It's Time for the Perchlorator!

August 07, 2008

I've been brooding for a few days as to what I could add to my post on the "Phoenix Flap," "Perchlorate Kerfuffle," or whatever catchy title everyone is using out there to summarize the frenzy of news last weekend.

Alas, there are some great posts out there covering the gamut -- see here, here, and here -- as well as a great story or two. Short of inventing a time machine to get us through some more Martian samples and peer-reviewed science, I'm not sure what I could add to our collective knowledge.

Well, I've been called the "space party boy" before (which I take no offense to). So in that spirit I offer you the something I haven't seen anywhere else: Something really, really funny.

Check it out:

P.S. This has to be the geekiest thing I've ever created, and am ready for my public flogging.

Comments

[Dave Mosher]

@Darnell Clayton
I'll take that as a compliment! NASA, if you're reading: You're welcome to use our videos. Just toss some linking love back to space.discovery.com :)

[Darnell Clayton]

NASA made commercials like this, they would never have to worry about the public's "lack of interest" ever again. ;-)

[Ian O'Neill]

I'd be very proud of this if I were you. I think you have a calling to remix all the NASA promo videos of ALL their missions to make them more accessible to the kids. Think of the kids. One request though: use some progressive trance in the next track, I think it will work very well. If you don't do it, I will. And I'll do it for the Constellation promo vid. It will be awesome.

Anyhow, keep up the good work, I'll be watching ;-)

Cheers, Ian

PS. Loved the ending of the video "In the summer of 2008, Phoenix discovered perchlorate. And everyone freaked out." Genius!

[Dave Mosher]

Spare time, what's that?
If microbes are found, oh man... that's going to be a party for a century. If they're not Earth's microbes of course :)

[Well-enough]

Well, Dave, this answers any question about what you do in your spare time. Makes me look forward to what you will do when or if microbes actually are found.

[Dave Mosher]

Thanks... I aim to please :)

[Jorge]

Dave, that was the best Phoenix lander dance remix I've ever seen. I can see it being played in clubs and raves all over the country, nay, the world. Well done, space party boy, well done.