9 responses to “2007 A Space Odyssey”
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How cute. When are we to see you like that? |-)
If you ever reach the Space let me know, we may arrange a dinner or a reception down my planet.
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This kind of thing just impresses the heck out of me. I guess all manner of space travel and work does. Even going to the toilet in space probably would – at least once, anyway. It’ll be nifty once space is more privatized and all these amateur rocket scientists can get more than just a man up there in a ship.
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It seems the ISS hardly makes the news any more. A damn shame. It’s frickin’ amazing.
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As much as I’d like to be up there, I’d be bummed as it looks like they have no time for philosophizing. Every moment it seems they have to think about life or death, vacuum, pressure, heat, cold, space junk etc.
I’d spend my fortune if I could just float and stare at the heavens and the earth in perspective for a few hours.
It also reminds me of windsurfing by oneself when all you see is sea. The wilderness and the feeling of how small we really are. How fragile.
We are no where close to exporting our precious ecosystem outside this planet. Some technology yes, but that’s no way to live.
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That’s a very cool perspective. You get the feel for the length and complexity of that truss. I’d think it’d be more than one shuttle trip to get that whole thing up there. It’s sad that two shuttle disasters have turned ISS construction into something that seems like the whole life of the ISS.
Currently we aren’t doing huge science perhaps, but the long term outlook is having more people on the ISS at one time and hopefully this means getting more science done.
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Thrilling, beautiful, amazing stuff — what could be more fantastic than this reality of blue earth, black space, and the shiny-bright accomplishments (engendered in hardware) of human creatures, which float between them. Lucky us to live long enough to see this. Who really needs movies and science fiction, when the real stuff is so good? But it keeps us dreaming, I guess. The urge to keep going beyond is so important. I hope we keep that, as a value.
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what if instead of American flags they had rock n roll patches? that’d be awesome!
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