Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune will all be lining up in the ecliptic for the next few mornings. Get up before sunrise ( as is normal for some of you) and find the Moon, then Venus. Then hunt for the rest! haha Saturn is too good for us this time round though. Then think of the fact that Venus is hotter than Mercury. Yup!
In the first Star Trek movie, Captain Kirk and crew had to save the Earth from destruction from a massive cloud piloted by an alien being that did not like carbon based units. This alien turned out to be one of the Voyager probes. It had landed on a machine planet and the inhabitants said, oh you are designed to find your creator. Here, take this insane power and technology, now that we've made you sentient and go out there and find that son of a gun!
I actually like that first movie in that its just so oddball. Kirk's arms were gorilla like in that film!
Later in Star Trek 4, a huge cylindrical steel fish tank the size of Madagascar comes to Earth to check up on the Humpback Whales. Ooops, we kinda killed them all off. We humans are the top of the food chain damn it! So the big fish tank decides to rip us a new one. Kirk then uses the Sun to slingshot back in time like some cowboy John Titor and get some humpbacks from the 80s. You'd think that would have actually ended badly when the 80s humpback came to the future and said, they have been killing us for years! Whooorrrooooouummmmm = EXTERMINATE!!! They would say it just like Daleks too. Wow I'm geekin out here.
So anyway, this brings me to this video about the Voyager Probes. In reading about the Gold Record made for Voyager, I never really knew about the recording of Ann Druyan's brain waves. She was in love with Carl Sagan, madly in love when they recorded her brain. Druyan and her team thought that perhaps advanced life could read human thought and hence their decision to put it on the record. I love this quote from the nasa.gov site by Druyan :
Her conscious mind may have been reciting culture and philosophy, but her subconscious was buzzing with the euphoria of the Great Idea of True Love. The hour was electronically compressed to a single minute that sounds, appropriately, like a string of exploding firecrackers.
"My feelings as a 27 year old woman, madly fallen in love, they're on that record,” says Druyan. "It's forever. It'll be true 100 million years from now. For me Voyager is a kind of joy so powerful, it robs you of your fear of death."
That makes me smile! The whole article is at this link
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/28apr_voyager2/
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