I bought an earlier version of this for my dad:
Hubble: A Journey Through Space and Time
It was really impressive. I can only assume that the 20th anniversary is similarly neat.
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Space: The Final Frontier
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Hubble: A Journey Through Space and Time
It was really impressive. I can only assume that the 20th anniversary is similarly neat.
WeAreStarStuff
Member
Going to purchase this. Thanks.
Leeroy3101
Banned
Is the Space Launch System better and/or more feasible than the original constellation program? I prefer the looks of The Space Launch System, personally. I love the old school Saturn V styled rocket.
PantherLotus
Professional Schmuck
What do you mean by better and/or more feasible? It's the same concept with 50 more years of technology on top of it...
PantherLotus
Professional Schmuck
Uh...please listen to this bit by Sagan. Hadn't heard it before. It's a message to future human martian explorers:
http://soundcloud.com/brainpicker/carl-sagan-message-for-mars
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/08/carl-sagan-message-to-mars/
It echoes a few things we've all heard him say in some of those beautifully repurposed videos with LOST music, but this is particularly touching. You can hear him contemplating his own existence, just briefly.
http://soundcloud.com/brainpicker/carl-sagan-message-for-mars
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/08/carl-sagan-message-to-mars/
It echoes a few things we've all heard him say in some of those beautifully repurposed videos with LOST music, but this is particularly touching. You can hear him contemplating his own existence, just briefly.
From Spaceweather.com :
This a new low for me as a science enthusiast, yet I cannot be the only one seeing this:
I Stalk Alone
Member
This a new low for me as a science enthusiast, yet I cannot be the only one seeing this:
Looks like the sun is becoming the neogaf symbol. I welcome our new sun god overlord. Hail neogaf!
PantherLotus
Professional Schmuck
oh damn...the one i was talking about is gone!
One of the best videos ever, too. Same basic quote as the one you've attached, better music, fantastic video editing. There's a particular part where Sagan is talking about our eventual descendents "a species very like us," and it showed an old tree/bush from Africa or the Outback or something and combined with the music and his words it was an instant window into the future, some millions of years forward.
found a version with the music but not the fantastic video edits:
http://www.digitallearningfoundation.org/content/carl-sagan-how-many-rivers-we-had-cross
This has always been my sun:
Are you saying he's full of hot gas? :O
ThoseDeafMutes
Member
That is a very loving face.
Jezbollah
Member
Did you all see that NASA didnt have it all their own way this week?
I bring you the first standalone test flight of the Project Morpheus lander
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvhS0gWQmrY
I bring you the first standalone test flight of the Project Morpheus lander
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvhS0gWQmrY
WeAreStarStuff
Member
Haha, I saw this earlier.
Insane Metal
Member
And what is that about? Never heard of it.
maquiladora
Member
Leeroy3101
Banned
Just finished watching Cosmos. What a fantastic series it is. I'd like to see something similar be done today but with a whole new angle to it.
As for my earlier question a page ago...
What I was asking was how is The Space Launch System "better" over the cancelled Constellation program? Both programs seem very similar.
As for my earlier question a page ago...
What I was asking was how is The Space Launch System "better" over the cancelled Constellation program? Both programs seem very similar.
Cosmos is getting a reboot next year with Neil deGrasse Tyson hosting it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/05/a...osmos-with-seth-macfarlane-as-a-producer.html
Insane Metal
Member
The best part is that it is airing prime time on Fox. Hopefully it will reignite some passion and interest into space.
Fuck, I should have pulled over the other night and investigated something that fell by the road. It looked like a classic meteorite falling (very small, probably would have been hard to find anyway).
Leeroy3101
Banned
That's some weird poetic justice that Fox, of all networks, will be airing it. Should be fun to see what happens when Fox(news) talks about the new series on broadcast TV.
Radiating UV Love for approximately 8.7 years
Looked at some perseids
One in particular burned for so long that you'd have time to poke someone, point to it, say "Shit's on fire, yo" and they'd still have time to look at it for several seconds.
Motherfucker just kept. On. Burning.
At last it fizzled out and every single hair on my body just went
HOT
DAMN
and then I saw about a dozen more before I decided it was too cold to lie in the grass anymore
One in particular burned for so long that you'd have time to poke someone, point to it, say "Shit's on fire, yo" and they'd still have time to look at it for several seconds.
Motherfucker just kept. On. Burning.
At last it fizzled out and every single hair on my body just went
HOT
DAMN
and then I saw about a dozen more before I decided it was too cold to lie in the grass anymore
Naked Snake
Member
Looked at some perseids
One in particular burned for so long that you'd have time to poke someone, point to it, say "Shit's on fire, yo" and they'd still have time to look at it for several seconds.
Motherfucker just kept. On. Burning.
At last it fizzled out and every single hair on my body just went
HOT
DAMN
and then I saw about a dozen more before I decided it was too cold to lie in the grass anymore
Where are you at? I'm in Jordan (it's 3:00am now), I went out for a while earlier but didn't see any. Will try my luck again a bit later...
Naked Snake
Member
I was out for 20 minutes and caught two shooting stars. First one appeared soon after I looked up, caught me off guard and was pretty bright.
fierrotlepou
Member
I didn't know they could burn for so long. Usually when I see a shooting star it just flashes by and it doesn't take longer than one/two seconds, but this one burned for maybe 10 seconds. Fascinating.
Ravensmash
Member
I stood out in my garden at around 3am after I got home from being out.
Saw quite a few meteors, really amazing to watch and saw quite a few big ones that lingered.
There are more tonight right?
Saw quite a few meteors, really amazing to watch and saw quite a few big ones that lingered.
There are more tonight right?
TheVampire
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SniperHunter
Banned
UltimaPooh
Member
oh damn...the one i was talking about is gone!
One of the best videos ever, too. Same basic quote as the one you've attached, better music, fantastic video editing. There's a particular part where Sagan is talking about our eventual descendents "a species very like us," and it showed an old tree/bush from Africa or the Outback or something and combined with the music and his words it was an instant window into the future, some millions of years forward.
found a version with the music but not the fantastic video edits:
http://www.digitallearningfoundation.org/content/carl-sagan-how-many-rivers-we-had-cross
http://youtu.be/oY59wZdCDo0
This one?
SniperHunter
Banned
No audio ATM, but wow, what a powerful and amazing video! thanks for sharing
Insane Metal
Member
Wow I'd never seen that. Absolutely amazing. Carl Sagan was amazing. I wish he was still alive.
Anyone subscribed to this thread who hasn't seen The Sagan Series, boy are you in for a show. There are 9 parts so far - each as amazing as the next.
Watch them. I'm Sirius:
THE SAGAN SERIES [Part 1] - The Frontier Is Everywhere
THE SAGAN SERIES [Part 2] - Life Looks for Life (I literally shed a tear to this one.)
THE SAGAN SERIES [Part 3] - A Reassuring Fable
THE SAGAN SERIES [Part 4] - Per Aspera Ad Astra
THE SAGAN SERIES [Part 5] - Decide To Listen
THE SAGAN SERIES [Part 6] - End of an Era: The Final Shuttle Launch
THE SAGAN SERIES [Part 7] - The Long Astronomical Perspective
THE SAGAN SERIES [Part 8] - Gift of Apollo
THE SAGAN SERIES [Part 9] - The Humans
Went camping last night, by convenience on the same night as Perseides. We were on a beach with no street lights or buildings within several km so I was excited to get a great view. Sure enough, though, it's overcast all night (we were on the ocean) so my gf and I head to bed a bit disappointed. About an hour later our friends wake us up. The sky had cleared up, and I don't remember it ever being so filled with stars. We could even see the "Milky Way" stretching across the sky. Then we see a meteor.
My friend: "That was just a shooting star"
"....wait, what do you think a shooting star is?"
"Something different, isn't it."
"A shooting star is a meteor..."
"..."
"This is what we're here for."
Was honestly happy that he didn't actually think a shooting star was literally a shooting star. Though I was camping with some people last weekend who thought Pluto had been "downgraded to a star". And these are fairly intelligent people. Just totally ignorant to astronomy.
Anyway, there were tons all over the sky. I came out later in the night and they were appearing even more frequently. I didn't see any slow burners, though.
I need a telescope. And maybe some new friends.
My friend: "That was just a shooting star"
"....wait, what do you think a shooting star is?"
"Something different, isn't it."
"A shooting star is a meteor..."
"..."
"This is what we're here for."
Was honestly happy that he didn't actually think a shooting star was literally a shooting star. Though I was camping with some people last weekend who thought Pluto had been "downgraded to a star". And these are fairly intelligent people. Just totally ignorant to astronomy.
Anyway, there were tons all over the sky. I came out later in the night and they were appearing even more frequently. I didn't see any slow burners, though.
I need a telescope. And maybe some new friends.
^Sounds amazing, would have been an awesomely romantic night as well I'm sure.
I recall only once being able to clearly see the Milky Way - on my one trip out to the country-side far enough so that we could actually see the dome of light on the horizon that was the city.
Eyes did not adjust at first, as the camp fire was quite large. Once it died down though, the night sky was quite literally a window to the Galaxy, a cross-section of the Milky Way. I could not sleep.
Add that with Google SkyMaps on our phones and it was the best night outside ever.
I recall only once being able to clearly see the Milky Way - on my one trip out to the country-side far enough so that we could actually see the dome of light on the horizon that was the city.
Eyes did not adjust at first, as the camp fire was quite large. Once it died down though, the night sky was quite literally a window to the Galaxy, a cross-section of the Milky Way. I could not sleep.
Add that with Google SkyMaps on our phones and it was the best night outside ever.
WeAreStarStuff
Member
Seen them all, and read his book Cosmos, but thanks for posting - always nice to listen to while at work.
A lot of that comes from his book Pale Blue Dot, I highly recommend it.
neat
one geologist thinks mars may have had plate tectonics
http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.co...nics-make-life-more-likely-scientist-says.php
one geologist thinks mars may have had plate tectonics
http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.co...nics-make-life-more-likely-scientist-says.php
WeAreStarStuff
Member
It's in my backlog; I'll get around to it eventually. Too many books to get through; which is a good problem.
Weird; I always assumed that was the general assumption.