OMG…
I’m sitting here waiting for a conference call to start , reading my email .. and trying to write a rap song about sicene.. when I found a note from my friend David, In it was a link to a site called The Symphony of Science. It’s a project about conveying scientific though through music. On the fron tpage is this really wonderful and inspiring remix of an episode of the show Cosmos (which I’ve never seen) , They’ve used signal processing to put the spoken words of Carl Sagan and Stephan Hawkins to music
The reason I’m sharing this is not just because I think it’s cool and wierd.. it’s because this fellsin my lap as I sit here tryign to write a rap song about sceince for a work project
How does that work ?
Sam.. any ideas ?
-jc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc
Sagan
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch
You must first invent the universe
Space is filled with a network of wormholes
You might emerge somewhere else in space
Some when-else in time
The sky calls to us
If we do not destroy ourselves
We will one day venture to the stars
A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way
The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths
Of exquisite interrelationships
Of the awesome machinery of nature
I believe our future depends powerfully
On how well we understand this cosmos
In which we float like a mote of dust
In the morning sky
But the brain does much more than just recollect
It inter-compares, it synthesizes, it analyzes
it generates abstractions
The simplest thought like the concept of the number one
Has an elaborate logical underpinning
The brain has its own language
For testing the structure and consistency of the world
Hawking
For thousands of years
People have wondered about the universe
Did it stretch out forever
Or was there a limit
From the big bang to black holes
From dark matter to a possible big crunch
Our image of the universe today
Is full of strange sounding ideas
Sagan}
How lucky we are to live in this time
The first moment in human history
When we are in fact visiting other worlds
The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean
Recently we’ve waded a little way out
And the water seems inviting
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