Dumb question about Unfiltered

[progmom]

You know the buffer music they use? With the spoken bit: "Well I look at it as of more like the beginning of an exploration. What the sky looks like. what the stars look like, do they still twinkle or are they a steady light when you get outside the atmosphere."

Where the heck did that come from?

[Z_I_Peevey]

1. Wondered that myself

I hope somebody here knows, because that's been bugging me too.

[49jim]

2. At first they thought it was Bush.....

sounds like him...but I believe it's one of the astronauts..

[crispini]

3. Kennedy?

That was always my guess. Maybe from the same place as, "We go to the moon and do other things not because they are easy but because they are difficult." (I know I've hashed that up mercilessly.)

[crispini]

4. Huh, weird.

I found almost that exact text on a blog, but without attribution:

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:AMD_Y6kln6gJ:www.owensoft.net/v4/page-4/+%22do+they+still+twinkle+or+are+they+a+steady+light+when+you+get+outside+the+atmosphere.%22&hl=en

[Philostopher]

5. Okay ... rooting around via Google, I found ...

The phrase was a sample -- though the source of the sample seems to be a matter of question -- from a British dub band called 'The Karminsky Experience.' The song was used in a Foster's Lager ad in the UK, apparently.

http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/k/karminskyexperience-power.shtml

That review of the album the song is on mentions the sample, and attributes it to an unknown astronaut -- I've seen other suggestions other places. I know exactly nothing about this band, so that's all I've got -- but it's more than you had five minutes ago!

[Ryano42]

6. I believe it is John Glenn

At a press conference before his orbital flight in 1962. It scared me because the first sentence sounds a lot like Chimp!

:o

[GoSolar]

7. I thought Rachel once said

that it was astronaut Jim Lovell.