Saw this image today and it reminded me of an odd dream I had last year:
Here's what I wrote then:
Moon Wrecker, this time James Bond wasn't along for the ride...
I had a dream the other night that was 70's Sci Fi meets the imagination of Terry Gilliam. A large, interstellar vessel was travelling through deep space, it's passengers in torporal stasis, only a skeleton crew awake to monitor the ships systems and make sure the vessel remained on course. Suddenly, a massive moon-like asteroid, populated with hairy dwarves, scavenging wrecked spacecraft upon it's surface, swings into it's path.
Antics ensue when a paranoid and jealous pilot with cabin fever (space madness?), convinced of his fellow crewmen's incompetence, start's fragging them a la Hal, from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Eventually he becomes a victim of his own madness in a hilarious and violent drama that unfolds amid a backdrop of the main observation window, the asteroid, looming ever larger above, and the corpse-like passengers, enclosed within their translucent hibernation sarcophagi, glinting below. After the crazed pilot is put down, a final moment of tender and foolish coitus is shared between the two "sane" surviving crew members who, despite the resounding klaxon alert and warning lights, seem oblivious to danger of the growing moon shining above them. So completely trusting are they in the safety of their craft's navigation systems (or so engrossed within each other that they fail to recognize the danger), they decide to seal themselves, naked, together in a shared cocoon for a final moment of bliss.
Meanwhile, on the asteroid below, the dwarves circle round the surface in rovers, kicking up silty clouds of dust, or push extractor carts around as attached blasters fire lasers wildly into space. As the climactic scene of the impact occurs, dozens of smaller satellites and spacecraft skip, plow, and crater into the asteroid's surface in a crescendo of destruction.
Different, but the final moment of my dream sort of reminded me of the ending in Dr. Strangelove.
Yes indeed, it was an awesomely bizarre dream.
As an added bonus, I just came across this youtube video time lapse images from the ISS in orbit around the Earth. Enjoy!
For optimum awesomeness, click the youtube link and watch in fullscreen HD.
And in more recent news, 2002 AM31, an almost mile-wide asteroid is speeding it's way across the path of the Earth at about 6 miles per second. Don't worry though, it's about 3 million miles away, about 1/10th the nearest distance Venus is from Earth, or about 14 moon distances away. Though this near-Earth asteroid has zero chance of hitting us, if it did, we would probably be completely obliterated.
With that image in mind, I'll leave you with a video illustrating over half a million asteroids discovered in the past 30 years...
Here's what I wrote then:
Moon Wrecker, this time James Bond wasn't along for the ride...
I had a dream the other night that was 70's Sci Fi meets the imagination of Terry Gilliam. A large, interstellar vessel was travelling through deep space, it's passengers in torporal stasis, only a skeleton crew awake to monitor the ships systems and make sure the vessel remained on course. Suddenly, a massive moon-like asteroid, populated with hairy dwarves, scavenging wrecked spacecraft upon it's surface, swings into it's path.
Antics ensue when a paranoid and jealous pilot with cabin fever (space madness?), convinced of his fellow crewmen's incompetence, start's fragging them a la Hal, from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Eventually he becomes a victim of his own madness in a hilarious and violent drama that unfolds amid a backdrop of the main observation window, the asteroid, looming ever larger above, and the corpse-like passengers, enclosed within their translucent hibernation sarcophagi, glinting below. After the crazed pilot is put down, a final moment of tender and foolish coitus is shared between the two "sane" surviving crew members who, despite the resounding klaxon alert and warning lights, seem oblivious to danger of the growing moon shining above them. So completely trusting are they in the safety of their craft's navigation systems (or so engrossed within each other that they fail to recognize the danger), they decide to seal themselves, naked, together in a shared cocoon for a final moment of bliss.
Meanwhile, on the asteroid below, the dwarves circle round the surface in rovers, kicking up silty clouds of dust, or push extractor carts around as attached blasters fire lasers wildly into space. As the climactic scene of the impact occurs, dozens of smaller satellites and spacecraft skip, plow, and crater into the asteroid's surface in a crescendo of destruction.
Different, but the final moment of my dream sort of reminded me of the ending in Dr. Strangelove.
Yes indeed, it was an awesomely bizarre dream.
As an added bonus, I just came across this youtube video time lapse images from the ISS in orbit around the Earth. Enjoy!
For optimum awesomeness, click the youtube link and watch in fullscreen HD.
And in more recent news, 2002 AM31, an almost mile-wide asteroid is speeding it's way across the path of the Earth at about 6 miles per second. Don't worry though, it's about 3 million miles away, about 1/10th the nearest distance Venus is from Earth, or about 14 moon distances away. Though this near-Earth asteroid has zero chance of hitting us, if it did, we would probably be completely obliterated.
With that image in mind, I'll leave you with a video illustrating over half a million asteroids discovered in the past 30 years...
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Sorry I didn't land it clearly.