The Western Front - Now Peaceful - But Not In 1917.

This veteran returned to visit World War 1 Western Front battlefields in peacetime where 50 years earlier he served for three years and was wounded.

Ships - Steamboats

"S-t-e-a-m-boat A-Comin'!'

The 21 Century Environment

The Doughnut For Sustainable Cities

Ships   -   Ocean Liners

From 1900 until the 1960s ocean liners featured state-of-the-art technologies and evolving styles for all passengers. The American liner United States, the French Normandie and Ile de France, the German Europa and Amerika, the British Queen Mary and Titanic, and the Italian Andrea Doria were fine examples.

Four Years That Changed The World

Hell in the Trenches

The soldiers are the story. The trenches of Verdun, Gallipoli, Arras, Somme and Flanders during the Great War battles 100 years ago were the places. Knowledge of the battles are kept alive based on the preserved memories, stories, maps and photos of the ordinary soldiers of both sides who were there.

Remembering The Missing In Action

Millions of men during the Great War were sent to the Western Front battlefields. Hundreds of thousands of those soldiers completely disappeared in the explosions and mud.

The Great War At Sea

(1914-1918)The sailors memories remain. The sea battles of Jutland, Coronel, Falkland Islands and Dardanelles cost thousands of lives but ultimately changed little.

Battle of Jutland - Skagerrakschlacht - Clash of the Battle Cruisers

The fierce World War 1 sea battle of Jutland involved 261 ships from the British and German navies. The newer powerful battle cruisers bore the brunt of the battle. As several of the British battle cruisers blew up and sank, Vice Admiral David Beatty remarked: "There Is Something Wrong With Our Bloody Ships Today.".

Jutland - Designs and Procedures Doomed The Ships

Technical discussion of how the designs of ship gun turrets and the unsafe explosive propellant handling procedures combined to create the disasters that killed thousands of crewmen on just four of the British warships at Jutland.

The Era of Better and Faster Travel

America's Ships on Lakes and Rivers

Vessels of all types have sailed on America's coastal waters, inland rivers and lakes. On the Great Lakes, pasenger steamships such as the City of Cleveland carried regular passengers and some transformed into America's early cruise liners sailing the beautiful lakes. The Lake Michigan railroad ferry S.S. Badger environmentally improved continues to sail. River steam boats such as the Delta Queen and the Hendrick Hudson are still remembered.

America's Railroads

The railroads evolution from steam to diesel and electric locomotives created state-of-the-art technologies. Passengers trains including the 20th Century Limited, the Super Chief, the Broadway Limited plus local trains reached thousands of towns and cities.

Farewell to Europe's Steam Railroads

European railroad steam locomotive power was phasing out in the 1960s and these photos document some of the remaining steam power in 1972 based in the City of Tübingen, Germany. Operating steam locomotives are history with the exception of those preserved for museums and for special trains as shown in the attached Video with two operating steam locomotives enjoyed by people on the train and trackside as they passed.

100 Years Ago - Building A Rail Tunnel To Speed Travel

The first railroad tunnels under the Hudson River were completed in 1908 and are still in service. Known to riders as the Hudson Tubes for the first fifty years and one of the first mass transit projects connecting New Jersey and New York City they remain a story of innovations, dedication, failures and finally the total success.

High Speed Rail  -  Modern Passenger Trains

High Speed Rail passenger trains, HSR, now carry millions of people at speeds up to 220 MPH comfortably and conveniently.

Ships   -   Ocean Liners

From 1900 until the 1960s ocean liners featured state-of-the-art technologies and evolving styles for all passengers. The American liner United States, the French Normandie and Ile de France, the German Europa and Amerika, the British Queen Mary and Titanic, and the Italian Andrea Doria were fine examples.

Explore What's Happening Now

It Just Might Affect You.

Are Space Aliens Regularly Visiting Earth ?

Questions,  Secrets and  Theories.  UFO and U.S. Navy aircraft encounters are now required to be reported and possibly will be made public. The observations by the Kepler have uncovered possible alien worlds in the Milky Way. Researchers believe Arcturus, the third brightest star in the night sky, may have an orbiting planet with advanced life. In 1954, a large object that became known as the Black Knight was detected in polar orbit years before man had the technical ability to launch any large man made objects into space orbit.

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Is Galatic Space Life Possible ?

“One great leap toward the possibility of life, including intelligent life, in the universe," said UC Berkeley astronomer Geoffrey Marcy, who worked on a new study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The new planetary study used the Kepler space telescope, NASA's primary planet-hunting tool l to gather the data over several years. A Nov. 4, 2013 Los Angeles Times Newspaper article explained, “Since its launch in 2009, Kepler has helped uncover a "bewildering variety" of alien worlds throughout the Milky Way, said William Borucki, lead scientist for the Kepler mission at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. Many in this strange menagerie — which includes mini-Neptunes and super-Jupiters — are not like any of the planets in our solar system. Some distant planets may be composed entirely of water; others have densities greater than iron or lower than Styrofoam.”

The Drake Equation is important because it considers a variety of Milky Way factors including the estimated 100 billion stars, number of stars with planetary systems, how many planets would be able to sustain life, how much life would be intelligent life and of those how many could communicate. A source calculated there were possibly as many as 10,000 Intelligent Civilizations in the Milky Way. It is also still important because it opens scientific discussions about the likelihood of other life out there.

Fifty six years later, in 2016 an updated analysis of the Drake equation provided a new layer of understanding of possible far off civilizations. Marc Dantonio, Exoplanet Researcher, in a A Huffington Post article. explained the new analysis “doesn’t make the Drake obsolete but instead creates another ‘new edition’ that helps us predict the probability of detecting other civilizations,” The expanded knowledge of space in those 56 years due improved technologies and man’s journeys into space have enhanced the Drake Equation concepts. He reported that a ‘new edition’ equation study by Sara Seager, astrophysicist and planetary scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, concluded, “our galaxy alone has between 100 and 400 billion stars. So on the low end of the estimate of only 100 billion stars her analysis predicts just over 6.5 million possible civilizations and at the higher end estimate of 400 billion stars in the galaxy, 26 million possible systems with intelligence are predicted.

What does this all mean? It means, significantly, that science is on the side of those who suspect that there is other reasonably intelligent life in the Universe.”

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What Will We Discover During Mars Explorations ?

"This artist's concept depicts the InSight lander on Mars after the lander's robotic arm has deployed a seismometer and a heat probe directly onto the ground. The official name of the program is the Mars Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport. InSight is the first mission dedicated to investigating the deep interior of Mars. The findings will advance understanding of how all rocky planets, including Earth, formed and evolved," according to NASA.

According to NASA, the goal of InSight once on Mars is to "study the planet's interior by measuring its heat output and listen for marsquakes. InSight will use the seismic waves generated by marsquakes to develop a map of the planet's deep interior. The resulting insight into Mars' formation will provide a better understanding of how other rocky planets, including Earth, were created."

Good at NASA explained, "One key way InSight will peer into the Martian interior is by studying motion underground -- what we know as marsquakes. NASA has not attempted to do this kind of science since the Viking mission. Both Viking landers had their seismometers on top of the spacecraft, where they produced noisy data. InSight's seismometer will be placed directly on the Martian surface, which will provide much cleaner data.Scientists have seen a lot of evidence suggesting Mars has quakes. But unlike quakes on Earth, which are mostly caused by tectonic plates moving around, marsquakes would be caused by other types of tectonic activity, such as volcanism and cracks forming in the planet's crust. In addition, meteor impacts can create seismic waves, which InSight will try to detect."