My friend Amber, posted one of these "songs of science" to my Multiply guestbook.
I was stunned by how amazing it is, how the creators of this project have compiled all of these talks into music!
I grew up watching Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" early in the morning in Physics class. My friends Brad, Rudy, Kulwinder, and others will remember this time.... "Cosmos" was a "stellar program" teaching us about science in a fascinating, and captivating, or "compelling" way. Many of these amazing scientists have left us now, as their time to move on into the cosmos has come. But their stories, and their scientific discoveries are still with us.
I wish to thank all of the scientists "out there" who are able to present confusing and often incomprehensible scientific discoveries in exciting, and understandable ways.
To you, Ladies and Gentlemen, I raise my Cosmic Cup in Salute!
Take a look at this science, reworked into music. Teaching us.... about the Cosmos. Wow!
Then visit their website and be prepared to have your molecules scattered to the far ends of the cosmos by the awesomeness of it all!
http://www.symphonyofscience.com/
I love you!
Cam
Just finished the first one... AWESOME...
ReplyDeleteLOVED the music and the MESSAGE!
Love you too, Mou.
Ermmm. Great message, don`t like the music. Just give it to me in a lecture, baby!
ReplyDeleteI love Bill Nye the Science guy's enthusiasm. The music almost makes him seem ...calmer ;-)
ReplyDeleteThis is my favourite Carl Sagan:
ReplyDelete`` From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. ``
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot
LOVE this part!
ReplyDeleteI love all of it, but that last part resonates with me most.
Great post, Steve!
This is mine. If I ever find myself getting too bogged down in something I always think of this.
ReplyDeleteI like the path not mentioned:
ReplyDelete"And in this speck, where so much has happened for millenia, Steve buys a new van..."
That`s my imagined self importance for you, Cam ;~}
ReplyDeleteHeck, Steve, we all gotta feel like we have some value at some point in the cosmic span of life. Even if it's that of a dust speck. Enjoy the van, man. It really does look awesome.
ReplyDeleteCheers dude.
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