Our flight to Tokyo on Hawaiian Airlines featured the ususal take-off view of Waikiki and Diamond Head. The food and service were great.  Started with prosecco, then went on to Johnny Walker Black, sake and Kirin Beer with a Japanese meal.  Followed by cheesecake, Bailey's and cognac. Saw three films.   Guy Richie's The Covenant , which got 83/98 ratings from  Rotten Tomatoes,  really good move, and  Someone You Loved,  a Korean romance film with a different kind of twist at the end.  Unexpected. The last one was  Contact , but the iPad had to be turned off when the plane approached Haneda Airport, so I missed the last few minutes. However, I turned to Google, and  found this article, which tries to explain what happened .,  Left more questions about the reality, except that Jody Foster playing the role of a Search for Extraterrestial Intelligence (SETI) scientist, possibly went through a  wormhole  and returned back again, for this was recorded in 1's and 0's, but was

Scientist today are still not sure if any virus is actually alive.  Bacteria, yes, and so too humans.  All living forms are mostly water, from 60% in us to more than 90% in some plants. You might have thought that life needs oxygen, and most of us on Earth do.  However,  some bacteria, such as  E. coli , can survive on pure hydrogen .  This is crucial, for there is only 0.1% oxygen in the universe, but 92% hydrogen.  Thriving life has been found at a  temperature above the boiling point of water . In 1877  Giovanni Schiaperelli  of Italy mapped Mars, showing oceans and canals.  Somehow this nomenclature was mistakenly interpreted by some as evidence of life.   Percival Lowell  of the U.S. in 1894, from observation he made, suggested that those canals were created by intelligent Martians to move water from ice caps.  H.G. Wells in 1898 then published  War of the Worlds ,  launching a new genre of science fiction.  Then along came  Orson Welles  with his radio adaption in 1938 that panic

We've all met famous people in our life.  For many, a movie or rock star is memorable.  I'm not into that, but the closest for me was when Nancy Sinatra and Tommy Sands swam in our backyard in Kilauea, Kauai.  Princess Diana and her entourage sat right above our box for a stage show in the West End.  Looked like the crowd below was waving, in that British way, to us, so we waved back.  The electricity of the moment when she got into her limousine is unforgettable. My famous people are scientists.  I worked for Edward Teller at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and saw him twice in Honolulu.  He had come over to tout the potential of placing wind energy conversion devices at the top of the Koolau mountain range, for which which he was disparaged, and met a group of us at the Manoa Campus of the University of Hawaii.  He worked on the Manhattan Project, which led to him later building a Hydrogen Bomb. The second encounter was for breakfast at the Hyatt Waikiki.  I had kn