Earth is hurtling through the universe at 827700 miles per hour...

[M155Y_A1CH]

would you like to slow down?

I would like to recommend the most relaxing, mesmerizing channel on TV. It is rather new and you may have missed it.

You must have Dish Network satelite television, tune in to ch 212 EDT (other time zones may have a different channel number) or search your guide for Dish Earth.

Here you will find a live image of Earth from a camera mounted on the satelite. It is updated every 15 seconds. You can watch the sunlight and the weather systems creep slowly, barely perceptibly, across the world. It's amazing how slowly everything seems to move on the earth when seen this way.

XM radio's "The Bridge" mellow rock station is the accompanying music. This 70's heavy music station will really take the old timers back to the day and introduce the youngsters to the emo side of rock's earlier days.

Viewing hours are limited to daylight hours with mid-morning to early evening being the prime time.

Dusk and dawn are a glowing quarter-Earth with few planetary features visable. Night views are obscured by sun glare and all that can be seen is the grind of the camera lens and the dust on it. You need to be altered by psychodelics to really enjoy the overnight image.

Be prepared for a mind-trip, in any event, as you realize the fuller implications of the image you are seeing.


Oh,BTW,
other good reasons to have the Dish Network:
-cheaper than cable and other satelite providers
-carries Free Speech TV and university lecture channels
_now with Dish Earth!


Disclaimer; I am not affiliated with the Dish Network in any way. Just a satisfied customer.

[Echo In Light]

1. Monty Python Galaxy Song

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.

[M155Y_A1CH]

2. LOL

I loved those guys.

[ensho]

5. the earth is also a gong

" The cavity formed between a planetary body and its ionasphere acts as a natural resonator; most people who lived on Earth were unaware tht they lived on a gigantic gong that boomed out exactly sixty-nine times every day."


from the novel Ammonite by Nicola Griffith

wish we could hear the sound

[woo me with science]

7. Listen to the song here:

and an ecard to boot!

http://www.care2.com/send/card/6043

[Echo In Light]

9. Thanks

:hi:

[zipplewrath]

3. Not for me

"other good reasons to have the Dish Network:
-cheaper than cable and other satelite providers"

Maybe for you, but to get the equivalent of what I have now, I'd have to pay a whole lot more.

[M155Y_A1CH]

4. You may be right

I don't know about the pricing at the higher levels. I just get the basic set up. Not HD or anything. I get local channels and about 60 other channels but no movies or sports subscription channels. $40/month.

[SheilaT]

6. What's really cheaper

is not to have TV or cable or satellite at all.

Admittedly, I do miss some interesting stuff, but I honestly don't find I miss it.

Especially such drek as American Idol, which seems to consume an incredible amount of time and energy on the part of an amazingly large number of people.

[JitterbugPerfume]

8. I love my Dish TV!!

the trick is to be selective n your viewing . Just don't watch the trash

[NNN0LHI]

10. I was watching it and I think I just saw a flying saucer whizz by