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Interesting fact Ethiopia..."Eagle has landed" or "One small step...." weren't the first words said on the moon.
They were actually - "Aldrin: Contact Light. Armstrong : Shutdown. Aldrin: Okay. Engine Stop. Aldrin: ACA out of Detent. I watched it live at school.
Doesn't quite have the punch of "One small step" or Eagle has landed.", but neither are most historical facts accurate.I remember (vividly) being in the basement 'rec' room with my parents at 2 in the morning watching it live. My Dad and I went outside into the warm summer night and I stared at the moon under a clear sky.
Having just watched 2001:A Space Odyssey I was sure I'd be able to visit the moon for a retirement vacation.
I'm still waiting, as the Airfix plastic model of the Orion shuttle hangs over my head in my basement computer room. Cripes, I built that thing 53(?) years ago!Because I live upside-down on the other side of the globe it was just after school lunchtime for me. Space flight is much more complicated than some people would imagine. Branson gave up today with his Virgin Orbit and I'm not sure if Musk has any idea of the actual complexities. Just safely putting a vehicle into LEO and returning is fraught with hazards so I don't see anyone going to the moon and back again, let alone Mars, will happen in my lifetime. Apparently we did it some 53 years ago, but a July 1970 poll found that 30% of Americans declared Apollo 11 to be a faked. I'm not committed one way or the other though I'd like to believe we did.
........And i'm floating in a most peculiar way, and the stars look very different today......
🙂The sad thing is that several interpretations of the Fermi paradox would have us the only intelligent beings in the near universe, and I use "intelligent" in its broadest sense. In fact it could be that we might be the only ones unless revealed otherwise. This is only academic because Voyager 1 will take it near to the next star system in some 40,000 years. I'm not staying up for that.
I don't want to "stick my paw" where it doesn't matter... I'm already 56 years old, and "The Doors" is like, I don't know..., a medieval chivalry novel, like Chrétien de Troyes, or those that drove "Don Quixote de la Mancha" crazy...
But, already in 3D, Rebecca Allen was a pioneer with her video for Kraftwerk... A little later, Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing," I think they used a program called "Truespace" or "POV-Ray", but much more polygonal...
Anyway. I prefer the Kraftwerk one!
https://www.wired.com/2012/04/kraftwerk-rebecca-allen/
Maybe he used the first "Silicon Graphis" computers with its operating system "Irix", I think it was called, like the Onyx, the O2, the Octane... I don't really know...
But it was better suited to the "techno" aesthetics of the Germans, than to the "Dire Straits" nonsense...
Music, non stop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0lIlROWro8"I know that one well. I believe I had that album. Wasn’t “don’t you go where the Huskies go and don’t you eat that yellow snow” on the same one?"
Frank Zappa! I miss that dude! He had a son named Dweezil (sp?) as well. Also wrote and sang "Valley Girl".
Back in the day most of the best the singers wrote and composed their own stuff (either on their own, or together as a band). For instance, most of the stuff from Rush came from their drummer, Neil Peart. I recall an interview where he said his high school counselor said he would never amount to much. So, he went out and became part of (arguably) one of the greatest rock bands in history.
BTW, who was that ultra-grouchy dude in the thread? I'd like to pass on my pseudonym to him...
Agreed on Kraftwerk, Abad.
The first 3D/CG I saw was in 1977, when Star Wars came out. They showed ultra-crude wireframes of the Death Star.
I think the 20 year block of 1967-1987 had more great music than all the other thousands of years combined.
There's a bit of good stuff sneaking out now but it's rare. There's a group from Montreal called 'Men I Trust' that's making hauntingly beautiful music. The singer reminds me of Dolores O'Riordan
of the Cranberries.Yeah there's some good stuff (few) coming out nowadays (for my own tastes, anyway), but not much except for the bands I like that were around in the 1967-1987 block of time that are still putting out music. I listen to rock from that area as well as the heaviest of metals. Some from that era are still cranking out good stuff. One of the few not of that era that I like today are Dream Theater. Super talented musicians.
See these folks on Stupid-Tube.
https://www.youtube.com/@FoxesandFossils
Their story is great.Not sure where the thread is heading but it doesn't look like Bladerunner yet.
Till then nobody will convince me this isnt one of the best groups of all time.
Read about this song and the animated LOTR movie from the 70's...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_(1978_film)#Music
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