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Music from space: Is Somebody Singing? Yep, The Barenaked Ladies & Chris Hadfield (with the Wexford Gleeks)

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Ed Robertson from The Barenaked Ladies, the Wexford Gleeks, and the commander of the International Space Station Chris Hadfield sing, “Is Somebody Singing?”

Monks love stuff like this.

The Barenaked Ladies & Chris Hadfield (with the Wexford Gleeks) sang a song about a year ago with Chris singing from the International Space Station, hooked up to the studio in Toronto.

Put them together and what do you get? The first space-to-earth musical collaboration. The song, “I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing) was commissioned by CBCMusic.ca and The Coalition for Music Education with the Canadian Space Agency to celebrate music education in schools across Canada.

Here’s the story (vid) of the planning…(not the one below, which is of the song!)

Here’s the song – click here!

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Starpeople: How many astronauts believe aliens are out there?

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Astronaut Chris Hadfield is a reasonable man, a former commander of the International Space Station, and a social media superstar.

by Alexis C Madrigal (The Atlantic – click here to read the comments)

How Many Astronauts Believe Aliens Exist?
All of them, according to former Space Station commander Chris Hadfield. At least somewhere. 

Astronaut Chris Hadfield is a reasonable man, a former commander of the International Space Station, and a social media superstar.

He recently went on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer show to discuss his life and career when a caller asked him about the existence of “alien life.”

“I don’t know of any astronauts who think we’re alone in the universe,” Hadfield replied.

Now, he’s obviously not talking about the UFO-Area-51 imaginary kind of aliens. He’s commenting on the possibility that somewhere out there, on some other planet, there are the bags of chemicals we call organisms reproducing themselves.

And in that belief, he’s in the mainstream of astrobiological thought, as Lane Wallace explained this week. There are just so many galaxies, which are filled with so many stars, which are circled by so many planets … How could there not be life, even if we haven’t found it?

Thought for the day…


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