ITCHY SITUATION: No, CJ's back isn't normally hairy. He got a little (well a lot) off the top this morning.CJ being covered with hair led to me calling him Harry Jr. and he wondered why the "junior." I explained that was a Harry Sr. from the 1987 movie "Harry and the Hendersons." A movie I had to watch like THREE times a day for a good stretch, when Rick was a preschooler and it was his favorite movie.
I told the kids about the movie and their curiosity was piqued. Thank goodness for Netflix streaming. It was fun to watch since it was filmed in Seattle and Mt. Rainier National Forest. Turns out the Hendersons live in the Wallingford neighborhood- less than 15 minutes away from us. ;)
INSTALLED: The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS) (I call it the space sifter) has been successfully on the outside of the International Space Station's right side. A robotic arm was used to install AMS on the starboard side of the station’s truss.
According to a NASA press release, "The AMS team will monitor the experiment 24 hours a day, gathering data for as long as the space station is in orbit. Using a large magnet to create a magnetic field that will bend the path of the charged cosmic particles already traveling through space, eight different instruments will provide information on those particles as they make their way through the magnet. Armed with that information, hundreds of scientists from 16 countries are hoping to determine what composes the universe and how it began, as the AMS searches for clues on the origin of dark matter and the existence of antimatter and other unusual matter. AMS also could provide information about pulsars, blazers, gamma ray bursts and any number of other cosmic phenomena."
I told the kids about the movie and their curiosity was piqued. Thank goodness for Netflix streaming. It was fun to watch since it was filmed in Seattle and Mt. Rainier National Forest. Turns out the Hendersons live in the Wallingford neighborhood- less than 15 minutes away from us. ;)This afternoon the kids played outside while I mowed the lawn. I love watching them turn found objects like sticks, stones, into playthings.
BUCKET LIST: For whatever reason, today Annabelle was all over our stack of Moose Meal buckets gleaned from oh-so-many kids' meals at Safeco Field the past few seasons. She made binoculars, a hat and some drums.
INSTALLED: The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS) (I call it the space sifter) has been successfully on the outside of the International Space Station's right side. A robotic arm was used to install AMS on the starboard side of the station’s truss.According to a NASA press release, "The AMS team will monitor the experiment 24 hours a day, gathering data for as long as the space station is in orbit. Using a large magnet to create a magnetic field that will bend the path of the charged cosmic particles already traveling through space, eight different instruments will provide information on those particles as they make their way through the magnet. Armed with that information, hundreds of scientists from 16 countries are hoping to determine what composes the universe and how it began, as the AMS searches for clues on the origin of dark matter and the existence of antimatter and other unusual matter. AMS also could provide information about pulsars, blazers, gamma ray bursts and any number of other cosmic phenomena."
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