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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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExqoBNE ... 79eGDVI7mg
One of my favourite videos. I didn't know it was from and old series.

vegetariantaxidermy wrote:

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 :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExqoBNE ... 79eGDVI7mg
One of my favourite videos. I didn't know it was from and old series.

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:

vegetariantaxidermy wrote:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExqoBNE ... 79eGDVI7mg
One of my favourite videos. I didn't know it was from and old series.

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.

I've found this,

Generate

Eric Prydz

"All of the love we generate
The only thing that carries me on
There's nothing we need that it can't create"

Simple text, but there's something in it that makes you think of infinity. Is it true?

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhKm_SdHsLs.

Necromancer wrote:I've found this,

Generate

Eric Prydz

"All of the love we generate
The only thing that carries me on
There's nothing we need that it can't create"

Simple text, but there's something in it that makes you think of infinity. Is it true?

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhKm_SdHsLs.

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.

vegetariantaxidermy wrote:

Greta wrote:

vegetariantaxidermy wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExqoBNE ... 79eGDVI7mg
One of my favourite videos. I didn't know it was from and old series.

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).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOjrImaPh80

vegetariantaxidermy wrote:

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).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOjrImaPh80

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: That one did nothing for me ... scuba diving with a torch through polluted water, set to classical music

It's not classical music.

vegetariantaxidermy wrote:It's not classical music.

Oh well, pretend classical music then. Something like orchestral classical music.

Never much cared for the stuff. I have always adored drums and drumming. I play them and most of the music I enjoy has a drum kit present.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRLTk1rR-64

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.

If you like the drums you might like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWabhnt91Uc

Heh yes Veggie, Richard F played nice bongos :)

I love the passion of this performance, Max Roach 5tet featuring Abbey Lincoln - Driva Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF6q6XKKrik

Greta wrote: I love the passion of this performance, Max Roach 5tet featuring Abbey Lincoln - Driva Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF6q6XKKrik

But didn't you want him to just get going with those drums?