Deep well inspection
An evening pause: Let’s take a strange journey, down 275 feet deep into a well. No sound, but fascinating nonetheless.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Ray Stevens – Obama budget plan
Eddi Reader with Boo Hewerdine – Footsteps Fall
Milk changing color – cool science experiment
SDO – March 30, 2010 Solar Eruption
An evening pause: As it appears these events are likely going to become less and less likely, let’s enjoy them while we can.
Note that the height of this eruption was almost twenty times the diameter of the Earth.
Loretta Lynn and the Muppets – One’s on the way
Luckiest people alive
Windows XP error music
Mary Tyler Moore Show – The Ted Baxter School of Broadcasting
An evening pause: A scene from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, “Ted Baxter’s Famous Broadcasters School”, originally broadcast February 22, 1975. One of behindtheblack’s regular readers was reminded of this episode by my press conference experience on Wednesday.
Balancing act
Flight Of The Conchords – The Humans Are Dead
When galaxies collide
An evening pause: a beautiful simulation of galaxy collision. Hat tip: Sky and Telescope.
D-Day
Sammy Davis and Anthony Newley perform a medley of Newley songs
An evening pause: Sammy Davis and Anthony Newley perform a medley of Newley songs, from a 1972 television performance.
What an astronaut’s camera sees
An evening pause: More here.
Monty Python: Defending yourself against a banana
Cinderella – Julie Andrews singing “Impossible”
An evening pause: , The song “Impossible,” sung by Julie Andrews and Edie Adams, from the live 1957 television production of Rogers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella.
For the world is filled with zanies and fools
Who don’t believe in sensible rules
And won’t believe what sensible people say
And because these daft and dewy-eyed dopes
Keep building up impossible hopes,
Impossible things keep happening every day.
Reverend Jim’s driving test from Taxi
Dancing Telescopes
Battleground (1949)
An evening pause: On Memorial Day, one short scene from the William Wellman film, Battleground (1949), to remind us why sometimes it is necessary to fight a war.
Cats in a row
Axis of Awesome — Every pop song ever written
Hi-Fidelity as a Star Trek Barbershop Quartet
Go for launch time lapse movie of shuttle assembly and launch
An evening pause: Saying goodbye to the shuttle. A time-lapse movie showing the assembly and then the night launch of a shuttle.
Note that the film is silent until the end.
Mars Science Lab Seems OK After Mishap
A bullet dodged? The next Mars rover, the Mars Science Lab, appears to be okay after last week’s mishap.
Kennedy’s Moon speech, May 25, 1961
An evening pause: Fifty years ago tomorrow, on May 25, 1961, John Kennedy spoke to Congress about the world situation and the war between freedom and tyranny. “We stand for freedom,” he began, and finished by committing the United States to sending a man to the Moon and bringing him back safely by the end of the decade.
The clip below shows the first five minutes of that speech. It makes it clear that Kennedy’s main point was not to send the United States to the stars, but to stake out our ground in the battle for freedom and democracy. I will write more about this tomorrow.
To see the whole speech, go to the following link at the Miller Center for Public Affairs.
Peter, Paul, and Mary — I have a song to sing o
An evening pause: Peter, Paul, & Mary singing Arthur Sullivan’s “I have a song to sing o” in Australia.
Fleetwood Mac – Dreams
Fleet Foxes – Mykonos
First feathered test flight of SpaceShipTwo
An evening pause: Video of the May 10 test flight of SpaceShipTwo. “Now we can come back from space.”