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from Trans​-​Lunar Injection by Energy 2000

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"The moon, gentlemen, has been carefully studied," continued
Barbicane; "her mass, density, and weight; her constitution,
motions, distance, as well as her place in the solar system,
have all been exactly determined. Selenographic charts have
been constructed with a perfection which equals, if it does not
even surpass, that of our terrestrial maps. Photography has
given us proofs of the incomparable beauty of our satellite; all
is known regarding the moon which mathematical science,
astronomy, geology, and optics can learn about her. But up to
the present moment no direct communication has been established
with her."

"Permit me," he continued, "to recount to you briefly how
certain ardent spirits, starting on imaginary journeys, have
penetrated the secrets of our satellite. In the seventeenth
century a certain David Fabricius boasted of having seen with
his own eyes the inhabitants of the moon. In 1649 a Frenchman,
one Jean Baudoin, published a `Journey performed from the Earth
to the Moon by Domingo Gonzalez,' a Spanish adventurer. At the
same period Cyrano de Bergerac published that celebrated
`Journeys in the Moon' which met with such success in France.
Somewhat later another Frenchman, named Fontenelle, wrote `The
Plurality of Worlds,' a _chef-d'oeuvre_ of its time. About 1835
a small treatise, translated from the New York _American_, related
how Sir John Herschel, having been despatched to the Cape of
Good Hope for the purpose of making there some astronomical
calculations, had, by means of a telescope brought to perfection
by means of internal lighting, reduced the apparent distance of
the moon to eighty yards! He then distinctly perceived caverns
frequented by hippopotami, green mountains bordered by golden
lace-work, sheep with horns of ivory, a white species of deer
and inhabitants with membranous wings, like bats. This _brochure_,
the work of an American named Locke, had a great sale. But, to
bring this rapid sketch to a close, I will only add that a
certain Hans Pfaal, of Rotterdam, launching himself in a balloon
filled with a gas extracted from nitrogen, thirty-seven times
lighter than hydrogen, reached the moon after a passage of
nineteen hours. This journey, like all previous ones, was purely
imaginary; still, it was the work of a popular American author--
I mean Edgar Poe!"

"You know," said he, "what progress artillery science has made
during the last few years, and what a degree of perfection
firearms of every kind have reached. Moreover, you are well
aware that, in general terms, the resisting power of cannon and
the expansive force of gunpowder are practically unlimited.
Well! starting from this principle, I ask myself whether,
supposing sufficient apparatus could be obtained constructed
upon the conditions of ascertained resistance, it might not be
possible to project a shot up to the moon?"

"Suffer me to finish," he calmly continued. "I have looked at
the question in all its bearings, I have resolutely attacked it,
and by incontrovertible calculations I find that a projectile
endowed with an initial velocity of 12,000 yards per second, and
aimed at the moon, must necessarily reach it. I have the honor,
my brave colleagues, to propose a trial of this little experiment."

“the earth is deep blue... Especially when you get out a little ways, not too far away, and you can look back at it, it’s deep blue… It’s got a three-dimensional feel to it. A depth...” - Dave Scott
“It’s a little different sitting in the rocket, rather than watching it from the ground…and hearing the announcer, you know, dramatically talk about the countdown, and what’s going on. Inside the rocket, sitting there, waiting for the countdown, is a lot different, because you don’t get that momentous build up...and the launch is a little bit different to, because on the ground you get that vibration in your stomach, whereas in the spacecraft itself, it’s a big rumble. You can hear those valves open up and all that fuel drop down those manifold valves...you’re burning 15 tons per second...it’s a big rumbling noise, and off you go.” – Jim Lovell

“I was just wishing I could spin it around and look at the rest of it.” – Bill Anders

“The fact that you can put your thumb up to the window of the spacecraft and completely put the earth behind your thumb is a concept that gives the insignificance of your existence with respect universe… Hiding the entire Earth… Everything you’ve ever done. All the people you knew. Every place you’ve been. Continents. All the major confrontations that you have. The various wars that were going on at the time. The problems at home, the dissension… Everything shrunk in size.” - Jim Lovell

“… It reminded me of a Christmas tree ornament…very fragile, delicate…and you could imagine that we only live in that tiny little skin around the outside…the only color you could see in the whole universe…” Bill Anders

“The biggest philosophy, foundation-shaking impression was seeing the smallness of your… Even the pictures don’t do it justice, because they always have this frame around them....but when you put your eyeball to the window of the spacecraft you can see essentially half universe… That’s a lot more black and a lot more universe than ever comes through a framed picture…you look around, and you don’t see any stars; you just see this dull black, and this earth is the only thing there...and that’s why I don’t think we’ve ever really gotten across to people through the photography about what I call the perspective of it. That you’ve got to see all the black, all the nothing…in order to appreciate the smallness, aloneness, insignificance…” - Bill Anders

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from Trans​-​Lunar Injection, released December 12, 2013

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Inspired by long pan reverb, tremolo, delay, vintage amplification, 1960s-era Fender Mustang guitars, obscure surf rock, warm pad synth sounds, sci-fi radio shows from the early 1950s, still images captured on 70 mm Kodak Panatomic-X fine-grained 80 ASA b/w film, moon bounces, and the incredibly rich spectrum of emotion associated with attempting to comprehend the beautiful vastness of space. ... more

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