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Here am I floating 'round my tin can
Far above the moon.
Planet earth is blue,
And there's nothing I can do.
Far above the moon.
Planet earth is blue,
And there's nothing I can do.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Human
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File Size 49.7 kB
I'm really rather enjoying the space stuff you're doin', I've got a bit of a semi-real space tech interest that I've had for a while, perhaps I can interest you in the failed dream of the Buran?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7738489.stm
I'm sure you knew of it already, but was a fun read of its all too brief life story.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7738489.stm
I'm sure you knew of it already, but was a fun read of its all too brief life story.
Thank you! I didn't know about the Buran. I wish someone would come up with a more adaptible "space plane" soon, or do more work on a "space elevator." And, I'm gonna cut that short before I go off into this big rant about space, and exploration, and past personal history and stuff.
Oh my word, another space-head! I really want to get to know more about astronomy, but not sure where to start other than my usual crawling about the web from one topic to another, causing my mind to boggle at the vast Super-voids or Dark Matter "constructs" in far flung corners of the galaxy.
Have you read Ministry of Space? It's rather fab. Can't find screenshots of the good bits online though, it's a fabulous alternative history by Warren Ellis. I am, of course biased as it proposes a space race where Britain is the only real agent, and suggests that the combined industrial and intellectual effort of colonising space would avert Britain's decline as an Empire and as a culture in the 20th century.
http://www.grovel.org.uk/reviews/mi.....y-space-01.htm
Also, there's a rather dull BBC radio serial from the 1950s called JOURNEY INTO SPACE (I think that requires CAPS as it is an EPIC title) that you can hear the intro music to here:
http://www.jeton.themoon.co.uk/
It just cracks me up. All stuff about alien invaders stationed on Mars and things, they put it on BBC7 at the weekends and I hated it, all very plodding pre-Doctor Who stuff, but I suppose maybe I should have listened to it from the start.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
Have you read Ministry of Space? It's rather fab. Can't find screenshots of the good bits online though, it's a fabulous alternative history by Warren Ellis. I am, of course biased as it proposes a space race where Britain is the only real agent, and suggests that the combined industrial and intellectual effort of colonising space would avert Britain's decline as an Empire and as a culture in the 20th century.
http://www.grovel.org.uk/reviews/mi.....y-space-01.htm
Also, there's a rather dull BBC radio serial from the 1950s called JOURNEY INTO SPACE (I think that requires CAPS as it is an EPIC title) that you can hear the intro music to here:
http://www.jeton.themoon.co.uk/
It just cracks me up. All stuff about alien invaders stationed on Mars and things, they put it on BBC7 at the weekends and I hated it, all very plodding pre-Doctor Who stuff, but I suppose maybe I should have listened to it from the start.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
Thanks for the links!
I'm not really all that into space travel and exploration, but it really grabs me from a historical perspective as well as a physics one (how do you get there, and what sort of thing can you find out which might be hampered by being within Earth's atmosphere and gravity well?). And it's got a lot of the interesting technical aspects that I like about military stuff with the idea of science and exploration as well as/instead of violence.
Hard to explain all of it coherently, you know? It's just that now that I'm actually drawing space related stuff instead of just the fantasy, I'm finding that I actually enjoy it a lot more than I'd ever thought.
I'm not really all that into space travel and exploration, but it really grabs me from a historical perspective as well as a physics one (how do you get there, and what sort of thing can you find out which might be hampered by being within Earth's atmosphere and gravity well?). And it's got a lot of the interesting technical aspects that I like about military stuff with the idea of science and exploration as well as/instead of violence.
Hard to explain all of it coherently, you know? It's just that now that I'm actually drawing space related stuff instead of just the fantasy, I'm finding that I actually enjoy it a lot more than I'd ever thought.
Please, please, please let me link you another couple of things on the subject! =-P
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/pro......shtml#orpheus
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GPBjG_2z_Ak
That's a link to part of the rather sparse website to a slightly obscure BBC sci-fi-docu-drama type thing that was broadcast in two parts about 4 years ago. That program was so cool, seeing how difficult even near future spaceships with huge budgets would find it to explore the entire solar system out to Pluto. Really fires the imagination!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/pro......shtml#orpheus
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GPBjG_2z_Ak
That's a link to part of the rather sparse website to a slightly obscure BBC sci-fi-docu-drama type thing that was broadcast in two parts about 4 years ago. That program was so cool, seeing how difficult even near future spaceships with huge budgets would find it to explore the entire solar system out to Pluto. Really fires the imagination!
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