Nicely put.

[kickaha]

By way of boingboing: http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007092.html

Synopsis: the biggest win for us as a species for investigating terraforming or colonizing other planets? Learning how to colonize our own.

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[georgmi.livejournal.com]

Oh, by the way--the photo in the article is of "The Wave" down near Page, Arizona. It's in a very limited-access area managed by the BLM--last I heard, they were only giving 10 people a day permits to make the 6-mile round trip cross-country hike to get out there.

Here are some other pictures. Wish I could point you at my shots, but I didn't know about it last time I was in the Page area. Next time for sure.

http://www.pbase.com/cwphoto/coyote_buttes

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

*VERY* nice. And I think I now know where my work-account desktop pic was taken. I've been looking at it for months now, trying to decide if it were a macro-lens closeup of finegrain structure, such as twisted cedar, or a largish f-stop on a larger piece of rock. :)