MLT Club Member Jürgen
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Great topic, thanks Jung! Very beautiful music and even more beautiful pictures. I love the harmony of music and images above all. All our senses together; the most beautiful thing we have.
(Sorry Jung, I completely overlooked the fact that Eric Clapton had already sung the same thing earlier in your topic).
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Is this what Lucy saw when she left Earth’s orbit? And if she were human, what do you think Lucy would have felt and thought when she saw these images?
(? Probe Lucy: neutrum or femininum? )
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…and will this be what Lucy discovers…?
(The video can be rotated with the cursor keys at the top left, or with the mouse).
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Hi Jung, well maybe I’m a bit late with my answer to your topic, but the two videos (Beethoven, „Because“ and John Lennon / How The Beatles made Because) are really interesting and above all very clearly explained. Yes, John Lennon and The Beatles have gone through an insane evolution. Much has already been written, more has been shown and discussed, but to summarize the phenomenon of The Beatles in 7:20 minutes, I find remarkable. Exactly the time you need to enjoy a good “Light Tea” and „Scones”. It’s not the length of the moment, but the depth of the moment.
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Here is a piece of music that will always be very special to me: Jean Michel Jarre is a fantastic pioneer of electronic music and his style has always been associated with space, infinite journeys through the universe and departure to distant planets. Space travel has never sounded more exciting and beautiful.
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Remarkably in recent years it has become very quiet around NASA. For cost reasons, many projects have been put on ice. As far as I understand it, the goal of the Lucy mission is to study eight planetoids at close range between 2025 and 2033.
Stanislaw Lem, a Polish physicist and science fiction author, lets his protagonist in his novel “Solaris” come to the realization that we humans follow only one goal in all our attempts to explore space: We are in search of ourselves. Who are we, where do we come from and where will we go? The attempt to explore the planets, the desire to understand the universe: is it really only about the question “why”? What do you think about it?
Stephen Hawking describes in his book “A Brief History of Time” how he approached the Big Bang with his calculations up to a few milliseconds (or maybe even less) and how he tried to develop a formula (World formula) to be able to go back to the second zero. He held the opinion that if we can go all the way back to the Big Bang, everything will be easy. The calculations, the answers and our understanding of the Cosmos. He called this „origin and destiny of the universe“. Is also the program Lucy in the end only a trace search? What do we hope to find out there? Minerals or knowledge and insights into our own being? That the probe and the project were named after Lucy is surely no coincidence.
SETI is another exciting project of NASA, what has actually become of it? If we do find „E.T“. (the Extra-Terrestrial), will he (or it, or them) have answers for us and will we like them?
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Thanks Jung, very nice music and great pictures. Could you lend me your Mustang occasionally times so that I also come to the full enjoyment? 🙂
PS: when I fully depress the gas pedal on my car, it also eventually takes off, but less controlled than Lucy.
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Thanks Tom. What is “Hearts of space” exactly? A streaming service specializing in meditative and electronic music or still an independent record label? Jarre was very popular in Europe and Asia. He also gave several big live concerts. This was rather unusual at that time for this kind of music. Unfortunately, he never managed to match the great success of his two albums “Oxygen” and “Equinox”. At the moment he seems to be planning another comeback. This time in Germany.I wish him much success.
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Hi David, thanks for the video on Big Bang. I will enjoy the lecture, although in smaller doses: a one-hour lecture on the subject in English: hard stuff 🙂 But the topic is presented in a very entertaining and easy to understand way. Great!
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Hi Jung, thanks for the very nice metaphor “The mysteriousness of space always blows my mind when I start going down that wonderful rabbit hole of “why and how”. I even go so far as to say that there is not only a rabbit hole waiting for us, but a whole wormhole. 🙂
“Valerian and the City of A Thousand Planets” will definitely please you. The plot is rather average, but exciting (but Star Wars is no different). Visually an absolute pearl. And it’s peppered with Luc Besson’s typical humor. Really great. Maybe you also know the movie “Le Cinquième Élément” (The Fith Element). It’s the same style of film and the same kind of humor.
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Thanks Jung. We recently had the topic: Phil Spector and “The Wall of Sound”. The album version is backed with choirs and orchestra, almost a bit too much of a good thing. This version, on the other hand, sounds “very naked”. Such a middle thing would be nice. Admittedly: complaining on the highest level.
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Thanks Tom, I feel the same way as you: I really like the song Space Oddity in combination with the video. I also thought about buying the complete David Bowie album, but I don’t like the rest of the songs on the album as much.
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Hi David, thanks for the detailed answer. You did it just right: You took us on a small, interesting journey out into the vastness of our solar system and then led us back to earth via a loop at the right moment, to MLT and to the music. Lucy couldn’t have done it better. Thanks. 🙂