The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
What Is It?!?
What Was That?!? Yesterday’s Picture (Day 141)
Yesterday’s picture was part of an airplane engine that we saw at the Tuskegee Airfield in Alabama. We were able to tour the hangar museum, which was full of planes, parachutes, working replicas, old suits that my son and the rest of his classmates got to pose in, and we even saw two planes take off. Spectacular!
Schelley Cassidy Photography 
That is….a brick?
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As usual, ding ding ding! I’m about to post the story behind the brick. 🙂
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IT just looked like ordinary mould.
The kind of mould you get when you leave a pair of sports shoes in a bag for a year or two, but it was anything but ordinary.
Miguel Shreckengost was the first to understand it’s potential.
Miguel had long been an admirer of Howard Florey. Florey was the scientist who developed Penicillin. He understood what Fleming had stumbled over but had failed to recognise.
Shreckengost did not discover hypercillium but he did develop it into what we know today.
Without it we would not be able fly.
Imagine not being able to fly, it seems silly I know. Once upon a time there were no electric vehicles either, but not being able to fly?
Ridiculous!
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Ridiculous, indeed! 🙂 Thank you for another imaginative, great story!
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Mars ! you landed on mars ! Eat that NASA !
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Either that or the spray tan went horribly wrong and you need to get to a dermatologist stat !
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Oye! 😉
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I couldn’t handle that long of a trip! Shoot, five hours is pushing it! 🙂
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