One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. 'Tis the set of sails and not the gales Which tells us the way to go. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
1855-1919
American poet, journalist
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Golden Nuggets
Color of Water - What color is pure water? You might think that absolutely pure water would be perfectly clear and utterly transparent, but it is actually blue. The blue color of the water in the oceans is the reason why Earth is mostly blue as seen from space. Pure water absorbs some of the light that passes through it. It absorbs red light more than yellow, yellow more than green, and green more than blue. Only the deepest blue light can travel very far through water, so a large mass of water takes on a deep blue color. The blueness of water is easily visible in a swimming pool lined with white concrete. It's even visible in a white porcelain bathtub. But the blues water of all is the clear tropical ocean far from land, where the sea is much bluer than the sky. Coral Reefs - Coral reefs have a range of colors, which get their color from microscopic algae living within their tissues, and they turn white when they die. Round Portholes - Portholes on ships are round for the same reason that submarine hatches have round corners and airliners have rounded windows. In all these cases, the vehicle is subject to flexing and mechanical stress. If the windows had sharp corners, the stresses would concentrate there, resulting in material fatigue and eventually cracking. With round or rounded windows, the stress is evenly distributed. Large boats like cruise liners can have rectangular picture windows in some places because the local stresses there are smaller. When boats were made of wood, stress cracking was less of a problem. Pacific Ocean and Strait of Magellan - Portuguese navigator and explorer Ferdinand Magellan, determined to find a western route from Europe to Asia, sailed from Spain in search of a passage between the Eastern and Western oceans. On October 21, 1520, he discovered the opening of a narrow passage near the southern tip of South America. He followed the 373-mile passage to the Western Ocean, which he named "Pacific." In his honor, that passage is now known as the Strait of Magellan.
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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
BC 3-65 AD
Roman stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, tutor ... "The Younger"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. -- Jonathan Winters
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. -- John A. Shedd
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it. Point your arrow at a star, take your aim, and there you are. Arrange more time than you can spare, then spare it. Take on more than you can bear, then bear it. Plan your castle in the air, Then build a ship to take you there. Traveling can be broadening, especially if you are on a cruise ship with all meals prepaid.
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