We are stardust, We are golden

[DoYouEverWonder]

I came upon a child of god
He was walking along the road
And I asked him, where are you going
And this he told me
I’m going on down to yasgur’s farm
I’m going to join in a rock ’n’ roll band
I’m going to camp out on the land
I’m going to try an’ get my soul free
We are stardust
We are golden
And we’ve got to get ourselves
Back to the garden


15 January 2006



A capsule containing dust collected from stars and a comet has landed on Earth after a seven-year space mission.

The US probe Stardust released the capsule as it flew past Earth after a 3 billion-mile (4.7 billion km) trip.

The capsule plunged through the atmosphere and touched down in the Utah desert at 0312 (1012 GMT).

Scientists believe the pristine particles snatched from a comet and interstellar space will give insights into the origins of the Solar System.

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The main parachute opened at about 3km (10,000ft), and brought the capsule down to land on a military base southwest of Salt Lake City.

"All stations, we have touchdown," an announcer declared to a jubilant control room.

It is the first time in history that a space mission has brought back such material.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4614222.stm


This is so cool. This is the sort of thing we should be putting our brightest and best on instead of spending billions trying to find bigger and better ways to kill people.

We are stardust, we are golden and it is way past time to go back to the garden and to working on projects like this that will benefit humanity and to stop the madmen that would rather destroy everything instead.

[H2O Man]

1. Yes. n/t

[hwmnbn]

2. Very cool post, DoYouEverWonder......

I was hearing that CSN&Y song in my head while I was reading this story.

I'm with you about getting back to the garden. :hippie:

[frogbison]

4. Credit where it's due department

Joni Mitchell wrote Woodstock. :hippie:

[JuniperLea]

5. She had love in her eyes and flowers in her hair

Per "Going to California", the Led Zeppelin classic with lyrics penned by Robert Plant.

I've always said that everything you ever needed to know could be found in rock and roll.

From BOC's Albert Bouchard...

This ain’t the garden of Eden
There ain’t no angels above
And things ain’t what they used to be
And this ain’t the summer of love

That's ok. I'm heading back to the garden. I'm going to lie down in the tall grass, spill the wine and gaze at the stars. Yes, this is what the great minds of our Nation should be focusing upon. It's a very sad time when so many brilliant people are knee-deep in creating the eve of destruction instead of studying the world we live in in an attempt to better understand how we can all live together in peace and harmony.

[hwmnbn]

10. You know you're right.....

but I've never heard her sing it. LOL

[frogbison]

22. It's wonderful!

You can find it on Miles of Aisles, a great disk that I reccomend.

[enough]

3. Thanks. (nt)

[sshaw1980]

6. I'm really excited about this too...

---------:thumbsup:---------:hi:

[boobooday]

7. That is TOO COOL

I had to send it to my Dad.

Thanks for posting it!

[CrispyQ]

8. Very cool!

Thanks for posting!

:hi:

[flpoljunkie]

9. Very nice! K&R.

[BlueEyedSon]

11. "We are made of starstuff" -- Carl Sagan

"All the elements (atoms, molecules) that make up our bodies and the Earth itself come
from the inside of stars. We are made of starstuff"
-- Carl Sagan (Cosmos - 1980)

[DoYouEverWonder]

12. Dupe post

[DoYouEverWonder]

13. When I say 'we are stardust' I mean it

literally.

When you think of what that means, the implications are mind blowing.

My neo-gnostic take on the whole thing is that god is light, light creates stardust, we are created from stardust - along with everything else, therefore god is in everything, so we are god.

[Surya Gayatri]

16. And there you have it...

The Ultimate Theory of the Universe and Everything.

"...therefore god is in everything, so we are god."


Yes, WE ARE GOD. Even the BFEE and other manifestations of 'evil' are embodiments of the Light--hard as it is to get your mind around that one most of the time! LOL! SG

Edit: And thanks for much for this awesome and thought provoking post, Wonder!

[DeepModem Mom]

14. K&R.

[Wordie]

15. Wonder and awe...SO much better than shock and awe.

Thanks for this post, DoYouEverWonder.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

18. That Is A Perfect Line. I Agree Wholeheartedly.

:toast:

[whatelseisnew]

17. k/r

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

19. I've Been Following This Too. Check This Out Below DoYouEverWonder!

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/01/10/stardust.search.ap/

I can't wait for this!

[DoYouEverWonder]

20. Yes! Computer users wanted in star dust hunt

January 15, 2006

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Computer users are being invited to join the hunt for minute grains of star dust that a NASA spacecraft returned to Earth this weekend.

The Stardust spacecraft landed in Utah early Sunday, carrying in its hold a sprinkling of grains of interstellar dust scooped up during its seven-year mission.

Researchers are seeking the public's help in pinpointing the submicroscopic bits of dust, leftovers from stellar explosions perhaps millions of years old, in photos they plan to place on the Web.

Researchers should begin posting in March the first of an anticipated 1.5 million microscopic images of the collector plate that Stardust used to snag the dust grains while it orbited our sun.

The hope is that keen-eyed participants in the Stardust@home project can expedite the search for the estimated 45 interstellar dust grains Stardust is expected to have captured by helping sift through the hundreds of thousands of pictures of the roughly square-foot collector plate.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/01/10/stardust.search.ap/


Here's a link to the website for the project but I don't see anything up there yet about participating? I would love to help look. It sounds like fun, sort of like fossil hunting and it would sure beats wasting time playing spider solitaire.




http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stardust/main/index.html

Thanks for the info.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

21. HERE YA GO!!!!!! (Links)

This is the main site.

http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

This is the pre-registration link

http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/prereg.html

[DoYouEverWonder]

27. Thanks for the link

Done.

[stop the bleeding]

23. Well said and so true. n/t

[tomreedtoon]

24. "We are Lemmings, we are crazies...

"...we will push our Flower Power, pushing daisies."

(From National Lampoon's "Lemmings," a depressingly incisive off-Broadway show that had the New Left kids of the 1960's committing mass suicide rather than deal with the real world.)

I'm sorry if this throws cold water on the lovefest, but I lived through the Sixties, and that idealism untempered by practical, down-to-earth reality is what led to Vietnam, Nixon and Reagan. And it looks like it's about to insure Bush's place in history.

Besides, probes coming from space can have nasty effects. Or did you skip reading "The Andromeda Strain?"

[Wilms]

25. .

[Fredda Weinberg]

26. Remember Andromeda Strain

Disease that began in the brain.
First you'd go mad,
Then you'd be dead.
For once a disease that began in the head.

Remember the lesson it bred?

Peace and calm are all right for some,
Others need to live on the run.
Both if exposed will exhibit the slowing,
But some will survive.

Finally we learned what we were all about,
Acids and bases revolving in doubt.
Living extremely can be unseemly,
But some did survive.

[opihimoimoi]

28. On one hand we have Opportunity and on the other: We Humans are a MISTAKE

an abberation, a cancer, etc

Can we learn in Time...?

[bigtree]

29. I gotta say

I like the space stuff, I just don't like paying for it. Not now, with all of the earthly priorities that are un addressed and unmet. I also strongly reject giving the money from our hard earned sacrifices to the same bunch, Lockheed, Boeing, who, in turn, use our money, their influence and standing to lobby for more destructive weaponry which only decreases the likelihood that we will survive long enough to enjoy this life and benefit from the secrets we are so anxious to unravel.