11-28-2010, 09:38 PM
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The Reforms
Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition
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The search for immortality
This is a statue depicting the Chinese myth of the archer Houyi shooting at the Sun in the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China.
Houyi was a mythological Chinese archer and the leader of Dongyi.
He is sometimes portrayed as a god of archery descended from heaven to aid mankind,
and sometimes as the chief of the Youqiong Tribe.
The Chinese Lunar Exploration Program is named after Houyi’s wife, the lunar deity Chang’e.
The Chang’e Program is at the moment monitoring and receiving data from the lunar orbiter Chang’e 2. Chang’e 1 orbited Moon on October 2007.
-- courtesy of It's Full of Stars
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi
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