Top 10 Potential Lunar Bottled Water Slogans

Last week, NASA said they had found "significant amounts" of water on the moon. One day in the not too distant future a bottled water company may set up shop on the moon and sell bottled water back to us on Earth. To assist with this effort, I have come up with some potential slogans this morning.

1. Its your world. Do your own moonwalk.

2. Make it a Full Moon everyday

3. Drink the most natural water out of this world

4. The antidote for sustainability

5. Drink and take one large step for mankind everyday

6. Howl with the Moon

7. Born out of this World.

8. Blasted, but never filtered. Moonwater.

9. Drink our water and save your earth

10. Miles away from the ordinary (actually 238,857 miles)

Toccoa Falls Dam Failure Anniversary

Just after midnight 32 years ago today on November 6, 1977, the Kelly Barnes Dam failed, releasing 176 million gallons of water just above Toccoa Falls College campus in northern Georgia. Thirty-nine people lost their lives.

I wrote a series of blog posts about this incident a couple years ago.

• Part I - Unseen Danger
• Part II - A Wall of Water, Get Out!
• Part III - After the Flood

Here is a video I also made with the series.

The Single Most Important Day to Learn About Water

I think we have topped ourselves from last year. Although I am a bit biased, we have lined up some impressive speakers this year. This one-day water resource workshop will be held in Columbia, SC on December 2, 2009.

Registration is now open. You can register here. Take a look the flyer below (I had fun creating it!).

South Carolina Water Resource Workshop

The Miracle Behind the World's Biggest Cruise Ship

Hook, line, and sinker. I am a sucker for the big-isms when explaining something that is the world's biggest. I was hooked when I read last week about Royal Caribean's newest cruise ship.

Let me uncork these -isms so I can share the cool construction pictures:

• Right off the bat, this ship is longer, taller, and wider than any other passenger ship ever built.
• The smokestack had to be retracted this weekend just so it could squeeze under a bridge in Denmark and make it to the Atlantic and on to its home port, Port Everglades in Florida. Amazingly it had less than a 2-foot gap between the bridge and smokestack.
• The ship features 16 passenger decks and 2,704 staterooms.
• The total power output of the ship's engines is 97,000 kW and the cruise speed is 22.6 knots.
• Ship includes an open-air park with trees and hanging gardens, a pool that changes into a stage, an ice rink, and a small golf course.
• It reuses its waste water and consumes 25 percent less power than similar, but smaller, cruise liners.
• This ship cost $1.5 billion dollars to construct.

Huge cranes and a gigantic dry dock helped to build this ship, but the true miracle for these new breed of ships is modular construction. Components of the ship were fabricated and assembled separately. Each of the 181 sections of the ship were then lowered into the dry dock and welded to the previous sections.

Thanks to this miracle of modular assembly, a $1.5 billion dollar ship took less than two years to construct.