Hope Eyrie

[dragonkingofthestars]

4:00 not saying we didn't land on the moon. but how the hell did they get that shot?

[lolleeroberts]

@dragonkingofthestars There are cameras left on the moon that were still transmitting as the LEM lifted off.

[z0nt21]

"Time won't drive us down to dust again..."

There's a thought of us being a species with amnesia somewhere in that line; if not us, then most certainly there have been failed civilisations on other planets in distant solar system, that have failed to reach space in time...

[VulcanFleet]

I'd like to be immortal. I've got a lot I want to do with my life, and I'm not going to get it done in 80 years. If I ever decided that I had seen everything in the universe worth seeing and done everything worth doing, then I'd kill myself. But I don't want to die of old age with no choice in the matter, and never get to do a million worthwhile things. That's why I'm signed up for cryonics.

[OmegaSeekerr]

Well I'm in a lot of pain, a LOT and still existence is preferable to non-existence. Study the words of Christ, not what a lot of His followers do and say. He does indeed deserve a Kingdom. Science fulfills a lot of Faith, maybe even brings some of the little g gods into existence (Artificial Intelligence COULD be used to do that IF we were crazy enough! :0) But Jesus Himself minus much of the nonsense His followers tacked onto Him, oh definitely He deserves His Kingdom! Taught us to forgive!

[kitty9tales]

I never knew a video was made to this! This is my all-time favorite album ever! Where videos made to any other songs on To Touch the Stars?

[obreerbo]

"From now on, we live in a world where men have walked on the moon. But it wasn't a miracle. We just decided to go."

And where are we "deciding to go" today? With a man in the White House that feels one of NASA's goals should be to "promote Muslim self-esteem"? (WTF?) We've lost much since those days of REAL heroes.

"I look up at the moon, and I wonder: When will we be going back? And who will that be?"

I pray the answer to those questions are not null.

[nehopsa]

wow...if only they went on

[TheRavenslair]

This song and the Video makes my heart swell with the pride that i was alive to see man land on the moon as a child Now all we do is go round and round in cans ever circling never landing. we need to get off our backsides and once more visit places and not just with robotic rovers. Man needs to Expand our horizons once more. We need to establish colonies on our sister worlds thus preventing the possibility of our own extinction should something catastrophic happen to our home world.

[GoldStormDancer]

@TheRavenslair Long past time to remove all of our eggs from one basket. It is my opinion that the only way we may gain wisdom, is to find new sources.

It is indeed sad that politicians feel armies, and banks are a better security for a nation.. than making dreams a reality.

[LazarusofT1982]

Can refraining from commenting on a previous post be seen as actually commenting on it? Well, what ever...

Great song, nice video. Just my thoughts. Stardust to Stardust.

[MrYougotjohn]

what a bunch of crap. man you got to be on Prozac in church listening to the Pope to believe this propaganda. Wow, such a hoax.. space walk? Yeah, right... we just don't want to do it again after 1972.. technology was so good back then, like an old wine, just doesn't get better with age. 2009? Can't do it again, our computers are too small. We need REALLY BIG COMPUTERS to go to the moon. Guys, stop buying this crap. Embrace reality!

[doctorpsycho1960]

@MrYougotjohn We did it then. We could do it today -- if we dared.

Our flesh and our steel are as frail as they were then. It's our guts that have withered.

[OmegaSeekerr]

Just as we built the sub Nautilus, the Moonship Columbia & the ISS, just as there are robots rolling round on Mars & vacuuming here over next few billion yrs we build John's Cube (Revelations chapters 21 & 22) go round relativistic curved space/time, upload all organically produced operating systems including Christ's & give Him His well deserved Kingdom. Faith inspires Science & Science fulfils faith. We are Christs body (1 Corinthians 12:27) All Carpenters use their bodies to build things.

[kitty9tales]

@OmegaSeekerr When was Nautilus built?  It was fiction from Vernes' work.

I guess some can't tell fiction from reality

[OmegaSeekerr]

@kitty9tales Nautilus started out as fiction. So did the Moonship Columbia also by Verne. So did the idea for the ISS which started out in a novel called The Brick Moon. US military built the Nautilus & did go under the South Pole just as Verne had his fictional sub do. Just like his it was powered by a fantastic form of energy, in our case nuclear. His was not specified. John will also have his NASA. New Jerusalem will be built. Because of circling time this beautiful structure already exists.

[kitty9tales]

@OmegaSeekerr being a big sci-fi reader, I know all of those that you mentioned.

I always felt that the biblical diety was just an alien overlord. Now I know you do too.

[OmegaSeekerr]

@kitty9tales No. We fulfill St John's dream just as we fulfill many other Sci Fi Writers & really invent & build that 1500 mile long cube mentioned in Rev chap 21 & 22 & go round Relativistic circling Space/Time & rescue everyone's operating systems. Ephesians 4:15 says we grow up in ALL WAYS into God. If ANY Writer's "wild" idea deserves to be made reality it's certainly John's idea of immortality for all Beings, some which would have fit in Star Wars! & Jesus just plain deserves His Kingdom!

[kitty9tales]

@OmegaSeekerr I don't see that Jesus deserves his Kingdom at all. and immortality can suck. think Chiron, a Greek diety who was accidentally injured by Hercules during a battle. His leg would never heal and he suffered a broken leg for all eternity until Hercules gave him the fire of mortality so he could finally die and be out of suffering.

Just because you're immortal doesn't mean you can't get your butt kicked. WHo'd want to be immortal?

[johnmburt1960]

@OmegaSeekerr "Nor will my stylus rest in my hand, 'till we have built Jerusalem in Geosynchronous orbit!"

[DLM108]

@kitty9tales Not the Nautilus specifically, but nuclear submarines in general are the equivalent of the Nautilus. Many things that have been invented recently have appeared in sci-fi long beforehand. (By recently I mean the last 30 years or so).

[Davidkevin]

Wow.

[saintwcf]

Vocal by Julia Ecklar. Wonderful rendition of the anthem of filk.

[knfstarfire]

Sooner or later we'll get the drive to claim the solar system, be it 10 or 100 years, I just hope I can live long enough to see manned FTL travel, then I can die happy.

[OmegaSeekerr]

Young whippersnappers don't know what real spaceships are. Back when I was a Kid spaceships WENT somewhere! They went to the Moon! Now they just go round and round the Earth! :(

Come on let's GO SOMEWHERE AGAIN!

[Quag7]

I would rather be a janitor on a spaceship than the richest man on earth.

[GoldStormDancer]

Agreed. The politicians claim they're taking the long view, but the really long view is that earth is putting all of her eggs in one basket.

The longest-term view... is that as we don't *know* if there is any other life out there, we need to keep what life there is going, spread them out, not just to other worlds, but other stars and galaxies, and ultimately even other universes.

And just in the exploring we profit greatly, just in spin-offs.

[OmegaSeekerr]

Did you ever read "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradberry, in the very last chapter a man takes his children for a boat ride on Mars (yes its not the real Mars but Ray's Mar's and he asks them if they want to see some real Martians. They say yes, of course. He tells them to look in the water and they do and see their own reflection looking back.

[gilesderoet]

@OmegaSeekerr Next stop Mars. Second stop, the stars.

[laurasf21]

Excellent vid!

[Cybrludite]

Happy Apollo Day, everyone!

[Greyapas]

Hrm I like the version on Song of the Stars better but still good.

[eumenidis]

Magnificent.

[aycelcus]

Mmmmmmmmm Hope Eyrie. One of the first filks I ever heard. Nice to see a vid to it.