Trivia. On this date in 1869, a French chemist patented margarine. In 410 A.D. the Teutonic knights got their asses whupped at Tannenberg. In 1995, Amazon sold its first item on-line, and has gone on to become the most successful annoyance of every on-line search since. And in 1971, Nixon and his henchman, Kissinger, began the long slow sell-out of American jobs to China, claiming it had something to do with ending the war in Viet Nam. What a crook, er, I mean, crock.
Meanwhile, here is a photo of the Bubble. This was taken by the new, improved Hubble telescope. Which for some reason has never been focused on either the Moon or Mars* that we know of.
*I was referring to closeup images. There are plenty of long shots. But no photographs of Mars in the range of accuracy one would expect from a telescope that can capture distant galaxies.
[Author's note 2015-07-15: ha, ha, this is nothing in another 48 months, Florida was due to have a bubble of it's own, in which thousands of "home-owners" got their feet wet.]
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