Symphony of Science - Onward to the Edge!

mp3:http://bit.ly/oRYyiV - A musical celebration of the importance and inspirational qualities of space exploration (human and robotic), as well as a look at some of the amazing worlds in our solar system. Featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Cox, and Carolyn Porco.

"Onward to the Edge" is the 12th installment in the Symphony of Science series. Materials used in this video are from :

My Favorite Universe #7 - Onward to the Edge (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEYoTwFBqFs)
BBC Wonders of the Solar System
Carolyn Porco TED talk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxXa9pxwzoY)
NatGeo "Guide to the Planets"

Thanks for watching!

Lyrics:

[Neil deGrasse Tyson]
The act of moving onward means we pass these sign posts
One of them was first leaving earth
The next one is hanging out on the moon
What's next? The planets

Onward to the edge
We're moving onward to the edge
Here we are together
This fragile little world

[Brian Cox]
This is our sun
Just another star in a sea of stars
The heart of the solar system
Just another star in a sea of stars

Mercury is the closest planet
This tortured piece of rock has been stripped naked

[Tyson]
The moon has a sky
It has a horizon
It's another world

It's got earth in the sky
Just the way we have the moon in the sky

(refrain)

We're not the only world to think about
Worlds unnumbered
We're not the only world to think about
Think about worlds unnumbered

[Carolyn Porco]
There is a powerful recognition
That stirs within us
When we see our own little blue ocean planet
In the skies of other worlds

The Saturn system
Offers splendor beyond compare
Because of its rings
And very diverse moons

[Tyson]
These are no longer abstractions
These are worlds
Maybe there's life there
They've changed how we think about Earth

[Cox]
"A mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam
The pale blue dot" (Carl Sagan)

(refrain)

The laws of nature create
Vastly different worlds
With the tiniest of changes

[Tyson]
When I reach to the edge of the universe
I do so knowing that along some paths of cosmic discovery
There are times when, at least for now,
One must be content to love the questions themselves

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Science & Technology

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• porco
• carl
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[AegisNova]

I wish rappers sounded like this, and rapped about stuff like this.

[Arcimists]

Can you guys imagine how far we would off been if we made worldpeace and transferred all the millitary budget to space exploration budget? that would increase our space exploration budget with 3,1 trillion dollars! And the budget of space exploration is today at a little bit higher than 100 billion!

Thumbs up if you agree!

[JuggaloOzi]

@Arcimists 100 billion? That's completely wrong. There's only a few billion each year put into actual exploration of space and most of that over the last 40 years has been spent on robotic probes. NASA is pretty much the only space agency that matter and they only get just under 18 billion a year for the whole agency. Are you pro space flight or not because spreading lies doesn't help the cause. Just getting NASA to 20 billion per annum would be awesome!

[EditorAwesome]

@Arcimists Ahh yes communism :) The real dilemma is though is do we wait for the human race to stop hating one an other or do we knuckle down and just place a larger focus on space exploration anyway and hope that our other issues solve themselves? Because if we wait we will be waiting for ever. :'(

[Arcimists]

@EditorAwesome That would off been a great day of triumph, but sadly the world is too capitalistic to do such a thing. Damn sometimes i really think the world would be better with Karl Marx's idea of communism (don't mistake that for Stalins communism, that's not real communism, he was just hiding behind it) The world must first learn to co-operate and stop waging wars on eachother, then we could aim for such a project

[EditorAwesome]

@Arcimists Imagine if people would get together and just explore space free of charge for the sake of advancing the human race and discovering the phenomena life :) I dream of this day

[AegisNova]

@ptango666 Excellent!

[AegisNova]

@thisara8 You are right. We can only hope more people starting thinking (then acting) like you.

[Kirbylink3]

@Poeticpecan Yeah dude its a good song but your the only one that cried about it. Jesus man whats wrong with you?

[rich103987654]

@AegisNova I'm sure what you said is accurate, but to see what is happening I would tell you to check out Carl Calleman and Bruce Lipton both PhD. Their are many more experts I am not one. The magnetic and energetic changes are real and already happening.

[AegisNova]

@rich103987654 True. Sun, Earth, galaxy center come into same alignment every year. Also, there are sources which better explain the cyclical nature of the Mayan calendar.

[AegisNova]

@ViXoN2 Well, rap used to have more social relevancy -- and there are still guys and women in that community trying to get back to what it was before it seemed to become about female dogs and garden tools! As for me, I think I inspired Al Yankovic's "White and Nerdy" :D Something to think about, though.