Comments on: The Eclipse of the Century Part 2 of 3: Nagasaki http://www.starstryder.com/2009/08/03/nagasaki/ Blogging one sidereal day at a time Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:26:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kevin McNulty http://www.starstryder.com/2009/08/03/nagasaki/comment-page-1/#comment-26966 Kevin McNulty Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:26:46 +0000 http://www.starstryder.com/?p=953#comment-26966 I cannot get this out of my system and below is a small snippet from a thread on Mars Rover Blog where I had to mention this.......it is to do with money being wasted on conflicts and not Space exploration. I will write more about that experience too because i feel I have to..... TTFN Hi dx, No it is not a hijacking of the thread at all I feel global conflicts are getting in the way of science and Human progress too. I went to East Asia to see the solar eclipse (cloudy on the day aaargghhh) one of our stops was Nagasaki and we visited the A-Bomb Museum and Memorial. My 24 year old son was with me and found the whole thing a harrowing experience, there were 6 in our group all of whom enjoy a laugh and joke but that day we all fell silent. Words cannot describe what it is like to be in a City that had been hit with a Nuke and how 75,000 people were killed in one blast and the horrible slow death a further 75,000 suffered. Fat Boy was a little fire cracker in comparison to what we have now and to see first hand what it did has a profound effect on you. I will never forget that visit and would like every leader of all the nations that aspire to these weapons to meet there and take a long look at it and themselves. The only message in that Museum was Peace and thousands of Origami paper chains of Crane birds, it was said that a Girl who was suffering from Radiation Sickness was told if she made 1000 of the Cranes she would get better...she died on 999. One of the 6 in our excursion group is posting details of our trip on their Blog and reserving a special post for Nagasaki a much better writer than me and also an American so I will send the link when it is done. Hopefully the World will come together in all aspects of running this Planet including sharing ideas and knowledge on how to explore Space. Yeah dx it is sickening to see what is going and to know it always has been and always will be the same, when you put any human in front of one and other there is nothing but friendly greetings and smiles. Get a leader of a nation and they feel they have to make a choice of who is their friend and who is their enemy then brainwash their people to think the same way.........or else! KPM I cannot get this out of my system and below is a small snippet from a thread on Mars Rover Blog where I had to mention this…….it is to do with money being wasted on conflicts and not Space exploration.

I will write more about that experience too because i feel I have to…..

TTFN

Hi dx,

No it is not a hijacking of the thread at all I feel global conflicts are getting in the way of science and Human progress too.

I went to East Asia to see the solar eclipse (cloudy on the day aaargghhh) one of our stops was Nagasaki and we visited the A-Bomb Museum and Memorial. My 24 year old son was with me and found the whole thing a harrowing experience, there were 6 in our group all of whom enjoy a laugh and joke but that day we all fell silent. Words cannot describe what it is like to be in a City that had been hit with a Nuke and how 75,000 people were killed in one blast and the horrible slow death a further 75,000 suffered. Fat Boy was a little fire cracker in comparison to what we have now and to see first hand what it did has a profound effect on you.

I will never forget that visit and would like every leader of all the nations that aspire to these weapons to meet there and take a long look at it and themselves.

The only message in that Museum was Peace and thousands of Origami paper chains of Crane birds, it was said that a Girl who was suffering from Radiation Sickness was told if she made 1000 of the Cranes she would get better…she died on 999.

One of the 6 in our excursion group is posting details of our trip on their Blog and reserving a special post for Nagasaki a much better writer than me and also an American so I will send the link when it is done.

Hopefully the World will come together in all aspects of running this Planet including sharing ideas and knowledge on how to explore Space.

Yeah dx it is sickening to see what is going and to know it always has been and always will be the same, when you put any human in front of one and other there is nothing but friendly greetings and smiles. Get a leader of a nation and they feel they have to make a choice of who is their friend and who is their enemy then brainwash their people to think the same way………or else!

KPM

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