Fri May 4, 2012, 12:46 AM

eqfan592 (5,109 posts)

Outer Space

This video gave me serious chills. Just beautiful...

I found the video over at the Bad Astronomers blog here.

The events depicted take days, even weeks to play out. Yet somehow, the quick shots and fast cuts — necessary because in many cases there really aren’t very many images to play with — add to the majesty and grandeur of what you see. I suppose that’s no more paradoxical than having canvases far bigger than Earth, yet loaded with detail packed into those vast frameworks.

The Universe is magnificent on every scale, both in space and time. That’s one of the reasons I like working there.

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10 replies	Author	Time	Post
Outer Space (Original post)	eqfan592	May 2012	OP
So beautiful. Thanks for sharing, eqfan! nt	Mnemosyne	May 2012	#1
Thanks for the post	Meiko	May 2012	#2
The only thing I hate about this video	deutsey	May 2012	#3
Fantastically cool! nt	emmadoggy	May 2012	#4
The Cassini mission has yeilded such great returns.	sky imager	May 2012	#5
Here here!!	eqfan592	May 2012	#6
i have no problem with funding nasa....	tomp	May 2012	#8
very cool	DiverDave	May 2012	#7
Outer Space?	AlbertCat	May 2012	#9
Shared on FB.	MineralMan	May 2012	#10

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Fri May 4, 2012, 01:08 AM

Mnemosyne (16,155 posts)

1. So beautiful. Thanks for sharing, eqfan! nt

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Fri May 4, 2012, 06:38 AM

Meiko (1,076 posts)

2. Thanks for the post

the video is incredible.

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Fri May 4, 2012, 09:37 AM

deutsey (16,782 posts)

3. The only thing I hate about this video

is that it's too damn short.

Thanks for posting.

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Fri May 4, 2012, 04:09 PM

emmadoggy (1,806 posts)

4. Fantastically cool! nt

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Fri May 4, 2012, 08:03 PM

sky imager (34 posts)

5. The Cassini mission has yeilded such great returns.

You want to bring this country back into the age of innovation and discovery? Double NASA's budget..

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Fri May 4, 2012, 10:47 PM

eqfan592 (5,109 posts)

6. Here here!!

Here's another great video, dealing with that very topic.

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Sun May 6, 2012, 09:47 AM

tomp (8,607 posts)

8. i have no problem with funding nasa....

....with certain caveats.

de grassi implies that the future is equated with technology and forgets that technology is part of the problem. human beings have other kinds of dreams beyond technological ones.

we need as much investment in the arts and in moral and psychological training, which will lead to improvements in the intense interpersonal problems we as a species face.

nasa must also be absolutely non-military and non-corporate (actually, everything should be).

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Sun May 6, 2012, 07:36 AM

DiverDave (3,682 posts)