OK Go, the guys behind the treadmill video Here It Goes Again a few years ago, also known for A Million Ways. Their new album is out, and the first video was neat: WTF? but I kinda figured they had something better in store.
So, first came this:
Uh-oh! YouTube won't show their video? WTF? Oh, wait, here it is:
Ah, but never happy to do just one video for a song, here it is again:
And if that wasn't cool enough, each of those videos shown above for that song were done in one take.
That was really awesome! I gotta catch one of those space launches some day.
Steve said about 7 hours later
This is the last year for the Space Shuttle. Parsla and I are going to go to one, probably the July launch (the second to last launch). We'll probably try to do Disney world at the same time. Want to join us?
Marc said about 17 hours later
I'll have to see what my vacation schedule is like (I'm likely going to be using a fair amount for a honeymoon at some point :) ). Maybe we'll join you for the launch though, that would only be a couple days and a nice weekend in Florida. :)
GJ said about 18 hours later
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Steve said 1 day later
Only worry about going to see a launch....they get delayed, often. So we're planning to arrive in Florida the day before the launch, and spend 5 days at Disney World. If the launch gets delayed a couple days due to weather, we just switch out which days we go to Disney.
Marc said 1 day later
Yea, I assume a late July launch might be the best chances for good weather. Who knows, it rains all the time in Florida. :)
Geoff said 2 days later
Last year for space shuttle launches? What are you telling me we're giving up on space now? lol
GJ said 4 days later
Do read the news once in a while, dear boy.
Geoff said 4 days later
i see the headlines...must have missed it. I hear about Tiger all the time though. Priorities.
Steve said 5 days later
Yea, our wonderful government sees no reason to look beyond our atmosphere to learn more. The shuttle is being replaced with a rocket that will take people into space at a much more reasonable cost, however the government is now canceling a lot of the missions planned for the future, even with that rocket. I kinda wish they'd make NASA private. Doesn't NASA bring in money by sending satellites up into orbit for communications companies? Or have they been doing that as a courtesy?
GJ said 6 days later
No, our government is making a smart decision to stop sending people into space. Robotic craft do far better science, and for far less money. We've wasted an enormous amount of money on the shuttle program, and have very little to show for it. Far from abandoning space, we're just changing how we study it.
Program cancellations have more to do with the gigantic amount of debt we have and the fact the NASA does a piss poor job of educating the public about what they bring to the table. That and the wasteful shuttle program have combined to convince lawmakers to drain NASA's budget.
We do have private versions of NASA...SpaceX is a good example of one.
GJ said 7 days later
That said, there is quite the conversation about this very topic over at Bad Astronomy. Check it out.
Steve said 8 days later
The problem with making NASA private or relying on private companies to take over our space program - what incentive do they have to do space research? Think about it. Private companies are made to make money, and make money soon. Would the hubble space telescope have ever happened if space flight was done privately? Does it make any real money? Nope. How about the Mars rovers? Sure, you'd get some good press out of it, but have they made any discoveries that bring in money? Nope. Space flight is all about learning and exploring our universe. No one is likely to make discoveries anytime soon that will make them money. About the only way to make money in spaceflight is to ferry passengers up there for ridiculous prices - basically just catering to the rich. Space research should be a government run program - or at least, the government should direct and pay for private companies to do the work for them. And I'm not saying the US should go it alone - we should continue to work with Russia, France, Germany, and anyone else that wants in. We're not in a race to the moon. We as humans need and want to learn more about this amazing universe we live in. Look at the pictures from Hubble, and you'll be amazed at just how vast this universe is.
I agree with a lot of the comments from that link - our politicians messed up by not planning far enough in advance for space shuttle replacement or what we should be doing next. I agree with you - NASA has done a piss poor job of making public what they are learning. But there is stuff that we wouldn't have as soon as we have it without NASA. Things like satellite TV, GPS, google maps. We wouldn't be so far advanced in our military capability, with satellites capable of zooming in on the license plates of enemy vehicles on the other side of earth.
Somedays I wish I worked for NASA. Parsla has a couple friends that work for NASA, working on the International Space Station. Her friend Michelle often works mission control, talking with the astronauts and working with them while they are on the ISS. I love hearing their stories.
GJ said 8 days later
What NASA does to service the satellites in orbit can and should be privatized. It's not just the government floating satellites up there these days. There is good money to be made doing that work, and SpaceX recognizes that. So do a few of their competitors.
NASA's original job was to win the space race. Science research was funding wholly by the military push at the time. Without that push, how are we going to justify doing science for science's sake with the incredible deficits we're running under at the federal level? I agree, we should be funding NASA, but we need to be fiscally responsible about it. To that end, manned space travel is illogical. It's prohibitively expensive due to the weight required for passengers and supplies, and for the most part, they can't do any better research than a robot. In many ways, a robot can do better. Best of all--something goes wrong, you lose the probe, not a human.
The other big problem with manned space travel are the huge distances involved. They sent a probe out to Pluto called New Horizons back in January 2006. It will arrive in April 2015. Not what I'd call a job for a human--and that's just traveling to the end of our known solar system. Space is a biiiig place, and we're only going to be able to explore it effectively with probes. The Shuttle, on the other hand, was supposed to be a less expensive alternative to shooting up rockets to deploy satellites and such. So much for that theory...SpaceX will be able to do much of what the Shuttle was responsible for and incur far less cost. I think you'll find the landscape of this part of our economy change drastically over the next twenty years.
Oh, btw, all those advances you mentioned above were military space applications. Take out the military from NASA, and you'd have gotten none of those things--as if NASA would have existed in the first place. We discover this kind of stuff when we pour tons of resources into these projects. I'm sure there's far more to discover, but are we as a nation willing to swallow those costs?
Anyhow, if you really like astronomy, Bad Astronomy isn't such a bad place to haunt, at least for starters. You'll find lots of good stuff there outside of his political postings (he's a big time skeptic too).
Yeah, let it be known that I've let TWO of these kind of shots go in...once while being broadcast on the radio in Utica back in 1985, and the other time some years later in Troy's RPI Fieldhouse (but in fairness, I wasn't playing for a college team at the time and to this day I'm sticking with the claim I was just getting my team psyched up).
In any case, I never did it on TV. Vesa Toskala did, though--just watch! Turn up the volume, too--it's that good.
Ah the long goal. I haven't let one in past the red line, but my best story was a slapshot from the red line, I caught it, my glove came off and the whole thing went into the goal.
Bought my new glove the next day. :)
Geoff said about 10 hours later
LOL that is even better hahahahahahahaha
T-shirt war posted by GJ on February 11, 2010 @ 6:26PM
Very well done. Lot of work and the result is superb. Good find.
Snowblowers posted by GJ on January 15, 2010 @ 1:02PM
Some people prefer snowblowers over shoveling. Of those snowblowing people, some need a little American Muscle Car in their snowblower, and they think they have the biggest, baddest snowblower around.
Not to be outdone by your neighbor, you could get one of these:
Or, if you need your private rail line cleared of winter's fury, you might want one of these:
If you liked this song, check out Joe Satriani and Steve Vai. They all play similar styles, and you can find them on the G3 Concert disc together--and of course, that disc absolutely rocks.
Marc said about 1 hour later
You can also find Satriani playing with the supergroup Chickenfoot, whose self-titled album rocks. Not as big a fan of Vai, I don't find he has quite as good phrasing as Satriani. Although to be fair, Cliffs of Dover is the only Eric Johnson song I've latched on to, so I can't say I'm a huge fan of him either. I'll have to look into that G3 Concert disc, sounds interesting.
GJ said about 1 hour later
Give a listen to Eric Johnson's Bloom. I think you'll get into that album just fine.
GJ said about 1 hour later
And Vai is freaking awesome. Dammit, I just went and created yet another Pandora station. Look what you did!
GJ said about 3 hours later
Check out this song by Steve Morse, it is awesome!
Yup, there was but one brief pause in his delivery as he struggled to say horse as his brain wanted to say butterfly. That was priceless--but his delivery was awesome.
