This commercial almost moved me to tears.

[TheFaithfulStone]

http://www.s2l.org/Videos/Reach.mpeg

Quicktime warning.

Awesome. I just discovered this recently, so I wanted to share.

TFS

[UncleAl]

Not A Space Agency with its Itanium-2 rebuilt obscenity of a supercomputer "Columbia" and already knowing the answer is wholly incapable of repeating what one brilliant Nazi and a bunch of gung-ho engineers with slide rules did from scratch. In 2006 the cost/gram of injecting mass into low Earth orbit with the reusable Space Scuttle is fully TWICE the cost/gram of doing it with a use-once-and-toss Saturn V, in constant dollars. The Space Scuttle's major payload is the Space Scuttle.

Sony, "The_Trip.asf" That is one bitchin' advert! Alana Davis breathily sings the Crosby Stills Nash & Young song "Carry On."

"When your kids ask where the money went … show them the tape."

Damn he looks happy. NASA is a puddle of political puke. Grandpa was boosted with a Russian heavy lifter.

[Pyrotex]

Originally Posted by TheFaithfulStone

...Awesome. I just discovered this recently, so I wanted to share. TFS

wow...
just wow...

[TheFaithfulStone]

We all know your feelings on the matter Al, but thanks for sharing.

TFS

[orbsycli]

Symbolic.
The kid wants the ball,
he grows up and is bored of the ball
so He rides rocket ships.

Awesome. Space exploration is Awesome.
But there's something about NASA that just pisses me off . .
I don't know,
I'm still very skeptical about their apollo missions . .

[orbsycli]

I found the commercial boring
but reminding
that they're still there??

[TheFaithfulStone]

Originally Posted by orbsycli

I found the commercial boring

Really? I mean, I don't know about whether it was exciting but I thought it was one of the best commercials I've seen in a long time.

You know. I teared up a little.

It so awesome to be human. It's so freaking cool that we send stuff to Mars.

Imagination is everything - Einstein.

TFS

[orbsycli]

did einstein say that imagination was everything?
I remember him saying,
to my face,
"Imagination is more important than knowledge"
But would he say that it is everything?
I wouldn't . .

Ah,
I don't watch television.
Commericals are a waste of time.
Yeah it's awesome to be human,
and know that other humans are researching other planets
but I see it all in fast forward,

Just a bunch of crawling flesh-stars
flinging toward our Crescendo
so I dance and I sway when I'm alone
and lurking stalked streets.
Look at where I go when I ramble.

I liked the ball, I kind of want it too . .

[Stargazer]

Great commercial! However, NASA needs to change, and also they need to get the funding necessary to actually do all the stuff they should be doing. The government need to understand that a space programme is expensive, at least in the beginning, and that a space programme should be planned with longterm goals. Sometimes I think that a manned space programme is just another national prestige thing to shortsighted politicians. It really shouldn't have to be that way.

[TheBigDog]

Space is also expensive and dangerous. We need to accept the danger while taking precautions. But we cannot expect space exploration to come without casualties. We need to remove many level of beaurocrats so that people can do their jobs and things get done much faster.

We need men of action! Not men in meetings.

Bill