[Music]
[Applause]
tonight I’m gonna take you back to 1979
so first of all for those of you who
aren’t born we didn’t have cell phones
can you imagine we didn’t have internet
we didn’t even have computers in our
homes scientists they did all their
research in labs well some went out to
the field they collected their own data
or maybe their graduate students did and
they brought it back to that lab to
analyze it in 1979 I was a young girl
and my dad came to the family he said
we’re gonna go camping this wasn’t
unusual we went camping every summer but
it was unusual because it was February
and it was unusual because there was
something about a total solar eclipse
and my parents seemed so excited about
it but I didn’t really know what they
were so excited about so we went to
Oregon they clips that year started
right after sunrise we were in Eastern
Oregon in a prairie very similar to this
I remember the grass kind of in the
breeze the day of the Eclipse
I remember how weird it was that our
Subaru was sitting in the middle of the
field
I remember the clouds wondering are we
even gonna see this thing that we’re so
excited about and I remember Pink
Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon that’s
right because my dad had spent a lot of
time making sure that the Eclipse song
played for those two minutes of totality
that’s right beginning I mean the moon
blocked completely the bright disc of
the Sun and ending when the Sun
reappeared I think some of you
experienced that yourselves yesterday I
know I did in 1979 it did get dark I
didn’t get to see the corona but I did
yesterday but trip made a lasting
impression on me yeah that’s me
and I wonder back then was that moment
when I decided to be a physicist and
astronomer was at that moment under that
shadow of the Moon that ignited my
passion for physics well let’s go to
today so today we carry around these
cellphones these little computers that
can take amazing measurements of our
environment we have a free and open
Internet Italy still where we can where
we can share ideas and learn from one
another we can collaborate across time
zones using online technologies and this
amazing thing has happened where all of
those technologies are now used to help
scientists understand different things
about our world around us so that
happened yesterday I’m part of this
project this crowdsource project we’ve
been working on this for six years these
are the vault some of the volunteers
some of the thousand plus volunteers who
signed up to be trained to take
photographs of the corona that outermost
atmosphere of the Sun during totality
those two minutes when the sky went dark
they had set up their cameras got ready
for that moment
most of them made it automated it so
they could still experience it and they
they contributed to this amazing project
it’s called the Eclipse mega movie so
I’m sure many of you
they’re quite aware of what happened
yesterday but just to remind you
essentially the moon’s orbit put the
moon in between the Sun and Earth and
cast a shadow on earth it’s a little
tiny shadow and as Earth rotated and the
moon orbited out in space they cast a
shadow that started in Oregon and moved
passed through Idaho Wyoming Nebraska
it went through Kansas just a little bit
Missouri Kentucky Tennessee North
Carolina and South Carolina Wow
the volunteers they really wanted to
make a map of where they were going to
be located so this was the map they made
the blue pins are where they said they
were going to be that was their planned
place of observing the gray pins and the
yellow pins were where they might go if
the weather turned bad they wanted us to
understand they might not be where they
said they were going to be totally fine
so indeed they all all these volunteers
and our team showed up in the path of
totality thank you very much for being
such a great host and after our amazing
experience under that shadow of the Moon
these many of these photographers and
volunteers found their way to good
internet sources and uploaded those
images this was yesterday and meanwhile
two of our team members sacrificed being
part of the total solar eclipse and
remained in Mountain View California
where they prepared to basically take
those photographs and put them into the
first rendition of a movie to see what
the corona would look like from Oregon
all the way to South Carolina so I’m
going to show you
[Applause]
so as we add more and more photographs
together to add to this movie and make
it more more rich with this photographic
data it may just be the most boring
movie you will ever watch but we will
have some of the most amazing images
that have never been before taken in
this type of environment so all of these
images all of the volunteers and all of
those of you who may have already
uploaded some of your photos and we’re
taking photos till September 4th if you
haven’t you want to share you everyone
is agreeing to share these out under the
Creative Commons license
and what that means is that this data
set or all of these varied images of the
corona will be accessible to scientists
and to the public to basically do
whatever they want with them so just
like my sister who was my younger sister
was up at Eclipse in 79 with me she’s
not so excited about the corona and you
might not be either but you may have
some passion for some other things for
example maybe you’re really interested
in extraterrestrials and if you are this
is the project for you so this is a
study project and they you they look at
radio data to see if et is trying to
talk to us it’s true you could take
photographs of the aurora borealis and
send them to the aurora source project
you could go in your backyard and count
species or take photos of different
insects or plants and provide scientists
with information about your local
ecosystem you could play games to map
the neurons in your brain no kidding
super cool you could help solve the
Alzheimer’s problem there’s a new
project that’s now doing that looking at
brain different brain scans whatever
your passion
there’s probably a science experiment
out there that’s or a question that
scientists are asking and they want your
help you can go to there are many
different portals to find these this is
slice starter but there’s also citizen
science comm and many other portals not
only am I here today tonight to ask you
to help us discover new things about our
world and our universe not only am I
here tonight to ask you to help us solve
some of the world’s most challenging
problems but I’m also here to wonder
with you about that unexpected
consequences of doing something bigger
than yourself yesterday how many
connections and misunderstandings were
bridged by traveling to this to this
path of totality I wonder how many ways
we each thought about how precious our
life is on this planet so tonight I want
to leave you with a mary oliver quote
and ask you tell me what is it you plan
to do with your one wild and precious
life thank you
[Applause]
[Applause]
tonight I’m gonna take you back to 1979
so first of all for those of you who
aren’t born we didn’t have cell phones
can you imagine we didn’t have internet
we didn’t even have computers in our
homes scientists they did all their
research in labs well some went out to
the field they collected their own data
or maybe their graduate students did and
they brought it back to that lab to
analyze it in 1979 I was a young girl
and my dad came to the family he said
we’re gonna go camping this wasn’t
unusual we went camping every summer but
it was unusual because it was February
and it was unusual because there was
something about a total solar eclipse
and my parents seemed so excited about
it but I didn’t really know what they
were so excited about so we went to
Oregon they clips that year started
right after sunrise we were in Eastern
Oregon in a prairie very similar to this
I remember the grass kind of in the
breeze the day of the Eclipse
I remember how weird it was that our
Subaru was sitting in the middle of the
field
I remember the clouds wondering are we
even gonna see this thing that we’re so
excited about and I remember Pink
Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon that’s
right because my dad had spent a lot of
time making sure that the Eclipse song
played for those two minutes of totality
that’s right beginning I mean the moon
blocked completely the bright disc of
the Sun and ending when the Sun
reappeared I think some of you
experienced that yourselves yesterday I
know I did in 1979 it did get dark I
didn’t get to see the corona but I did
yesterday but trip made a lasting
impression on me yeah that’s me
and I wonder back then was that moment
when I decided to be a physicist and
astronomer was at that moment under that
shadow of the Moon that ignited my
passion for physics well let’s go to
today so today we carry around these
cellphones these little computers that
can take amazing measurements of our
environment we have a free and open
Internet Italy still where we can where
we can share ideas and learn from one
another we can collaborate across time
zones using online technologies and this
amazing thing has happened where all of
those technologies are now used to help
scientists understand different things
about our world around us so that
happened yesterday I’m part of this
project this crowdsource project we’ve
been working on this for six years these
are the vault some of the volunteers
some of the thousand plus volunteers who
signed up to be trained to take
photographs of the corona that outermost
atmosphere of the Sun during totality
those two minutes when the sky went dark
they had set up their cameras got ready
for that moment
most of them made it automated it so
they could still experience it and they
they contributed to this amazing project
it’s called the Eclipse mega movie so
I’m sure many of you
they’re quite aware of what happened
yesterday but just to remind you
essentially the moon’s orbit put the
moon in between the Sun and Earth and
cast a shadow on earth it’s a little
tiny shadow and as Earth rotated and the
moon orbited out in space they cast a
shadow that started in Oregon and moved
passed through Idaho Wyoming Nebraska
it went through Kansas just a little bit
Missouri Kentucky Tennessee North
Carolina and South Carolina Wow
the volunteers they really wanted to
make a map of where they were going to
be located so this was the map they made
the blue pins are where they said they
were going to be that was their planned
place of observing the gray pins and the
yellow pins were where they might go if
the weather turned bad they wanted us to
understand they might not be where they
said they were going to be totally fine
so indeed they all all these volunteers
and our team showed up in the path of
totality thank you very much for being
such a great host and after our amazing
experience under that shadow of the Moon
these many of these photographers and
volunteers found their way to good
internet sources and uploaded those
images this was yesterday and meanwhile
two of our team members sacrificed being
part of the total solar eclipse and
remained in Mountain View California
where they prepared to basically take
those photographs and put them into the
first rendition of a movie to see what
the corona would look like from Oregon
all the way to South Carolina so I’m
going to show you
[Applause]
so as we add more and more photographs
together to add to this movie and make
it more more rich with this photographic
data it may just be the most boring
movie you will ever watch but we will
have some of the most amazing images
that have never been before taken in
this type of environment so all of these
images all of the volunteers and all of
those of you who may have already
uploaded some of your photos and we’re
taking photos till September 4th if you
haven’t you want to share you everyone
is agreeing to share these out under the
Creative Commons license
and what that means is that this data
set or all of these varied images of the
corona will be accessible to scientists
and to the public to basically do
whatever they want with them so just
like my sister who was my younger sister
was up at Eclipse in 79 with me she’s
not so excited about the corona and you
might not be either but you may have
some passion for some other things for
example maybe you’re really interested
in extraterrestrials and if you are this
is the project for you so this is a
study project and they you they look at
radio data to see if et is trying to
talk to us it’s true you could take
photographs of the aurora borealis and
send them to the aurora source project
you could go in your backyard and count
species or take photos of different
insects or plants and provide scientists
with information about your local
ecosystem you could play games to map
the neurons in your brain no kidding
super cool you could help solve the
Alzheimer’s problem there’s a new
project that’s now doing that looking at
brain different brain scans whatever
your passion
there’s probably a science experiment
out there that’s or a question that
scientists are asking and they want your
help you can go to there are many
different portals to find these this is
slice starter but there’s also citizen
science comm and many other portals not
only am I here today tonight to ask you
to help us discover new things about our
world and our universe not only am I
here tonight to ask you to help us solve
some of the world’s most challenging
problems but I’m also here to wonder
with you about that unexpected
consequences of doing something bigger
than yourself yesterday how many
connections and misunderstandings were
bridged by traveling to this to this
path of totality I wonder how many ways
we each thought about how precious our
life is on this planet so tonight I want
to leave you with a mary oliver quote
and ask you tell me what is it you plan
to do with your one wild and precious
life thank you
[Applause]
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