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SpaceX Makes History With Orbit!

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fitz in News, Science on Sep 29

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Hi all…

I was doing my daily blog browse and came across this story at Cromely’s World. I knew that SpaceX had been trying for a successful launch for a while and had suffered three setbacks in the prior three attempts. Evidently they had a spectacular success on Sunday, becoming the first privately held company to get a rocket into Earth orbit. Unbelievable. Falcon 1 success on Flight 4.

They’re readying additional flights for January and beyond as well as a new rocket to test in the future (Falcon 9). Their goal of course is to facilitate much cheaper satellite launches and even manned trips.

Excuse me while I geek out.

Congratulations to Elon Musk and his team for their spectacular success!

You can watch the launch and success on YouTube below… And more about the historic flight at Wired.

Thanks to Cromely for bringing this to my attention this morning!!!

–Fitz

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Amazing Music from the Sun (Courtesy of VSL)

Posted by

fitz in Art, Music, Science on Sep 25

Hi all…

I’m not sure how many of you are aware of the Very Short List e-mail list (if you’re not aware of them, check them out — it’s worth the look), but it’s brought some very interesting topics, sites, and images to my attention in the last few weeks.

This cool video is called “Brilliant Noise” from two British artists (Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt) working with the brainiacs at the NASA Space Science lab at UC Berkeley. Basically the 10-minute video turns the suns hot spots into soundwaves, creating a soundtrack that accompanies the amazing images.

Though the music isn’t startling in and of itself, when paired with some of this footage it takes on a life of its own.

Anybody interested in astronomy, music, or simply art, should take a look and a listen to the music of the sun.

Check it out.

–Fitz

Brilliant Noise from Semiconductor on Vimeo.