Glorious Dawn

[Steve Gagne]

I don't know if anyone else has seen this:

Lyrics:

[sagan]

I'm not very good at singing songs.

But, here's a try.....

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch

You must first invent the universe

Space is filled with a network of wormholes

You might emerge somewhere else in space

Some when-else in time

The sky calls to us

If we do not destroy ourselves

We will one day venture to the stars

A still more glorious dawn awaits

Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise

A morning filled with 400 billion suns

The rising of the milky way

The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths

Of exquisite interrelationships

Of the awesome machinery of nature

I believe our future depends powerfully

On how well we understand this cosmos

In which we float like a mote of dust

In the morning sky

But the brain does much more than just recollect

It inter-compares, it synthesizes, it analyzes

it generates abstractions

The simplest thought like the concept of the number one

Has an elaborate logical underpinning

The brain has its own language

For testing the structure and consistency of the world

A still more glorious dawn awaits

Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise

A morning filled with 400 billion suns

The rising of the milky way

The sky calls to us

If we do not destroy ourselves

We will one day venture to the stars

[Hawking]

For thousands of years

People have wondered about the universe

Did it stretch out forever

Or was there a limit

From the big bang to black holes

From dark matter to a possible big crunch

Our image of the universe today

Is full of strange sounding ideas

[sagan}

How lucky we are to live in this time

The first moment in human history

When we are in fact visiting other worlds

A still more glorious dawn awaits

Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise

A morning filled with 400 billion suns

The rising of the milky way

A still more glorious dawn awaits

Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise

A morning filled with 400 billion suns

The rising of the milky way

The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean

Recently we've waded a little way out

And the water seems inviting

[Steve Gagne]

[BaalChatzaf]

The sky calls to us

If we do not destroy ourselves

We will one day venture to the stars

Yes, yes. Carl Sagan has told us billyuns and billyuns of times that we can go to the stuhrs, because we are made of stuhr-stuff. The fact of the matter is the fastest any of our vehicles has ever travelled is about 20 miles per second. The speed of light is about ten thousand times that. Unfortunately there are no energy sources in the cusmohs that are available to use with any technology we are likely to develop in the next thousand years that will enable us to even get to one tenth light speed. That, by the way, will make the nearest stuhr forty years travel time (proper) since the time dilation at one tenth light speed is insignificant.

The only way, we lumps of stuhr-stuff are going to make it to the stuhrs is to increase our life-span by 4 orders of magnitude. If we do it, we will have to learn how not to go insane living that long, given our emotional and psychological make up.

My advice is not to hold our breath until we are able to make a trip to the nearest stuhr, for if we do, we will achieve the same color as the pale blue dot we live on.

Ba'al Chatzaf

Edited November 26, 2009 by BaalChatzaf

[9thdoctor]

I'm going to hell for this one:

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[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Steve,

Muito obrigado. Gostei demais...

Because of this post, I spent a good portion of last night watching YouTube interviews with Carl Sagan on YouTube. And since he actually can sing in tune, I will forgive him the precocious global warming stuff.

Anyway, wormholes rock...

Michael