“In an 8-0 vote, the [Texas Board of Education] today approved scientifically accurate high school biology textbook supplements…”
Reblogging for Fordi
Montreal musician Nash has just released a video for his song “Sad Robot Harmonies,” a bittersweet tune about one robot’s quest to keep believing in human goodness despite all evidence to the contrary.
According to wikipedia the first fully functional space shuttle was rolled out March 25, 1979, it was the Columbia. I was born in January of 1979 and its fair to say that for as long as I thought I had any say in the matter I was trying to direct my life toward being an astronaut. I took massive amounts of science in school, joined the astronomy club, looked into joining the air force. I save all the money I could to go to space academy in Huntsville and get my college credit from the space science program. Anyway, I did relinquish that dream in 1997. I found I’d never be tall enough. Looking back, its better that I gave it up then as I would have been grounded by health problems.
I am really worried about the pause (please let this not be the end) in the manned space program. I can’t think of anything else that has inspired more interest in science then the space program. What totem, what hero, will we point kids to for inspiration now?
With today’s last Space Shuttle flight, we’ve reached the end of an era in American space exploration. In this gallery, we look back on 30 years of the Space Shuttle program:
I cry for the end of an era, for the heroes, for missed chances, and the hope, against all that is going on now, that the next story arch will be even more thrilling.
David Byrne, “Miss America”
from Feelings (1997)
I’ve played this like 8 times tonight. Its been just the right sound track for today’s wackiness.
