This is a static copy of In the Rose Garden, which existed as the center of the western Utena fandom for years. Enjoy. :)
#1 | Back to Top12-12-2010 01:03:42 AM
Space Exploration
For fans of the space shuttle or space exploration in general, this is 45 minutes of absolute joy.
Make with the clickety
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#2 | Back to Top12-12-2010 03:18:33 PM
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I cried a little. 
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#3 | Back to Top12-12-2010 03:58:32 PM
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Giovanna wrote:
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I cried a little.
*hug*
T'was gorgeous, was it not?
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#5 | Back to Top03-07-2011 01:27:37 AM
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Oh my god...
This is just as beautiful. Shots from the latest and last Discovery launch..
Make with the clickety
And something mindblowing in its silly ambition. ;)
Even more clickety
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#6 | Back to Top03-09-2011 08:48:20 PM
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Ashnod wrote:
Oh my god...
This is just as beautiful. Shots from the latest and last Discovery launch..
Make with the clickety
And something mindblowing in its silly ambition. ;)
Even more clickety
I saw the last Discovery launch live. I sort of cried a little. Ah, that's an era of our exploration that's over. Let's hope the next one is better.
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#7 | Back to Top05-02-2011 02:38:46 AM
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#8 | Back to Top05-02-2011 05:21:02 PM
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There's some small hope. Stuff like SpaceX is the future, and where we stand right now in regards to human space exploration. Russia will continue to send people up, Americans included (we pay a great deal for those tickets, btw), but like us, they haven't improved the tech in a long time, and aren't really funding it. SpaceX is good because it's all we've got, and I'm not dissing on commercial exploration. Frankly, we all know that's how it's going to happen in the long term.
I just wish our governments were still willing to fund curiosity and science for its own sake. Governments only do that in times of excess and wealth, and I know that. So it as much marks the end of an economic era as it does tell me what the overall state of humanity is.
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#9 | Back to Top09-18-2011 01:16:57 AM
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Watch this now.
I'm not kidding. RIGHT NOW. Watch this.
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#10 | Back to Top09-21-2011 08:48:09 AM
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You know, most anyone can do that these days. There are instructions online for how to attach a camera to a balloon, with a GPS tracker, have it shoot into space, and then have it come back down.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10354588-1.html
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#11 | Back to Top10-06-2011 10:53:08 AM
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#12 | Back to Top11-08-2011 09:44:48 AM
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#13 | Back to Top11-08-2011 11:04:56 AM
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Awesome!
Ashnod, ever tried to hear the sounds of space? (you can find it on youtube) The electromagnetic waves are converted into audible sounds. Each object has it's own, distinct sound... and Earth... sounds like singing... 
"Get back to the surface, where the sunlight is so dazzling"
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#14 | Back to Top11-08-2011 11:22:09 AM
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How can people not marvel at this stuff?
And I've heard Sounds of Space! Eeeerie stuff. 
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#15 | Back to Top11-09-2011 03:06:50 AM
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Yeah, Saturn must have been taught to sing in the deepest, uncharted bowels of hell...
"Get back to the surface, where the sunlight is so dazzling"
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#16 | Back to Top11-09-2011 07:48:32 AM
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We already know everything we need to know about space.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EVo_ksJAho
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#17 | Back to Top11-09-2011 12:30:46 PM
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wblstudios wrote:
We already know everything we need to know about space.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EVo_ksJAho
Nah, space has a Terrible Secret.
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#18 | Back to Top11-09-2011 12:49:20 PM
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Back on topic, though. Whenever I watch THIS, I get goosebumps and then want to sob. Holy crap is this beautiful. Ignore anything South Park said about. Enjoy the space travel sequence for it is and what it represents.
They should have sent a poet.
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#19 | Back to Top11-14-2011 08:40:43 AM
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Five Minutes of the Earth in rotation. Not a bad way to start off the week! 
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#20 | Back to Top12-12-2011 11:18:09 PM
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http://www.space.com/13879-spacex-drago … unced.html
On my birthday no less! 
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#21 | Back to Top12-12-2011 11:33:25 PM
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Giovanna wrote:
http://www.space.com/13879-spacex-dragon-space-station-launch-date-announced.html
On my birthday no less!
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#22 | Back to Top02-24-2012 11:29:12 AM
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If you have not seen this, you need to do so right now. The Scale of the Universe 2
It's an interactive comparison of the sizes of different things, from Planck length up to the scale of the known universe.
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#24 | Back to Top09-13-2012 08:32:36 PM
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This is freaking Mars.
MARS.
In high definition.
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#25 | Back to Top09-16-2012 04:59:31 PM
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I'm still all atwitterpated over you can walk up to outer space from Warren Ellis' recent keynote speech, regarding that massive but gently inclining mountain on Mars. Hell with the boy going up a hill and all that jazz: walk to fricking space, baby!
http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=14314
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