Comments on: A science comedian's love affair with space

By: Eve

Eve — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 04:41:46 +0000

This is the most romantic thing I’ve ever seen.

By: Jonathan Latimer

Jonathan Latimer — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:16:48 +0000

@ 12. Quiet Desperation

LOL…no. My wife hadn’t told me she was trying for the Shuttle lottery, and we hadn’t planned a trip at all this year. She managed to snag them at 3;15am, and woke me telling me we were going. Everything seems magical at three in the morning.

By: chris j.

chris j. — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:01:23 +0000

i got thrown off for a few seconds with the covers to various SF books, as that picture of the andromeda galaxy just happens to be my desktop picture!

By: QuietDesperation

QuietDesperation — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:26:07 +0000

This just in: flowery words *still* don’t pay the bills or reduce the cost per kilogram to orbit.

My wife and I were able, magically, to make it to the last shuttle launch

What, did you Apparate there?

By: Outdoor recreation store

Outdoor recreation store — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 07:11:33 +0000

Very funny video, congratulations to Tara and Brian!

By: Jonathan Latimer

Jonathan Latimer — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 04:04:54 +0000

@Brian

Thank you for posting!

I do remain cautiously optimistic — it’s my nature — and I will await all atingle to see if private enterprise really does fill in the void NASA will be leaving.

I just worry, sometimes — as it seems that most corporations nowadays aren’t interested if they won’t see profit in as little as three years, and though I think space will be profitable, I think it will take a mite longer than that.

Still, hope abounds. You put a very good video, a very good proposal, and keep teaching people while making them laugh. I can think of fewer higher callings.

Jonathan

By: Kevin R. Bridges

Kevin R. Bridges — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 02:47:06 +0000

Thanks for the heads up that there is a science comedian. Funny stuff.

By: Tim G

Tim G — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:32:14 +0000

Congratulations to Brian and Tara!

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:16:48 +0000

5. Grand Lunar

“sort of a quest to return to our origins”

We come from star dust and return to star dust or, more poetically perhaps, “The wheel is turning and you can’t slow it down. You can’t let go and you can’t hold on. Every time that wheel turns round, you’re bound to cover just a little more ground.”

We’ve stuck our toes in the sea of space. Now it’s time to go swimming,,,

Gary 7

By: Grand Lunar

Grand Lunar — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:14:33 +0000

That was an excellent video, and a greate message!
Congress ought to see it.

Does make a good point too; our urge to explore is sort of a quest to return to our origins.