Brainmangling!

[elfs]

This morning, while driving to work, I turned on the radio. It was tuned to NPR, and the first sentence out of the speakers was "Power windows are known to have killed 37 children in the past ten years."

My first thought was "Wow, I knew it wasn't considered one of Rush's better albums, but I didn't think it was that bad."

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[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

37. Humph. And they think this is a major safety hazard that has to go, absolutely, no questions asked.

I'm with Terpstra on this one. If you protect something (to that extreme), you eventually destroy it.

But it's Friday, enough of the morbid stuff. Speaking of Rush, got Signals in last night, remastered... gotta listen sometime soon. Folks keep telling me I must hear "Countdown"...

[funos.livejournal.com]

Listen very carefully to the background sounds on this one.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

*nods* Got it. Lucky men, Young and Crippen. Lucky to have made it back in one piece.

Neal Pert got it wrong, though. Apollo slowly leaves the ground, majestically, like an old-fasioned wet-navy ship leaving the ways... the Shuttle leaps off the pad as if you had jerked her drawers down and applied a hot poker to her fundament. Which is essentially what happens when you light nearly four million pounds of propellant under her.... there is no force on earth that will keep her on the pad once the SRB's are lit. And no way to bring her back until they burn out.

*sigh*

[funos.livejournal.com]

You know more about the launches that I do.
I had only noted it was a Columbia launch.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

It was an educated guess based on the copyright date of the album, backed up by a quick googlesearch.

I'm a second-generation NASA contractor; my father tracked Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo thru 13 for RCA; I was sysadmin for Data Validation for the Upper Atmospheric Research Sattelite (Discovery mission STS-48)... to say I'm a space fan is... putting it mildly. (I've gotta get me a shot of SpaceShipOne and substitute it for this icon... :)

[funos.livejournal.com]

AH. Now I see why folks kept telling you to listen to that tune. :)

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

I still think Boston's "The Launch" is a better power tune, but the real NASA background makes this one... poignant...

[funos.livejournal.com]

Haven't heard it. I'll look for it.

Now I'm thinking of Deep Purple's "Space Truckin'". :)

[elfs.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard that one. My second favorite "about the space shuttle" music is Trevor Rabin's Launch, which I imagine is a quite different from Boston's version. My favorite is still the Rush tune.