Comments on: [Because it's Friday!] Earth Looks Pretty Small from Mars (pic), Plus Monty Python, The Flaming Lips (videos)

By: roseanne

roseanne — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:14:29 +0000

Gotta love the cosmos!

By: Linda

Linda — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:45:02 +0000

very cool pic! when I’m at the Kumbh Mela in February in Haridwar at the foot of the Himalayas, there are so many people that you can see that mass of humanity in satellite photos….

By: Bob Weisenberg

Bob Weisenberg — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:30:23 +0000

Couldn’t resist plugging this on my Yoga Journal Community blog:

http://community.yogajournal.com/_Dont-Miss-This-YogaDork-Post/blog/1282917/25925.html

Bob

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By: Bob Weisenberg

Bob Weisenberg — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:37:18 +0000

Thanks so much for these clips, particularly the Monty Python, which I watched religiously in its heydey.

Related thoughts about cosmic Yogic wonder (one of my favorite themes) from http://YogaDemystified.com:

“The wonder of a galaxy is obvious. Think about its hundreds of millions of stars rotating around a central axis, and the whole galaxy itself barreling at an incredible speed through space. And then think about the fact that there are millions and millions of galaxies!

What about a paper clip? In many ways a paper clip is as wondrous as a galaxy.

To begin with, like the galaxy, a paper clip consists of millions and millions of things (molecules, atoms, and the even smaller quarks) interacting with each other in complex ways. Then consider what happens to all these tiny elements and how they have to interact with each other. They’re not spinning around an axis like the stars in a galaxy, but, then again, a galaxy can’t bend and spring back into shape like a paper clip can. If you were small enough to stand on the nucleus of an atom within a paper clip, it would be a lot like standing on earth surrounded by stars.”

Bob Weisenberg
http://YogaDemystified.com

By: YogaforCynics

YogaforCynics — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:50:50 +0000

Great videos. You might be interested in checking out four of the surviving members of Monty Python on one of those late night talk shows a couple days ago–it’s hilarious (if rather painful to see Jimmy Fallon floundering as he realizes how blatantly out of his league he is in sharing a stage with these guys): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/15/the-monty-python-crew-tak_n_322126.html