Guest Gary C Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Apparently Will.I.Am endorses a scientific foundation, which is a pretty cool thing for a celebrity to do, I guess. But it still doesn't make his music worthy of such an equally pointless and profound status. They should've just gone with the Beatles, or something classical. Didn't the UN once create a planetary national anthem that combined world music? Uh, whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest theSun Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 the only thing wrong or misleading about that analogy is it compares earth (as a closed system) with the universe (also obviously closed in this scenario). and the scale of the earth is just about impossible to comprehend, let alone the scale of the universe. srry, im a dolt. what do you mean by closed system vs open system in this context? i guess i didn't really get my idea acroess clearly. it was more just a point about how even with that analogy, it is impossible to comprehend the sheer distance involved and quantity of possibilities in the universe regarding "life", even when compared with a planet like this, which is described/imagined by its inhabitants as biologically diverse and spatially massive. if that makes sense... COFFEEEE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcofribas Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Apparently Will.I.Am endorses a scientific foundation, which is a pretty cool thing for a celebrity to do, I guess. But it still doesn't make his music worthy of such an equally pointless and profound status. They should've just gone with the Beatles, or something classical. Didn't the UN once create a planetary national anthem that combined world music? Uh, whatever. On that note they'd should've played Stockhausen's "Hymnen" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshuatxuk Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Apparently Will.I.Am endorses a scientific foundation, which is a pretty cool thing for a celebrity to do, I guess. But it still doesn't make his music worthy of such an equally pointless and profound status. They should've just gone with the Beatles, or something classical. Didn't the UN once create a planetary national anthem that combined world music? Uh, whatever. EMI actually denied the Beatles from being added to the Gold Disk Record on the Voyager Probe in 1977 will.i.am seems like a nice enough guy, but my god is his music terrible. I wasn't expecting NASA to play "Polynomial C" or "Vletrmx21" but they could of made an executive decision to not let this happen, and, I dunno play Vangelis or something. Hell, I would been less offended if they played Incubus "Stellar" or some Daft Punk song. Mars hears this instead http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgQ4aXzhvHw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest theSun Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 basically, universe is too big for us to comprehend without absolute math, which is impossible to conceptualize. what's the difference in your mind between 1,000,000,000,000 miles and 1,000,000,000,000,000,000? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaarg Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 The only difference in my mind is when I see that the numbers are not the same I go "oh" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Friendly Foil Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 that track.. ... ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoodie Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 it's not like it matters, there's nobody there anyway. nasa gets their money and will.i.am gets his track played to an empty desert planet. everyone wins. edit: that song is so bad. i couldn't listen through the whole thing. wtf lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 y dooday say da sky is da limit and i no the sky might be hi but baybe it aint really that hi REACH 4 DA STARS LET ME SEE YO HAND SUP ARRRRRUUUUUUUUUUU ARRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUU ARRRRRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUUU !!! i can't believe we're playing this to another planet "like a lion out the jungle you can hear us roar" yeah mars will relate to this lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted August 29, 2012 Author Share Posted August 29, 2012 i'm actually hoping there IS life there and in a hitch-hikers guide style mishap, the lyrics are actually the worst insult imaginable in martian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marf Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 its too much like a movie. the song will awaken a 10 thousand year old hibernating martian death ray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cichlisuite Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 oh god that autotune why "and i know the sky maybe high, but baby it ain' really that high and i know that mars maybe far, but baby it ain' really that far" this is the worst... i don't even Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cichlisuite Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 latest research show that emitting large amounts of shit/autotune tracks into space causes the space-time to curl around the earth and form a giant russian-sailor hand that will bitchslap the earth and send it straight to the Sun's core. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 They should have sent will.i.am out there to sing it in person. (at the climax he could remove his helmet and explode like Arnold in Total Recall) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sergeantk Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 holy shit that song is one of the worst things ive ever heard that is all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zazen Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 Perhaps the point is that Nasa are saving the earth from that song by sending it to mars? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted August 31, 2012 Author Share Posted August 31, 2012 new panorama from NASA http://photojpl.com/curiosity-rover-moves-and-leaves-tracks-on-mars/-/wyk4Xq9M6N/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain C Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Just FYI, Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids. In fact, it's cold as hell. Sorry to break that to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gary C Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Just FYI, Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids. In fact, it's cold as hell. Sorry to break that to you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvQwXOCKNLY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zazen Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 I love the little logo on the Curiosity bumper. Like a cross between a QR code and an 8-bit drawing of the rover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pennywise Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 Surely 'Is there life on mars?' by Dave Bowie would of been a winner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoodie Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 honestly they should just name david bowie emperor of mars. maybe curiousity can carve his face into a rock with that cool laser it has. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshuatxuk Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 new panorama from NASA http://photojpl.com/...s/-/wyk4Xq9M6N/ I was in New Mexico and West Texas last week - this basically looks like 6 or so hours of that drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Friendly Foil Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 Martians will kill us all because of that song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryancolecreate Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 Oh, hey, so apparently Will.I.Am's new single will be broadcast from the rover and played to the surface of Mars. That's pretty fucking lame right there, but it makes you wonder why they put a speaker on the rover. Surely they wouldn't have put it there just for some marketing exercise. This is Nasa and a state-of-art spacecraft. Were they at least not-closed to the idea that they might actually encounter life? No speaker, they radioed it back. I think it's a great idea. We have a world full of people who are bored about space. Doing something with pop appeal is a great idea to generate more intrest. Also who gives a fuck what the song was. It's a completely symbolic gesture. What should they have played? Some obscure ass IDM shit that no one will appreciate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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