from Earth's north pole in a location chosen for its resemblance to the planet Mars. Here, I, and my small team, will transmit a series of webcasts aimed at children participating in summer activities sponsored by the Mars Institute, Challenger Center for Space Science Education, and The Explorers Club.

On the way up to Devon Island I had a chance to fiddle with my latest gadget - er, I mean tool: a new iPhone. One of the things I put on it was a film I saw in high school called "Silent Running".

At the time the film had quite an impact on me. I t was the early 70's. Earth Day was a recent and still somewhat nascent idea. People were learning how to protest and express concern about what we were doing to our planet's life support system. And dire predictions emerged about what might happen in a few years if things did not change.

Flash forward a third of a century. The film is, in some ways, a little nonsensical and naive. But if you can suspend that aspect for a bit, the film is rather prescient - in that it resonates with "green" theme" we all find ourselves grappling with today.

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[Dead_Parrot]

1. Interesting site... thanks... nt

[ramapo]

2. Silent Running

I loved that movie