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Nihilism is overrated anyways Long live optimism of humanity's future We survived being close to World War 3 once, we'll survive it all again

@@VentiVonOsterreich Nihilism fans when I point a gun at their heads (They are suddenly very afraid)

Goes to show how much ground the word 'impossible' really stands on

​@@Ketoku_frhumanity spits in the face of impossibility

We are called by the Divine Ultimate Creator to humble and discipline ourselves to achieve greatness!

My grandfather was 5 years old when the Wright brothers flew. His father beat him because he didn't believe it and he told my grandfather "don't be a fool boy men don't fly." My grandfather saw men walk on the moon. He died when I was 11 in 1989. I remember him telling us all as kids not to be like his father, "don't be a fool like my father. Things change, the only impossible thing is the one you don't try. You kids go and build cities on the moon or I'm gonna be disappointed in you from heaven."

then a few days later the wright brothers took flight.

The real space age is just beginning, with commercial space travel and Artemis making the next steps after what will be remembered as a sort of peculiar "sitzkrieg" in our outbreak into the Universe.

@@mylordandsaviour4786 The USSR was the second-worst abomination in human history after the Third Reich, but its collapse was a great loss to humanity. The Russian Federation is a festering swamp. A reformed USSR that embraced democracy, that had actually become a union of republics could have been a great benefit to humanity.

@@mylordandsaviour4786 Yeah, I've heard some already. But Sovietwave is more melancholic, while this one here is rather forward-looking and hope inspiring.

You are describing hauntology. A nostalgia for a lost future

​@@arcadiaberger9204 TL; DR we might have space gold all ready

That is absolutely true. Earth is the cradle of Humanity. The Motherworld. But we have to spread our wings and move outward.

Proud noises

"Earth is the cradle of Mankind, But Mankind cannot stay in it's cradle forever..." -some Russian name I can't pronounce, but it's a pretty name with the initials KT

@@ladywaffle2210 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a Russian rocket scientist.

@@vonbluhm7201 Also the dude who invented the concept of multistage rockets!

He didn't even die in a spaceflight accident - just a seemingly routine jet flight.

@@arcadiaberger9204 Watch “First Man” and it’s one death after another to such mundane things, and Neil Armstrong more or less had to fill in for them. What an incredibly difficult cross to bear!

@@arcadiaberger9204 Of a jet which was outdated by the standards of the time he flew it in, iirc it was a MiG-15

@@corinthianimperialstudios704 But he died like a jet jockey - calmly trying to keep it under control until the last moment.

Yeah, on the flip side, the first American in space would end up being the last on the moon. For now at least.

That's a negative, the future is the Artemis Program. We're going back.

@@stevenschnepp576 this song is written long before the Artemis program started. Also, that still doesn’t change the fact that we desire to do more space exploration

@@takakocaesar579 Including Voyager 1 & 2

We are humans, exploration is within the blood that courses through our veins.

@@stevenschnepp576 Artemis goal is a base on the moon to get a human on mars, its a step forward

Bro it does

goes astronomically hard

That's John Young. He flew in every NASA manned spaceflight program except Mercury.

not my taste, imo it looks a bit too soviet in its artstyle. would prefer have a bit of age to the style, more like the paintings of crossing the delaware or the declaration of independence

Its a mural at the Johnson space center and it is the coolest peace of art I have ever seen

See, that's the thing about the US: you can.

@@keyabrade1861 Oh yeah, gonna be a space mercenary like the ones in the congo in the 1960s yay

I’ll give the same suggestion I gave to Mexicans, Canadians, and Puerto Ricans who say this: Make your state/province/country apply for statehood. It ain’t as bad as the media says it is. Hopefully my country will be more open to peaceful expansion in the future :) edición: ¿Donde esta? Ellos nos enseñan Español y me recuerda, pero no mucho…

Some day my friend

@@dylangtech Now this, I'm in favor of, strongly. I have my eye on any or all of Canada, Costa Rica, Panama, the Bahamas (homeland of Alexander Hamilton, let's not forget) and Jamaica as "low-hanging fruit", and on Cuba and Haiti as "urgent projects" for us to reform the way we should have done in the South after the Civil War. Those last two are countries which would have done much better if they had joined the Union a hundred years ago, and they are threats to our security on our doorstep right now, so let's make a project out of upgrading them now.

true

Until we return to the Gods what Prometheus took.

​@seankane8628 as is only right!

​@@thetau4866we'll give those bastards our fire alright

@@seankane8628 Prometheus is part of greek mythology 😂 get your religious goonery out of here

Decades after Apollo, when the well seemed to have burnt dry, It seemed to all as if the old dreams curled up and died. Constellation fell through, NASA in disgrace, all amid a president who decried to put an end to waste. We spent blood and money, rolling thunder across the floor, burned men and women in fire, without a thought of space. Yet in the end, we once again, looked up into the sky, through which the earliest man, has wished dearly to fly. Now comes Apollo's sister, bringing Gateway, and fire in the sky! I dunno, I'm typing this out on the toilet.

@@KoishiVibin That is a good verse ngl

@@KoishiVibin bro that's pretty good

@@KoishiVibin fits perfectly into the song

@@KoishiVibin No worries Most of of us are reading this on the toilet 😅

My reason for never wanting to be in a rocket: I don't like the idea of sitting on a pile of explosives

@@chrisb9143 what you don’t wanna be sacrificed on the anvil of progress?

It's hardly brave. There's a saying in safety, 'Every rule is written in blood.' There is nothing for us to do but to honor their sacrifice, unwitting as it may have been, to better refine our practices, and to never forget those who died along the way to get us where we are now.

There’s worse ways to die, I suppose. May Challenger and her crew forever ride to glory on a fire in the sky.

I have reason to believe that “The Pheonix”, another song that popped up onto my playlist is entirely a reference to the Challenger disaster.

man thats some "humans are space orcs" shit 💀💀💀

Poetic words, I love them

The Emperor protects

@@gasmaskalan1771 lmao

@@sethleoric2598 The Emperor protects

in the sky

@@SethSeht and a thunder 'cross the land

@@Noorthia I'll remember until I die!

Ya sure, but Doug Olsen did it better.

@@RainedOnParade I disagree. I also think *_Hope Aeyrie_* would make a better anthem for the Space Force. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nb5zaLig3Z2UoqM.html It's easier to sing, for one thing.

I think space man would be better option. And the motto should be Plus Ultra- Further Beyond.

@@joelsirola5440 Is *_Space Man_* a song?

Per ardua ad astra?

I agree.

so an arms race?

@@minute0420 Sort of, but no arms, and no threatening each other.

@@MrMcFish219 unarmed race

they were competing for who could make the best ballistic missiles to nuke the enemy, but the scientific & technological advances that came from this arms race were awesome

Beautifully put

That’s very interesting. It’s fascinating how reality becomes mythology over the course of history

I gotta read the Rig Veda at some point... already got through the Norse Eddas, gonna try some Indian mythology next.

If you have Spotify I recommend you listen to this collection it's featured on open.spotify.com/album/6O6x80DAj6xN6VAsqSn563 Some of the songs are sci-fi but many of them are renditions of older songs that tell historical tales like this one. Star Fire by Julia Ecklar is a great example. And if you were ever wondering, here's the original acoustic version kzfaq.info/get/bejne/itSaa7V7qrPbiWQ.html

@@Actovania I will most definitely look into it this one was great :D

There’s a lot more songs like this one, it’s an entire genre called filk

It is great because when we go to space, it is easier to see we are one race: the human race. The choice was a good one for that reason.

Because space should be for all of us together

Why should it? When was the last time the Russians ever recognized US accomplishments? Soviet/Russian fanboys are pathetic.

No one wants to take our conflicts out of this world. Because we all know it's disrespectful to the vast and beautiful universe above to taint the stars with petty squabbles from home. Earth is our home to ruin, above is not.

@@acutechicken5798 We aren't the human race but the human species. And not all races should go to space.

"Soon, there will be brave diversity hires riding the fire in the sky once more and continuing our venture back to the moon" There, I fixed it for you.

You just had to ruin it with a shitty political take. Amazing.

@@Coloradorivr kek, look at the press, one of the first things they always mention is genitalia or skin color. It is dead obvious and I half expect to see twerking on the moon.

Take solace, Greg, in the fact that whomever they send will still be more qualified than you will ever be as an astronaut. IIRC literally one of the Artemis astronauts was a Navy SEAL _and_ a Doctor before his current space gig.

​@@randompheidoleminor3011 Yeah, at least they don't have to dilate everyday like you do.

If Livia hadn't murdered all of Augustus heirs like agrippa, rome would be on Mars by now

@@cpob2013 I mean, I would think that the crisis of the 3rd century would have been a bigger turning point in the delay of an industrial revolution

Сквозь терни к звездам

"Through Strife to the Stars" Motto of the Royal Air Force (established 1918)

The only acceptable red flag first on the red planet.. is a red, white and blue flag!

@@utubrGaming Agreed!

Despite the dream of traveling through space to other galaxies and planets we are still quite far from achieving said dream

​@@fintherebel5000 Not with that attitude!

@@philosophicalpatriot1883 Well if you look at our current political situation and our modern space technology we are at least a generations worth behind in that field and more then likely we won't see any advancements in our lifetime other then what Elon is working on but that's still far from what we should be today we could've been 10x more advanced by now if we'd just focus on what's important but we are more focused on less important matters

We will carry the stars and stripes to the moon and beyond

Humans will become dominant. Earth is our mother and like life we must leave our mother eventually or else our species will not survive

​@@danitron4096 YES! God willing!

@@danitron4096 you mean to the entire observable universe and beyond!

Gagarin was Soviet, but yes that holds true.

@@mrpineapple3942 I'm aware of the nationality of the first man in space. My comment from nearly a year ago was more to point out how "American space age anthem" is a misnomer: This isn't about the US, this is about the world at large.

Through adversity to the stars!

@@chazzwozzio wrong translation, the correct translation if i remember correctly is "through hardship to the stars"

Cute is a funny word.

I'm not very fluent in English so I may sometimes make some funny mistakes haha

do you have any titles of soviet cosmonauts' songs? :D

@@mathieu51782 "14 минут" (aka "Я верю, друзья") "И на Марсе будут яблони цвести" "Созвездие Гагарина" "Слава вперёдсмотрящему" These are my favorite ones, maybe there are more, I'm not into it

@@Maxim_Kuzin спасибо! ))

born just in time to explore the solar system tho!

Haha,nah,global collapse is near. Birthrates are declining everywhere,there's gonna be too few young people soon enough. So not our children,our children's children's children maybe. Collapse and cultural revolution is gonna happen first tho.

@@capitancuba8962 Its always "the end of the world" yet it still hasnt ended yet

And you play ksp...

basedium mine opinion above me

It is so weird finding myself on a video a year ago

despite being enemies, we must admit the ussr did a great job too

@@14thbkrctsecks We wouldn't have gone to the Moon without their rivalry. America needs worthy rivals, not third-world holes.

love it. nearly teared up when i read it

Where does the last part go? The first two fit nicely but the third one doesn't feel like it fits without a fourth.

@@threestrikesmarxman9095 In the story the first two verses are the first two verses of the song and the last is the last. In between is an some large quantity of verses that’s never really specified.

I'd like but as of March 12 2023 there's 69, I cannot ruin this

@@eddieromanov It probably didn't hurt that Rhysling was dying of radiation poisoning when he recorded it.

​@@threestrikesmarxman9095 Let the sweet fresh breezes heal me As they rove around the girth Of our lovely mother planet Of the cool, green hills of Earth. We've tried each spinning space mote And reckoned its true worth: Take us back again to the homes of men On the cool, green hills of Earth. The arching sky is calling Spacemen back to their trade. ALL HANDS! STAND BY! FREE FALLING! And the lights below us fade. Out ride the sons of Terra, Far drives the thundering jet, Up leaps a race of Earthmen, Out, far, and onward yet --- We pray for one last landing On the globe that gave us birth; Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies And the cool, green hills of Earth. ~Robert A. Heinlein That's the full poem I think

Лол, я второй раз написал комментарий

You may not know English but i agree. Earth is our mother and like children growing up we must move on and colonize space. Because Earth will not last forever and to ensure our survival space is our only option. Every planet is destined to die and the species that do not move will die with them.

Wright Brothers, not Warner Bros

@@a_bruh Damn

yeah and if NASA didn't get their funding slashed after Apollo it would look more like 1903: the wright brothers invent heavier than air flight late 1957: the soviet union launches a satellite into orbit early 1958: the US launches the second sattelite and the first to be of any use 1961: the ussr launches humans into orbit 1969: the US lands humans on the moon 1974: the US builds a permanent space station in low earth orbit 1975: the US builds a space station around the moon and a permanent base 1978: the US builds cities on the moon and starts terraforming it 1979: the US sends probes to proxima centauri but they aren't expected to get data back until 2003 1980: the first manned mission to mars touches down and the US starts work on a settlement 1983: the US has a permanent base on mars fully operational 1986: the US builds an outpost on mercury and starts work on a Dyson swarm around the sun 1990: the US sends manned expeditions to the outer planets 1992: the Dyson swarm is now partially operational and has solved the energy demands of the entire human race for the next billion years 1994: the Dyson swarm is fully complete and is used to start terraforming venus and speed up terraforming mars 1996: the moon is habitable and has plant and animal life on most of its surface 1998: the first probes to proxima centauri are built and launched from the surface of the moon 2000: the US has made spaceflight so accessible and drove costs down so much that asteroid mining for gold, platinum and rare earth elements is rapidly becoming profitable 2002: a group of students at MIT become the first student group to put a satellite in orbit 2003: the US gets the results back from the probes we sent to proxima centauri 2004: the US builds a massive orbital shipyard for the titanic spacecrafts required to send humans to proxima centauri 2005: the US starts work on the largest spacecrafts even even designed (so massive they make aircraft carriers look like rowboats in comparison) 2008: the costs of spaceflight have dropped even more and asteroid mining for more common elements like copper and zinc are rapidly becoming profitable 2010: the colony ships are well underway and the massive number of workers required for their construction have expanded the shipyard to a large city of 50+ million 2016: mars is now habitable and can support complex animal life 2024 the colony ships are nearly complete and set to leave for the stars in the next few years

Both are bangers

You sure? It was released in 2004, and it mentions the tragedy of Columbia. "And with Challenger and seven, once again the price is paid. Though a nation watched her falling, yet a world could only cry, as they passed from us to glory, riding fire in the sky". "Her" here probably refers to Columbia.

@@rosefeather_ yeah i thought that too but from what i believe (i could be wrong) that this version was released in 2003 for a NASA event and was officially released in 2004. Could be wrong but that’s what I think.

@@rosefeather_ The Challenger referred to here is the space shuttle _Challenger_ that exploded during launch in 1986.

@@rosefeather_ It's a reference to the 1987 Challenger disaster where the Space Shuttle Challenger broke up shortly after takeoff, killing her crew of seven. The picture shown in memorial is of her crew, astronauts Onizuka, McAuliffe, Jarvis, and Resnik in the back row, with Smith, Scobee, and McNair in the front row. The original release in 1983 did not have that verse.

Good idea.

Should be NASA’s imo. Sounds too exploratory. Not inspirational enough for those who seek to protect Americans in space. Think of it like a song for Christopher Columbus versus a song for the Spanish Armada

@@dylangtech Ugh, not much to choose from, there: a song for a deluded rapist and mass murderer, or a song for a tool of imperialist conquest...?

@@arcadiaberger9204 I mean..... if you're talking about explorers and militares in general, Columbus and the Armada is the pristine example of both, respectfully. Might want to tone down your baseless accusations.

@@dylangtech Baseless? What is "baseless" about quoting the words of Columbus himself? "They would make fine slaves…. With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want." "She was unwilling, and so treated me with her nails that I wished I had never begun. But...I then took a piece of rope and whipped her soundly...Eventually...you would have thought that she had been brought up in a school for whores." And don't give me any of that relativist shit about "judging him by the standards of his time", because even during his lifetime, many people considered him a monster. That's why he made his last trip home from the New World in chains, to be tried for his brutal incompetence as a Governor.

To be honest the space race, was much a rivalry, and one of respect. It pushed each nation go strive to do better.

@@radicalgremlin6440 I seem to recall there being discussions of merging the American and Soviet space programs, but I could be wrong.

@@timesnewlogan2032 would have been a very radical plan, as there was huge anti soviet sentiment at the time. For the government at least. Not as sure how each space program felt.

​@@radicalgremlin6440From what I've heard, when NASA landed on the Moon, the Soviet space program gave them a call to congratulate them. The Space Programs had a lot of respect for each other.

Loathe the Ideals, but love the people.

Better idea: as soon as there is a decent-sized population (let's say five thousand people) living between LEO (low-Earth orbit) and the outer Hill sphere (the furthest distance a body can orbit Earth), including settlements on the Moon, let's admit a new state to the Union. I've heard the name Mapiya (Lakota for "sky") suggested for such a state. It's a good name, and we can retire it when we want to subdivide the state as its population grows, separating out the people living on the Lunar surface to become the state of Armstrong (or maybe Kennedy), the people living in LEO to become the state of Glenn (or Mercury), &c.

@@arcadiaberger9204 Incredibly based

I'm not sure they're willing to have a monarchy

@@klixx_yt2396 Empires are for weenies. Federal republics that have constituent members orbiting Neptune are for chads.

@@klixx_yt2396 They won't have a choice

I still wonder why we got banned from argo

Storming the gates of heaven to spite the gods. I like that. I like that a lot.

@@soffren going to look them in they I like that more than "storming the gates of heaven" but I guess it's because the implication is curiosity or settling a grievance more than conquest.

​@@henrypaleveda7760 as soon as they forget to close it all the way, at least *one* of us is gonna get in there just to see what's there

Unbased take. We're going back to heaven to make god proud.

@@moritamikamikara3879Depends on which God. Zeus actually punished Prometheus for giving humans fire

Soviet union was in space first

Soviet* not only Russian

AMERICA BABYYYY

Well we'll just have to craft our own

​@@danitron4096united nations yeah baby

Not the challenger tho 💀

nah you trippin

@@mahdi.html. nah bro i know i ain't

​@@dankengine5304nah bro that's foul

@@therealgeneralMacArthur 🚀 💥

Per Ardua Ad Astra

Ex Astris, Scientia

We are, after all, the most racially inclusive nation on the planet

@@xenn4985 uh

@@randomyankee8923 Problem?

@@xenn4985 that "most racially inclusive" part

@@randomyankee8923 Yeah, it is. I'm pretty sure america has higher percentages of various races participating in society than any other country on the planet. Shit, the racial majority isn't even the most successful race, asians take that trophy.

They’re still here brother, just not spoken about every day. Just wait until we reach Mars and the Fire burns again! There is a dream, a dream that we can colonize the stars and advance forth the flags of Mankind unto the untamed frontier. Such a dream has been with us for many centuries, and it still is present today, just in different form.

The flame of our rockets will be reignited when we go on a great galactic conquest

the fires of hope burn bright still brother, and one day we will claim the stars.

Aye literally and that doesn’t happen to me

Exactly nations need to cooperate to ensure survival. Earth is our mother and in life we must leave our mothers or else humans will go extinct

>American Space Age anthem

yes there would be a fire in the sky

Fire in the sky

Yes, it would be terrible if something happened to the diversity hire expedition to the moon.

@@gregdaweson4657 there is nothing wrong with diversity

@@gerogegerog5926 I mean there is like one situation in which there's something wrong, never send a disabled person to a war zone

Why so specific lmao

@@couldbeanybody2508It’s the population of the US

Can't wait until the diversity hires step on the moon, it will be such a great leap for minorities everywhere.

@@gregdaweson4657 Yes. It will be a great leap And?

i commented that on the splashdown of artemis

We may have banked the fire for a time. But embers burn long. All we needed was some fuel.

Artemis stands on the shoulders of giants

Dont forget! Mercury: Freedom 7 Liberty Bell 7 Friendship 7 Aurora 7 Sigma 7 Faith 7 Apollo: Spider, Gumdrop Snoopy, Charlie Brown Columbia (CSM), Eagle Yankee Clipper, Intrepid Odyssey, Aquarius Kitty Hawk, Antares Endeavor (CSM), Falcon (LM) Casper, Orion (LM) America, Challenger (LM)

Hell yeah, let's go!

Glory is waiting!

Mars or bust!

@@Its_Hank_Hill absolutely.

Repeal the Outer Space Treaty

It did but it didn't when the USSR died

2/22/24 The moon