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A rocket carrying human beings going to space to live for a few days in zero gravity, viewed from an airplane carrying hundreds of humans 30,000 feet in the air
by fourspace 16y ago
A rocket carrying human beings going to space to live for a few days in zero gravity, viewed from an airplane carrying hundreds of humans 30,000 feet in the air, filmed on a camera that fits into your pocket.
Do we need any more proof that human beings are incredible?
- aarontait 16y agoOr that fossil fuels are incredible...
- jonknee 16y agoDiscovery doesn't use fossil fules. The main engines are powered by oxygen and hydrogen and the solid rocket boosters are made up of ammonium perchlorate, aluminum and iron oxide.
- aarontait 16y agoHydrogen is a storage medium. Fossil fuels are used as the energy source to make the rocket propellant. I can also guarantee you that fossil fuels were used in the production and distribution of the rocket boosters and that the airplane the video was taken from wouldn't be flying if it didn't have any jet fuel in it's tank. Humans are smart creatures, but we shouldn't kid ourselves into thinking we would be where we are at now if it weren't for a cheap, albeit limited, supply of highly concentrated energy.
- kirubakaran 16y agoBy that logic, fossil fuel is a storage medium too. Solar energy was used as the energy source to make fossil fuel.
- aarontait 16y agoTrue, with the difference being humans (and our predecessors) had to wait hundreds of thousands of years for the fossil fuels to form under the immense pressure (and additional energy input) of the earth.
- dtby 16y agoAnd you believe that the value of this observation is what, exactly? That we are wasting energy which has been stored and untapped for hundreds of thousands of years? Do we really expect that our ancestors will be better able to exploit this value than we are... without our given expliotation? Will this be true forever? Should we just let that stored energy remain forever? Ceteris parabis, we will extract exactly as much value from our ancestors as makes sense. And our ancestors will do exactly the same. I do not begrudge them that any mire than I begrudge us this current state of affairs.
- fourspace 16y agoFossil fuels are only incredible because humans figured out how to use them. They have no inherent value apart from our minds.
- mkramlich 16y agoAnd yet despite all this amazing intellectual capability we seem somehow unable to balance a government budget, year after year after year. Hmmmmmm....
- cal5k 16y agoEverything is amazing and nobody's happy.
- mkramlich 16y agohaha, nice! yes the great Louis C.K. routine. "You're sitting in chair. But it's thousands of feet in the air and hurtling along at hundreds of miles an hour but you're perfectly safe. Yet we complain about the taste of the coffee not being just right." to summarize.
- joelrunyon 16y agowell played :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itn8TwFCO4M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itn8TwFCO4M
- fourspace 16y agoThere's a certain kind of person that's drawn to politics and usually they are not the enterprising productive type.
- noonespecial 16y agoPerhaps we should just leave it at "there are humans that can do incredible things, but most humans just sit around and argue about who should be allowed to do incredible things, who should be allowed to allow these things, and who should get credit for those things if they ever happen to get done." In that context, the technical wizardry isn't the miracle, the miracle is that the stupid monkeys could cooperate long enough to actually get it done.