Starship Asterisk*

Flase wrote:And why does the music have to be crap? You could have some culture from other places instead of programmed drumbeats and people who look exactly like fat Americans shaking their love handles and wearing American clothes.

owlice wrote:I loved the first Matt Dancing video when it appeared as an APOD (both times), and I love this at least as much!! Thank you!!

bystander wrote:I always knew there was something not quite right about you!

Flase wrote:I don't like complaining but I really don't see any connection with astronomy. At all.

I would also suggest that most dances have more to do with social conformity and genuine feelings are irrelevant. What if you are at a dance and the magical feelings just aren't there? You just pretend or you are a party pooper.

And why does the music have to be crap? You could have some culture from other places instead of programmed drumbeats and people who look exactly like fat Americans shaking their love handles and wearing American clothes.

RJN wrote:I posted that video to APOD. About once a month or so, APOD posts an image that is not strictly related to the classical definition of astronomy or space science. Reasons for this are several, including broadening APOD's reader base. APODs like these, in my opinion, interest people in space, science, and astronomy who might not normally have or follow such interests. In my view, the web appears to stratify people by interests, and many times people in one interest group will not wander into other interest areas. Eclectic APODs like this are therefore an attempt to reach across disciplines.

Additionally, in my view, APOD is also about planet Earth, exploration, and making connections between science and things not classically related to science. In this case, this APOD focussed on humans specifically, who have never been highlighted on APOD before. This also gives APOD a "human" link usable inside of future APODs.

- RJN

Flase wrote:I don't like complaining

but I also don't like crap being forced down my throat.

I didn't really need to complain about the Valentine's Day observance,

but if this really were an intelligent study of dancing across the world, you would have a variety of cultures. You would have actual Flamenco in Seville and drummers in Africa etc.

Knowing how hard it is for talented musicians and presumably dancers to pay the bills (e.g. payola), the real party poopers are the ones who form barriers to the human right of music.

If you do care about happiness, you'll see that it takes more than this fat man roping people into being part of his grab for fame. I would also say that it would involve allowing everybody their own individuality and emotions and if they have genuine creativity and even genius, it would be allowed to grow. We have a long way to go.