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I Go Eastward for Water - Salute to Peng Jiamu and His Love WATER, SOURCE OF LIFE, AND, LOVE. While we already have many discussion here abt love and its truth, and many questing abt how to love, how to sustain love; while I am also ponder abt all these and something (if can call it love) going on with myself; I read this news regarding the famous Chinese scientist Peng Jiamu who mysteriously disappeared 26 years ago in the mysterious Lop Nur, namely "death desert" in Xin'jiang: Peng, the head of the scentific expedition team, left to search for water alone, "I'm going eastward for wells, Peng, at 10:30 June 17." This is his last trait and last will. For wells, for water. Big rescue operation soon was launched but he never came back, untill now, maybe he returned as a mummy in the wind sand. He buried himself in the sands, looking for water, while exercising his true, deep love for science, for his people. I feel ashamed for myself, for you, too! Please pass this water Peng was looking for on, and on... Below is excerpted fm China Daily: ------ A Chinese expedition last winter found a mummy on the edge of the Lop Nur salt basin, at a spot where a well-known scientist went mysteriously missing nearly 26 years ago. Now, another expedition is prepared to ascertain the identity of the mummy, which was found near the place where recognized biochemist Peng Jiamu went missing. Shaped like a human ear, Lop Nur is located in west China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and considered the driest spot on Earth. In the past, the region also had yielded other mummies, according to other reports. A number of pathfinders in history have lost their lives or went missing in the 100,000-square kilometers place, where it is extremely hot during daylight and fatally chilly at night. Peng was leading a scientific investigation across Lop Nur, when he was reported missing after he sent a message to be rescued in search of drinking water. Peng and his fellow scientists were stalled in June 1980 in the southeast edge of Lop Nur, out of edible water and fuel. After asking for rescues via telegram, Peng decided to look for water sources on his own. He left their camp on June 17, leaving a note: "I'm going eastward for wells, Peng, at 10:30 June 17." He has never been heard from since. Peng was born in 1925 and was the vice president of the Xinjiang Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. ---- Pic.: The note leaving by Peng saying: "I'm going eastward for wells, Peng, at 10:30 June 17." 
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4/14/2006 11:44 am |
HAPPY EASTER ,AND GOD BLESS YOU !
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