JohnBates
Former Entropia Universe Evangelist
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- Oct 27, 2007
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I thought this was fairly appropriate, given that we live on a planet beyond Earth. This really touched me, I hope you enjoy it, too. I have to believe you've all felt the longing that this song speaks to, that yearning as you vizualize galaxy beyond galaxy...
First I recommend you go to this website, fire up the second video, called Glorious Dawn, and then turn away from the monitor and just listen to the song so you can have your own images the first time you hear this... Then, play it again and watch the excellent video to go with it...
http://www.symphonyofscience.com/
And, here are the words if you're having a hard time
[Sagan]
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch
You must first invent the universe
Space is filled with a network of wormholes
You might emerge somewhere else in space
Some when-else in time
The sky calls to us
If we do not destroy ourselves
We will one day venture to the stars
A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way
The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths
Of exquisite interrelationships
Of the awesome machinery of nature
I believe our future depends powerfully
On how well we understand this cosmos
In which we float like a mote of dust
In the morning sky
But the brain does much more than just recollect
It inter-compares, it synthesizes, it analyzes
it generates abstractions
The simplest thought like the concept of the number one
Has an elaborate logical underpinning
The brain has its own language
For testing the structure and consistency of the world
[Hawking]
For thousands of years
People have wondered about the universe
Did it stretch out forever
Or was there a limit
From the big bang to black holes
From dark matter to a possible big crunch
Our image of the universe today
Is full of strange sounding ideas
[Sagan]
How lucky we are to live in this time
The first moment in human history
When we are in fact visiting other worlds
The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean
Recently we've waded a little way out
And the water seems inviting
(then, once you're done with that, f you're still feeling like being inspired watch the intro to the Cosmos series he did, it's spine tingling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7n71pm0K04&feature=video_response)
The first video at the symphonyofscience site, We are All Connected, is also very good. I love the part: "It makes me want to grab people in the street and say, 'Have you heard this!?'"
PS, if you want a writer who captures this in his every word check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair_Reynolds I recommend you just start with Revelation Space and read everything. I have!
JKB
First I recommend you go to this website, fire up the second video, called Glorious Dawn, and then turn away from the monitor and just listen to the song so you can have your own images the first time you hear this... Then, play it again and watch the excellent video to go with it...
http://www.symphonyofscience.com/
And, here are the words if you're having a hard time
[Sagan]
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch
You must first invent the universe
Space is filled with a network of wormholes
You might emerge somewhere else in space
Some when-else in time
The sky calls to us
If we do not destroy ourselves
We will one day venture to the stars
A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way
The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths
Of exquisite interrelationships
Of the awesome machinery of nature
I believe our future depends powerfully
On how well we understand this cosmos
In which we float like a mote of dust
In the morning sky
But the brain does much more than just recollect
It inter-compares, it synthesizes, it analyzes
it generates abstractions
The simplest thought like the concept of the number one
Has an elaborate logical underpinning
The brain has its own language
For testing the structure and consistency of the world
[Hawking]
For thousands of years
People have wondered about the universe
Did it stretch out forever
Or was there a limit
From the big bang to black holes
From dark matter to a possible big crunch
Our image of the universe today
Is full of strange sounding ideas
[Sagan]
How lucky we are to live in this time
The first moment in human history
When we are in fact visiting other worlds
The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean
Recently we've waded a little way out
And the water seems inviting
(then, once you're done with that, f you're still feeling like being inspired watch the intro to the Cosmos series he did, it's spine tingling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7n71pm0K04&feature=video_response)
The first video at the symphonyofscience site, We are All Connected, is also very good. I love the part: "It makes me want to grab people in the street and say, 'Have you heard this!?'"
PS, if you want a writer who captures this in his every word check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair_Reynolds I recommend you just start with Revelation Space and read everything. I have!
JKB
hehe
