Now on ScienceBlogs: The death of Tetrapod Zoology

Enter to Win

Greg Laden's Blog

Evolution, Life Sciences, Science Education, Human Evolution, and Stuff

Recent Comments

Profile


Welcome to Greg Laden's Blog.







Nature Blog Network



Search

Blogroll

Join the best atheist themed blogroll!
The following Wikio Widget gives a 'toplist' of science blog sites. If you feel that any one of these sites is not really a science blog site (a climate denialist site, an anti-vax site, etc.) please contact me and let me know.
Top Blogs - Sciences I also blog at Quiche Moraine, where you will find interesting restaurant reviews, political tirades, and tear jerking memories. Such as:
GLB_LOGO_180w.png

Get Facebook Buttons
Get Twitter Buttons
GLB_LOGO_180w.png
openlab08-submit.150.png



open_access_day_blog_award.jpg

Archives

Recent Posts

« Cuban rapper busted, released. | Main | What makes a perfect day at the lake? »

Sagan and Hawking's new music video

Posted on: September 29, 2009 8:53 AM, by Greg Laden

Here at The Lake I don't get enough intertubules to watch a video reliably. So I can't separate the DJ effect from the Slow Connection effect in this video, but it looks good:

Share this: Stumbleupon Reddit Email + More

TrackBacks

TrackBack URL for this entry: http://scienceblogs.com/mt/pings/121034

Comments

1

Man, this is one fast-moving meme. I've seen this thing everywhere over the past week. It's a catchy song, though, and Carl Sagan is awesome, so I'm cool with that.

Posted by: Treppenwitz | September 29, 2009 9:02 AM

2

Yup, I watch it every its posted (and many times to boot!). Sagan was the reason I got into Science, so hearing him speak always makes me a little emotional. Plus, it’s amazing just how rhythmic his speech is and how it requires little editing to match that of a song.

Posted by: John | September 29, 2009 9:10 AM

3

Cool, but I still prefer MC Hawking
http://www.mchawking.com/mp3s/

Posted by: Rob | September 29, 2009 12:10 PM

4

That was awesome! :-)

Posted by: Stacy | September 29, 2009 12:37 PM

5

Since you are using Linux, here is a tip (that you may already know):

For (almost) any flash video that you are watching, look in the /tmp folder for a strangely named file. It is generally the last one (use ls -ltr). Once the video completes downloading, do not navigate away from the page (it will remove the tmp file). Instead copy that file in /tmp/ to somewhere else with another name and run it with mplayer. I use this method to keep flash videos for off-network play.

Note, the copy is not necessary to play it - you can play it directly, just don't rely on the Ubuntu tab completion as it expects certain extensions. The mplayer -identify will give you hints as to how to name the extension.

Posted by: Brent | September 29, 2009 3:50 PM

Post a Comment

(Email is required for authentication purposes only. On some blogs, comments are moderated for spam, so your comment may not appear immediately.)





ScienceBlogs

Search ScienceBlogs:

Go to:

Advertisement
Collective Imagination
Enter to win the daily giveaway
Advertisement
Collective Imagination

© 2006-2009 ScienceBlogs LLC. ScienceBlogs is a registered trademark of ScienceBlogs LLC. All rights reserved.