The Mission Blue Voyage
 

i saw folks talking about this is in another thread, but i figure it's interesting enough to warrant it's own, so...

damien set sail for the galapagos islands earlier today! how crazy/cool is that?!

damo's newsie:

I wish I was there! not only for him,but for the whole experience..OMG...I'm so tired of big cities...I want to move to the country or to a island...close to the city,of course hehehehe

^ good luck! :D

me too! it sounds amazing.. i like this concept of "hope spots" they talk about, protected waters in the ocean.. and i read something random about how they can't take jalapenos for guacamole dip on the trip because they have seeds, and it could alter the unique ecosytem of the islands if one got loose...

from here
such an eclectic mix of passengers.. chevy chase? really?

anyway, there's a decent web presence for this event/foundation. think i'll follow on twitter.

http://www.facebook.com/missionblue
http://twitter.com/MissionBlue
http://www.mission-blue.org/

the FB page has a section with interviews with the passengers!!! no Damien... yet :) but we can hope...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/missionblue/page3/

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2792/...6b288d6eb6.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2433/...f8a0354803.jpg

Thank you gloria for the pics link.
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He looks like RObinson Crusoe.

Very good observation!! it reminded now that I gave him a "bad hair day" in Iceland and he told me he didn't think his hair was "bad",but FREE and called it "free hair day"...I broke my right arm 3 weeks ago and I still have 2 weeks to go with a cast. I cant straight my hair which is curly like his and it is free to be like that. I love it! sometimes I don't even brush it just like when I was 16 and it was so long and big that I wouldn't brush for a week or so hehehe

The pictures from the Mission are amazing!

Thanks for all the pics and info! Looks like an amazing experience.

Jackson Browne is there!!!!

are his eyes that intense in color? (in person...) they look incredible.

more pics added on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/missionblue/

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4038/...292d85daea.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4072/...fcebed427e.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2766/...52eb4d25fe.jpg

and according to twitter, Damien did the "pick a chord/name/color/emotion" thing - http://twitter.com/MissionBlue/status/11785224278

great finding Glo!!!! Hopefully they'll up the song to the Mission site or youtube!!

Yes...

John R Moore:

“ (…) The size of the world’s ocean’s is a bit difficult to wrap your brain around. Of the 197 million square miles of planetary surface, 139.5 million square miles are oceans!

According to the University of Southern California (USC) Geology Department, the world’s oceans vary in their levels by 180 meters (highs to lows) that’s 594 feet! This is a major part of the puzzle as to where all the water will come from that will cause worldwide tsunamis (tidal- waves) and worldwide flooding! These variations in ocean levels are (I quote from USC): “Caused by gravitational differences resulting from irregularities in the lithosphere.” Professor McCanney states that the Earth’s rotation is the major factor in this phenomenon.

Here’s what this means in plain English. The oceans have millions of square miles of water above what we think of as sea level. The oceans also have millions of square miles of water below what we think of as sea level. Go back to what the USC says above. This accounts for how the water stays in place (gravity & earth’s rotation). What is necessary to cause worldwide tsunamis (tidal waves) and worldwide flooding? New, outside forces that disrupt the earth’s rotation that currently keeps the water where it is. (…)

A disruption in the Earth’s rotation in either speed (normally 1,000 miles per hour) or direction (a pole shift), These possibilities are incorporated in what Professor McCanney calls “action at a distance, caused by very large comet” and the Earth is in deep trouble in a matter of a month (or less). Ladies and gentlemen, as I state above, the water for world-wide tsunamis & world-wide flooding is already in the world’s oceans!"

Retired ‘Green Beret’ John R Moore explains what is really behind the effects of climate change and why the elite is covertly preparing for violently rising ocean levels. He exposes the cover-up of an extinction level threat due to the approaching star (The Destroyer) and its planets.

http://chapter126.wordpress.com/

^Qué?

That's an amazing piece of pseudoscience, skilfully mixing the 2012 nonsense with Anthropogenic Climate Change denial, with a little New World Order conspiracy thrown in. And the Bible quotes. Anyone using those while arguing for anything outside a Bible should not be trusted.

There is no Planet X approaching the Solar System, at least in the foreseeable future. (not to mention that Planet X is a now disproved hypothetical planet explaining the seemingly erratic orbits of Neptune and Uranus, that has been proven to be caused by the lower then expected mass of Neptune, so the guy can't even get his imaginary planet's names right.).

All the other names are downward stupid, I particularly like "G1.9", which is a Supernova remnant near the centre of the Galaxy

It s true that Sea levels deviate massively, but the amount of water stays constant, it's secondary school physics. In order to have floods, new water is needed, that comes from the melting in-land icecaps, especially those of Greenland.

Read this and you'll be cured

He is really getting involved in a lot of things.

i saw that, i love when he does the impromptu interactive songwriting thing

this tweet was just before it, made me laugh for some reason - http://twitter.com/MissionBlue/status/11784905792

too pretty to tweet :D


well i guess they must be sailing home now.. what an amazing adventure!

more pics more pics:

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s...07/damien1.jpg

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s...07/damien2.jpg

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s...07/damien3.jpg

I wanna hear this new song!!!!!!! and the other spontaneous one he did with a colour/emotion too!!!!!

T4P :smiley20:

New twitter post:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/phot...IiL2P2n3Pdg%3D
Damien Rice closes #MissionBlue voyage by unveiling song about oceans he wrote on board @LindbladExp Endeavour

^wanna listen NOW :p

thanks for the info, guys