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Greta wrote:
Remember the old video Powers of Ten? That's on YT - I remember being enchanted and amazed by that video in the 80s.
Whenever I think of our insignificant "pale blue dot" I remember that there is about 59,720,000,000,000,000,000,000 tonnes of planet beneath my feet, extending 12,742kms downwards. We have tried to drill down to the centre of the Earth and, of the 6,371 kms distance, we now have only another 6,359 kms to go before reaching the Earth's centre.
We are small brown dots scuttling around the surface of a pale blue dot. On galactic scales we are a dot on a dot in a dot in a dot. I find the idea of being inconsequential comforting - not too much responsibility
Greta wrote:
Remember the old video Powers of Ten? That's on YT - I remember being enchanted and amazed by that video in the 80s.
Whenever I think of our insignificant "pale blue dot" I remember that there is about 59,720,000,000,000,000,000,000 tonnes of planet beneath my feet, extending 12,742kms downwards. We have tried to drill down to the centre of the Earth and, of the 6,371 kms distance, we now have only another 6,359 kms to go before reaching the Earth's centre.
We are small brown dots scuttling around the surface of a pale blue dot. On galactic scales we are a dot on a dot in a dot in a dot. I find the idea of being inconsequential comforting - not too much responsibility :)
Love it. I remember the old one, and I love the sinister music that creeps in as they drift further out into space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0. I don't know who's narrating but his honeyed rasp reminds me of Burl Ives reading children's Christmas stories :)
Greta wrote:
Remember the old video Powers of Ten? That's on YT - I remember being enchanted and amazed by that video in the 80s.
Whenever I think of our insignificant "pale blue dot" I remember that there is about 59,720,000,000,000,000,000,000 tonnes of planet beneath my feet, extending 12,742kms downwards. We have tried to drill down to the centre of the Earth and, of the 6,371 kms distance, we now have only another 6,359 kms to go before reaching the Earth's centre.
We are small brown dots scuttling around the surface of a pale blue dot. On galactic scales we are a dot on a dot in a dot in a dot. I find the idea of being inconsequential comforting - not too much responsibility
Love it. I remember the old one, and I love the sinister music that creeps in as they drift further out into space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0. I don't know who's narrating but his honeyed rasp reminds me of Burl Ives reading children's Christmas stories
The other one should be called 'The power of music and Morgan Freeman's beautiful voice' lol. Notice how much further the more recent one goes.
Got off to a good start with a clean fresh sound, but after a minute of waiting for something to happen I got bored to death, and my ears started to burn from what had already become noise pollution.
Love it. I remember the old one, and I love the sinister music that creeps in as they drift further out into space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0. I don't know who's narrating but his honeyed rasp reminds me of Burl Ives reading children's Christmas stories :)
The other one should be called 'The power of music and Morgan Freeman's beautiful voice' lol. Notice how much further the more recent one goes.
Yes, out to the theoretical bubbles of the multiverse.
Whenever I see artist impressions of the galaxy, I feel a little sad as the cinematic view shows us sweeping down to the galaxy and into a vast network of stars. Sad because no being ever will have that perspective unless aliens billions of years in the future come up with "a cheat" that bypasses the universe's tyranny of distance. The problem is that the cinematic impression given is one of travelling thousands of times faster than the speed of light.
The only way to realistically depict a spaceship approaching the Milky Way is for the galaxy to never appear to be getting closer, no matter how many lifetimes you spend approaching it - but that would not make for rivetting viewing :)
Greta wrote:
Whenever I see artist impressions of the galaxy, I feel a little sad as the cinematic view shows us sweeping down to the galaxy and into a vast network of stars. Sad because no being ever will have that perspective unless aliens billions of years in the future come up with "a cheat" that bypasses the universe's tyranny of distance. The problem is that the cinematic impression given is one of travelling thousands of times faster than the speed of light.
The only way to realistically depict a spaceship approaching the Milky Way is for the galaxy to never appear to be getting closer, no matter how many lifetimes you spend approaching it - but that would not make for rivetting viewing
For now, but perhaps one day virtual reality will give us a pretty good approximation (if we don't annihilate ourselves in the meantime).
Greta wrote:
Whenever I see artist impressions of the galaxy, I feel a little sad as the cinematic view shows us sweeping down to the galaxy and into a vast network of stars. Sad because no being ever will have that perspective unless aliens billions of years in the future come up with "a cheat" that bypasses the universe's tyranny of distance. The problem is that the cinematic impression given is one of travelling thousands of times faster than the speed of light.
The only way to realistically depict a spaceship approaching the Milky Way is for the galaxy to never appear to be getting closer, no matter how many lifetimes you spend approaching it - but that would not make for rivetting viewing
For now, but perhaps one day virtual reality will give us a pretty good approximation (if we don't annihilate ourselves in the meantime).
That one did nothing for me ... scuba diving with a torch through polluted water, set to classical music
Ideally there'd be a spacecraft port frame, 3D, all sound except spacecraft engines would be blocked out*, a feeling of zero grav, temperature settings, etc - a total experience rather than just 2D visual. One day people will say, "Ugh! I don't know how they lived like that back then".
* the strains of Chris Hadfield singing Space Oddity allowable, but not on a loop
Greta wrote:
Here's a very tasty bluesy tune with a bossa rhythm that my last band used to cover - Kenny Burrell's Chitlins Con Carne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP0flneNfaQ
Actually, that was not bad for my own taste. More on the bluesy jazz side, than on the jazzy bossa nova side. The last one is precisely what you get when you water down the first to fit the social ambient music tastes of middle class people. Worst than the devil of plain, evident cheesiness, is the devil that might actually fool you.
The beautiful tone of the piano makes my skin tingle. Dave Brubeck understood Bach very well; not surprising, since Bach was the original 'Jazz musician'.
Greta wrote:
Here's a very tasty bluesy tune with a bossa rhythm that my last band used to cover - Kenny Burrell's Chitlins Con Carne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP0flneNfaQ
How did I miss this? Wow. SUPER cool. Like a butter and avocado body rub.
