Curiosity

With the recent landing of the Curiosity on Mars, our attention is directed to the well being of those both here and the ISS.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html

It is difficult to comprehend the dedication, training, and discipline to do the kind of work that these fine people are doing. But there is that notion of being energized by fact that you get to be at the cutting edge of doing research on some aspect of the natural universe, which will ultimately help humankind. It is easy to get empowered...

All this time I thought this effort I have put in to do research may never go anywhere, and yet by chance over the weekend I found out that I may have helped in some small way in doing original volunteer research at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, in Guaymas, Mexico in the Sea of Cortez.

Having just graduated from UCSD with a  degree in Microbiology, a diving friend by chance, invited me to go SCUBA diving with this team for about a week to collect coelenterates, to quantify the many unknown chemical compounds for cancer research. So their Lab did come up with a cancer drug:

http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/58/6/1111.short

So sometimes we are successful and can not really comprehend the significance of the little kind acts that we can do if we try. It is amazing that now ten years later I realize that an entire sphere of activity was going on while I was unaware, a separate but parallel universe.

Here is an interesting website I have watched for a while, they delve deeper into concepts of parallel universes, and time glitches, etc.

http://in2worlds.net/headline-dissection