奥拉AURA

火箭升空似乎还不是一个足够的挑战，西内告诉我还有这么一个小问题，就是如何导航火箭，以免撞到什么东西，破坏发射过程。比如一个油漆碎片什么的…他给我看的是美国宇航局通报的，很多次航天飞机的窗户需要更换，都是因为撞到了油漆碎片。油漆芯片!上面还有很多比油漆碎片还大的东西。跟踪记录这些东西的太空指挥部，以前会向公众展示他们的工作，但现在没有了。所以我想没有必要提及他们是在科罗拉多斯普林斯动物园附近的什么地方了。我喜欢动物园。我只是想让西内知道，发射他的特斯拉或者别的什么东西，可能不是一个好主意。这个链接和我前面提到的那篇文章，可能是你会去的地方。
As if rocket liftoff isn’t enough of a challenge, Sine tells me there’s this little matter of navigating the rocket so as to not bang into something and ruin the trip. Like a paint chip, or what have you.. What he showed me just from what NASA lets the newspapers know is that many times space shuttle windows have to be replaced because of colliding with paint chips. Paint chips! And there’s lots of stuff up there that’s bigger than paint chips. The Space Command where they keep track of all this stuff used to give public presentations about their work, but not any more. 9/11 or something. So I guess it’s pointless to mention where they are in Colorado Springs near the zoo. I like the zoo. I just wanted Sine to see that blasting off in his Tesla or whatever maybe isn’t such a good idea. This link and that article I pointed to earlier is as close to a tour as you’re likely to get.

● 十天天气预报 你去科罗拉多斯普林斯，或那里的动物园的话，可能需要参考?
● 10 day weather forecast just in case you’re going to Colorado Springs for ------- the zoo, maybe?

我知道这有点离题了，也不是完全在我们的沙漠后院，但是既然我们在这里了，我认为值得一提：我们排入水中的东西几乎和我们发射到轨道里的东西一样难处理。看一看这本书，了解一下水里面出现的问题:作者是洛瑞·格里芬·伯恩斯，《追踪垃圾:漂浮物、投弃物和海洋运动科学》(波士顿: 霍顿米夫林公司, 2007)。你看到那条新闻了吗，鲸鱼被冲到岸上，因为它们把太多的塑料当成了食物，以至于它们没有空间再吃了。塑料是无法消化的，它们只会停留在胃里，占据空间。天哪!
And I know this is a little off the subject and not exactly in our desert backyard, but while we’re at it, I think it’s worth mentioning that the stuff we put in the water is almost as hard to deal with as the stuff we put in orbit. Take a look at this book to get a snapshot of what’s happening with the water: Author is Loree Griffin Burns, Tracking trash: flotsam, jetsam, and the science of ocean motion (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 2007). And did you see that news item about whales getting washed up on shore because they mistook so much plastic for food that they ran out of room to eat any more? They can’t digest plastic is why. It just stays in their stomach and takes up space. Jesus!

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