Quotable Chris Hadfield inspires stellar cartoon (http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2013/03/quotable-hadfield-inspires.html)
Comic: "An astronaut's advice" (http://zenpencils.com/comic/106-chris-hadfield-an-astronauts-advice/)
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Yeah, that's a nice quote, "Don't let life randomly kick you into the adult you don't want to become."
Make that poet AND musical performer...
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2013/05/13/183579174/space-oddity-in-space-yes-astronauts-are-still-the-coolest-humans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo
Chris is the man, represented -- and inspired -- Canada so well.
PS: forum is LAGGY-slow today, like "10-20 second delay no matter what action was clicked" slow.
Man! I posted that link everywhere but HERE
So yeah, another Canadian first! First music video in SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
Yeah was well done as well!
Noo doot aboot it!
I SEEN THE H?OOOOLE THING
Ya I saw the space oddity video then proceeded to watch all the related videos on youtube for a few hours
Look up the canadianspaceagency youtube channel, there's all kinds of good videos there, like Cmdr Hadfield wringing out a wet cloth in space (http://youtu.be/o8TssbmY-GM).
Commander Chris Hadfield talking to William Shatner, and here's an interesting point Cmdr Hadfield makes: http://youtu.be/f1ro4zkw-LA?t=11m02s
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Think about the stuff that was portrayed on television 40 years ago of people with a small handheld device standing on the surface of a planet, talking to someone effortlessly who's orbiting that planet. That's what you and I are doing that right now!
We have indeed come quite far since Star Trek was first shown on TV...
That's for sure, however miniskirt technology has fallen way behind the 60s...
Did you see the one where Chris showed what happens if you cry in space? Like all these simple things that you never think of.
Brushing your teeth too!
It's been a fun trip to watch vicariously.
Yes, I watched nearly all of his as well as some others from the US.
I like is demonstration of the barf bags and the YouTube hangout one where the chief medical officer demonstrates reorientating him self by ratcheting motion like a cat.
Quote from: Thorin on May 14, 2013, 08:23:52 PM
Look up the canadianspaceagency youtube channel, there's all kinds of good videos there, like Cmdr Hadfield wringing out a wet cloth in space (http://youtu.be/o8TssbmY-GM).
What's even cooler is at the end, the way the water stays on the back of his like some kind of liqui-gel, sloshing forward and back but not "falling" off.
Quote from: Mr. Analog on May 14, 2013, 08:45:04 PM
Did you see the one where Chris showed what happens if you cry in space?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36xhtpw0Lg
Quote from: Thorin on May 14, 2013, 08:38:01 PM
Commander Chris Hadfield talking to William Shatner, and here's an interesting point Cmdr Hadfield makes:
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Think about the stuff that was portrayed on television 40 years ago of people with a small handheld device standing on the surface of a planet, talking to someone effortlessly who's orbiting that planet. That's what you and I are doing that right now!
I doubt back then Captain Shat could have imagined Cmdr Hadfield being able to participate in this magic musical experience...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvAnfi8WpVE (face-to-face rehearsal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ot3iWrGy1s )
a final list of many of the proud moments for Canada, summarized via the Chris Hadfield Appreciation Society aka CBC
http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2013/05/five-things-chris-hadfield-did-that-amazed-us.html
my personal fave:
in Soviet Russia, bread comes in a "pill" form! (https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/status/290808610177572864)
Quote from: Darren Dirt on May 27, 2013, 01:57:52 PM
a final list of many of the proud moments for Canada, summarized via the Chris Hadfield Appreciation Society aka CBC
http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2013/05/five-things-chris-hadfield-did-that-amazed-us.html
my personal fave:
in Soviet Russia, bread comes in a "pill" form! (https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/status/290808610177572864)
Man! Scrolling through that was like reliving it all over again, what a journey for both Chris AND us!
grumpy poet, apparently...
http://www.thebeaverton.com/chris-hadfield-ejected-from-movie-theatre-for-loudly-heckling-gravity.htm
Spoiler
"TheBeaverton" = Canuckified TheOnion ... but that fact is apparently lost on some legit news sites (http://imgur.com/EtwqRP3) (!)
via https://twitter.com/BeavClassified/status/395677990446592000 , https://twitter.com/Serrels/status/395676453594873857
Quote from: Darren Dirt on November 04, 2013, 04:56:21 PM
grumpy poet, apparently...
http://www.thebeaverton.com/chris-hadfield-ejected-from-movie-theatre-for-loudly-heckling-gravity.htm
Spoiler
"TheBeaverton" = Canuckified TheOnion ... but that fact is apparently lost on some legit news sites (http://imgur.com/EtwqRP3) (!)
via https://twitter.com/BeavClassified/status/395677990446592000 , https://twitter.com/Serrels/status/395676453594873857
LOL -- art vs life; I guess the joke article above is partly based on truth!
Well known pop-sci guy Neil-to-the-DGT actually has expressed some criticisms...
http://arts.nationalpost.com/2013/10/10/neil-degrasse-tyson-would-now-like-to-tell-you-what-gravity-got-right/
... as did Hadfield as well! http://arts.nationalpost.com/2013/11/12/chris-hadfield-says-sandra-bullocks-underwear-in-gravity-were-all-wrong-video/
(but the VISUALS are bang-on realistic, apparently!)
It's the best worst hard sci-fi film in a while
They tore it to pieces via twitter mostly, it was a daily thing for a while
Totally off topic, but I see Mr. A has got a new avatar. I think you may want to have a look at your camera.. I've heard it said that the camera adds a few pounds, but this is ridiculous.
Quote from: Tom on November 12, 2013, 04:43:30 PM
Totally off topic, but I see Mr. A has got a new avatar. I think you may want to have a look at your camera.. I've heard it said that the camera adds a few pounds, but this is ridiculous.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat!(http://i.imgur.com/zxmbT2w.jpg)
The guy is a reaction-image machine
Quote from: Tom on November 12, 2013, 04:43:30 PM
Totally off topic, but I see Mr. A has got a new avatar. I think you may want to have a look at your camera.. I've heard it said that the camera adds a few pounds, but this is ridiculous.
Mr. A's new av simply cracks me up.
Quote from: Mr. Analog on November 12, 2013, 04:39:47 PM
It's the best worst hard sci-fi film in a while
They tore it to pieces via twitter mostly, it was a daily thing for a while
But... BUT! They also (both!) totally loved a lot of it too! Of course that doesn't qualify as well for Media Over-Hype so the "pieces-tearing" tweets will be what most people hear about, and not the "yeah, but, it was excellent/accurate in the following dozens* of ways..." tweets. :P
* Neil deGrasse Tyson made a LONG fb post to clarify He Ain't Mad...
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Wednesday, 9 October 2013
No one was more stunned than I over the media attention given to my flurry of tweets posted this past Sunday, each commenting on some aspect of the Bullock-Clooney film Gravity. Hundreds of references followed in blogs and news sources, including television?s Inside Edition the Today Show, and Brian Williams?s NBC Nightly News.
What few people recognize is that science experts don?t line up to critique Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs or Man of Steel or Transformers or The Avengers. These films offer no premise of portraying a physical reality. Imagine the absurdity of me critiquing the Lion King: ?Lions can?t talk. And if they could, they wouldn?t be speaking English. And Simba would have simply eaten Pumba early in the film.?
The converse is also true. If a film happens to portray an awesome bit of science when there?s otherwise no premise of scientific accuracy, then I?m first in line to notice. In Chicken Little, for example, the hexagonal sky tiles, each mirroring what lies beneath them, was brilliant. So too are the factory-made doors in Monsters, Inc. As portrayed, they?re, functional wormholes through the fabric of space-time. In A Bugs Life the surface tension of water, which makes it ball up in small volumes was accurately captured at the Bug Bar, and for the little fella?s makeshift telescope.
To ?earn? the right to be criticized on a scientific level is a high compliment indeed. So when I saw a headline proclaim, based on my dozen or so tweets, ?Astrophysicist says the film Gravity is Riddled with Errors?, I came to regret not first tweeting the hundred things the movie got right: 1) the 90 minute orbital time for objects at that altitude; 2) the re-entry trails of disintegrated satellites, hauntingly reminiscent of the Columbia Shuttle tragedy; 3) Clooney?s calm-under-stress character (I know dozens of astronauts like that); 4) the stunning images from orbit transitioning from day to twilight to nighttime; 5) the Aurorae (northern lights) visible in the distance over the polar regions; 6) the thinness of Earth?s atmosphere relative to Earth?s size; 7) the persistent conservation of angular and linear momentum; 8) the starry sky, though a bit trumped up, captured the range and balance of an actual night sky; 9) the speed of oncoming debris, if in fact it were to collide at orbital velocity; 10) the transition from silence to sound between an unpressurized and a pressurized airlock; ? and 100) the brilliantly portrayed tears of Bullock, leaving her eyes, drifting afloat in the capsule.
So I will continue to offer observations of science in film ? not as an expression of distaste or disgust but as a celebration of artists attempting to embrace all the forces of nature that surround us.
Respectfully Submitted
Neil deGrasse Tyson
39,000 feet over Arizona
Yeah well the power of snark goes a long way. As well celebrity scientists zinging off your flick is funny in itself
I've heard some film makers thinks its a bit of an honor, a bit like weird al making a spoof of your song :D
Quote from: Tom on November 13, 2013, 06:40:41 AM
I've heard some film makers thinks its a bit of an honor, a bit like weird al making a spoof of your song :D
Sometimes, sometimes not (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic#Negative)
I went to see the film (it's pretty good BTW) but most of the buzz around it was related to the snark which after a while became eye-rolling.
Quote from: Mr. Analog on November 13, 2013, 07:14:48 AM
Quote from: Tom on November 13, 2013, 06:40:41 AM
I've heard some film makers thinks its a bit of an honor, a bit like weird al making a spoof of your song :D
Sometimes, sometimes not (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic#Negative)
Some people are uptight dickwads.
Yepp
Quote from: Tom on November 13, 2013, 06:40:41 AM
I've heard some film makers thinks its a bit of an honor, a bit like weird al making a spoof of your song :D
Or similarly if South Park makes a mention of your [insert celebrity embarassing public or non-famous person minor viral video or similar incident here]. Unless you're Kanye (who I heard doesn't "get it" in real life too!)
Quote from: Mr. Analog on November 13, 2013, 07:14:48 AM
sometimes not (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic#Negative)
I clicked that, and then I clicked once more, and then I learned about the real-life 501st Legion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501st_Legion), aka Vader's Fist.
Chris Hadfield gives G&M readers some suggestions about overcoming fear.
He uses spiders as a starting point.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/ideas-lab/an-astronauts-way-with-danger-how-chris-hadfield-overcomes-fear/article17568316/
in brief: familiarize yourself in advance, which will desensitize yourself to the point where REAL danger is distinguishable from PERCEIVED (or SPECULATED) danger. Cuz there's a place for healthy fear, just seems in this day and age with so much out of our control in this inter-connected world, a lot of people are so afraid of what "might" happen or "worst case scenario" perspectives that many get immobilized or even counter-react -- before The Bad Stuff even happens. (imo mainly political pundits and related, come to think of it)
You should definitely be afraid of Vader's Fist, the 501st!
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Political pundits don't get immobilized or over-react, they try to score political points by providing a contrarian view no matter what. Jon Stewart has made a living for years based on this single fact.
Sorry, I meant that the pundits keep yelling the party line and making their faithful audience FEEL powerless and thus frozen in inaction.