Hey guys,
I discovered this photography blog that a friend of mine makes. It's actually really cool, he has been to some amazing places and takes incredible pictures (see above). Check him out and read his stuff. 'S cool!
zondag 7 maart 2010
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Space...The final frontier
Lyrics: And what comes next
A chance to save ourselves
Imagine magma encrusted in rock
And on the surface of this world
All eyes are on the clock
All our empires, our philosophies
Our practiced faiths, our revolutions
Our proud sciences are but a flickering
In one day of the lives of the stars
We can breathe in space
They just don't want us to escape
We can breathe in space
They just don't want us to escape
And what comes next
The constellations, yes, all 88 of them
A chance to save ourselves
Like the G8, they meet to procrastinate
Greetings, we are an infant species
Crawling into our own premature decline
The north star is chairing the meeting
He knows we're spoilt
And he's sniggering at our histories
We can breathe in space
They just don't want us to escape
We can breathe in space
They just don't want us to escape
The hollow proposals mean we'll migrate
But they'll bleed us dry until the 11th hour
And when dawn breaks I'll sit and stagnate
With this metric tonne on your shoulders
How do you cope
We are an infant species
Crawling into our own premature decline
The north star is chairing the meeting
He knows we're spoilt
And he's sniggering at our histories
Let's prove the stars wrong
We've got to do this
I find it hard to believe that we are alone
A chance to save ourselves
Imagine magma encrusted in rock
And on the surface of this world
All eyes are on the clock
All our empires, our philosophies
Our practiced faiths, our revolutions
Our proud sciences are but a flickering
In one day of the lives of the stars
We can breathe in space
They just don't want us to escape
We can breathe in space
They just don't want us to escape
And what comes next
The constellations, yes, all 88 of them
A chance to save ourselves
Like the G8, they meet to procrastinate
Greetings, we are an infant species
Crawling into our own premature decline
The north star is chairing the meeting
He knows we're spoilt
And he's sniggering at our histories
We can breathe in space
They just don't want us to escape
We can breathe in space
They just don't want us to escape
The hollow proposals mean we'll migrate
But they'll bleed us dry until the 11th hour
And when dawn breaks I'll sit and stagnate
With this metric tonne on your shoulders
How do you cope
We are an infant species
Crawling into our own premature decline
The north star is chairing the meeting
He knows we're spoilt
And he's sniggering at our histories
Let's prove the stars wrong
We've got to do this
I find it hard to believe that we are alone
Okay so apart from this being an awesome with awesome lyrics back to the real deal.
I mean science is really important and the development of new technologies is what has been keeping us alive for an unfair amount of time (+Jesus Christ but no Christian bias in this arcticle) but sometimes I just think we're being stupid. We have a tendency to invest money rather strangely and our priorities seem to be rather off at times (We invest more money in the olympics than in cancer research on a yearbasis) But some stuff just gets to me.
Let me elaborate with a survey.
You are the american government. What will you spend a whole lot of money on that you still had laying around somewhere.
A) Cigarettes for Obama
B) A little extra development aid
...
If you answered C you are, sadly, right.
I mean okay rocket science is pretty cool and this http://image24.webshots.com/24/4/61/75/36646175yjffBc_ph.jpg might have been relevant somehow.
But what really gets to me how people pump so much money in NASA research that in the end leads to trivial and often nonconclusive results. Obviously we can spend our money a whole lot better instead of researching the history of the universe. If you read through the missions NASA is on you'll find that the goal very often is little more than to "improve understanding of the universe."
They really fail to show why exactly we need this right now.
Stop NASA bull
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