(binned per thread starter's request) Cruiser's Drive-in

Charles Bukowski & Alan Watts - Living an Unconventional Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwPoVmDSgH4

Great Thread !!!
Star Wars (as mythology) and the machine

https://youtu.be/97moKnDZYlM


Are you safe with the Fire in Portland?

U2 and Bruce Springsteen -- "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"

https://youtu.be/FlgYdxUdckQ

as true today as the day it was written
https://youtu.be/sSSqc1qG238

Hey CB. Nice Joseph Campbell interview excerpt! I don't recall seeing that one before. I usually come away feeling like I've learned something from them.

The wildfires are bad again this year. I think this is the third year in a row. There's a big one east of here where the Columbia and Deschutes rivers converge, that is supposedly the nation's highest priority fire right now. They're calling it the Substation Fire. High winds caused it to grow by 20,000 acres overnight. One person has died so far while trying to save a neighbor's house. Luckily it's not threatening the Portland area. But it's bad for the air, and if it keeps growing it will get closer to populated areas.

https://www.kgw.com/video/weather/wildfires/substation-fire-now-top-priority-fire-in-us/283-8195392
http://www.dailyastorian.com/Local_News/20180720/substation-fire-now-nations-top-firefighting-priority

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcEd2kmNYYA

LOL

Supersharp Images from New VLT Adaptive Optics: Neptune


https://youtu.be/PheYRw8G_I8

Hi good people

Start at 8:06 Bruno Mars with six years old Elvis impersonator

https://youtu.be/jXi2faHNKts

Wow. Looks like optics technology is improving by leaps and bounds. Here they're starting with a Very Large Telescope, and sending 4 laser beams into the air. Next special software uses the laser beams to gauge air turbulence distortion (Adaptive Optics) and remove it from view. They're basically accomplishing the same thing that Hubble does by being above the atmosphere.

Here's an article that gets into more detail, and also mentions plans for an ELT (Extremely Large Telescope) with Adaptive Optics.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a22240382/neptune-ground-telescope-sharper-images-hubble-adaptive-optics/

Last week I read a newspaper article about the discovery of more moons on Jupiter. Astronomers were using a new Dark Energy Camera (DECam) to perform a Dark Energy Scan (DES) of the sky. They happened to be near the area where Jupiter was located, and decided to turn their scan on it. Surprisingly enough, they found a bunch of undiscovered satellites.

https://www.wired.com/story/twelve-new-jovian-moons/

https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/the-des-project/overview/

That's probably my all-time favorite poem. Here's another good one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCssrWndYgI
I don't take either one as gospel. But I think it does me good to read or listen to them now and then.

That was funny. Actually enjoyed the whole competition.

I'm not really a Bruno Mars fan. But I do respect the guy more after seeing and listening to the video. I didn't know he started when he was so young, and didn't realize he was so talented as a kid. He has more experience under his belt than I gave him credit for.

Pink Floyd - Have A Cigar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJLhKd9yoO8

U2 - With Or Without You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ye8GLPUVsM

A Young George Carlin on The Jimmy Dean Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTOVpL2Rieo

Blood, Sweat & Tears - Spinning Wheel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFEewD4EVwU