Week 9 Space + Art

First, I would like to start off by saying that I loved the quote that was on the lecture title slide in the fire video that said "Eventually, everything connects." by Charles Eames. This was a great quote to close the quarter out on. I think we all came into this class trying to figure out how art and science were connected, but after all these weeks we can finally make the connection.

Space is the great unknown. The more research we do the more questions we need to be answered.   Luckily for us, we have been able to develop more and more technology that can allow us to explore the great unknown. For instance Telescopes. Like mentioned in lecture telescope is from Greek word tele "far" and skopein "to look or see". Some telescopes are extremely powerful and can see microwaves. I liked that Professor was able to connect the last lecture about Nanotechnology into this lecture about space with the buckyballs. A buckyball a sphere like molecule it is a cage like fused ring structure.
Telescope 

Buckyball molecule
















Arthur C. Clarke's  novel The Fountains of Paradise about the space elevator sounds amazing. I never heard about this novel.In this article it says that it could actually be built by 2035. That would be extremely cost efficient if we could just take an elevator into space. Then maybe anybody could go.

Space elevator


The first film I think about when I think about space is The Martian. It was such a good movie. It's about an astronaut that gets stranded on Mars and has to find a way to survive and communicate with people back on Earth so he can get saved. He uses the leftover piece from the space ship to make food and even make a car to get to Mars. This movie is a great way to combine art and science. He has to combat all the things of space to make it back home to his family.




references

Edelson, Edward. "Buckyball: The Magic Molecule." Popular Science. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 June 2017. <http://www.popsci.com/buckyball-magic-molecule>.

Vesna, Victoria. Lecture. DESMA 9. Web. 04 June 2017.


Templeton on March 6, 2014 at 12:15 Pm Comment, Graham. "60,000 Miles Up: Space Elevator Could Be Built by 2035, Says New Study." ExtremeTech. N.p., 20 Nov. 2014. Web. 04 June 2017. <https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/176625-60000-miles-up-geostationary-space-elevator-could-be-built-by-2035-says-new-study>.


"High-powered Telescope Designed to Explore Origins of Universe Moving toward 'first Light'." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 30 Sept. 2015. Web. 04 June 2017. <https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150930150123.htm>.



FoxMovies. "The Martian | Official Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX." YouTube. YouTube, 19 Aug. 2015. Web. 05 June 2017. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej3ioOneTy8>.

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