New Horizons

Regarding last week three exceptional incidents remain in my mind.

A young German politician, Philipp Mißfelder, died. Totally unexpected they say. Well, you never know what you are carrying with you – until something is happening to you or you are in a special situation – or it just happens. Even when you are young, you can die, but you shouldn’t. The hard ones just say: “That’s bad luck.” But this does not help the family at all. I noticed that Almut – while she was looking at a photo taken during the Schweigeminute for Mr. Mißfelder in the Bundestag (what newspaper was it?) – she was frowning. Because people in the back rows: Coming or going? Obviously not engaged… why?

“New Horizons” – NASA’s 1st mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt has been successful – and delivers surprising news (by the way, mission started in 2006 before I was born and it will take another 16 months until all the photos and results get back to NASA’s): Frozen Plains, quite a lot of three-thousanders… is it a 2nd, still frozen Earth? Is Pluto on his way to develop in that direction? Or is it the other way round? Interesting Hypotheses.

There are people, I know, they never believed in these kind of missions – being it to Mars or even the landing on the moon. “But look at all the information in the internet, on TV!” “Oh, yes, I do, but is this real?” “…”.

Me? Hey, I am a dog. Pluto? A buddy in my ‘Kiez’, and: Thinking of poor Laika, died on mission in the Earth Orbit in 1957, my heart goes out to you.

And last but not least, again – Europe and Greece. Finally, they made up their minds and Greece still belongs to the EU. However, there are a lot of things to do now. The money involved reaches head spinning heights (how many “dogbones” would that be for me?), Help is needed, yes, but is it only possible with money? In what will they invest the money and how? We’ll see…