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The Official Space Appreciation Thread

RemadERemadE Global Moderator
edited March 2011 in Spurious Generalities
I was torn between SG and OTH to post this in, but figured to go for OTH as it moves slower than SG and there is less risk of derailment...plus we might get someone who lurks there and knows a fuckton about Space.
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So I just got in from having a smoke and staring at the stars. Blocking out the hedonistic Students all around me (it is a Friday, after all) and listening to "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" I looked up, and after a few seconds, the beauty of the night sky came out.

Anyone else here fucking love Space? The hope that one day we as a race could inhabit other planets and maybe, just maybe, make life better for ourselves. We could get started on it now, but alas, we are still stuck with trivial, Earthly matters such as religion, war, poverty and depression - all in a world where there is so much possibility, and a Universe with even more.

Who's with me? Let's discuss the beauty of Space, current Space programs, future plans and hypothetical situations such as terraforming and other cool shit.

And to make it an even better thread, enjoy these links to pictures (too big to post here) and names of some good Space movies I have seen. Feel free to add your own.
So cast away any religious views, any political theories and enjoy what is one of nature's most awe-inspiring feats of time.

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Pics

http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/2529/1295633005077.jpg

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/4516/1295632284561.jpg

http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/1627/1295625231549.jpg

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/6039/1295632090866.jpg

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/2715/1295627435402.jpg

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/8123/1295627147227.jpg

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/1773/1295628904534.jpg

http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/3708/1295630834159.jpg

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/3180/1295630716029.jpg

http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/8580/1295627939201.jpg

Movies

2001 A Space Odessey
Moon
Sunshine
Event Horizon

Documentaries

National Geographic: Journey to The Edge of The Universe
BBC Horizon episodes on Space

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Will be added to in time.
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  • threatthreat New Arrival
    edited January 2011
    Here, http://www.zooniverse.org/projects you can help contribute to the astronomy society by classing galaxies, finding craters on the moon and many other projects. You just need to create an account, and you could literally be the first person to see a certain photograph of a celestial object.

    I hope to be taking astronomy and physics in University this year, well see how it goes.
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  • UnknownUnknown
    edited January 2011
    RemadE wrote: »
    Movies

    2001 A Space Odessey
    Moon
    Sunshine
    The Man from Earth
    Event Horizon

    The Man from Earth has nothing to do with space, lol.

    Contributing:


    All 13 episodes of Carl Sagan's Cosmos on Hulu:
    http://www.hulu.com/cosmos
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  • RemadERemadE Global Moderator
    edited January 2011
    Cheers brah. Duly edited. How did that get in there? To be fair I mae this when veery under the influence, staring into Space :P
    Might do the same tonight, actually.
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  • MayberryMayberry Regular
    edited January 2011
    I've loved space ever since I was a kid. I wanted to be an astronaut :o

    I guess the thing that ignited my whole interest in it was Star Wars :D
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  • starfox223starfox223 Regular
    edited March 2011
    I hope that within my lifetime low to high orbit space travel is possible and cheap.

    I think right now space travel is "open to the public" with space shipOne but its like $300,000 a ticket and its only low orbit flight. Barely get the effects of zero g
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