24/07/14 - Around 3.15 am this morning I was outside with my girlfriend and the dogs looking through the telescope. Sadly the telescope is a sack of pup but as I looked up over my house to see if the Moon were to show it's face, HOT DOG!! There goes a meteor! Unfortunately for Sammy she wasn't in the right place at the right time, so I asked her what month it is and realised that it may be meteor season, later to find out it was. Meteor watch showed up as I posted a tweet about it, so I'm going to spend a bit of time outside tomorrow night having a look out for what's flying by.
YOU SHOULD TOO!!!
Wednesday 23 July 2014
I Saw The Moon pt. 1
We are inhabitants of a world past its prime. Landscapes of tranquil beauty and beautiful tranquility tarnished by man made feats of the industrial revolution and our natural resources wasted on intelligence, power and greed rather than survival. However, we are but one world among countless worlds.
Of course there were parts of the Industrial revolution and wasted natural resources that brought fantastic opportunities for exploration and to sacrifice these in the name of science is completely worth it. Wouldn't you agree?
I wouldn't be able to tell you when I became interested in space, its striking beauty and its vast landscape of stars, planets, gas, the list never ending. I know for a fact that it had a lot to do with the Space age and Space race of the sixties and seventies. ALAS!! The power and greed that struck such a pioneering form of exploration is characterised by the Astronauts vs the Cosmonauts. HOT DOG!! The Russians and Americans would decades later put a stop to the squabbling of boast and achievement and would also be joined by many other countries around the world to explore not only space but science together. Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was the first man to roam into space in the Vostok spacecraft and Neil Armstrong would be the first man to step foot on the moon and be brought back safely thanks to Nasa and it's legendary Apollo program.
Yesterday morning at around 5 am I would view for the very first time the moon through my Celestron PowerseeKer 50 AZ telescope. A telescope I have been told by internet folk to be one of the worst telescopes ever conceived, never mind made! What ever the case may be for this cheap piece of equipment, I saw the moon through it and it was astonishingly grandiose and wonderful. I think what makes the moon so special is its clarity, being so close to our planet makes it a spectacle worth spending money to view, whether it be £25 (So many dollors) or £1000 (So many more dollars). I was bought this telescope around 2 years ago by my wonderful girlfriend and was put off by the difficulty of use but also its pretty poor viewing quality. I am still an absolute beginner, standing in my backyard, narrowly avoiding dog pup, playing with different lenses in an almost professional manner and claiming to have no success due to sheets of clouds or mischievous runaway stars.
Our very own world is a natural miracle and the fact that many others lay outside of our reach is still beyond belief. All worlds are different like societies, traditions and fast food restaurants. A very small population of our existence aid the exploration of space and it's possible colonisation. These people are travelers. Not so much of the traditional form but travelers of vision. These men and women will create the possibility of further evolution. Although there is very little to learn at home without extensive searching and reading, TV shows can make it easier for us to understand something so complex it may never be fully understood by the human race. I suppose a good question to ask is when will we finally be full time alien visitors?
A sore spot in the Space age community is the amount of speculation of advanced intelligence and extraterrestrial life. Outside of Sci-Fi; visitation, UFOs, conspiracy theories and abduction stories demean the wonderful nature of our universe. I do believe we are not alone in this universe but to say aliens have arrived and made contact is so absurd "I've gone cross eyed". However, if we take into consideration the build up and physics of another intelligent world the absurdity becomes the possible. At what speed can something evolve in a completely different kind of habitat? Could planets and its inhabitants be so small, we will never find them? Could they live within our planet unknown to earths inhabitants? Could there be things so strange and original that the human mind could not process its existence if it were staring us in the face? Sci-Fi Author Arthur C. Clarke once said "Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying". When people think of there being a superior race of alien, invasion floods into there head, but I will say this, I would rather be killed in an Alien invasion and know they exist than be lead to believe we are alone in such a vast dark blanket.
Arthur C. Clarke was one mind behind the 1968 Kubrick classic 2001: A Space Odyssey. Clarke's short story the Sentinel, a starting point for 2001, in which during a lunar expedition one member of the crew notices a Pyramid like shape, with a circular force-field around it, up in the grey rocky mountains. Kubrick and Clarke a year before the moon landings would show an almost realistic environment with the aid of Clarke's buddies at Nasa and would show a ISS like spinning wheel, as well as a look into the future with it's robotics. The exploration in this movie, with a moon base and in the latter books, flights to Jupiter and it's moons is a very realistic view of what we are doing around now. More lunar missions and, I believe, at some point an inspection using probes, rovers and eventually manned flight of Europa, io and Ganymede, possibly?
America carry both achievement and burden to the Space age. Conspiracy of crashed saucers and recovered bodies, secret world governments, superior aircraft and intelligence so far above the president, you wouldn't believe it. Stories of make believe fueled by changing statements from government officials. Excuses, lies, truths and reality. It's all a big charade, a rues for the working class to question with their friends. The English are too cynical to question, as a nation, in great detail the reality of extraterrestrial life and the chances of contact but the Americans seem to be in love with this idea. All inscrutable? Definitely not. Scrutiny of events and possible cover ups litter documentary channels like the History channel and the Discovery channel but would rarely touch the BBC.
In fact I do believe the BBC have pushed the buttons of space lovers rather than Sci-Fi/Conspiracy enthusiasts. Documentaries of The space age will pop up every now and again and Physicist Brian Cox has made a complex subject accessible to the English public. We as a nation don't have the means or the money to fire a rocket into space but we do have the brains to saddle up with the yanks. Space exploration is still an ongoing study, a question to be answered, a man without his dog. I can only be completely saddened by the fact that I will never see the pinnacle of such bravery and intelligence, the unknown and known and finally, the truth behind our universe.
The true heartbreak of it is, if I knew at age 12 that I would grow up to have wanted to be an astronaut or an astronomer, I would now be in higher education and my life would be completely different. Now, at age 22, I can safely say, just like our planet, I too, am past by prime. Maybe I should just stick to music.
Of course there were parts of the Industrial revolution and wasted natural resources that brought fantastic opportunities for exploration and to sacrifice these in the name of science is completely worth it. Wouldn't you agree?
I wouldn't be able to tell you when I became interested in space, its striking beauty and its vast landscape of stars, planets, gas, the list never ending. I know for a fact that it had a lot to do with the Space age and Space race of the sixties and seventies. ALAS!! The power and greed that struck such a pioneering form of exploration is characterised by the Astronauts vs the Cosmonauts. HOT DOG!! The Russians and Americans would decades later put a stop to the squabbling of boast and achievement and would also be joined by many other countries around the world to explore not only space but science together. Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was the first man to roam into space in the Vostok spacecraft and Neil Armstrong would be the first man to step foot on the moon and be brought back safely thanks to Nasa and it's legendary Apollo program.Yesterday morning at around 5 am I would view for the very first time the moon through my Celestron PowerseeKer 50 AZ telescope. A telescope I have been told by internet folk to be one of the worst telescopes ever conceived, never mind made! What ever the case may be for this cheap piece of equipment, I saw the moon through it and it was astonishingly grandiose and wonderful. I think what makes the moon so special is its clarity, being so close to our planet makes it a spectacle worth spending money to view, whether it be £25 (So many dollors) or £1000 (So many more dollars). I was bought this telescope around 2 years ago by my wonderful girlfriend and was put off by the difficulty of use but also its pretty poor viewing quality. I am still an absolute beginner, standing in my backyard, narrowly avoiding dog pup, playing with different lenses in an almost professional manner and claiming to have no success due to sheets of clouds or mischievous runaway stars.
Our very own world is a natural miracle and the fact that many others lay outside of our reach is still beyond belief. All worlds are different like societies, traditions and fast food restaurants. A very small population of our existence aid the exploration of space and it's possible colonisation. These people are travelers. Not so much of the traditional form but travelers of vision. These men and women will create the possibility of further evolution. Although there is very little to learn at home without extensive searching and reading, TV shows can make it easier for us to understand something so complex it may never be fully understood by the human race. I suppose a good question to ask is when will we finally be full time alien visitors?
A sore spot in the Space age community is the amount of speculation of advanced intelligence and extraterrestrial life. Outside of Sci-Fi; visitation, UFOs, conspiracy theories and abduction stories demean the wonderful nature of our universe. I do believe we are not alone in this universe but to say aliens have arrived and made contact is so absurd "I've gone cross eyed". However, if we take into consideration the build up and physics of another intelligent world the absurdity becomes the possible. At what speed can something evolve in a completely different kind of habitat? Could planets and its inhabitants be so small, we will never find them? Could they live within our planet unknown to earths inhabitants? Could there be things so strange and original that the human mind could not process its existence if it were staring us in the face? Sci-Fi Author Arthur C. Clarke once said "Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying". When people think of there being a superior race of alien, invasion floods into there head, but I will say this, I would rather be killed in an Alien invasion and know they exist than be lead to believe we are alone in such a vast dark blanket.
Arthur C. Clarke was one mind behind the 1968 Kubrick classic 2001: A Space Odyssey. Clarke's short story the Sentinel, a starting point for 2001, in which during a lunar expedition one member of the crew notices a Pyramid like shape, with a circular force-field around it, up in the grey rocky mountains. Kubrick and Clarke a year before the moon landings would show an almost realistic environment with the aid of Clarke's buddies at Nasa and would show a ISS like spinning wheel, as well as a look into the future with it's robotics. The exploration in this movie, with a moon base and in the latter books, flights to Jupiter and it's moons is a very realistic view of what we are doing around now. More lunar missions and, I believe, at some point an inspection using probes, rovers and eventually manned flight of Europa, io and Ganymede, possibly?
America carry both achievement and burden to the Space age. Conspiracy of crashed saucers and recovered bodies, secret world governments, superior aircraft and intelligence so far above the president, you wouldn't believe it. Stories of make believe fueled by changing statements from government officials. Excuses, lies, truths and reality. It's all a big charade, a rues for the working class to question with their friends. The English are too cynical to question, as a nation, in great detail the reality of extraterrestrial life and the chances of contact but the Americans seem to be in love with this idea. All inscrutable? Definitely not. Scrutiny of events and possible cover ups litter documentary channels like the History channel and the Discovery channel but would rarely touch the BBC.
In fact I do believe the BBC have pushed the buttons of space lovers rather than Sci-Fi/Conspiracy enthusiasts. Documentaries of The space age will pop up every now and again and Physicist Brian Cox has made a complex subject accessible to the English public. We as a nation don't have the means or the money to fire a rocket into space but we do have the brains to saddle up with the yanks. Space exploration is still an ongoing study, a question to be answered, a man without his dog. I can only be completely saddened by the fact that I will never see the pinnacle of such bravery and intelligence, the unknown and known and finally, the truth behind our universe.
The true heartbreak of it is, if I knew at age 12 that I would grow up to have wanted to be an astronaut or an astronomer, I would now be in higher education and my life would be completely different. Now, at age 22, I can safely say, just like our planet, I too, am past by prime. Maybe I should just stick to music.
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