Today in 1781 William Herschel and his sister Caroline discovered the planet Uranus, using his telescope. This revelation was astonishing, since it had been a long time since anybody had found a planet. They also saw two of Uranus’ moons (of twenty-seven).
In case you forgot, Uranus is about 1.8 Billion miles away, which is like 720 thousand times around the Earth.
Very Big Deal it was, and remains, as discoveries go.
Here is a promotional piece done a few years back, intended to win the unqualified devotion of the unwary. As a Your Inner Rhino Reader, please feel free to send it on to any impressionable folk you know. Feel free to gush.
No. We have no shame.
However fashionable Tantrums and Displays of Temper may currently be, Your Inner Rhino feels compelled to remind its Readers of an Olde Rhino Truism: If you behave too oddly, your head will pop off. Which you are likely to regret.
Rhinos may be impatient when confronted with irregularity, but We do not act up. Honestly.
Synergy is the result of combined efforts of two or more somethings, among which Rhinos count, big time. (We think of ourselves as ‘Something Else”.) The idea is that by allying ourselves with other living things, We each get a boost. Win/Win.
We suspect that rocks may also make their own contribution to the general dynamic. There they are, making a statement, right?
It’s nice to know Rhinos have back-up, whichever way We turn, but not for free. We have to pay attention.
Today Your Inner Rhino is focusing on Context- where We are and what’s going on there and are We paying attention?
No Rhino is free of place and time, except mentally. We are each part of a bigger something, and that in turn is part of even bigger somethings, and so on.
We thought it was high time to credit, not ourselves, but the Everything Else.
Big Question: why is it that when Rhinos sneeze, our Excellent Ideas decide to vanish or go hide or something?
Ideas are slippery. Give them a chance and they scamper off.
True, some of them show up again. We prefer to think that those are the A+ ones.
Tomorrow would be February 29, if it were allowed. There is an explanation for why not, but We don’t really get it. Poor counters, Rhinos.
It seems to Us that We could just add it every year and abbreviate March (or January) by a day. Makes sense, right?
Please keep your eyes peeled, in case you encounter the 29th craving attention.
Rhinos can certainly make communicative sounds, but We don’t talk much on a daily basis. Much thought, but little speech.
We have our Experiences. We don’t talk them.
President-to-be George Washington (b.1732) may have given this quote. He was only 6 at the time, they say.
Rhinos sense that Mr. Washington’s sense of honor may not be, or have been, universal among Presidents.
Mr. Nicolaus Copernicus (b.1473) found out that the planets go around the sun. It was a big discovery, though unpopular at the time.
What’s surprising is that he made his observations with the naked eye, no telescope at all. The skies over Poland must be very clear.
Rhino vision is not outstanding, so We are doubly-wowed. Visionary guy, Mr. Copernicus.
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