Explanation: Illuminating planet Earth's night, full moons can have many names. This year the last full moon of northern hemisphere summer was on September 2, known to some as the Full Corn Moon. A few days earlier on August 30 this almost full moon rose just before sunset though, shining through cloudy skies over Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Florida's Space Coast. A well-timed snapshot caught the glare of rocket engines firing below the lunar disk, a Falcon 9 rocket's first stage successfully returning to Cape Canaveral's landing zone 1. About 9 minutes earlier, the same SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket had launched the SAOCOM 1B satellite toward polar orbit. The fourth launch for this reusable Falcon 9 first stage, it was the first launch to a polar orbit from Cape Canaveral since 1969.
As someone who was entranced by the old Delta Clipper trials, this landing of boosters has always held my attention. It is a testament to the success of Spacex that something that was amazing 5 years ago has almost ALMOST become common place. A pity that work on BFR/Starship/SuperHeavy pushed aside any further development of a re-usable second stage. That would have been gobsmacking.
orin stepanek wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 4:05 pm
I took my spaceship and flew up high;
I wanted to know, what was up in the sky!
When I got up there, I followed a Star;
At first I figured, It's not very far!
The Star I followed was a huge planet;
I wondered if my spaceship could man it!
I landed my ship on the planets crust;
On this strange world was nothing but dust!
I looked and I found no food I could eat;
My bones can be found, without any meat!
So if want to know what is up in the sky;
And go way up there, like me you will die! - Orin D. Stepanek, 1957
I wrote this poem when I was a Jr. in High School! I was pretty poetic back in the day
It is certainly "affecting my emotions or affections, moving, stirring."
(I would even go as far as to say that you were pretty pathetic "back in the day.")
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=pathetic wrote:
<<pathetic (adj.) 1590s, "affecting the emotions or affections, moving, stirring" (now obsolete in this broad sense), from Middle French pathétique "moving, stirring, affecting" (16c.), from Late Latin patheticus, from Greek pathetikos "subject to feeling, sensitive, capable of emotion," from pathetos "liable to suffer," verbal adjective of pathein "to suffer". The specific meaning "arousing pity, sorrow, or grief" or other tender feelings is from 1737. The colloquial sense of "so miserable as to be ridiculous" is attested by 1937.>>
neufer wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 5:18 pm
It is certainly "affecting my emotions or affections, moving, stirring."
(I would even go as far as to say that you were pretty pathetic "back in the day.")
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=pathetic wrote:
<<pathetic (adj.) 1590s, "affecting the emotions or affections, moving, stirring" (now obsolete in this broad sense), from Middle French pathétique "moving, stirring, affecting" (16c.), from Late Latin patheticus, from Greek pathetikos "subject to feeling, sensitive, capable of emotion," from pathetos "liable to suffer," verbal adjective of pathein "to suffer". The specific meaning "arousing pity, sorrow, or grief" or other tender feelings is from 1737. The colloquial sense of "so miserable as to be ridiculous" is attested by 1937.>>
Ya! I'm still pathetic; but it doesn't bother me anymore!
neufer wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 5:18 pm
It is certainly "affecting my emotions or affections, moving, stirring."
(I would even go as far as to say that you were pretty pathetic "back in the day.")
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=pathetic wrote:
<<pathetic (adj.) 1590s, "affecting the emotions or affections, moving, stirring" (now obsolete in this broad sense), from Middle French pathétique "moving, stirring, affecting" (16c.), from Late Latin patheticus, from Greek pathetikos "subject to feeling, sensitive, capable of emotion," from pathetos "liable to suffer," verbal adjective of pathein "to suffer". The specific meaning "arousing pity, sorrow, or grief" or other tender feelings is from 1737. The colloquial sense of "so miserable as to be ridiculous" is attested by 1937.>>
Here’s a pathetic adagio that would make good background music for the poetry reading.
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
Ludwig von Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 8, Opus 13 (Sonata Pathétique), 2nd movement.
neufer wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 5:18 pm
It is certainly "affecting my emotions or affections, moving, stirring."
(I would even go as far as to say that you were pretty pathetic "back in the day.")
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=pathetic wrote:
<<pathetic (adj.) 1590s, "affecting the emotions or affections, moving, stirring" (now obsolete in this broad sense), from Middle French pathétique "moving, stirring, affecting" (16c.), from Late Latin patheticus, from Greek pathetikos "subject to feeling, sensitive, capable of emotion," from pathetos "liable to suffer," verbal adjective of pathein "to suffer". The specific meaning "arousing pity, sorrow, or grief" or other tender feelings is from 1737. The colloquial sense of "so miserable as to be ridiculous" is attested by 1937.>>
Here’s a pathetic adagio that would make good background music for the poetry reading.
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
Ludwig von Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 8, Opus 13 (Sonata Pathétique), 2nd movement.
Ah, Barenboim and Ludwig van Beethoven, they are my kind of pathetic people! Thank you, Cousin Ricky!
orin stepanek wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 4:05 pm
I took my spaceship and flew up high;
I wanted to know, what was up in the sky!
When I got up there, I followed a Star;
At first I figured, It's not very far!
The Star I followed was a huge planet;
I wondered if my spaceship could man it!
I landed my ship on the planets crust;
On this strange world was nothing but dust!
I looked and I found no food I could eat;
My bones can be found, without any meat!
So if want to know what is up in the sky;
And go way up there, like me you will die! - Orin D. Stepanek, 1957
I just marked my interest for a secular Day of the Day online event, and now I read this poem. I had visited Bolivia in 1994 (for the eclipse) around the Day of the Dead, and was really interested in seeing the celebrations in a Latin American country in person, but the tour schedule left no space for that. My view of death has changed drastically since 1994, and I’m still processing the change.
A Falcon 9 Moon
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Not as smooth as yours! 
