Something UMSF-related on YouTube.com ? Options

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

Here's a starter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMJvoqx1QLU

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

on GoogleVideo: ISDC 2005
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3734403553976681561

[Stephen]

Here's a couple of Mars themed Youtube items of a more humourous bent:

Mars Rover

Mars 2020: Springtime

On the more serious side, here's an animation of what might have been: the landing of MPL:

Mars Polar Lander

Incidently, the Youtube user for that last video has several other interesting space-themed animations on Youtube on planetary formation and satellite launches. He also has (coincidently) some spectacular footage (non-animated) of dust devils (the earthside sort, not the Martian variety) filmed from a jeep.

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Stephen

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

Steven Squyres:

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=...250196801743722

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

Also: http://www.astroshorts.com/

[Tom Tamlyn]

Rob Manning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1UKwFfXmUY&NR

(link also posted in another thread)

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

Not YouTube but a Squyres video:
http://www.keynotespeakers.com/speaker_detail.asp?id=1725

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

NASA gives a preview of their new Website: http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/NASA50/1.html

[ollopa]

Some very nice touches to the new website design - pity about some of the sample content. Slide 8 shows a Test Your Knowledge section: "POLLS and QUIZZES - We'll be putting opinion polls and quizzes on the home page to find out what you think about NASA and how much you know"

It then asks when was the last NASA mission to the moon: 1969, 71, 72 or 73. DOH! Al Binder won't be pleased!

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

Carl Sagan: The Moon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADUh4qfD_sQ...feature=related

and Sagan on Venus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfVf9ImsbIA...feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qzwl45Kc0w...feature=related

[Jeff7]

Thank you for those Carl Sagan links. I wound up watching at least an hour of his material on Youtube - and still going now. Some day I'll have to try to get the Cosmos series on DVD.
The trick is to not bother reading the comments on the video. Lots of morons on Youtube, trying to even discredit Sagan. He had such compassion, respect, and concern for humanity, its accomplishments, and its potential.

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

Indeed Jeff, You're 100% right, the late Dr Carl Sagan has been my childhood hero since I saw Cosmos as a 10-year old... We all know he prefered 'real' space exploration but we won't go into that discussion again!
BTW he died on the same day I married

[Jeff7]

And amusingly enough, for an effective speech course, I gave a speech along the lines of this one, comparing spending on NASA and pure science to things like our spending on other, rather superficial things. NASA: $16B. US Spending on tobacco products in 2005: $89B, about 5.6 times NASA's budget. Spending on DVD's in 2006, something around $24B, and the argument following was that that could fund NASA for a year, and send over 85,000 students to my university for 4 years, including tuition, books, housing, and meals. The argument there was to target the notion that NASA is a waste of money, as if our priorities for spending are somehow placed on more "noble" endeavors.
It's just how critical pure science is to us, how much progress we've made as a result. Even from "cavemen," or even more primitive ancestors, experimenting with the idea of living somewhere other than trees, or trying to keep warm with animal skins, or the invention of fire. To use Sagan's example of the "box to display pictures," caveman Urg tells Gug, "I want to stay warm at night. I need you to turn wood into warmth." What good will come of that? Then one day, someone trips while looking for food. He notices that the rocks he tripped over sparked when they hit. So, he tries it again, to see how rock can make light, and accidentally starts a fire on some leaves. Oops, you've just made one of humanity's greatest discoveries: how to create fire at will.

Pure science is what brought humanity to where it is today, and it's what will carry us into the future.



Still going with Sagan's stuff. His "Who speaks for Earth?" videos are rather moving, especially when he begins to talk about how nuclear war could ultimately extinguish humanity. Such a thought is just profoundly saddening. An intelligent species, capable of compassion, negotiation, has come so close, and still has the potential, still even feels a need for that kind of destruction, a species which could easily end aggression of this nature, continues to choose a path that can quite literally a very dead end. There's no sense in being able to say, "Oh yeah, well WE could exterminate all of humanity 5 times over! You can only do it 4 times over!" It seems utterly stupid to pursue a war in which everyone loses in the most permanent way.


And you know what, I've got to do a "special occassion" speech on Tuesday, which, I believe, may encompass a commemorative-style of speech. Carl Sagan might just be the focus of that speech. (Which is good, because I don't have any other ideas right now.)

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

NASA has its own YouTube website at:
http://www.youtube.com/reelnasa

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

ATHLETE lunar rover: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDvoe091tk4...feature=related