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I love looking at these beautiful new Cartier watches. I do believe that they are some of the most beautiful watches you can buy. They are made with taste, refinement, style, and quality. I’d love to give one of them as a birthday gift for my wife.

I was showing her some of the Cartier diamond watches the other day and her heart was melting. It melted even more when I showed her the Cartier Pasha women’s watch. I have a picture of it here in this post. See how beautiful it is with the combination of 18k yellow gold and diamonds? It’s comes with a high quality Swiss movement so not only does it look great, but it also keeps accurate time. What better way is there to tell time?

Where can you get these beautiful watches? Right at TheWatchery.com. They have a huge selection of some of the most exquisite and luxurious watches out there. If it’s a quality watch then odds are you can find it at The Watchery. They have so many beautiful watches, it’s hard to stop looking at all of their great watches. I’d love to get one for myself as well as one for wife.

I look forward to the time when we are able to have these watches as our own.

I used to follow the sunspot cycle back when I was an active amateur radio operator. I would always be on the lookout on solar activity. The higher the solar activity, the better the DX was on the upper bands. In fact, during times of high solar activity, it was a lot of fun. You could actually watch tv broadcasts from several states away. With just a 5 watt SSB rig, you could reach halfway around the world on 10 meters. It was exciting.

Now, we are at the bottom of the solar cycle. The new solar cycle hasn’t begun yet and we have been been on the minimum for more than a year now. In fact, we are in the midst of one of the least active periods of solar activity for at least a century, probably much longer. Low solar activity can influence the climate on Earth. In fact, a long period of low solar activity coincided with the mini Ice Age in the 1500 and 1600’s. Some scientists are beginning to talk to about this possibility.

So, are we on the road to global warming or on the edge of a mini Ice Age?

This is a writing that is continued from Mars And Reality: A Literature Study Part I that I wrote up and I have decided to share in the confines of this blog. I hope that you find it informative and interesting.

This view of Mars is contrasted with what we know of Mars through recent exploration. We know that Mars does have a very hostile climate. We know that the atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide and is not breathable by humans. We have found no evidence of intelligent life on Mars. While we do know that Mars is a desolate planet devoid of life now, but what of Ray Bradbury’s talk of settling Mars?

It very well may be possible. With energy sources to heat up bubbled settlements and greenhouses to both grow food and convert carbon dioxide to oxygen through photosynthesis along with the location of a frozen water source, it might be very easy to establish a permanent colony on Mars.

Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles offered a glimpse into life on Mars as seen through his eyes, only time will tell if any of the view through his eyes is actual reality, but one thing is certain. His book inflamed the curiosity of a generation and led many a scientist to dream about Mars. These dreams about exploring Mars can be seen in our missions to Mars and in the findings of the Spirit and Opportunity rovers.

I find it interesting to share writings that I make from time to time. I enjoy writing up about a variety of subjects. Recently, an opportunity to write about Mars Vs Reality came up. I had been studying the subjects at length so I decided to jump at the chance to write about it and share my own personal thoughts on the matter. These are my thoughts.

The public has long had an interest in the planet called Mars. Books have been written for years about Mars. These books talk about life on Mars, they talk a dying land where people are trying desperately trying to continue their civilization in the battle against the elements, they talk about the Martian people, and they even talk of war against Earth as seen in the HG Wells book, War of the Worlds. For life on Mars, no other book has affected our national conscience quite like the Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury.

Ray Bradbury took a different view of Mars and Martians than had previously been written about. Ray Bradbury’s Martians were an advanced civilization that were on a dying planet. They were human like with telepathic abilities and human emotions. Mars was a desolate planet that was drying and the Martians were unable to develop themselves against the elements.

The Martian Chronicles tell about the Earth explorers and later colonists who moved to Mars and tried to set up a new life in much the same way that the American continent was settled. In the story, Mars had a breathable atmosphere and while dry and desolate, Earth settlers were able to have some success, maybe at the same time to the detriment of the aboriginal Martians.

To be continued

Please sure to read Mars And Reality: A Literature Study Part II.

Continuing my work to help my former ESL students, I am posting a second profile that I have written up about a famous scientist. This is one is about Albert Einstein. I think it’s quite informative and easy to read.

Albert Einstein was a great scientist. He was born on March 14th, 1879 in Wurrtenberg, Germany. He studied physics and mathematics at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School.

Albert Einstein had many great achievements. He is famous for his general theory of relativity. His study of atomic theory led to E= MC2. He also did much work in the Brownian movements. He made many discoveries in molecular dimensions. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics.

Albert Einstein was a peace activist. He advocated World government and peace through discussions in the World Government movement. He cared about people and effects that science had on them. He had a strong determination to solve problems and seek answers. He was dedicated to science and appreciated intellectual solitude where he did most of his work.

Albert Einstein married Mileva Maric in 1903. They had 2 sons and 1 daughter. Albert Einstein died on April 19th, 1955 in Princeton, New Jersey.