"Music of the Spheres" (The Outer Limits), an episode of The Outer Limits
"Music of the Spheres" (Doctor Who), a mini-episode of Doctor Who made for The Proms
In music:
Music of the Spheres (Mike Oldfield album)
Music of the Spheres (Ian Brown album)
Music of the Spheres, a piece of music for brass band by Philip Sparke
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Mean time I can't believe that the USA is going to have to hitch a ride with the Russians now that the shuttle is almost done.
Obama cancelled the moon rocket, I guess he had to. Still feeling let down about that.
Posted: April 2nd, 2010, 7:15 pm
by mtmynd
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra"..?
Posted: April 2nd, 2010, 8:01 pm
by stilltrucking
Trying to get my head around the fact that we are looking thirteen billion years into the past. What is happening out there now, what is coming our way now?
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I guess we can file this under the category of win some lose some. Trying to see the upside. Maybe a good thing more cooperation in space between Russia and USA.
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NASA's $500 million launcher missing just one thing: the rocket it was made for
A $500 million mobile launch tower for NASA's Constellation program. The rocket it's meant to launch might never be built.
A $500 million mobile launch tower for NASA's Constellation program. The rocket it's meant to launch might never be built.
President Obama's 2011 budget kills that rocket, along with the rest of NASA's Constellation program, the ambitious back-to-the-moon effort initiated under President George W. Bush.
People are dismayed and bewildered. Obama has gotten the message and will fly to the Kennedy Space Center on April 15 to hold a space conference and a town hall meeting. He is certain to point out that his budget actually boosts funding for NASA. The new NASA strategy shifts the task of launching astronauts to low Earth orbit from traditional government contracts to commercial contracts. If the private sector can create a taxi to space, NASA can focus on new technologies and longer journeys in the solar system.
"We think it's exciting," NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden Jr., a former astronaut, said in an e-mailed response to questions. "It will enable us to do things we can only dream about today. It will foster new industries, spur innovation, create jobs and lead to more missions, to more destinations, sooner, safer and faster."
'Cancel Constellation?'
A presidential commission, led by former aerospace executive Norman Augustine, reported to Obama last September that the Ares 1 would have limited use and that the heavy-lift rocket necessary for a moon mission probably wouldn't be ready until 2028. At that point, the panel said, there'd be no money left in the program for a moon lander or moon habitat. In effect, the Augustine committee said Constellation, which has already cost $9.4 billion, was destined for a (metaphorical) crash landing.
"We could get to the moon and do what?" said Dale Ketcham, a University of Central Florida professor who runs a think tank called the Spaceport Research and Technology Institute. "The taxpayers would really be ticked off: Sixty years later we go back and plant the flag and go home."
Trying to get my head around the fact that we are looking thirteen billion years into the past.
Just in that one tiny region of space... When I heard that I couldn't help but desire to see another tiny area in the constellation of, let's say, Sagittarius, or some other area on the opposite side.
Every star, every galaxy, every single thing "out there" is unique and of itself. Amazing to grasp that, eh? And as you said all those particles of light are ancient which begs your question - what is NOW out there?
Fun stuff...
Re: Warning! This video is Far Out... very Far Out.
