You have just bought 6 seats on the BFR luna flyby

[LordFerret]

18 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

Students who failed exams?

 

Wait, aren't they "starving artists"?

[tater]

27 minutes ago, LordFerret said:

 

 

And as far as picking people to go on this ride, how about choosing six people from around the world from the most non-advanced, uncivilized, remotest populations that exist?

Within the same "artist" sensibility, this might be interesting. You'd get the most transformative bang for the buck.

[KSK]

47 minutes ago, LordFerret said:

This has been discussed everywhere, for ages, and is pretty much common knowledge at this point - or so I would think.

http://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/feature-column/fcarc-art1

And from that article, "April is Mathematics Awareness Month, and this year's theme is Mathematics and Art.", KSP being what it is, someone could take that and run with it.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2015/dec/02/why-the-history-of-maths-is-also-the-history-of-art

And of course (last on the list),
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_and_art

Let's throw this in as well...
https://www.ted.com/topics/science+and+art

All good links and I thank you. And yes I'm aware that there are links between mathematics and art - I gave one example myself. What I was objecting to was the statement that without mathematics and science there would be no art. I believe that is an exaggeration and I'm not seeing anything in those example articles to persuade me otherwise.

All the more so if you generalise 'art' to 'the arts' and include things like poetry and literature as well as the visual arts. But as a concrete example, show me the mathematics in that Basquiat painting that @tater linked?

[razark]

43 minutes ago, LordFerret said:

And as far as picking people to go on this ride, how about choosing six people from around the world from the most non-advanced, uncivilized, remotest populations that exist?

So, would that be these folks, or flat-earthers?

[LordFerret]

23 minutes ago, razark said:

So, would that be these folks, or flat-earthers?

Yes, one of them would do just fine. There are others as well around this world. As for flat-Earthers?... to convince just one of them would turn the rest of the lot against him... the only solution is to send all of them.......... and leave them out there.

 

 

[LordFerret]

28 minutes ago, KSK said:

What I was objecting to was the statement that without mathematics and science there would be no art. I believe that is an exaggeration and I'm not seeing anything in those example articles to persuade me otherwise.

I'm not here to persuade your beliefs. If you object, so be it. What I see and read of art, science, and math, tells me different.

As for the paintings @tater has posted... what can I say? There's no accounting for taste..... or for some people's math.

[KSK]

3 hours ago, LordFerret said:

I'm not here to persuade your beliefs. If you object, so be it. What I see and read of art, science, and math, tells me different.

As for the paintings @tater has posted... what can I say? There's no accounting for taste..... or for some people's math.

Well I was willing to be persuaded but okay. Thanks for the conversation - and I mean that seriously.

[ChrisSpace]

9 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

Students who failed exams?

As a representative of this sub-demographic I support this idea

Edited September 21, 2018 by ChrisSpace

[Kerbinchaser]

@Just Jim Because he writes and that's art! So HA!

[Just Jim]

8 minutes ago, Lo Var Lachland said:

@Just Jim Because he writes and that's art! So HA!

Ahhhahahahaha... YES!!!

Thank you! 

[Kerbinchaser]

Just now, Just Jim said:

Ahhhahahahaha... YES!!!

Thank you! 

Of course! We could bring some laptops and be the first people to play a video-game beyond Earth's atmosphere! xD

[James Kerman]

2 minutes ago, Lo Var Lachland said:

Of course! We could bring some laptops and be the first people to play a video-game beyond Earth's atmosphere! xD

Unfortunately it's been done:
 

Quote

 

Jared Olson, Flight controller at NASA (2007-present)

Answered Jan 30 2015 · Author has 401 answers and 814.8k answer views

 

 

Dan Barry took Starcraft to space.

Which is awesome.

Info on him: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...

https://www.quora.com/Do-astronauts-play-video-games-on-the-ISS

[Kerbinchaser]

Just now, James Kerman said:

Unfortunately it's been done:
 

https://www.quora.com/Do-astronauts-play-video-games-on-the-ISS

Aww.

FINE, first people to play Video Games in the MOON'S SOI. 

[James Kerman]

Doing a flyby of the moon while doing a flyby of the Mun?  That would be epic!

[Just Jim]

35 minutes ago, James Kerman said:

Doing a flyby of the moon while doing a flyby of the Mun?  That would be epic!

I would say it's pretty much mandatory!!!  

[Mrcarrot]

36 minutes ago, Just Jim said:

I would say it's pretty much mandatory!!!  

I'd agree there... playing KSP while actually IN SPACE sounds like about the coolest thing that anyone would have done since actually setting foot on the moon.

[Kerbinchaser]

1 hour ago, James Kerman said:

Doing a flyby of the moon while doing a flyby of the Mun?  That would be epic!

Oh my Gosh yes. 

Can we bribe one of the artists to DO this??

[kerbiloid]

5 hours ago, James Kerman said:

Doing a flyby of the moon while doing a flyby of the Mun? 

A voodoo spaceship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathetic_magic

Spoiler

He was not good in Moon flying.

 

[James Kerman]

Lol, I was thinking whether the art would be imitating life or visa versa but my suspicious mind is now wondering if you have a Soyuz model at home, @kerbiloid.

 

[kerbiloid]

9 minutes ago, James Kerman said:

but my suspicious mind is now wondering if you have a Soyuz model at home, @kerbiloid.

And a drill?