10 thoughts on “Carnival Of Space”

  1. Well, who knows. Before Ms. Rhodes gets to Buzz’s age, perhaps we will have a spacefaring capability. Not sure we will, as I doubt the stars are going to align, but like I said. Who knows.

  2. Meh. She’s a decent singer, I guess, but they should invite her back once she can calculate Isp for a boron fusion engine. 🙂

  3. “budding”?

    [removes brain from gutter]

    Thanks for the link, Rand. I do try to keep it HSF real over at OotC.

    One thing to remember with CoS is that most hosts only include those articles submitted to Fraser over at Universe Today. If only space science and astronomy articles are being submitted, then the CoS will typically only be about space science and astronomy. It’s up to the blog owners to get themselves on the weekly reminder list to submit articles for inclusion.

    I, on the other hand, tend to pad my CoS with relevant material not necessarily submitted with the batch of e-mails that Fraser forwards to each week’s host. I like to have fun with it, although this time around it could also be attributed to the fact that I’m on the NSS BoD and had a great time at the conference.

    You should think about submitting articles every now and then.

  5. I was there and as someone who has worked as a professional singer/song writer (among other things I had a monthly gig for 7 years in Belfast and did some fair sized stages at festivals and on radio here) and done a little bit of international touring, I can tell you she was very good. She hit her intervals precisely, she had good range, supported her voice well and has potential to go a long way. I gave her at least a 9.

    ISP is great, but we know how to build things. What we need is the desire to go. That’s a job for the artists. Exploration is part of a culture. It is not a design problem.

  6. @Dale — To each their own, I suppose. I’ve been around music a bit myself and to me she sounded flat and warbly. And her lyrics were juvenile at best. (Which is uderstandable, since she’s, well, a juvenile.)

    But I doubt Rand meant for this to become a music apprec thread, so…

  8. @txhsdad: music and math are vary closely related in the brain. When I was in first-year Physics, the prof did an informal poll: how many of us played a musical instrument? Out of 150 Physics students in the class, 146 played an instrument.

  10. @Tom — No, someone’s used to music from a time not so long ago before it was considered trendy to sing all flat and breathey. But a lazy people like lazy music, I guess.

    @Ed — So there’s hope for her. I welcome it. Except that at present, it seems while most of us would add 2 and 2 and get 4, she’d get something like 3.9998. 😉

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