I’ve been thinking lately on city development. We recently went through a city election here and through there where may topics, one has got my attention. Earlier this year in Vancouver there was a conference. These two events along with some course work in did in university in the 80′s. Part of this work was studying the Brundtland Commission report with I believe made popular the idea of sustainable development.

So I’m thinking… Why are cities always promoting growth and growing. We all realize that even without constant push by city officials, councilors, Mayors to grow their regions, that cities will continue to grow… to be con’t.

Categories: Environment, Social Commentary
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So I was reading this site APOD, to quote for the page; “Astronomers have long thought that Alpha Cam was flung out of a nearby cluster of young hot stars due to gravitational interactions with other cluster members or perhaps by the supernova explosion of a massive companion star.” Now I have no problem with celestial mechanics which would see a star flung out of its birth place. But think of the kind of force required to push a star via an exploding star (supernova) and hurl it through space at 60 kilometres per second. This is a star about 25-30 times as massive as the Sun. I find this sort of force stunning. Though the universe hold many for powerful phenomena this sort of thing never cease to amaze me.

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Well one more step in my wordpress/gallery experiment. I’ve got a redirect to gallery to the integrated wordpress gallery. I’ve been testing out my ability to make some pretty pictures for the header and various themes. Yup, boning up on Gimp.

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