Timeless Energy

This past week we celebrated the life of my wife's 94 year old grandmother. As I got to thinking about her life, about all the things she has seen through her years, and all the changes that have happened on a technological level: be they the automobile or medicine; advances in science or communication. In many ways, when she was born she had more in common with the 18th century than the end of the 20th and start of the 21st. Wow.

And yet, some of this technology is still available, as it was 94 years ago. The energy propelled people around the world is still here. Yes, I'm talking about the wind and currents and sailing.

If you click on the map above, it will give you a near current (updated hourly) image of the wind blowing across the United States, curtsy of the  National Digital Forecast Database.

Or what about those currents that effect the climates of the earth and have helped (and hindered) exploration all these years? These images below come from NASA's Visualization Explorer for the iPad Story - "Perpetual Ocean". Quite fascinating imagery!

The Gulf Stream

Clicking on the link above will allow you to see the full twenty minute video, but here's a 3 minute teaser below.

Blessed Be,

Joel


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Thanks to The Horse's Mouth for blow and Those Big Wheels Keep Spinning. Videos of Ocean Currents: "Perpetual Ocean."