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No other traveler has ever journeyed so far from home.
Voyager 1 is about to become the first human-made object to reach a distance of one light-day from Earth, or about 16 billion miles. ½
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Just saw someone online say #TheFutureIsSeal about the sj sea lions and lemme tell you i CACKLED!!!!
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Today marks 51 years since 29 crew members aboard the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, including two Minnesotans, lost their lives on Lake Superior. We remember each of them and their families, who have kept their memory alive all these years.
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You gotta be kidding me. I can’t find the love of God and the waves are turning the minutes to hours
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51 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald and her crew were lost on Lake Superior.
Every year the Split Rock Lighthouse shines to honor the 29 crew members whose lives were lost and their families who live on in Minnesota and beyond.
lol I literally did this earlier
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My favorite two parts of the background of Gordon Lightfoot writing “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”:
1) Lightfoot read a news story on the wreck and they spelled the name of the ship wrong. Offended by this, he wrote the song to honor them properly.
2) The final verse contains the line “the church bell chimed til it rang 29 times for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.” This happens to this day on the anniversary at the Great Lakes Maritime Academy. When Lightfoot passed away in 2023, they rang the bell 30 times—29 for the sailors lost and once for Lightfoot who immortalized them.
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Native Michigander Billy Strings performing The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald in Milwaukee from 2025. The slow crowd roar starting when Royal plays the bass line at 2:25 to when Billy starts the first verse at 2:35 is why live music is the best.
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51 year anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Some information below on the weather conditions that fateful day. #MIwx
