"To The Stars"

Excuse me, tears in my eyes.

Just finished watching Dragonheart where in the end the dragon dies and goes to the stars.

When the group feels lost and asks what will they do now, the spirit of the dragon tells them look "To The Stars".
- LRK -
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonheart
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When the rebels invade the castle, Draco begs Bowen to kill him, as his death is the only way to end Einon's reign. After some reluctance, Bowen kills Draco in order to save Kara. This releases Draco's soul to the dragons' heaven — where he becomes a new star in the constellation — and kills Einon in the process. The film concludes with an epilogue by Brother Gilbert stating that Bowen and Kara went on to lead the people in an era of peace and prosperity, and that, whenever things were particularly difficult, Draco's star shone "for those who knew
where to look".
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116136/
Dragonheart
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User Comment
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Dragonheart is an incredibly uplifting film. In a day when a lot of movies are chilling visions of the world around us, we need something to show us hope. Dragonheart, with its tale of a knight who lost his faith and a dragon who was trying to restore his honor, paints a beautiful picture of kindness, friendship, love, and sacrifice that never fails to inspire me. I am not a man given to displays of emotion, really...but the film makes me laugh and cry throughout everything.

And the soundtrack certainly helps. It is a textbook example of the proper use of a soundtrack to emphasize the plot and emotion. The beautiful "To the Stars" remains one of my absolute avorite songs. I can never listen to the soundtrack without seeing the movie happening again before my eyes.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTKSUlMbp9A
Randy Edelman - To The Stars
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Have a listen. - LRK -

"for those who knew where to look".

Can I say that again - "for those who knew where to look".

Let me rephrase that - do we know where to look? Could it just be to the stars!
- LRK -

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Space Porch Open for Business

NASA Science News for August 7, 2009

The International Space Station's new "space porch" is open for business. Barely two weeks after it was installed by the crew of space shuttle Endeavour, the Japanese-built platform is already bustling with experiments in astronomy and space physics--and that's just for starters.

FULL STORY at

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/07aug_spaceporch.htm?list965414
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How are you looking to the stars?
- LRK -

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-- Unveiling the true face of a gigantic star
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=28918

"An international team of astronomers, led by Keiichi Ohnaka at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn, has made the most high resolution images of a dying giant star to date. For the first time they could show how the gas is moving in different areas over the surface of a distant star. "

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When are we going to get up close and personal?
- LRK -

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-- Surface features on Titan form like Earth's, but with a frigid twist
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=28916

"Saturn’s haze-enshrouded moon Titan turns out to have much in common with Earth in the way that weather and geology shape its terrain, according to two pieces of research to be presented at the XXVII General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Wind, rain, volcanoes, tectonics and other Earth-like processes all sculpt features on Titan’s complex and varied surface in an environment more than 100°C colder on average than Antarctica."

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Thanks for having an eye to the stars.
- LRK -

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Hubble Readies for Full Operation
August 3, 2009 | It took five grueling spacewalks by Space Shuttle astronauts and a billion-dollar investment to restore the Hubble Space Telescope to good health. Now NASA astronomers are nearly ready to show us just how good the 19-year-old space observatory is.
> read more - http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/newsblog/52369857.html

It's hard to believe that 2½ months have passed since the crew of Atlantis wrapped up their extensive repairs and refurbishment of the Hubble Space Telescope.

So when will Hubble get back to work? In a sense, it already has. When Australian amateur Anthony Wesley spotted the "powder burn" in Jupiter's atmosphere from an apparent impact on July 19th, Hubble managers hustled to turn its 94-inch (2.4-meter) eye on the new feature so that the just-installed Wide Field Camera 3 could take some snapshots.

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OK, dried the tears, but I do hope we learn to get out there and maybe even go "To The Stars".
- LRK -

Thanks for looking up with me.

Larry Kellogg

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Martian Meteorite in 3-D
August 7, 2009 | Rolling along over the sandy Meridiani Plain on Mars, the tireless rover Opportunity has chanced upon a hefty iron-nickel meteorite. Grab your 3-D glasses for an eye-popping closer look! > read more
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/newsblog/52642607.html

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Podcast: The Soundtrack of Space
August 4, 2009 | Astrophysicist Neil Cornish (Montana State University) talks about recent progress in the hunt for gravitational waves. > read more
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/semeniuk/52461332.html

Podcast: The Soundtrack of Space
Astronomy is the ultimate “seeing” science. Unlike our experience of everyday reality, there’s no sound out in the cosmos, so the processes and events that we observe in the universe unfold before us like a silent movie.

Now some researchers are trying to add a soundtrack to that movie.
They are the ones searching for gravitational waves — ripples in space-time caused by the rapid motion of massive objects. If detected, these waves will offer an entirely new way to perceive the universe — one that has more in common with hearing than seeing.

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NASA Science News for August 6, 2009

NASA's new planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has detected the changing phases and atmosphere of a planet a thousand light years away.

FULL STORY at

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/06aug_kepler2.htm?list965414

Check out our RSS feed at http://science.nasa.gov/rss.xml!

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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK

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