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Saturday Afternoon Theater: “The Open Road Still Softly Calls” 3 Videos on Space Exploration & Wonder.

Posted by mistergroonk in Movies, Science, Space on January 15, 2011

Gathered here are three videos on the wonders of space exploration. The two below are short films. The video below the jump is the 30 years of the Space Shuttle commemorative film documenting shuttle launches.

Reid Gower’s: NASA – The Frontier Is Everywhere
A man, frustrated with NASA’s poor publicity skills, creates kick-ass video of his own.

With crazy credit to Michael Marantz.

MAVEN Mission to Investigate How Sun Steals Martian Atmosphere

NASA release October 5, 2010

The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN), set to launch in 2013, will explore the planet’s upper atmosphere, ionosphere and interactions with the sun and solar wind. Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN’s Principal Investigator discusses the mission.

Credit: NASA/Goddard/Chris Smith

Freefall below the cut for the main event:

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NASA Proposes One-Way trip to Mars, Surprised When Hundreds Volunteer

Posted by mistergroonk in Science, Space on January 14, 2011

living on Mars

So a few scientists proposed an unconventional idea: send astronauts — but simplify the flight by making it a one-way trip. The astronauts would be settlers as well as explorers. A return trip is massively more difficult than the voyage there, partly because the fuel and supplies to get home would have make the round trip from Earth.

It’s just a fanciful idea for now — but the editors say they were stunned when more than 500 e-mail messages came from people around the world, volunteering to be the first Mars colonists.

Students, soldiers, law enforcement officers, nurses, and space enthusiasts young and old wrote in, saying they’d be happy to leave their lives on Earth for the chance to be pioneers. (The response was so great, in fact, that the journal announced Thursday that it would actively seek volunteers and supporters for a Mars mission. It encouraged the public to sign up on the journal’s home page or e-mail them.)

Have you seen the world lately? Mars looks like the better bet with each passing day.

When asked why he would be willing to leave his son, family and friends behind, he said, “Christopher Columbus did it. It’s a pioneering thing. …Because it’s there.”

Well, yeah. There’s that, too.

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Ray Bradbury is Mad as Snakes, Claims there are Too Many Internets. Rachel Bloom Shares Her Bradbury Love.

Posted by mistergroonk in Books, Interviews, Music, Video on August 17, 2010

Prolific science future writer Ray Bradbury had a few things to share about today’s world. His words are political, frustrated, and a tinge desparate. While we agree with his thoughts on returning to the moon, Mars and the universe at large, we see a lot of angry old man shaking his cane at today’s youth in his words. That always makes it difficult to separate the useful wheat from the crazy chaff.

For example:

Useful Bradbury

“He[President Obama] should be announcing that we should go back to the moon,”

“We should never have left there. We should go to the moon and prepare a base to fire a rocket off to Mars and then go to Mars and colonize Mars. Then when we do that, we will live forever.”

Crazy Bradbury

“We have too many cellphones. We’ve got too many Internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.”

Bradbury says he’s not technology obsessive which is fine and good. Lots of people aren’t. We can’t help but wonder how humanity will ever reach the stars without massive amounts of proven technology. Unless he’s invented the fine art of “traveling without moving” we’re gonna need those machines for future use.

Rachel Bloom’s “Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury”
And now, hold on tight as we take a wild left turn. The following is a sexy pop music video about Ray Bradbury created by You Tuber racheldoesstuff . There’s no doubt Bradbury’s crazy old man rant was never meant to mix with this catchy NSFW tune. That’s just how we roll.

Our universe lives in dichotomy.

via @comicscavern, @richl1, la times, racheldoesstuff

UPDATE: Ray Bradbury watching “Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury”

Thanks, Ain’t It Cool.

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