Asteroids (from Greek ἀστεροειδής - asteroeidēs, "star-like", from ἀστήρ "star" and εἶδος "like, in form") are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones. These terms have historically been applied to any astronomical object orbiting the Sun that did not show the disk of a planet and was not observed to have the characteristics of an active comet, but as small objects in the outer Solar System were discovered, their volatile-based surfaces were found to more closely resemble comets, and so were often distinguished from traditional asteroids. Thus the term asteroid has come increasingly to refer specifically to the small bodies of the inner Solar System out to the orbit of Jupiter, which are usually rocky or metallic. They are grouped with the outer bodies—centaurs, Neptune trojans, and trans-Neptunian objects—as minor planets, which is the term preferred in astronomical circles. This article will restrict the use of the term 'asteroid' to the minor planets of the inner Solar System.
William Sanford "Bill" Nye (born November 27, 1955), popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, is an American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, mechanical engineer, and scientist. He is best known as the host of the Disney/PBS children's science show Bill Nye the Science Guy (1993–1998) and for his many subsequent appearances in popular media as a science educator.
William Sanford Nye was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Jacqueline (née Jenkins; c. 1920–2000), a codebreaker during World War II, and Edwin Darby "Ned" Nye (died 1997), also a World War II veteran whose experience in a Japanese prisoner of war camp led him to become a sundial enthusiast. Nye is a fourth-generation Washington, D.C. resident on his father's side of the family. After attending Lafayette Elementary and Alice Deal Junior High in the city, he was accepted to the private Sidwell Friends School on a partial scholarship, graduating in 1973. He studied mechanical engineering at Cornell University, where one of his professors was Carl Sagan, and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 1977. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by The Johns Hopkins University in May 2008. In May 2011, Nye was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Willamette University where he was the keynote speaker for that year's commencement exercises.
Sir Isaac Newton PRS MP (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727 [NS: 4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727]) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian, who has been "considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived." His monograph Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687, lays the foundations for most of classical mechanics. In this work, Newton described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, which dominated the scientific view of the physical universe for the next three centuries. Newton showed that the motions of objects on Earth and of celestial bodies are governed by the same set of natural laws, by demonstrating the consistency between Kepler's laws of planetary motion and his theory of gravitation, thus removing the last doubts about heliocentrism and advancing the Scientific Revolution.
Sometimes you got to take a chance and dance
Cocolonia's Mother: Aaaaaaaa! What kind of music is this? It sounds like murder and drugs!::Cocolonia: It's hip hop.::Cocolonia's Mother: Hips should never be hopped! Not under my roofs! You're grounded to the house for the entire weekend. And Cocolonia, remember, today, I'm hosting the Censorship Fund-raiser. So please wear something opulent.
Doctor: Mr. Asteroid, these x-rays indicate that your break dancing on the ceiling has caused a deadly tumor on your brain.::Asteroid: But Doc, dancing on the ceiling is my signature move.::Doctor: Your signature move is killing you. I'm afraid you have ten left to live.::Asteroid: Ten what? Ten years? Ten months?::Doctor: All we know for sure is ten.
Egghead: I am so excited about the big audition. Dancing is a lot of fun.::Funky Bunch: Fun? Dancing is life. Everyone who doesn't make the dance team today will be dead or in prison within the year.
Cocolonia: I'm not so rich that I can't learn to be poor.
Building Inspector General: God might want the people to dance, but the city does not. I must go. I have a battered woman's shelter to close down.
Rich Lady: I heard that Dancing shot Kennedy!
Dazzle: You killed my sister doing the Freak Dance on her.::Asteroid: Nothing sorrows me more than the death of your older sister. I'm also sorry that the news of your sister's death caused your father's heart attack... and death... and the ambulance picking up your father ran over your dog. And after your dog died your house got robbed. And by robbed I mean they took your baby. Sorry for all that too.
Cocolonia: Do you really think that I can become poor enough in so little time?::Funky Bunch: I know you can you can do anything... if I'm showing you how.
Funky Bunch: My penis is too poor for you?
Funky Bunch: I heard you danced privately for money.::Barrio: No Funky Bunch! Earlier, in the streets, Special Flavor saved me from la marijuana even though she is rich.::Funky Bunch: Saving people is what dancing is all about.
Plot
City of Hope is a portrait of a typical middle-sized American city of the present day. The crux of the story is an old apartment block which stands in the way of a major commercial development. Joe Rinaldi is the building contractor who owns the buildings, and is being pressured to torch them to permit the development to occur. His estranged son, Nick, soon becomes a pawn in the power politics of the city. Corrupt Mayor Baci and policeman O'Brien are determined to push the development, while idealistic city councilman Wynn soon finds himself torn between what he knows is right and what his black constituents want.
Keywords: african-american, arson, broken-windshield, burglary, construction-company, father-son-relationship, fictional-city, homophobia, independent-film, italian-american
Zip: Figures. We finally get a chick in the band, and she's a lesbian.::Bobby: How do you know?::Zip: I asked her if she wanted go out with me, she said No.::Bobby: Zip, this town's full of chicks who won't go out with you.::Zip: Yeah. Lesbians, all of 'em.
[last lines]::Asteroid: We need help! Yeah, help! Over here! In the building! Help! Help! We need help! Help. We need help down here. Help.
Wynn: All the problems we're hearing about tonight, the unemployment, the drugs, the street crimes, those will always be the highest when they people have the least education. So you'll can pay now or you can pay later. I mean if you have a brain tumor you wouldn't shop around for the cheapest surgeon you'll look for the best and that's what we're voting on tonight: the best for our children. Or do we sell out their futures for few tax cuts? Thank you.
Carl: Hey O.B. Long time no see. Engine problems?::O'Brien: You're the one with problems Carl. Get in.
Asteroid: Shut up the lights! Shut up the lights! Shut up the LIGHTS! [breaks the prison's lamp leaving the place in the dark]
[repeated lines]::Asteroid: Money talks nobody walks.
Floating in time and emptiness
waiting for the loss of empty hands
coursing, rewind eternity
in the universe's eyes I see
the lines will be us
the space is the loss
awoken by chance
led by our sense
the stars are the way
the suns are the prey
to feed every life
Floating in time and emptiness
waiting for the loss of empty hands
coursing, rewind eternity
in the universe's eyes I see
a movement circular
an extended moment
a lesser piece of forever
in and through the vast
the cycle of the day
shifts the heat away
slowly leads the sun to decay
to the end
of existence
And the third angel sounded
And a star fell from heaven
Burning as it were a lamp
And it fell upon the third part of the waters
Asteroid
I'm a ball of fire
A fire from heaven
Terror from nowhere
You'll never shoot me down
Days turns to minutes
Five seconds till it hits us
Three seconds to ground
One second to
Asteroid, asteroid
Coming in from the void
On the bed of the ocean
Where history lies
Strange civilizations
Vaporised
Days turns to minutes
Five seconds till it hits us
Three seconds to ground
One second to
Asteroid, asteroid
Coming in from the void
I.N.R.I
Nature renewed by fire made whole
And I climb to the mountain
Light to dark
Behind time and space
A hole in your Ark
Days turns to minutes
Five seconds till it hits us
Three seconds to ground
One second to
Asteroid, asteroid, asteroid
I'm a ball of fire
A fire from heaven
Asteroid
Coming in from the void
I'm a ball of fire
A fire from heaven
Terror from nowhere
You'll never shoot me down
Asteroid
Instrumental
No start, never to end
Rolling to nowhere
Cores of gaseous dust
Infertile fragments
Of what once were planets
I'm source of no light
d .? nb, lmmddrg
Cold, no heart, just fright
Eternal life in black
No planets to smack
Meaningless existence
I flame, death deserves
To kiss a heart who starves
Darkness into me, into me
Longing to end in a shooting star
Asteroid
To live is to streak the sky with sparks
No start, never to end
Staring at nowhere
Sky of painted stars
Slay my naked heart
With silver arrows flashing
My life's not so smart
Cold, my soul's so stark
Dreams and boring flesh
Damned to smash
Meaningless existence
I live flash deserves
To feed my heart who starves
Darkness into me, into me
Longing to end in a shooting star
Asteroid
To live is to streak the sky with sparks
"Will a suicidal sparkle
Ever streak the blackened sky
And kiss this longing eye
Like a both-sides burning candle"
ms. warning and mr caution
quarreling in their morning cottage
about books they bid on at there local auctions
whether or not the other knows what the plot is
the alarm goes off at six w/ the covers they use
mr.'s unemployed and the other's recluse
waiting for the asteroid he says ''what's the use"
aware of the repairs he's supposed to do
scared to tell the wife that he has no clue
about screwdrivers or wrenches
or how to build benches or fences
he clenches fists in frustration
hes losing his patience
at the long lengths it takes him
to build or rail
or hammer in a nail
his tailor
suited him for failure
tired of her premonitions of danger
he measures and plans and tinkers in anger
rushing in her room to show his invention
tripping through the door with proud intentions
falling to the floor it sparks and smashes
suddenly they stand facing smoldering ashes
ms. warning and mr. caution
together by their burning cottage
with al of the neighbors watching
they see that they've been holding each other hostage
Doesn't matter who's the fault is
Things will change regardless
ms. warning and mr. caution