Monday, July 19, 2010

I thought I was well traveled!


So many things here a 1st Century mind has trouble with:

YouTube - keeping a detailed record of your life to watch over and over??... I'm guessing grandparents love this!

Airtravel - So far in so little time - and never touch the ground! I suspect that loyalty to country would still be strong, but you surely must be a friendly world today with so much face-to-face contact all around the world!

A well traveled world: This video blows my 1st Century mind. I thought I was well traveled with the Apostle Paul all through the Mediteranian World. We were pikers! And as a physician I knew well the science of the day. This video shows so much of God's great creation I couldn't even begin to explain it 'back home'.

And Wheat Ridge has projects in many of the countries of the world you are looking at, seeding new ministries of health and hope in the name of the healing Christ!

Here is what someone told me to look for while I watched:
Stay with the picture. You will see the light of the day moving from the east to the west, as the Earth spins on it's axis. Also you will see the aircraft flow of traffic leaving the North American continent and traveling at night to arrive in the UK in the morning. Then you will see the flow changing, leaving the UK in the morning and flying to the American continent in daylight.

This is something that everyone should see. For us old-timers it is really fascinating. For our children/grandchildren it provides a superb learning moment and an opportunity to open up what could be a very interesting discussion. How many people do YOU think are in the sky at any given moment?

You can tell it was spring time in the north by the sun's foot print over the planet. You could see that it didn't set for long in the extreme north and it didn't quite rise in the extreme south. We are taught about the earth's tilt and how it causes summer and winter and how we had to imagine just what is going on. With this 24 hour observation of aircraft travel on the earth's surface we get to see the daylightpattern move as well. Remember watch the day to night..... Day is over in Australia when it starts.

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