 Film: Blast Scientists
in search of accurate data about the formations of stars and celestial
bodies in outer space and ultimately of humankind's origins have
manufactured different instruments, equipment and machinery through the
years. BLAST is a balloon lifted telescope created by a team of
scientists -- Cosmologist, Mark Devlin, Barth Netterfield from University of Toronto, Gaelen
Marsden from University of British Columbia, and several others
including students who study the universe. Launching from the
cold snowlands of Sweden and again from Antartica after it crashed and
broke the first time, BLAST finally was able to lift off and return
with enough data stored for their research. Memorable moments of
the film included the first lift-off in the giant balloon and the crash
which destroyed the mirror, and the second return where it was dragged
through the snow for miles due to the wind blowing the air
balloon. Director Paul Devlin, the brother of Mark Devlin, showed
with his camera the struggle and success of scientists in search of
scientific data, showing their human side of trial and error
experimenting in their professional lives cut in with their personal
family lives. The occasional moments of professional doubt about
BLAST worrying their faces finally leads to hopeful certainty upon its
return with data intact in computer hard drives. Hopefully this data
gathered will explain the creation of our universe and ourselves with
facts and theories that our limited minds can understand about the
vastness of outer space. The money spent on scientific research
is well-spent if we understand our own existence and how we were
created along with the rest of the cosmos. Thousands of years of
puzzling about it and only in the recent centuries are scientists able
to device machines to aid in gathering facts which fit theories, so
that the truth can clarify speculation. Scientists are leading
the way out of the darkness of ignorance into the light of divine
consciousness. It almost seems like the search of God for those
who are religious -- seeing the various lighted spots from the BLAST
data of celestial bodies in the darkness of outer space! Man and
machine will bring theory into fact through scientific discovery and
method, and it is great to know that religion and creationists were
closer to the truth than evolutionists. The entire universe, the
heavens, were lighted long ago and there probably are other life forms
created just as we are by a Force greater than our limited
understanding.
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