{"id":4384,"date":"2011-08-15T01:45:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T08:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=4384"},"modified":"2011-09-11T11:51:02","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T18:51:02","slug":"more-amazingness-from-washington-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/15\/more-amazingness-from-washington-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"More Amazingness from Washington DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Udvar-Hazy National Air and Space Museum<br \/>\nMouse-over this panorama! (yes, I took this with my phone and stitched it together)<br \/>\n[photonav url=&#8217;http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/udvar-hazy.jpg&#8217; popup=colorbox container_height=450]<\/p>\n<p>Or look at the whole image:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/udvar-hazy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/udvar-hazy-300x46.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"SAMSUNG\" width=\"300\" height=\"46\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/udvar-hazy-300x46.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/udvar-hazy-200x31.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/udvar-hazy-1024x159.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/udvar-hazy-50x7.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 2 hour long docent tour flew by in just a few moments in this phenomenal hall. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Infinity Nets Yellow by Yayoi Kusama. These images don&#8217;t do it justice. Standing in front of the painting, the patterns swirl with a mix of intention and abandon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Infinity-Nets-Yellow-0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Infinity-Nets-Yellow-0-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Infinity Nets Yellow\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Infinity-Nets-Yellow-0-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Infinity-Nets-Yellow-0-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Infinity-Nets-Yellow-0-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Infinity-Nets-Yellow-0-50x37.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Infinity-Nets-Yellow-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Infinity-Nets-Yellow-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Infinity Nets Yellow 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Infinity-Nets-Yellow-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Infinity-Nets-Yellow-1-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Infinity-Nets-Yellow-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Infinity-Nets-Yellow-1-50x37.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Infinity-Nets-Yellow-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Infinity-Nets-Yellow-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Infinity Nets Yellow 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Infinity-Nets-Yellow-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Infinity-Nets-Yellow-2-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Infinity-Nets-Yellow-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Infinity-Nets-Yellow-2-50x37.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Infinity-Nets-Yellow-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Infinity-Nets-Yellow-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Infinity Nets Yellow\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Infinity-Nets-Yellow-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Infinity-Nets-Yellow-3-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Infinity-Nets-Yellow-3-50x37.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Infinity-Nets-Yellow-3.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\nNo More Dry Runs by Kim Rugg. A close inspection shows that an actual newspaper was cut into thousands of pieces. Complete nonsense (?) was born of sense.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/No-More-Dry-Runs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/No-More-Dry-Runs-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"No More Dry Runs\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/No-More-Dry-Runs-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/No-More-Dry-Runs-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/No-More-Dry-Runs-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/No-More-Dry-Runs-37x50.jpg 37w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/No-More-Dry-Runs.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/No-More-Dry-Runs-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/No-More-Dry-Runs-1-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"No More Dry Runs\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/No-More-Dry-Runs-1-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/No-More-Dry-Runs-1-200x146.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/No-More-Dry-Runs-1-1024x749.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/No-More-Dry-Runs-1-50x36.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/No-More-Dry-Runs-1.jpg 1538w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>I saw parts of Goddard&#8217;s first rocket at the National Air and Space Museum&#8230; the <strong>first<\/strong> liquid fueled rocket. That filled me with glee. And I was amazed at seeing the backup Hubble mirror, one of the most perfectly formed objects ever built. What set me most at ease though were a pair of giant war rockets at the entrance to the National Air and Space Museum. A Pershing II and SS-20 missile, so large their noses almost touch the 4 story ceiling of the museum. Each missile carried multi-kiloton nuclear warheads, launched 3,000 miles from their target, delivering their payload in just a few minutes, travelling so fast they were essentially unstoppable. These two hulks sit, stripped of their innards because they were outlawed by international treaty. The world doesn&#8217;t need mutually assured destruction. I am so glad <a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/09\/jets-freaking-me-out\/\">the Cold War is over<\/a>.<br \/>\nI framed the picture a little off. I took the photo with my right hand and I&#8217;m giving a big thumbs-up with my left.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/End-of-the-Cold-War.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/End-of-the-Cold-War-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"End of the Cold War\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/End-of-the-Cold-War-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/End-of-the-Cold-War-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/End-of-the-Cold-War-50x37.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/End-of-the-Cold-War.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Udvar-Hazy-Center-flyer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Udvar-Hazy-Center-flyer-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Udvar-Hazy Center flyer\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Udvar-Hazy-Center-flyer-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Udvar-Hazy-Center-flyer-200x153.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Udvar-Hazy-Center-flyer-50x38.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Udvar-Hazy-Center-flyer.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/3-eggs-by-June-Paik.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/3-eggs-by-June-Paik-300x138.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"3 eggs by June Paik\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/3-eggs-by-June-Paik-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/3-eggs-by-June-Paik-200x92.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/3-eggs-by-June-Paik-50x23.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/3-eggs-by-June-Paik.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Udvar-Hazy National Air and Space Museum Mouse-over this panorama! (yes, I took this with my phone and stitched it together) [photonav url=&#8217;http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/udvar-hazy.jpg&#8217; popup=colorbox container_height=450] Or look at the whole image: A 2 hour long docent tour flew by in just a few moments in this phenomenal hall. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Infinity Nets Yellow by Yayoi Kusama. 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