Must-see videos from '60 Minutes' - End of NASA's Space Shuttle & cancellation of Constellation program cripples FL's Space Coast economy, as space program's Best & Brightest leave Florida or downsize their lives, leaving personal, social & economic devastation in its wake -14,000 prideful people suddenly jobless

CBS News 60 Minutes video: Scott Pelley reports: "High joblessness in the home of U.S. space flight." Originally aired April 1, 2012. "With the end of the space shuttle program, Brevard County, Fla., lost its largest employer, and Kennedy Space Center workers lost good jobs that made them proud." http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7403938n&tag=contentBody;storyMediaBox

Must-see videos from '60 Minutes' - End of NASA's Space Shuttle & cancellation of Constellation program cripples FL's Space Coast economy, as space program's Best & Brightest leave Florida or downsize their lives, leaving personal, social & economic devastation in its wake -14,000 prideful people suddenly jobless.




"60 Minutes Overtime" video: Space Coast: Through the lens of 60 Minutes. Posted online April 1, 2012. CBS News cameraman Chris Albert uses his Canon 5D to capture the story of the devastation of the end of the Space Shuttle program in Brevard County, Florida, home to the Kennedy Space Center, and its ripple effect throughout the Space Coast.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-57407321-10391709/space-coast-through-the-lens-of-60-minutes/ 

"A lonely species in a merciless universe anxiously awaits an answering voice amid utter silence." That would be us. No, not Dolphins fans or Hallandale Beach, but humans. Classic Charles Krauthammer!

"A lonely species in a merciless universe anxiously awaits an answering voice amid utter silence." 
That would be us. 
No, not Dolphins fans or Hallandale Beach, but humans. 
Classic Charles Krauthammer!


The Fermi Paradox and Goldilocks in one column?
Charles Krauthammer zings us out of our post-Christmas/holiday blues -sorta!


But if what Charles Krauthammer says is true about intelligent life in the universe, does this also mean that for many single people who've been looking for a serious long-term relationship, for some of them, despite what they and their friends have convinced them of otherwise, there really is no "special somebody" or future "significant other" out there, just waiting for fate to intervene?


Just an empty universe?
That's too depressing to even think about!  


Which is why they make films like New Year's Eve, to fool us into believing something that, maybe, isn't there.
And why there are TV marathons this time of the year:




The Washington Post
Are we alone in the universe?
By Charles Krauthammer
December 29, 2011

Huge excitement last week. Two Earth-size planets found orbiting a sun-like star less than a thousand light-years away. This comes two weeks after the stunning announcement of another planet orbiting another star at precisely the right distance — within the “habitable zone” that is not too hot and not too cold — to allow for liquid water and therefore possible life.

Unfortunately, the planets of the right size are too close to their sun, and thus too scorching hot, to permit Earth-like life. And the Goldilocks planet in the habitable zone is too large.

Read the rest of the column at: 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/are-we-alone-in-the-universe/2011/12/29/gIQA2wSOPP_story.html





The Wrap

63 TV Marathons for New Year's Eve Weekend (Including Every Episode of 'The Walking Dead') 
By Kimberly Potts
Published: December 30, 2011 @ 2:23 pm 
http://www.thewrap.com/tv/column-post/62-tv-marathons-new-years-eve-weekend-including-every-episode-walking-dead-33967




Charles Krauthammer columns at The Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/charles-krauthammer/2011/02/24/ADJkW7B_page.html


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation

Better than Sci-Fi SFX: Reality! "Aurora Australis Seen From Space"

Fox News Channel: Aurora Australis Seen From Space, October 10, 2011.

Watch the amazing video that ran on Fox News Channel that was in my YouTube inbox" http://youtu.be/5_QENmKpPUM

EDUARDO SALHUANA New Age Music Aurora Australis

http://youtu.be/zRKwKAkEpN4

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For more info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(astronomy)

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/phenomenal-images-aurora-australis/9586

http://www.universetoday.com/42623/aurora-australis/

http://www.youtube.com/user/FoxNewsChannel

http://ten.com.au/

TV4 Sweden's take on NASA's future after the shuttle program; models of future space vehicles you DIDN'T see on Miami TV newscasts -Orion

TV4.se Nyheterna newscast video: Nästa steg för USA:s rymdprogram.

TV4 Sweden's correspondent Elizabet Frerot discusses NASA's future after the space shuttle program with NASA astronauts and officials. May 16, 2011.

http://www.tv4play.se/nyheter_och_debatt/nyheterna?title=nasta_steg_for_usa_s_rymdprogram&videoid=1645296&utm_medium=sharing&utm_source=permalink&utm_campaign=tv4play.se

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As I was watching Endeavour take off this morning via TV, no doubt like many of you out there, I was wondering, after 30 years of the space shuttle, what's next for our amerikanska rymdfärjeprogram with President Obama and his successors?

Fortunately, while local Miami TV stations were pondering dollops of trivialities, TV4 correspondent Elizabet Frerot was in the right place to ask the right people -the Kennedy Space Center, where NASA astronaut Nicholas Patrick and official Allard Bentel reminisce and ponder NASA's next step into deeper outer space with Lockheed Martin's Orion.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/orion/index.html

Orion Pictures sure cranked-out some great films while it existed!

http://youtu.be/wm9sUIJo-rE

The best? Dances with Wolves

"Dances With Wolves" -1990 trailer (HQ)

http://youtu.be/d9ICbZVs9TU

ABC News video: Kevin Costner Dances With Oil Cleanup. The actor demonstrates a machine he funded that can separate oil from water. May 19, 2010.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/video/kevin-costner-oil-spill-cleanup-machine-10688556

For more information on the CINC Industries centrifuge mentioned above, see

http://www.cincmfg.com/

Animation of how the mixing works:

http://www.cincmfg.com/Mix_and_Separate_Animation_s/127.htm

And thus I have connected outer space, Sweden and Kevin Costner to the shores of the Sunshine State in four short moves.