Sunday, November 25, 2018

"Packed Like Lemmings Into Shinny Metal Boxes..."

Tomorrow, Monday, November 26th! NASA's InSight martian probe will scream through the Martian sky as it lands on Mars for yet another amazing science packed mission to the 'red planet'!

Yes, yes my friends, in 24 hours, as of typing this, InSight will on Mars and hopefully not a bug splat, like The European Space Agency's 'Beagle' mission... They made a laughable "error" and well their science Mission will probably be cleaned up in the future for a Martian highway.... But let's not talk about failures, but of success' and not every NASA mission has been successful, many have failed. But with Mars, NASA's been on a winning streak for decades. They got so much hardware on Mars and we've learned and seen so very much from all those missions. Including the 'Mars Global Surveyor', the rover missions, 'Opportunity' and 'Curiosity', Mars Pathfinder and Sojourner... So they could be in for a 'splatter' event.. It truly is a major gamble doing these missions, but the treasures of success are incalculable! 

InSight's missions is a really cool and crucial one. It's not a rover, so it won't be going nowhere, but it'll be 'digging' into Mars, with both probes and radar, to look for signs of ... LIFE! Or even if just to see if life was possible on Mars at one point... We now know for sure, without a doubt there there was and still is water on Mars today... Did it thousands and thousands to millions of years ago have life? Did that life transpermiate to Earth? Was Mars the spark that lit the fire for life on our own planet? Stay tuned my friends because this mission and future ones may just break that secret|!|

You and your family can tune in and 'watch' InSight land via the missions webpage or NASA TV

This page will give you websites where you can tune in live!



Synchronicity II
The Police

Another suburban family morning
Grandmother screaming at the wall
We have to shout above the din of our Rice Krispies
We can't hear anything at all
Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration
But we know all her suicides are fake
Daddy only stares into the distance
There's only so much more that he can take
Many miles away
Something crawls from the slime
At the bottom of a dark Scottish lake

Another industrial ugly morning
The factory belches filth into the sky
He walks unhindered through the picket lines today
He doesn't think to wonder why
The secretaries pout and preen like 
cheap tarts in a red light street
But all he ever thinks to do is watch
And every single meeting with his so-called superior
Is a humiliating kick in the crotch
Many miles away 
Something crawls to the surface
Of a dark Scottish lake

Another working day has ended
Only the rush hour hell to face
Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes
Contestants in a suicidal race
Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance
He knows that something somewhere has to break
He sees the family home now looming in the headlights
The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache
Many miles away 
There's a shadow on the door 
Of a cottage on the shore
Of a dark Scottish lake
Many miles away, many miles away

Music video by The Police performing Synchronicity II. (C) 1983 A&M Records Ltd.

UMG (on behalf of A&M); CMRRA, EMI Music Publishing, UBEM, SOLAR Music Rights Management, and 4 Music Rights Societies

This is now, 'my jam':

The Rubberband Man
The Spinners

Hand me down my walkin' cane
Hand me down my hat
Hurry now and don't be late
'Cause we ain't got time to chat
You and me we're goin' out
To catch the latest sound
Guaranteed to blow your mind
So high you won't come down

Hey ya'll prepare yourself for the rubberband man
You've never heard a sound
Like the rubberband man
You're bound to lose control
When the rubberband starts to jam

Oh boy, this dude is outta sight!
Everything he does seems to come out right

Once I went to hear them play
At a club outside of town
I was so surprised
I was hypnotized
By the sound this cat put down
When I saw this short fat guy
Stretch a band between his toes
Hey, I laughed so hard
'Cause the man got down
When he finally reached his goal

Hey ya'll prepare yourself for the rubberband man
You've never heard a sound
Like the rubberband man
You're bound to lose control
When the rubberband starts to jam

Got that rubber band
Up on his toes
And then he wriggled it up
All around his nose
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Playin' all that music, yet keepin' time
Where in the world did he learn that, oh Lord?
Lord, help him get away

Hey ya'll prepare yourself for the rubberband man
You've never heard a sound
Like the rubberband man
You're bound to lose control
When the rubberband starts to jam

Rubberband man, rubberband man
How much of this stuff do he think we can stand?
So much rhythm, grace, and debonair for one man
And then he had the nerve to wiggle his left toe
Went to his knee, got the feelin' in his head, y'all

Oh, come on baby

Hey ya'll prepare yourself for the rubberband man
You've never heard a sound
Like the rubberband man
You're bound to lose control
When the rubberband starts to jam
Rubberband man starts to jam

Moving up and down 'cross the land
Got the people all in his wake
Everything probably seems outta place

Just move it, just move, move, move it, just
Rubberband, rubberband man
Just move it, just move, move, move it, just
Rubberband, rubberband man

Get down, oh, get down low

Songwriters: Linda Creed / Linda Diane Creed / Thom Bell / Thomas Randolph Bell
The Rubberband Man lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc
WMG (on behalf of Rhino Atlantic); PEDL, Warner Chappell, CMRRA, and 6 Music Rights Societies

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