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Ripples
09:27
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Ripples in the fabric of space-time
Gravitational waves
The cosmos at play
Reaching us now in this time and this place
Gravitational waves
Ripples in the fabric of space-time
The absence of light
The blackest of holes
Energy beyond comprehension
Clashes of worlds
The ending of time
Gravitational waves
Ripples in time
Ripples in space
Ripples in the fabric of space-time
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A Blue Dot
06:55
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Overcome by the splendor of space
There is meaning, but it does not show its face
Timeless as the human concept
Holding on, holding on
Majesty and all its glory
Conception of a million stories
A boundless journey never ends
Will we ever comprehend?
The blue dot circles round the sun
Famines rage and wars are won
And people carry on the same
Killing each other in her name
Beauty in the sky
Harder to tell night from day
The wonder never goes away
A blue dot
Circles the sun
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Juno
05:36
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We’ve waited five years for the engines to fire
To orbit the giant, much older than time
The mysteries of life, how the system was formed
Will the answers be found in the water?
Will the answers be found in the water?
The vortex is twice as wide as the earth
The storm has been raging, it goes on and on
Hydrogen, helium, hydrogen sulphide
Clouds of ammonia, for thousands of miles
It takes so long to orbit our sun
My baby has grown, look what she’s become
12 years have passed, so distant and cold
Radiation belts, protecting her core
Strip out her secrets, we want to know more
Strip out her secrets, we want to know more
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Mars
11:19
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Say goodbye to everyone
The countdown has begun
The years of training lie behind
The dangers are ahead
We’re leaving Earth for Mars
It will take 6 months to get there
Breathing stale recycled air
Staying sane will be a challenge
We have no room for emotional baggage
We’re leaving Earth for Mars
Cosmic radiation and random solar flares
Asteroids and space debris
Could catch us unawares
In the emptiness of space
We could die without a trace
But still we’re leaving Earth for Mars
It’s a cold planet
And the air is too thin to breathe
It’s a dust-covered planet
There is nothing here but rock
We look at the sky to the planet we left
And we’re all in a state of denial and shock.
We left the Earth for Mars
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Cassini
08:30
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And now Cassini is dipping down
Through the top of the atmosphere
A series of loops around Saturn’s rings
We await the data that it brings
We’re always looking for answers
To predict the future, we look to the past
Just a thousand miles above the cloud tops
To sample the gasses of the upper atmosphere
Will we be right about the hydrogen and helium?
And the number of hours in a day?
24 is 10 they say
We’re always looking for answers
To predict the future, we look to the past
And then dramatic self-destruction will follow
After 20 years, the fuel running out
The giant world so far away
Will swallow Cassini, a cosmic ballet
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Devastating Beauty
07:50
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Slowly coming around
After the longest time
Which way is up or down
When there is no ground?
Waking slowly from a dream
Stifling the urge to scream
The vaguest of memories
Come drifting back to me
Inside a tin-can coffin
I don’t believe I’m here
Aside me, are they moving?
Silent as the grave
The captain and the others
No sign of alpha waves
I am the sole survivor
I am the only one
My muscles ache from atrophy
Gravitational dependency
Out here there is no amnesty
And no one to show empathy
Not much to see but darkness
And tiny dots of colour
A devastating beauty
And wonders without number
Devastating beauty
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The Edge of Beyond
08:40
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There is no limit to the edge of beyond
Boundless possibilities wait to be found
No time like the present, the future unwritten
No time like the past, with specters unbidden
Imagination casts a warming glow
The shadows yet to be discovered
The forgotten souls drift aimlessly on
Fueled by kindness, mindless, lost
Those without names have yet to be born
Unique as a dream, vivid and strong
But fading in daylight, where reason belongs
And those who were named, are now long gone
The edge of beyond...
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A Speck of Dust
11:23
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An endless expanding existence
Of time and space and matter
Everything in coexistence
Mind-blowing incredible distance
Numbers we can’t comprehend
In the observable universe alone
A hundred billion galaxies
Each with billions of stars
Just a tiny speck of dust
There’s so much bigger than us
We can’t imagine what it’s like
The scale is truly dreamlike
Some stars are youthful like our sun
Classified as Population 1
There are also massive giants
Passing through space, deadly silent
The earth is orbiting our sun
At sixty-six thousand miles an hour
We do not stop to contemplate
It seems so fast, we can’t relate
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Unspoken
07:01
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Everything you left behind
Everything you cherished
Everything you counted dear
All your hopes and fears
Earth won’t last forever
But the universe has no end
And memories will not die
We step into the future
The future is unspoken
There are no words to say
Life behind was broken
Mankind got in the way
Look to a new horizon
Where everything is dark
The space surrounds the stars
The pinholes and the sparks
And on the point of balance
You tip the scales of chance
Remember every feeling
Every lost romance
The future is unspoken
There are no words to say
Life behind was broken
Mankind got in the way
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