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Talk about perks, my career had one of the best I can think of! I traveled in the course of business, delivering classes for my employer. I was a Senior Training Specialist for Motorola Solutions, and taught classes on a wide variety of subjects centered around 2-way radio communications. I knew that when the time arrived that I would retire, and I have. I've always said that if you can't stand the heat in the kitchen, get out! I can't handle the heat anymore. I was qualified to deliver approximately 32 different classes, but about half of those were 'Legacy' classes, and were not in demand anymore. My students were technicians, those who maintained, programmed, calibrated, and repaired large 2-way radio systems. Some of these systems are statewide, and use TCP-IP networking to allow sites to communicate with others. Some are small, traditional type radio sites. The size doesn't matter, in each case the systems must be kept operational at all times, since many of them are Public Safety Systems. So I traveled, sometimes frequently, 3-4 weeks in a row.... where have I been? Some of the places I've been (I can't list them all here, the list would be too long) are pretty interesting. 1. Hawaii - Four times, Oahu, Maui (twice), and the Big Island 2. BangkokThailand, twice 3. Frankfurt Germany, twice 4. Algiers, Algeria 5. Melbourne Australia 6. Bismarck North Dakota, Summer & Winter 7. Los Angeles, Too many times to count 8. Washington DC, Too many times to count 9. Seattle three or four times 10. Texas, all over the state 11. Florida, all over the state 12. New Mexico, HOME! Several times  Best Cultural And Regional Honorable Mention |
Voyager Spacecraft Finds A 50,000 Degree Kelvin Wall Of Fire? Well, they've done it. Several Science Fiction writers (Philip José Farmer's is one who wrote about this, Robert A. Heinlein also wrote about this in his novel Universe) have written about our inability to travel beyond our Solar System due to hitting a wall beyond Pluto. I remember reading a novel by Farmer that dealt with essentially an alternate method of travel, because spaceships encountered a type of physical wall beyond Pluto. And now, it seems that the Voyager Spacecraft have found a 50,000 Degree (Kelvin) Temperature about 13-15 billion miles from Earth. This caused me to think of Philip José Farmer's novel that mentioned a wall around our Solar System. Sadly, I don't remember the name of that novel, nor anything about it. On top of it all, Philip José Farmer is probably best known for his Riverworld series, a completely different type of Science Fiction novel. Those I do remember to some extent. While I don't recall Robert A. Heinlein's novel Orphan's Of The Sky covering much about a wall being found, it did deal with lost generations of humans who were on this spaceship, and had regressed a lot. Those inhabiting the ship had lost all knowledge of Space Travel, and the purpose of the ship. The ship was traveling to nearby Proxima Centauri at less than Light Speed. Hence the generations of people who lived on the ship and forgot about technology. If I'm not mistaken, a young man studied the stars from the bridge (I don't recall if that was allowed or not), and realized the ship was approaching a star. I think he managed to get people/friends to board a type of landing craft and managed to get to a planet circling the star. I found myself wondering how far mankind progressed while they were traveling, and would they have found humans already there? Humans who traveled far faster than they were able to, and arrived long before this ship did. Finding this wall of fire is very interesting though. I ask myself, 'Can the Spacecraft survive this much heat?' Well, they can, because it's not like a wall of fire. The very energetic particles that sparsely fill this area of space are very far apart leaving little chance of a collision occurring. It's not a wall, per se, it's an area in space with very energetic particles. Still ... it's just fascinating to me. And once again, Science Fiction Writers wrote about something 50-60 years ago, and we're discovering something similar now. Still ...I'm enthralled with this idea. |
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