If you are a space enthusiast, this is well worth 400 seconds of your time for the unique perspective it offers…like strapping a HERO Go Pro camera to a booster and getting it back.
From the upcoming Special Edition Ascent: Commemorating Space Shuttle DVD/BluRay by NASA/Glenn a movie from the point of view of the Solid Rocket Booster with sound mixing and enhancement done by the folks at Skywalker Sound. The sound is all from the camera microphones and not fake or replaced with foley artist sound. The Skywalker sound folks just helped bring it out and make it more audible.
mark ro says:
July 27, 2013 at 6:41 pm
Because Obama has “repurposed” NASA’s main mission from space exploration to making Muslims feel good about their contributions to science. I kid you not.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7875584/Barack-Obama-Nasa-must-try-to-make-Muslims-feel-good.html
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2010/07/white-house-nasa-defend-comments-about-nasa-outreach-to-muslim-world-criticized-by-conservatives/
Nice! Thanks for sharing.
Where is the Dramamine 😉
Thanks, Milodon Harlani (6:53PM). Much appreciated.
Why did you not also cite a comment along the same lines by Geo Lurking at 5:35PM, Mr. Mark Ro? Geo’s excellent comment inspired my attempt to address the issue. You will see from the supporting documentation which Milodon H. so kindly supplied that I was not wildly off topic, just tangentially.
I’ve learned a lesson thanks to this experience: from now on, I will always cite a supporting document re: the “M-us-lim self-esteem” issue.
Janice Moore says:
July 27, 2013 at 7:03 pm
I am neither Christian nor Muslim and my “esteem” has never been an issue.
You know, I hate to find fault in anything, but sometimes we need to remember why things happen.
More importantly, their impact on an ongoing basis.
Sorry, but I believe the EPA has liability.
More currently to follow with policy propagating though the system with respect to coal fired power plants.
OT? Maybe……….
Just my take >
Here, have some old internet insight?…….
http://www.elcovaforums.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-18123.html
Thank you for that link! That was one of the most enjoyable videos ever. Brings back memories of when I wanted to be an astronaut as a child …
I got people who won’t look at a climate blog, and they were entranced.
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mark ro says:
July 27, 2013 at 7:14 pm
Janice Moore says:
July 27, 2013 at 7:03 pm
I am neither Christian nor Muslim and my “esteem” has never been an issue.
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Let’s call it a feature, then.
u.k.(us) says:
July 27, 2013 at 7:22 pm
Call it what you will.
I saw that a year or so ago, nice to see it again. The creaky metallic sounds sound after burnout were not at all what I expected.
I don’t know if there’s been a reference here, but a recent video does a great job showing how fog and other low stratus clouds flow. It’s from footage in the San Francisco area, home to some of the best fog around. From mail I sent to my group at work:
On a business trip to the Bay area decades ago, I saw a cap cloud on the coastal range during the airplane’s approach.
I saw it again, from below, outside the car rental building.
I had plenty of time, so I drove up to Skyline Blvd to drive through the fog too.
However, the best way to understand fog and cap clouds, is timelapse photography. See
– SF fog. Laminar flow at its best.
And while you’re at it, time lapse stars and stacked star trails:
– Death Valley I
– Death Valley II
Hollywood would have us believe that Moors had the telescope before AD 1200:
History has it that Hans Lippershey or another Dutch or German lens-maker invented it c. AD 1608. I favor the accidental discovery by kids playing around with lenses, but in fact no one knows for sure.
Except that it was in early 17th century NW Europe, not 12th or early 13th century North Africa or western Asia.
Which is not to belittle the contributions that Asia made to ancient, medieval & early modern science, which are of course considerable.
All great things we accomplish when left to create the imagination.
Those two video’s were awesome what an era I grew up in , Thanks guys just awesome
Nice. A reminder that we were once a spacefaring nation, before Obama.
Per ardua as astra….Insha’Allah..
FYI;
Off topic but somewhat newsworthy. Joe Romm’s Climate Progress is supposedly ‘going all Hollywood’ on Monday. Big changes to the site.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/07/27/2010391/climate-progress-is-being-expanded-and-redesigned/
Henry
Per ardua ad astra…
Ben D says:
July 27, 2013 at 8:25 pm
Per ardua ad astra…
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Per ardua ad astra (“Through adversity to the stars” or “Through struggle to the stars”)
Dang, must you tax me so, for the reward !!
henry53 says:
July 27, 2013 at 8:21 pm
Is Climate Progress really “the most widely read climate science blog on the web”? I’d like to see Smokin’ Joe’s data supporting that claim.
I’ve seen envious CACCA sites assert entirely data-free that WUWT only gets its traffic through bots. In that case, count me as a bot rather than a human with relevant degrees & experience.
u.k.(us)
good one…lol
Thank you for sharing the spectacular beauty of those videos, Ric Werme. What a treat.
“Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised!”
“The heavens declare the glory of God.”
[Yes, YES, Mr. Harlani, I know you think that is a bunch of nonsense. I couldn’t help but express my spontaneous praise.]
BTW, Mr. H., what in the WORLD is that man’s point (above) about his self-esteem?? I’m just going to ignore him, for I have no idea what he’s trying to say. I don’t think he read your links re: NASA.
Anthony,
I saw these on the NASA site about a year ago or so. We’ve shown them flat screen on our planetarium dome. Trying to get them full dome – if we can buy enough airsickness bags. The sounds of the cooling SRB’s and the wind sounds have been used (modified somewhat) to give an unearthly sound to some of our planet tours – especially around asteroids. Quite fun messing with a full dome digital system and a 5.1 surround sound system, by the way with some 2000 watts (yup, I didn’t hit an extra zero) of subwoofer power.
We also use the lift off, short flight sequence and the SRB SEP as a video logo for our monthly science program. It’s for the Christa McAuliffe Planetarium in Pueblo, CO, owned by Pueblo City Schools, district 60. One of five in the nation owned by a school district.
Mike
Janice Moore says:
July 27, 2013 at 8:47 pm
Why would you suppose that because I know that ID is a load of stinking garbage even more anti-scientific that CACCA, that I don’t share your enthusiasm (in its literal, original Greek sense) for Nature & Nature’s God & man’s attempt to participate in & experience the eternal?
ID & creationism are an afront to real theism, the blasphemy of bibliolatry, the worship of a false god, a book written by men (& maybe one woman) trying to grasp the eternal, instead of the creator, reverance for the Word rather that the World as actually made.
When you can understand how deeply anti-scientific is ID, then you might appreciate even more fully the odium of CACCA, its secular kin.
henry53 says:
July 27, 2013 at 8:21 pm
Is Climate Progress really “the most widely read climate science blog on the web”? I’d like to see Smokin’ Joe’s data supporting that claim.
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According to him, having lots of twits and faceberks following him somehow represents the number of readers of his blog:
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/03/11/1699581/climate-progress-milestone-50000-followers-on-twitter-and-facebook/
The Green Hills of Earth
Let the sweet fresh breezes heal me
As they rove around the girth
Of our lovely mother planet
Of the cool, green hills of Earth.
We rot in the moulds of Venus,
We retch at her tainted breath.
Foul are her flooded jungles,
Crawling with unclean death.
We’ve tried each spinning space mote
And reckoned its true worth:
Take us back again to the homes of men
On the cool, green hills of Earth.
The arching sky is calling
Spacemen back to their trade.
ALL HANDS! STAND BY! FREE FALLING!
And the lights below us fade.
Out ride the sons of Terra,
Far drives the thundering jet,
Up leaps a race of Earthmen,
Out, far, and onward yet —
We pray for one last landing
On the globe that gave us birth;
Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies
And the cool, green hills of Earth.
–Robert A Heinlein
That was the very first science fiction novel i read.
“LIGHT THIS CANDLE!” Alan B. Shepard…