Apollo11.....40 years later

As long as mankind has existed there has always been within the confines of or minds, a deep seeded need for exploration.

Is there more to the world then what we see? ....What lies beyond the next horizon?

Hundreds of years ago mankind believed that the world was flat, and when someone would stand alongside the seashore watching a ship sailing away they assumed that if it went far enough , it would simply sail right over the edge of the world. they came to this conclusion after witnessing a ship sailing beyond the horizon and out of sight.

and yet the need for exploration continued.

Explorer's spent their lives traveling the glob over mountains, forest, deserts, and even beyond the vast reaches of the ocean, in pursuit of something new, something no one else had ever seen before.

Finally after hundreds of years of exploration it seemed that the last great unexplored frontier remaining was space.

At some point in there life, everyone who has ever looked up at the stars at night has wondered what it would be like to step foot on the surface of another planet.
at the end of the second world war there was a technological boom, computers were getting faster and faster with every passing year.

Then on October 4th 1957 something happened that triggered suspicion and speculation from around the world.

It was the launch of Sputnik, the Soviet Union's first low altitude satellite. At the time many believed this to be some kind of new weapon, keep in mind this was during the cold war and world tensions were pretty high.

The United States and Soviet Russia were the two great power at the time and it was the launch of Sputnik that triggered the space race with both countries vowing to be the first to put a man in space.

In 1961 came president John F Kennedy's historic speech to congress and the united nations, were he stated.........

"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth"

Then on July 16th 1969 Apollo 11 was launched,this was the third maned mission to the Moon.

On July 20th 1969 commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Edwin "Buzz" Alden, became the first humans to step foot on the surface of another planet.....It was at this time Neil said those iconic words...

"That's one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind"

With the completion of the Apollo 11 mission, president Kennedy had keeped his promise of putting a man on the Moon by the end of the 1960's.

Back in the 1960's many people believed that by the year 2000 we would be living in space, in part that notion is correct, because there are a hand full of people living on the international space station right now.


It was the public's fascination with space travel that led to the popularity of shows like The Jetsons, Star Trek and Lost in Space.

Now here we are in 2009, exactly 40 years to the day, since the first maned trip to the surface of the moon.


and well civilian space travel dose exist short of being a millionaire, the average person will never get the chance to experience a trip to space.

and short of a revolutionary discovery in the creation of a sustainable zero point energy generator it doesn't look like were going to be seeing a personal flying car anytime soon either.....bummer i would love to own a flying car!!!

But all and all 40 years of space exploration is an extraordinary achievement,.....i wonder what the next 40 years will bring???

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.....

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.


I've been a fan of this series for awhile now, and i love the books.

I went to see this movie yesterday,....and i gotta say it's definitely one of my favorites in the series, Order of the phoenix is a close second though.


Pour Dumbledore.......


The special effects were cool, and at the rate people are going to see it, this movie mite actually surpass the Dark Knight at the box office.

I can't wait to see the next film!

Anyway the movie was cool, if you haven't had a chance to see it yet , I highly recommend it!!!

Drawing's....Abstract, Landscape, and self portrait......

Drawing's.......

Ever since i was a kid i've always loved to draw!!

People, places, animals,.....whatever.

Recently i started a few commissioned tattoo pictures.

I think they turned out pretty good.

Some of them will be posted in my gallery on deviantart sometime within the next week or so.

http://www.mikel01.deviantart.com/

Back in school i was never really all that academically gifted, not that I'm not at least moderately intelligent, just never really been all that motivated about school lol.

But art was always fun, and it was my favorite subject......out of all the different ways to use art, drawing was always my favorite, though painting is a close second,... also recently I've gotten into photography....but i haven't done much on the subject yet.

Basically art is just an outward expression of your own thoughts, fillings, or ideology,....that's what i love about it, there are no wrong or right answers your work is yours and you diced when it's finished, and as long as your happy with the way your work turns out then it's a success.

The drawings at the top of the page are a self portrait of me from a couple month's ago, an old country cottage, and an abstract drawing i did a few years ago.

Wall-E......

Robot's in Italy.......

Here is a real life Wall-E on the streets of Italy,.......Well kind of.

This robot is bigger and not quite as agile as it's movie counterpart.

But unlike Wall-E, This robot is real and may be traveling down a street in your neighbourhood someday soon,......Maybe.

The robot is called a DustBot, and it's job is to collect trash and sort through the garbage and separate the organic, recyclables, and waste.

It also has an on board sensor that measures air pollution, sulfur dioxide, ozone, nitrogen oxide....etc.

It can be called to a location with a cell phone and go door to door. to collect trash.

DustBot is electric powered and energy efficient.

It's part of a 3.9 million dollar research program and if successful, could end up saveing thousands of dollars in revenue and hundreds of gallons of gasoline annually.

At the moment its reaction time is too slow for it to operate in a large traffic area, but hopefully in a few years they will have all the bugs worked out.

and these robots will be put to work.

Rock's and Fossils.

Rock's and Fossils.

When i was a kid i use to love digging for crystals and fossils!

I grew up in Montana, so there was never a shortage of rocks laying around.

Every stone you break open could have a crystal or fossil of some kind inside.

Or it could just be a rock lol.

But that's what makes it fun you never know exactly what your going to find.

If you ever get the chance you should definitely visit Montana.

Awesome people, Amazing scenery, cool camp sites, and hiking trails, and great fossils and crystals!

Places to find crystals.....

Crystal Park.

Dig your own crystals.

Sapphire mines by Phillipsburg.

Dig your own Montana sapphire's.