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Principia Discordia => Techmology and Scientism => Topic started by: Kai on October 25, 2009, 05:32:11 PM

Title: Symphony of Science
Post by: Kai on October 25, 2009, 05:32:11 PM
Remember that Sagan autotune vid, Glorious Dawn? Well, the same guy has come out with a new one, featuring ND Tyson, Feynman, Sagan and Bill Nye, and it seems like hes planing on doing more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk

http://www.symphonyofscience.com/

This is really beautiful and religious stuff for me.
Title: Re: Symphony of Science
Post by: Cramulus on October 25, 2009, 05:44:51 PM
nice!

I really like this stuff
Title: Re: Symphony of Science
Post by: Captain Utopia on October 25, 2009, 05:47:07 PM
Awesome and beautiful.
Title: Re: Symphony of Science
Post by: Fuquad on October 25, 2009, 06:07:43 PM
Hawkins is noticeably missing from this. 
Title: Re: Symphony of Science
Post by: Captain Utopia on October 25, 2009, 06:16:52 PM
Quote from: A Pesky Nonvoting Screeching on October 25, 2009, 06:07:43 PM
Hawkins is noticeably missing from this. 
He was in the first one:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc
Title: Re: Symphony of Science
Post by: Fuquad on October 25, 2009, 06:30:23 PM
Quote from: fictionpuss on October 25, 2009, 06:16:52 PM
Quote from: A Pesky Nonvoting Screeching on October 25, 2009, 06:07:43 PM
Hawkins is noticeably missing from this. 
He was in the first one:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc

Cool.

Title: Re: Symphony of Science
Post by: Kai on October 26, 2009, 11:00:37 PM
We are all connected
to each other, biologically
to the earth, chemically
to the rest of the universe atomically

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it
but the way those atoms are put together
the cosmos is also within us, we're made of star stuff
we are a way the cosmos can know itself

I'm just a guy standing on a planet
but really I'm just a speck, I'm just a speck,
compared with a star, the planet is just another speck
to think about all of this
to think about the vast emptiness of space
and billions and billions of stars,
billions and billions of specks

I know that the atoms in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos
that makes me want to grab people on the street
and say, HAVE YOU /HEARD/ THIS!?

Theres this tremendous mass, rolling all over in space,
which is the light in the room,
bouncing from one thing to the other
and its all really there, really really there
but you gotta stop and think about it,
consider it closely to really get the pleasure
and its all really there, really really there
the inconceivable nature of nature

across the sea of space
the stars are other suns
we've traveled this way before
and there is much to be learned
Title: Re: Symphony of Science
Post by: Richter on October 27, 2009, 01:29:00 AM
Very nice!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LLfDG0GNvc&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Title: Re: Symphony of Science
Post by: Kai on October 27, 2009, 04:19:13 AM
Quote from: Richter on October 27, 2009, 01:29:00 AM
Very nice!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LLfDG0GNvc&NR=1&feature=fvwp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RjW5-4IiSc This man gets IT, the thing I have been trying to work out in more specific, religious naturalism, he GETS /IT/.
Title: Re: Symphony of Science
Post by: Captain Utopia on October 29, 2009, 04:01:29 AM
"We are a way the cosmos can know itself"

It's not an original concept, but in terms of a scientific calling to compete with the scope and certainty of religion, it's the one which resonates with me the most. Is there anything more compelling than this?
Title: Re: Symphony of Science
Post by: Kai on November 23, 2009, 05:21:21 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vioZf4TjoUI

I'm not really into this one as much. Its a different feel than the previous two, and the musicality really isn't there. It's like a bunch of short movements shoved together, and feels somewhat  disjointed.
Title: Re: Symphony of Science
Post by: Captain Utopia on November 23, 2009, 05:45:23 PM
I found the first two disjointed until I immersed myself into the narrative - this one gets better on repeat viewings - though I still dig the music in the first two more.
Title: Re: Symphony of Science
Post by: Iason Ouabache on November 23, 2009, 06:13:08 PM
Quote from: Kai on October 27, 2009, 04:19:13 AM
Quote from: Richter on October 27, 2009, 01:29:00 AM
Very nice!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LLfDG0GNvc&NR=1&feature=fvwp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RjW5-4IiSc This man gets IT, the thing I have been trying to work out in more specific, religious naturalism, he GETS /IT/.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson is awesome! He is the closest thing we have to Sagan right now.
Title: Re: Symphony of Science
Post by: Kai on November 23, 2009, 09:20:02 PM
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on November 23, 2009, 06:13:08 PM
Quote from: Kai on October 27, 2009, 04:19:13 AM
Quote from: Richter on October 27, 2009, 01:29:00 AM
Very nice!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LLfDG0GNvc&NR=1&feature=fvwp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RjW5-4IiSc This man gets IT, the thing I have been trying to work out in more specific, religious naturalism, he GETS /IT/.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson is awesome! He is the closest thing we have to Sagan right now.

If you've ever heard him talk about Sagan you'd know why. Sagan was Tyson's mentor.
Title: Re: Symphony of Science
Post by: Iason Ouabache on November 24, 2009, 12:52:07 AM
Quote from: Kai on November 23, 2009, 09:20:02 PM
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on November 23, 2009, 06:13:08 PM
Quote from: Kai on October 27, 2009, 04:19:13 AM
Quote from: Richter on October 27, 2009, 01:29:00 AM
Very nice!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LLfDG0GNvc&NR=1&feature=fvwp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RjW5-4IiSc This man gets IT, the thing I have been trying to work out in more specific, religious naturalism, he GETS /IT/.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson is awesome! He is the closest thing we have to Sagan right now.

If you've ever heard him talk about Sagan you'd know why. Sagan was Tyson's mentor.
Yes, I knew that. I heard a good interview with him on either Point of Inquiry or Skeptic's Guide to the Universe where he talked about Sagan extensively. Seems that Sagan had a habit of personally answering his own fan mail especially to youngsters who were interested in science. That's how the two met in the first place. Neil also took up the habit and handles his own fan mail.
Title: Re: Symphony of Science
Post by: Kai on November 24, 2009, 01:04:51 AM
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on November 24, 2009, 12:52:07 AM
Quote from: Kai on November 23, 2009, 09:20:02 PM
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on November 23, 2009, 06:13:08 PM
Quote from: Kai on October 27, 2009, 04:19:13 AM
Quote from: Richter on October 27, 2009, 01:29:00 AM
Very nice!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LLfDG0GNvc&NR=1&feature=fvwp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RjW5-4IiSc This man gets IT, the thing I have been trying to work out in more specific, religious naturalism, he GETS /IT/.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson is awesome! He is the closest thing we have to Sagan right now.

If you've ever heard him talk about Sagan you'd know why. Sagan was Tyson's mentor.
Yes, I knew that. I heard a good interview with him on either Point of Inquiry or Skeptic's Guide to the Universe where he talked about Sagan extensively. Seems that Sagan had a habit of personally answering his own fan mail especially to youngsters who were interested in science. That's how the two met in the first place. Neil also took up the habit and handles his own fan mail.


Best way to get the next generation interested in science. How cool would it have been to go meet Carl Sagan when you were a kid?
Title: Re: Symphony of Science
Post by: Captain Utopia on February 08, 2010, 06:17:45 PM
There's a fourth one now, I like it better than the third
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOLAGYmUQV0
Title: Re: Symphony of Science
Post by: BabylonHoruv on February 08, 2010, 11:29:44 PM
I like it.  I am really fond of skillful use of samples.

A little more vocoded than I'd like.
Title: Re: Symphony of Science
Post by: Captain Utopia on February 08, 2010, 11:37:20 PM
Yeah, the voice modification grated on me at first, but when you're trying to turn talking into singing, you need to change the pitch.. I'm guessing it sounds more natural auto-tuned than otherwise.  It's more apparent in this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpJGZ9RHAvU