http://ops-alaska.com/time/sullivan&bell/sullivan&bell.htm
https://www.planetary.org/blogs/bill-nye/20120813-curiositys-marsdial-is-on.html
Category: NASA
I made a proposal for the First Human Art on Mars ( HAM )
A Drawing In The Sand on Another Planet.
Proposal for the first Human Art on Mars ( HAM ) – A Drawing In The Sand. Since ancient times philosophers have been drawing in the sand. …Our hands are a symbol of our humanity, we create and destroy by it, and like in the Michelangelo painting and in the cave paintings of ancient – they carry the human spark, they serve our intelligence to shape matter, and make our dreams a reality.
On the left – Proposed first Human Art on Mars ( HAM ) – A Drawing In The Sand. I propose that a human sized hand print is drilled on the surface of Mars by InSight’s Heat and Physical Properties Package probe. Just like the first human step on the Lunar surface – this will be a cultural step for mankind.
On the right – Red ochre hand stencils in the Cave of El Castillo (c.37,300 BCE). These markings are some of the earliest art of the Upper Paleolithic. Art is commonly understood as the act of making works (or artworks) which use the human creative impulse and which have meaning beyond simple description.
Growing up I wanted to be an astronaut, now I doodle about it. Nasa doodle and JPL DOODL
I grew up with Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, with Isaac Asimov’s stories, robots, aliens, with Arthur C Clarke’s novels. I grew up with Star Wars. It’s not that I believe in Star Wars but I do believe in the message of Star Wars. Star Wars inspired me to dream. It was so epic and there were so many great lessons in it. I became a Star Wars artist.
My blueprint for dreams came from the science fiction novels I had been reading throughout my childhood and as a young adult. I wanted an epic life with adventures, possibly in space. So my first dream naturally was to become an astronaut.
I became an artist, now I create worlds and constantly conspire to make things the world has never seen.
Darkness Visible, Finally: Astronomers Capture First Ever Image of a Black Hole Astronomers at last have captured a picture of one of the most secretive entities in the cosmos.
From The New York Times By Dennis Overbye.
Darkness Visible, Finally: Astronomers Capture First Ever Image of a Black Hole
Astronomers at last have captured a picture of one of the most secretive entities in the cosmos.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/science/black-hole-picture.html
Today, NASA will officially have to say goodbye to the little rover that could. The Mars Opportunity Rover was meant to last just 90 days and instead marched on for 14 years. It finally lost contact with earth after it was hit by a fierce dust storm.
gosh but like we spent hundreds of years looking up at the stars and wondering “is there anybody out there” and hoping and guessing and imagining
because we as a species were so lonely and we wanted friends so bad, we wanted to meet other species and we wanted to talk to them and we wanted to learn from them and to stop being the only people in the universe
and we started realizing that things were maybe not going so good for us– we got scared that we were going to blow each other up, we got scared that we were going to break our planet permanently, we got scared that in a hundred years we were all going to be dead and gone and even if there were other people out there, we’d never get to meet them
and then
we built robots?
and we gave them names and we gave them brains made out of silicon and we pretended they were people and we told them hey you wanna go exploring, and of course they did, because we had made them in our own image
and maybe in a hundred years we won’t be around any more, maybe yeah the planet will be a mess and we’ll all be dead, and if other people come from the stars we won’t be around to meet them and say hi! how are you! we’re people, too! you’re not alone any more!, maybe we’ll be gone
but we built robots, who have beat-up hulls and metal brains, and who have names; and if the other people come and say, who were these people? what were they like?
the robots can say, when they made us, they called us discovery; they called us curiosity; they called us explorer; they called us spirit. they must have thought that was important.
and they told us to tell you hello.
Mars sings in rumbles
Ain’t this the most awesome thing, makes me dream of what awaits humanity in the future as a space faring civilization
This contact binary potato named #UltimaThule
I imagine they will laugh in a hundred or so years at our pitiful excitement about a contact binary potato that we saw on our way out of the solar system but hey we are on a good vector and trajectory is more important than place.
