Author: Pat Moriarty

Music for Eternity (Part 1)

“True friendship resists time, distance, and silence.” — Isabel Allende Recently I wrote a post about NASA’s Voyager spaceship which, as planned, will soon lose contact with the NASA team that’s been tracking it. It carries a number of artifacts from Earth, including a selection of recorded music. I was fascinated by the idea of how to select music that might represent our human civilization … Continue reading Music for Eternity (Part 1) »

What We Learn From Dinasaurs and Carl the Caterpillar

I’m a grandfather to seven-year-old Sam who possesses an endless fascination with dinosaurs. Did you know — if all of Earth’s time from the very beginning of the dinosaurs to today was compressed into 365 days (one calendar year), the dinosaurs would have appeared January 1 and become extinct the third week of September. ~ Dinosaurs were here for 165 million years. According to this … Continue reading What We Learn From Dinasaurs and Carl the Caterpillar »