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Post by Original Admin on Dec 27, 2006 17:31:28 GMT -5
I found this amateur movie of the latest take off.
Normally im not really into the music which is on this vid - but infact I think that whoever did it dubbed probably a most appropriate track to the film.
Well have a watch - and listen to the words and see what you think.
Especially when the two boosters depart the craft and theres nothing but a blue dot on the screen - which of course harbours lives.
It is 42MB
Great stuff.
Last Edit: Dec 27, 2006 17:32:21 GMT -5 by Original Admin
Aye, it is truley awesome. there are a few moments in my crazy life I will never forget. The JFK assasination, what caused my divorce, the shuttle blowing up just off the pad, and when the second plane hit on 911. I have to admit to taking the shuttle program for granted for a while but my interest has been rekindled, I am sorry that it is ending. But pray there is something bigger and better on the horizon though I don't know what it will be.
Aye, fight and you may die, run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!
I love this song I play it alot and vid is good with the song good words for it thank you for sharing it with me... Growing up all I wanted was to go to space for NASA!! Now I am grown up I still want to go to space for NASA! Steph
It's awesome all right. Probably the best thing us humans have ever done. Did you see the recent issue of National Geographic with the pictures fo Saturn? or the Mars pictures? Also awesome.
Post by rollingstone on Dec 29, 2006 2:58:09 GMT -5
admin said:
I cant believe you guys dont have anything to say about this vid and its soundtrack?
WOW - the space missions maybe really mean nothing after all.
Well not to me dudes.
If we dont get the hell off this rock - then we are well and truly gone. These guys who fly fireworks like this are salt of the earth.
More balls than a snooker table
NASA is in my view anyways the greatest organisation on this planet - I think they should be funded by every nation on earth.
Great stuff NASA is.
Mark,
Okay, I'm interested in most things space-related, but I passed on your original post, in part because the 42 meg download seemed a bit much, and in part because I consider the space shuttle to be the bane of the exploration of space. But since you came back at it here, I thought it only fair that I watch the video link you posted, and then comment.
Well, that is indeed an impressive video (music-linked also), and it probably gives me my best perspective ever on what a shuttle launch actually looks like. And if I ever had the chance, I would definitely watch a launch, despite my negativity on the space-shuttle program overall. So kudos to you on the vid-link.
But I should explain my negativity on the shuttle program. I just don't see the point. Take billions of dollars out of other wonderful space exploration programs, or at least that could be better directed to other programs, and spend multi-billions on a program that sends a fancy airplane up to a sardine-can of astronauts, operating in low-Earth orbit, doing nothing special except riding around in the sardine-can doing nothing. I can't help but wonder what could have been done if all that money had been used for more useful space exploration.
I'm one of the weirdos who still have the "Opportunity" and "Spirit" Mars rovers links in my favourites, and check their progress frequently.
Exploring space is good. Wasting money on the space-shuttle instead of truly exploring space is bad.
I got a blank page from the link so maybe it's been removed already. I don't have speakers anyway but love watching the shuttle fly.
The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done. George Carlin
Post by Original Admin on Dec 29, 2006 17:31:54 GMT -5
Yes I have left the file on the server so the movie can still be viewed for certain. On my pc I play it with windows media player - nothing fancy needed to play it, but for anyone who cant see it and you want to then download windows media player from the microsoft website - its free.
Mark, I watched your movie and I liked it very much. I share the same feelings you do about the shuttle program. Living 20 miles from KSC, I see all the launches, good & bad, and it still takes my breathe away. I say a prayer as they are lifting off and say another as they are landing. If you want to see one go, you've got 4 years to get over here!! LOL It will be worth the vacation.
That was really cool! They picked a good song to go with the film - If you listen close to the words it really goes with all that those brave people do! Like the saying goes in the movie 'Armagedon' - "We're sitting on top of a scrap pile of metal that was put together from parts that were contracted out to the cheapest bidder - what do you think?!?" We go to Florida on vacation every spring but have never timed it right for a launch. The closest whe were was about a week before - would definitly love to see one of those birds go up! Great clip Mark!
I am all for manned space exploration but I have to agree that the shuttles are a bit of an embarrasment at this point. I KNOW we can do a bit beter than that during this day and age.
One thing the video does show very well is the incredible amount of fuel burned and resulting exhaust & pollution generated during the launches. That CAN'T be good for the planet. Sort of ironic if you think about it.
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Post by Original Admin on Jan 5, 2007 20:50:04 GMT -5
Thanks all for the replies - space is very much important to me. Very important
I wish NASA would stop sticking HD vids on their site as I cant play them smoothly - when I play them they are starting and stopping - kind of jerky all the time.
Not everyone has a 10 grand PC you know NASA.
Well at least theres artists out there taking this sort of vid - but I must admit I like to see the finer details of a launch.
Cool!!! Got my daughter out the other night with the telescope- We got to see Orion- and the Pleides cluster (at least 150 stars in the fov) and while we were out there we got a fly by of the ISS- man oh man was this thing bright!!!! that new solar array has really brightened it up!- Can't wait till the skys clear again so I can start imaging
I can't tell if thats some Gneiss Schist, or that Schist is Gneiss. All I know is don't take it for Granite
Ahhh yes, I go outside to watch the ISS pass as often as the orbtial epoch & local skies will permit me to. For some reason I just never seem to get bored of watching that little hunk of metal with people inside ccrossing overhead two hundred miles up & 15000 miles an hour.
I was once fortunate enough to catch the ISS in my viewfinder with my 40mm wide angle eyepiece on my Maksutov-Cassegrain scope. Fast moving targets like the ISS are tricky to get into view and keep there long enough to see any detail.
I have a tripod mounted Alt/Az clock drive so I was able to keep up with it using the fine slew control for about a minute until it went into the eastern terminator, where it quickly became an orange-red-brown spec and got lost in the haze near the horizon.
Still, it was the single coolest unintentional thing to happen while I was using my telescope and I could totally tell that it was not just a shapeless spec! It's sorta like looking across the state of Colorado at something you can only tell is a vehicle but not what model.
In other space news:
NASA has finally decided to adopt the metric system for all future projects to avoid another embarassing incident leading to the loss of a space vehicle due to an imperial-metric discrepancy.
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I believe I happened to catch a glimpse of the ISS once about a year ago with the naked eye. I was working a night shift and got home in the morning about 45 minutes before sun-up. There was just a hint of morning light on the horizon. As usual I glanced up to the stars to get a look before going in and noticed a very small, reflective type light moving really fast above me. My first thought was that it was an airplane until I realized how far up there it was and the fact that it was many times faster than anything I had ever seen. It looked to be reflecting those first rays of the morning light at the top of the arch and I followed it for about 30 seconds until it got far enough to the north that it winked out on the dark side. Really cool! I mentioned it to my dad and he agreed that it could have been the ISS or one of the other many satellites up there. Looked for it a few more times after that every morning but never saw it again. Must have been just the perfect moment and conditions.
Post by rollingstone on Jan 10, 2007 15:57:52 GMT -5
Here's a link to a NASA site that will calculate when the space station is visible from your location, for all possible sightings over the next two weeks. The ISS is very bright in a dark sky and appears to move across the sky a bit slower than an airplane, so it's pretty much unmistakeable. (It is of course moving many times faster than a plane, but is also much further away, so the apparent speeds aren't much different.) -Don spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/
Thanks don- I have that link Bookmarked but could not remember what it was- It is very cool- and will also give you data on the 100's of other observable sattalites!
I can't tell if thats some Gneiss Schist, or that Schist is Gneiss. All I know is don't take it for Granite
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