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  1. Quote of the day:

    "The space effort is very simply a continuation of the expansion of ecological range, which has been occurring at an accelerating rate throughout the evolutionary history of Man... Successful extraterrestrial colonization, for example, might be counted as an evolutionary "success," and unsuccessful colonization--abandonment of the space effort--as an evolutionary "failure." ... Space exploration should be considered primarily as a biological thrust outward for the human species, and not just another step toward making life easier through a speedup in technology."

    Ward J. Haas
    (1927 -           )
    Quote taken from his speech at the Dinner Meeting of the New York Academy of Sciences Conference on Planetology and Space Mission Planning, November 3, 1965

    Ward J. Haas served as the Director, Space Sciences Research Center University of Missouri. No additional information is available.

     

  2. Quote of the day:

    "Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space."

    Christa McAuliffe
    (Sep 02, 1948 - Jan 28, 1986)
    Quote from McAuliffe found in a recent article by the Associated Press (2007). "Teacher-astronaut takes mission to Disney". CNN / Associated Press. Archived from the original on September 17, 2007. Retrieved September 12, 2007.

    Sharon Christa McAuliffe was an American teacher from Concord, New Hampshire, and was one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. (Wikipedia Commons)

  3. Quote of the day:

    "The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects. This is the discipline that deals with the universe's divine revolutions, the stars' motions, sizes, distances, risings and settings . . . for what is more beautiful than heaven?"

    Nicolaus Copernicus
    (Feb 19, 1473 - May 24, 1543
    Quote from his work, On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres, first published in 1543

    Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe, likely independently of Aristarchus of Samos, who had formulated such a model some eighteen centuries earlier. (Wikipedia Commons)

  4. Quote of the day:

    "Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness of space."

    Johannes Kepler
    (Dec 27, 1571 - Nov 15, 1630)
    Quote from a letter written to Galileo Galilei, 1609

    Johannes Kepler was a German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer. A key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution, he is best known for his laws of planetary motion, based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome of Copernican Astronomy. These works also provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation. (Wikipedia Commons)

  5. A point to ponder:

    With the level of dissatisfaction currently on display in the United States, I decided that I would share this here:

    If you want to see change in your life, then let the change begin with you.
    If you want to see change in your family, then let it begin with you.
    If you want to see a change in your community, school, or workplace, then let it begin with you.

    If you want to see changes in your nation, then let it begin with you.
    If you want to see changes in the world, then let it begin with you.

    If you see something that needs to be done, then do it rather than demand it be done.
    If you see someone who needs help, then be the hand that lifts instead of the hand that destroys.

    For if we do not do any of these things, then we are not the solution to the problem.
    We are its cause.

    -adsii1970

  6. Quote of the day:

    “The least of us is improved by the things done by the best of us, because if we are not able to land at least we are able to follow."

    Walter Cronkite
    (Nov 04, 1916 - Jul 17, 2009)
    Quote taken from CBS Moon Landing Coverage, July 20, 1969

    Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years. During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll. He reported many events from 1937 to 1981, including bombings in World War II; the Nuremberg trials; combat in the Vietnam War; the Dawson's Field hijackings; Watergate; the Iran Hostage Crisis; and the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King, Jr., and Beatles musician John Lennon. He was also known for his extensive coverage of the U.S. space program, from Project Mercury to the Moon landings to the Space Shuttle. He was the only non-NASA recipient of a Moon-rock award. Cronkite is well known for his departing catchphrase "And that's the way it is," followed by the broadcast's date. (Wikipedia Commons)

  7. Quote of the day:

    "A time will come when science will transform [our bodies] by means which we cannot conjecture... And then, the earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Saharas which separate planet from planet, and sun from sun. The earth will become a Holy Land which will be visited by pilgrims from all quarters of the universe."

    Winwood Reade
    (March 1838 - Apr 24, 1875)
    Quote from his book, The Martyrdom of Man, 1872

    William Winwood Reade was a British historian, explorer, and philosopher. His two best-known books, The Martyrdom of Man and The Outcast, were included in the Thinker's Library. (Wikipedia Commons)

    1. The Raging Sandwich

      The Raging Sandwich

      Amazing how advanced these guys were thinking in the 1800s. 

    2. adsii1970

      adsii1970

      I agree, but even the Greek stoics, such as Aristotle, were thinking of spaceflight and man's advancement into the heavens...

  8. Quote of the day:

    "This generation is crucial; we have the resources to get mankind off this planet. If we don't do it, we may soon be facing a world of 15 billion people and more, a world in which it's all we can do to stay alive; a world without the resources to go into space and get rich... I don't think it will come to that because the vision of the future is so clear to me. We need realize only one thing: we do not inhabit 'Only One Earth.' Mankind doesn't live on Earth. Man lives in a solar system... Given [a] basic space civilization ... we'll have accomplished one goal: no single accident, no war, no one insane action will finish us off."

    Jerry Pournelle
    (Aug 07, 1933 -            )
    Quote taken from his work, A Step Further Out, published in 1979.

    Jerry Eugene Pournelle is an American science fiction writer, essayist and journalist who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte. Pournelle served as President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1973. (Wikipedia Commons)

  9. Quote of the day:


    "People who view industrialization as a source of the Earth's troubles, its pollution, and the desecration of its surface, can only advocate that we give it up. This is something that we can't do; we have the tiger by the tail. We have 4.5 billion people on Earth. We can't support that many unless we're industrialized and technologically advanced. So, the idea is not to get rid of industrialization but to move it somewhere else. If we can move it a few thousand miles into space, we still have it, but not on Earth. Earth can then become a world of parks, farms, and wilderness without giving up the benefits of industrialization."

    Isaac Asimov
    (Jan 02, 1920 - Apr 06, 1992)
    In a speech at Newark College of Engineering, Rutgers University, 1974

    Isaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He was known for his works of science fiction and popular science. Asimov was a prolific writer, and wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. His books have been published in 9 of the 10 major categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification. (Wikipedia Commons)

  10. Quote of the day:

    "Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition can thus only be described as extremely fragile, endangered by forces of nature currently beyond our control, our own mistakes, and other branches of the wildly blossoming tree itself. Looked at this way, we can then pose the question of the future of humanity on Earth, in the solar system, and in the galaxy from the standpoint of both evolutionary biology and human nature. The conclusion is straightforward: Our choice is to grow, branch, spread and develop, or stagnate and die."

    Robert Zubrin
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    Apr 09, 1952 -         )
    Quote attributed to his book, Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization. published in 1999.

    Robert Zubrin is an American aerospace engineer and author, best known for his advocacy of the manned exploration of Mars. He and his colleague at Martin Marietta, David Baker, were the driving force behind Mars Direct, a proposal intended to produce significant reductions in the cost and complexity of such a mission. The key idea was to use the Martian atmosphere to produce oxygen, water, and rocket propellant for the surface stay and return journey. A modified version of the plan was subsequently adopted by NASA as their "design reference mission". He questions the delay and cost-to-benefit ratio of first establishing a base or outpost on an asteroid or another Project Apollo-like return to the Moon, as neither would be able to provide all of its own oxygen, water, or energy; these resources are producible on Mars, and he expects people would be there thereafter. (Wikipedia Commons)

     

  11. Quote of the day:

    This is the goal: To make available for life every place where life is possible. To make inhabitable all worlds as yet uninhabitable, and all life purposeful.

    Hermann Oberth
    (Jun 25, 1894 - Dec 28, 1989)
    Quote from his book, Man Into Space, 1957

    Hermann Julius Oberth was an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and engineer. He is considered one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics. (Wikipedia Commons)

  12. Most current NASA launch schedule for 2017: https://www.nasa.gov/launchschedule/

    Besides one atmospheric probe and a few supply/recrew flights to the ISS, nothing major is scheduled. Oh, the critiques I could state... but then again, would you really want to hear my opinion?

  13. Quote of the day:

    "14 yrs ago today we lost the crew of #Columbia. My colleagues & friends. Remembering them, their families & their sacrifice for our future"

    Scott Kelly
    (Feb 21, 1964 -            )
    Quote from his Twitter feed, dated February 1, 2017

    Scott Joseph Kelly is an engineer, retired American astronaut, and a retired U.S. Navy Captain. A veteran of four space flights, Kelly commanded the International Space Station on Expeditions 26, 45, and 46. (Wikipedia Commons)

  14. Quote of the day:

    "If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades."

    Freeman J. Dyson
    (Dec 15, 1923 -                )
    Quote taken from an interview with accompanying article, "Grow Fur If You Want To Live On Mars" as available the website Raw Science, November 26, 2014

    Freeman John Dyson FRS is an English-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, known for his work in quantum electrodynamics, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering. He is professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, a Visitor of Ralston College, and a member of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. (Wikipedia Commons)

     

  15. Quote of the day:

    "Above me I saw something I did not believe at first. Well above the haze layer of the earth's atmosphere were additional faint thin bands of blue, sharply etched against the dark sky. They hovered over the earth like a succession of halos."

    David G. Simons
    (June 7, 1922 – April 5, 2010)
    Quote taken from his interview as published in the article, 'A Journey No Man Had Taken,' LIFE magazine, 2 September 1957.

    David G. Simons was an American physician turned U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel who, as part of Project Manhigh, set a record of high-altitude balloon flight in 1957 at 19 miles above the Earth in an aluminum capsule suspended from a helium balloon. He received the Distinguished Flying Cross for this record. Simons was shown on the cover of Life of September 2, 1957, issue. (Wikipedia Commons)

  16. Quote of the day:

    "Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole."

    William S. Burroughs
    (Feb 05, 1914 - Aug 02, 1997)

     

    William Seward Burroughs II was an American novelist, short story writer, satirist, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer. Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author who wrote in the paranoid fiction genre, and his influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays. Five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences. He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians, and made many appearances in films. He was also briefly known by the pen name William Lee. (Wikipedia Commons)

     

    1. monstah

      monstah

      Totally unexpected author. Right on :) 

    2. adsii1970

      adsii1970

      One thing I have learned about sharing these quotes, there's all kinds of surprises about astronomy, space exploration, and even colonization. I've learned that even the ancient Greek, Roman, and even some Babylonian philosophers and scientists believed in man reaching into the heavens and "living among the gods..." but not in a spiritual sense... Fascinating, to say the least.

       

  17. Excellent fan-fic based video.

    Since 1977 I have been a fan of the First Galactic Empire... :D

  18. Quote of the day:

    "The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us—there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, or falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries."

    Carl Sagan
    (Nov 09, 1934 - Dec 20, 1996)
    Quote attributed to his book, The Pale Blue Dot, 1994

    Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences. He is best known for his work as a science popularizer and communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. Sagan assembled the first physical messages sent into space: the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them. Sagan argued the now accepted hypothesis that the high surface temperatures of Venus can be attributed to and calculated using the greenhouse effect. (Wikipedia Commons)

  19. Quote of the day:

    "Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away, if your car could go straight upwards."

    Sir Fred Hoyle
    (Jun 24, 1915 - Aug 20, 2001)
    Quote taken from an interview with BBC on the accessibility of spaceflight, 1997.

    Sir Fred Hoyle FRS was an English astronomer noted primarily for the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis, but also for his often controversial stances on other scientific matters—in particular his rejection of the "Big Bang" theory, a term coined by him on BBC radio, and his promotion of panspermia as the origin of life on Earth. While Hoyle is well-regarded for his works on nucleosynthesis and science popularisation, his career is also noted for the controversial positions he held on a wide range of scientific issues, often in direct opposition to the prevailing theories supported by the majority of the scientific community. He spent most of his working life at the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge and served as its director for six years. He was a writer of science fiction, and co-authored twelve books with his son, Geoffrey Hoyle. (Wikipedia Commons)

  20. Normally I don't share music videos.However, for you younger folks who like "modern" country, this is what real country music is:

     

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    2. The Raging Sandwich

      The Raging Sandwich

      Nah, what "we" really listen to is Filthy Frank's stuff.

    3. Dman979

      Dman979

      Ok, we agree that Justin Beiber is bad. But even though rap isn't really my thing, I have to admit it can be pretty impressive. Have you heard Hamilton? That writing is amazing.

    4. Dman979

      Dman979

      Oh, and as the generation before you said,

      Come mothers and fathers
      Throughout the land
      And don't criticize
      What you can't understand
      Your sons and your daughters
      Are beyond your command
      Your old road is rapidly aging
      Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand
      Cause the times they are a-changing

       

      :D

  21. Quote of the day:

    "I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream."

    Neil Armstrong
    (Aug 05, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012)
    Quote taken from an interview conducted by CBS Evening News, aired on October 14, 1968

    Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also an aerospace engineer, naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong was an officer in the U.S. Navy and served in the Korean War. After the war, he earned his bachelor's degree at Purdue University and served as a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics High-Speed Flight Station, where he logged over 900 flights. He later completed graduate studies at the University of Southern California. (Wikipedia Commons)

  22. Quote of the day:

    "Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done."

    Eugene Cernan
    ( Mar 14, 1934 - Jan 16, 2017)
    Quote taken from NASA's official Instagram account, entry by Eugene Cernan, dated December 4, 2016.

    Eugene Andrew "Gene" Cernan, CAPT, USN was an American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot, and was the last human to walk on the Moon, in 1972. (Wikipedia Commons)

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    2. adsii1970

      adsii1970

      Me too. Another legend who walked among us is gone.

    3. Kerbinchaser

      Kerbinchaser

      RIP Gene. May we return to the Moon someday.

    4. Wildcat111
  23. Quote of the day:

    "For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift."

    Wernher von Braun
    ( Mar 23, 1912 - Jun 16, 1977)
    Quote attributed to his book, Space Frontier, 1967.

    Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (March 23, 1912 – June 16, 1977) was a German, later American, aerospace engineer and space architect credited with inventing the V-2 rocket for Germany during World War II and the Saturn V for the United States. He was one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Word War II Germany, where he was a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party and the SS.

    Following World War II, he was moved to the United States, along with about 1,500 other scientists, engineers, and technicians, as part of Operation Paperclip, where he developed the rockets that launched the United States' first space satellite Explorer 1, and the Apollo program manned lunar landings. Under NASA, he served as director of the newly formed Marshall Space Flight Center and as the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the superbooster that propelled the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon. In 1975, he received the National Medal of Science. He continued insisting on the human mission to Mars throughout his life. (Wikipedia Commons)

    1. adsii1970

      adsii1970

      There are days when I absolutely hate the filters on this forum. Cannot use historical terms in context because they are given wacky replacement words. So much for staying true to history... :blush:

    2. Wildcat111

      Wildcat111

      Here's a request:

      Do one by Gene Cernan. He passed away yesterday, R.I.P.

    3. The Raging Sandwich

      The Raging Sandwich

      Oh, yes. He kept that faith even after the war, too. My grandpa was the only person who still did Lutheran services in German in Alabama. Every Sunday, a long, black car would roll up and a couple men in trench coats and hats came in and sat in the back. They would leave before the service ended as not to interact with the people there. My grandpa or anyone else never knew who they were. It wasn't until the 70s when my grandpa was looking through a book about the Space Race when he finally figured out who they were; von Braun and a couple of his fellow rocket scientists. Pretty cool if you ask me.

  24. Quote of the day:

    "Astronomy is useful because it raises us above ourselves; it is useful because it is grand; …. It shows us how small is man's body, how great his mind, since his intelligence can embrace the whole of this dazzling immensity, where his body is only an obscure point, and enjoy its silent harmony."

    Henri Poincaré
    ( Apr 29, 1854 - Jul 17, 1912 )
    Quote taken from an essay in the collection, The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincaré, 1997

    Jules Henri Poincaré was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science. He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as The Last Universalist by Eric Temple Bell, since he excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime. (Wikipedia Commons)

     

  25. Quote of the day:

    "Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day, but when I follow the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth; I ascend to Zeus himself to feast me on ambrosia, the food of the gods."

    Claudius Ptolemy
    (c. 100 A.D. - c. 168 A.D.)
    Quote taken from On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, circa 150 A.D.

    Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek writer, known as a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology. He lived in the city of Alexandria in the Roman province of Egypt, wrote in Koine Greek, and held Roman citizenship. Beyond that, few reliable details of his life are known. His birthplace has been given as Ptolemais Hermiou in the Thebaid in an uncorroborated statement by the 14th-century astronomer Theodore Meliteniotes. This is a very late attestation, however, and there is no other reason to suppose that he ever lived anywhere else than Alexandria, where he died around AD 168. (Wikipedia Commons)

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