Symphony of Science music videos

[direvus]

Possibly you've all seen these already, but someone has stitched together samples from various wonderful science documentaries and used autotuning to turn them into music videos.

Some people apparently find the autotuning annoying. If you are not such a person, you may get a real kick out of these:

http://www.symphonyofscience.com/videos.html

A few of the beautiful and moving quotes used in the songs:


The sky calls to us.
If we do not destroy ourselves,
we will, one day
venture to the stars.

-- Carl Sagan

Matter flows from place to place
and momentarily comes together to be you.
Some people find that thought disturbing.
I find the reality thrilling.

-- Richard Dawkins

I know that the molecules in my body
are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos.
That makes me want to grab people in the street and say
"Have you heard this?!"

-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Interesting stuff...

The voice alteration is a little hard to grasp at the beginning, like when you first heard it - but it "grows on you" - so to speak, it ends up getting some nice rythm and tune and stuff.

Not my personal favourite style music, and the one video was enough - but good.

[atheist_angel]

I'm just putting them on here so I don't have to have too many browser tabs open. :D
XGK84Poeynk _ vioZf4TjoUI

hOLAGYmUQV0 _ zSgiXGELjbc

[Sancho]

I love these. I've been trying to make "Glorious Dawn" my ringtone, but the phone has so far outsmarted me.

[GenericBox]

What phone?

[Sancho]

What phone?
Hiptop Slide. I'm doing everything right, apparently, but can't get it to register as an MP3. I think I need more memory.

[rellikzephyr]

i know, old thread. but quite a few new vids. and you can buy the album, in whatever format you want. and can pay whatever you feel is fair

i have it, and its my new favourite album. yes i love science that much lol

check it out people, if you havent already

RellikZephyr

[CoachPedro]

Hiptop Slide.

Thsts your first problem. My hiptop slide was the worst piece of technology purchased in a long time.




Im a bug fan of these vids. I've got a lot of the tracks converted into audio so I have them on my ipod. The best ones are 'in the beginning', 'ode to the brain and 'we are all connected'-

[Sancho]

Thsts your first problem. My hiptop slide was the worst piece of technology purchased in a long time.

I thought that when I replaced it, but you know what is always did? What I told it to.

I never wound up wanting to throw it at a wall because I need it in a hurry while it's busy grinding from app to app like my HTC Desire does.

[xephani]

I saw these too - really like them.

Like that we are mixing science with the arts :)

[Sancho]

Ah, Sancho! It's been a while. I hope you're doing well.

Hey, thanks.

I'm spending most of my arguing time these days with the banal right-wing hipsters that consider themselves the Australian "libertarian" movement, but I'm always ready to pop over here to continue a discussion that's two years old and off-topic.

[xephani]

Hey, thanks.

I'm spending most of my arguing time these days with the banal right-wing hipsters that consider themselves the Australian "libertarian" movement, but I'm always ready to pop over here to continue a discussion that's two years old and off-topic.

What's this? Atheist infighting between left and right politics?

Alice :)

[Sancho]

What's this? Atheist infighting between left and right politics?
Well, I've yet to meet any genuine libertarians on the parts of the internet that claim to represent the Australian libertarian movement.

What you will find is plenty of regular social conservatives, along with the usual dosage of religious authoritarianism that is, by definition, antithetical to libertarianism.

Arguments for freedom and individual rights seem a bit disingenuous when they're attached to comments like:

Christianity is the one true faith and the Catholic Church the One True Church. (http://catallaxyfiles.com/2011/12/28/at-risk-from-what/#comment-370151)

I somehow doubt the author of that is likely to tolerate much freedom of religion if they got any political power.

[davo]

Depends if you refer to libertarian as per European libertarian socialism, or the American vernacular. I presume the American as you say right wing ;)

[Sancho]

And that's just it, Davo. There's a whole range of philosophies - often contradictory - that claim to be the one true libertarianism.

I'm enjoying the blog Bleeding Heart Libertarians, which gives a very different perspective to the re-branded type of right-wing extremism championed by Ron Paul et al.

[davo]

Yes, however a brief look at it (on my phone as out and about ATM) it looks to be from the position of laissez faire capitalism, rather than the historical libertarian socialism, something again that is a more recent devlopment. However only had a brief look so could be wrong.

[xephani]

Well, I've yet to meet any genuine libertarians on the parts of the internet that claim to represent the Australian libertarian movement.

What you will find is plenty of regular social conservatives, along with the usual dosage of religious authoritarianism that is, by definition, antithetical to libertarianism.

Arguments for freedom and individual rights seem a bit disingenuous when they're attached to comments like:



I somehow doubt the author of that is likely to tolerate much freedom of religion if they got any political power.

I've met what I believe to be a genuine libertarian - but he is american, and I met him on Atheist Nexus.

Sounds as though you are against social conservatism?

I'm a member of the Green party current. I don't know much about what they are on about - but I do like their human rights stuff and like that they have more power to rock the boat of our 2 party system.

Other than that, I don't really know what my politics are now. I've had long conversations with my A/N friend - we argue LOL. He wants to get rid of all taxes and rely totally on personal donation for roads and community services.

I think I'm just generally against industrialisation - although I appreciate that I wouldn't have many of the comforts that I enjoy without it.