I was quite excited to play music at the MetaQuizzical Cafe's hosting of Dr. Steve Bryson one of the amazing project scientist who digest information from the Kepler Space Telescope. Launched in 2009, the telescope is orbiting the sun, and its mission is to discover planets in other solar systems. The results are astonishing. Over 1200 planet candidates the time of this writing and going up fast.
I've been very inspired by this mission. Think about it. Before the Kepler mission, there were 9 planets. (I still think of Pluto as a planet.) Now there are over a thousand! It is possible that some of these planets could be potential harborers of intelligent/technological life forms. That possibility--along with the reality that if the human species survives long enough, we will have to relocate to another planet--moved me to write a song called "Super Earth". Read the lyrics. (I'll be recording it soon; it's a rocker.)
Steve Bryson is obviously passionate about the Kepler mission. He showed us what it looks like on a telescope computer graph when a planet is detected. It reminded me of the visual sound graphs in a recording studio. Maybe all of creation is singing! Steve reminds me of the early explorers gazing over the first views of a 'New World'. (First the views--and then the voyage, I say.) Steve is also a musician and composer. Many scientists are. I think math and music attract each other.
We should have a festival together weaving science, music, art, and theater. As Steve and others remind us (as worthy cool projects are cut, cut, cut), it's all about funding. That's fun with a bell on the end of it! Is there anybody out there that could ring that bell? Edu-tainment is where it's at! Something fun and meaty. . . Let's celebrate discovery in all its forms.
I've been very inspired by this mission. Think about it. Before the Kepler mission, there were 9 planets. (I still think of Pluto as a planet.) Now there are over a thousand! It is possible that some of these planets could be potential harborers of intelligent/technological life forms. That possibility--along with the reality that if the human species survives long enough, we will have to relocate to another planet--moved me to write a song called "Super Earth". Read the lyrics. (I'll be recording it soon; it's a rocker.)
Steve Bryson is obviously passionate about the Kepler mission. He showed us what it looks like on a telescope computer graph when a planet is detected. It reminded me of the visual sound graphs in a recording studio. Maybe all of creation is singing! Steve reminds me of the early explorers gazing over the first views of a 'New World'. (First the views--and then the voyage, I say.) Steve is also a musician and composer. Many scientists are. I think math and music attract each other.
We should have a festival together weaving science, music, art, and theater. As Steve and others remind us (as worthy cool projects are cut, cut, cut), it's all about funding. That's fun with a bell on the end of it! Is there anybody out there that could ring that bell? Edu-tainment is where it's at! Something fun and meaty. . . Let's celebrate discovery in all its forms.