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All the comments and stories posted to Hacker News that reference this video.Also reminds me of "Space Oddity" [1] performed by Chris Hadfield [2] in 2013 on the IIS. He even released an album with songs recorded up there [3].[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hadfield
[3] https://music.apple.com/ca/album/space-sessions-songs-from-a...
Related: I saw that Canadian astronaut, Chris Hadfield, is offering a class on "Space Exploration" on the Master Class site. I haven't used MC before, so I cannot attest to the quality of the offering, but it seems interesting.> MC Course Site: https://www.masterclass.com/classes/chris-hadfield-teaches-s...
> Chris Hadfield's 'Space Oddity' music video from ISS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo
⬐ qrybamI bought his master class when MC released it; if you’re into this kind of thing I would highly recommend — Chris is a great resource of experience and knowledge⬐ dpflanExcellent, thanks for the substantiation!
Perhaps Canada isn't sufficiently "grand", but:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Garneau and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Payette
respectively the first Canadian and just one of the twelve Canadians to have been in space.
How about Spain? Recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Duque
(There are at least two current MEPs who have been in space, but I will grant you that few people in most EU member-states can name their own MEP, let alone any of the others elected from their country).
One might also compare John Glenn, who while alive, was certainly well known in the USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Glenn
Certainly there are many U.S. and Canadian astronauts who have never been anything close to well known public figures, but both sets certainly have enjoyed state propaganda (even on the official state broadcaster): https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/canada-s-astronauts-1.875... (for example)
Perhaps "grand scheme" implies international name recognition?
How soon Chris Hadfield's international prominence fades away is an open question; he certainly appears in the UK often enough (he was a "get" -- as in an invited guest the production staff felt fortunate to have present -- on more than one of the the annual BBC astronomy shows put together by Brian Cox and Dara Ó Briaian) and he has been on a number of other broadcasts as part of an "outreach" programme. You yourself may well remember him from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo
Chris Hadfield recorded a cover of Bowie's Space Oddity on the ISS [1], including playing the guitar in space. It gives me chills every time I listen to it.
⬐ Crosseye_JackOriginally they only had permission to have the video on YouTube for a year.When word got out that it would have to be taken down once the license expired they managed to get the license extended.
There wasn’t a big “shit show” just Chris’s son saying on Twitter (iirc) that this was the case and they (him and his dad, iirc the son did the editing on the video) were just thankful that so many people enjoyed it during the year it was up.
A few days/weeks later it was back up. Don’t think anyone talked about the deal but I want to believe that David stepped in himself to pull the strings needed for it to stay up. I love the original but dam Chris’s cover is a very close second for me...
⬐ thomasfortesBowie is a genius,the song is amazing and still the number one version for me too, but in terms of art, context matters a lot, and you can't get more context than space oddity being played in space.Other song played by Chris and the barenaked ladies that I personally enjoy a lot is I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing)[0], space related songs being played in space make them much more special to me.
Complaints about Civ's omission of the dark side of history ring hollow to me. Civ is, at its heart, a deeply aspirational and optimistic game. Watching the Baba Yetu intro from Civ IV[1] gives me the same sense of wonder and pride in humanity that Chris Hadfield's rendition of Space Oddity[2] does. Dwelling on the darkness in our history would be so discordant for a game like Civ.
⬐ timo614Agreed; the point of the game is to make you feel like a God.Sid Meier gave a talk at the GDC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtzCLd93SyU
In it he explained how Civilization tested random negative events that could shape your world. He mentioned how this had a negative effect on the player experience and many times people would just grab a past save to avoid them IIRC.
⬐ glandium⬐ tdb7893The game whose purpose is to make you feel like a God is Populous.⬐ redthrowaway>Agreed; the point of the game is to make you feel like a God.I would actually disagree. There are plenty of power fantasies, most notably the spectacle fighter genre, which seek to make you feel powerful. Civ isn't about that.
Civ makes you feel purposeful. You nurture and grow your civilization, not for personal aggrandizement but for a feeling of progress and accomplishment. Your goal is not to be the most powerful ruler, but to have the greatest civilization. Human achievement and ambition is the theme of the game.
I agree. I tell people about some of the things I've had to do in Crusader Kings 2 and they are horrified. Civilization 6 is a history themed 4x strategy game, not some hyper realistic history simulator.⬐ Bartweiss⬐ BartweissThe original Rome: Total War felt similar. You can't have enough sanitation to keep a truly enormous city happy, so what to do?Well, knock the population down. How? Either raise taxes until they revolt and then put them to the sword, or move plague carriers into the city to keep things in check.
That was a properly dark game, and I'm glad Civ isn't.
The Civ intros are an impressive display of the game's whole aesthetic. Beyond Earth disappointed me in a lot of ways, but starting it up and feeling like it was a 'next step' from the history of Civ was beautiful.The voiced quotes for each tech in Civ V were downright haunting for me, and I'm pleased to see the game kept so bright. Even the military quotes strayed to optimism like "Happy are those whose walls already rise."
The chances that anyone here hasn't seen it are almost zero, but just in case, if you haven't seen Chris Hadfield's cover of Space Oddity, recorded on the ISS, you really should: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNoI don't have a source but I heard that David preferred this version to the original.
⬐ ptaipaleOh, good to know that's available again. At some point it was pulled for copyright reasons.http://boingboing.net/2014/05/18/bowies-takedown-of-hadfield...
⬐ chc4⬐ TuxerLulzI heard that they arranged a deal for a 1 year lease, and after that year had to take it down. I didn't know that it was back either, that's great news.⬐ ptaipaleSeems that this time it's a two year lease, so it's still not going to be available permanently.Watched this again yesterday. RIP.⬐ gkoberger"Bowie has actually praised the cover, calling it 'possibly the most poignant version of the song ever created' back in 2013."https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/w...
Headline is inaccurate, though I can't really blame the submitter. jawed occasionally makes comments on YouTube (example: [1]), but eventually hides everything but YouTube's first video from his channel (presumably so he can "make his first comment in X years" which then gets headlines).[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo&lc=XBr2JHTM1EEDT3...
Commander Hadfield is an authentic space oddity.
⬐ nblaisdellDon't forget the songs on his soundcloud:https://soundcloud.com/colchrishadfield/jewel-in-the-night
https://soundcloud.com/colchrishadfield/danny-boy
https://soundcloud.com/colchrishadfield/eleanors-song
https://soundcloud.com/colchrishadfield/big-smoke
and of course this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvAnfi8WpVE
(He wrote or helped write all of the above except for Danny Boy obviously.)