Monday, March 12, 2007

space porn

Growing up as a little kid in the 60s, the conquest of outer space was the single greatest thing ever. The weeks before and the months after the Apollo missions were filled with wonder. Pop stars were fabulous creatures but astronauts, man, astronauts were elevated beings. Pun fully intended. When Armstrong stepped onto the moon's surface, the whole world seemed to stop. I still get excited by the achievemnets of space exploration. This may be among the coolest things I've ever seen.

A million miles from Earth. Check out this video of the moon's transit across the face of the sun. Awesome would be the right word.

Update:
In my excitement to get back to looking at amazing images and vids, I neglected to say that I found this site via boingboing. Also, upon snooping around the rest of the Nasa Stereo site. They have 3-D animations and imagery of solar phenomena, mission craft and all manner of fabulous goodies. Now then, where can I find me a pair of those 3-D glasses with the red and blue lenses?

3 comments:

Ti-Guy said...

My parents have *the* most pathetic artifact of any popular recording of the Moon landing: a polaroid shot of the 14-inch black and white televison my parents were watching when Armstrong made his historic step. You can't see anyting but this small tv, the screen showing nothing but the Polaroid camera's flash, and a few appalling lower middle-class 60's-era tchotchkes that my parents had arranged on either side of the TV.

And still, my entire family, to this very day, proudly presents that photo as "Where Mum and Dad Were when Man Landed on the Moon."

Taste the history.

Lindsay Stewart said...

somewhere there's a contact sheet of shots of our tv. mind you my old man was what could be called a gear pig. he was shooting with a leica at the time. i wonder what the crime stats were that day, i imagine even the petty crooks were watching instead of than robbing.

might make a nice art project to collect photos of all of the thousands of tvs that were being photographed at the time.

Anonymous said...

space porn is cool.