The Good Life – Page 28

Lost at Sea… for 9 months

Here is an amazing story from the BBC today. 3 Fisherman were picked up near the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific last week. They had been drifting in a 25ft boat for 9 Months!! They were fishing off of the Mexican coast.. their engines broke down… and so they drifted. They lived off rain …

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Building a Deck…

It’s been a big week… me and deck-builder-extraodinaire, Cliff (my father-in-law) built a deck… ok. so he did 95% of the work. But it was fun. And there’s more work to be done, but it’s coming along nicely.

Touring the Galaxy, at 1500KM/Second!

Some things are just too big to imagine. Supernovas… the giant explosive deaths of stars, which themselves are hard to imagine… (In a few billion years, our own star will go “Nova”, not super.. unfortunately there will be no inhabitants of the Earth left to see it. Indeed, the Earth will be engulfed, eaten, by …

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