I'm sitting in a hotel in Coca Beach catching up on some work and excited to being going to the Space Center tomorrow to see the shuttle launch.
It was just a few weeks ago Dawn and I were here to see the Ares I-X test flight. Also, news came out recently that there is definitely water on the moon. And in a couple weeks the LHC will be back online, expanding our understanding of the universe.
What an exciting time to be alive! And in that spirit, I have to share a site I stumbled across recently called Symphony of Science. The artist, John Boswell, compiled clips of Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, and others then auto-tuned them to make them sing about science. And instead of being corny the result is really good.
The first video "We are all Connected" has among other things Feynman playing the drums like some kind of physics mystic (which I guess he was!) and Sagan walking through the desert like a shaman. Of course the message is just great, and I can't get the tune out of my head.
The next video, "A Glorius Dawn", might be my favorite. When I saw it, the very beginning of the video put a huge grin on my face that lasted throughout most of my wide-eyed viewing of the video.
There is an interesting, personal side note to this one too. As a child I used to have nightmares of a giant black hole in the sky. I'd come home from school or go outside and this thing would just be up there in the sky, completing replacing the sun. It was something of a reoccurring dream, so I remember it pretty well. (In fact I have several childhood dreams that I seem to remember well for no apparent reason.) But coming around to my point, while watching this video I've begun to wonder if my black hole wasn't really a giant galaxy from Sagan's "Cosmos" series! I certainly had seen "Cosmos" (several times) when I very young, so it would make a lot of sense.
And of course there is the LHC rap. Five million YouTube views can't be wrong!
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