Left to right: Armstrong, Collins, Aldrin
The Apollo 11 Crew ( and damn it, if you don’t know their names just toddle on back to your phone and Twitter or do whatever it is you’ve done to divorce yourself from the world because this post will mean nothing to you ) wants the President ( and that includes the rest of us of course ) to begin to think about returning to the Moon and to Mars.
The thing of it is, I think there is one big obstacle to making this goal and it’s not money.
The big obstacle to reaching Mars is that nobody dreams anymore.
People do not wonder anymore, they don’t imagine anymore because- well, I’m at a loss there because the human brain loves to be fed ideas and only an idiot would starve it to death, right? I mean would you deny yourself food or water because it takes to much effort on your part to open your mouth to chew and swallow?
Still.
Look around you:
Movies are based on Computer Game Characters, music sounds the same ON PURPOSE and people are walking around wired to their cellphones where they are fed ideas by a machine because God help us all if we have to create a thought on our own.
Go back to the Moon? Make it to Mars? Who is going to get us there? A Twitter Addict? A Facebook Group? An American Idol Fan? Enlighten me, because if this is where we spend most of our time I can’t see people making it to their backyard to chat with a neighbor over their fence let alone taking the time to wonder how to get to Mars.
So where does it start?
Here’s an idea, I use it myself before I write:
The next time you are flying on a plane, or sailing on a boat or a Ferry or when you see something strange where nothing strange should be visible-
Wonder about it.
LINKS:
MARS EXPLORATION ROVER MISSION
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured a new, infrared view of the choppy star-making cloud called M17, or the Swan nebula.
An amateur astronomer in Australia named Anthony Wesley was taking pictures of the planet Jupiter when he discovered a hole in it the size of the Earth.
Science says it was probably a comet that made the hole.
Science is probably right which is lucky for us, because if I was right it would have been caused by Aliens headed straight for us right now- one that involved vicious space monsters who fly around in ships piloted by the enslaved brains of the lifeforms from the millions of planets they have conquered.
Go on.
Admit it.
You wish I was right, don’t you?
By the way
if you were doing a google search and typed in Alien Invasion and thought you were going to find a story about Lou Dobbs and Rush Limbaugh’s Mythical Mexican Invasion- you’re an idiot and you deserved to have me waste two minutes of your pathetic life.
I write stories about Werewolves that cheat at cards and stories about Funeral Directors who get buried alive and Devils that ride buses to work in the morning.
However,
had I written something like this
no one would have believed it and I would have drawn a red slash right across each and every page and started over again:
In the two Part Doctor Who episode ” The Forest of The Dead” and ” Silence In The Library” evil creatures are hiding in a city that houses a computer-
a big computer, a huge computer, a living computer.
And those evil creatures that feed off of organic material ( well, human flesh ) are living in….
books.
Lots and lots of books.
Books that are made out of wood pulp.
Paper.
This made me think:
When we give kudos to the new ” Sci Fi ” stories, those kudos get tossed around like confetti because woman can now shoot big guns and sometimes even get to be Captains on actual spaceships and have ripley muscles just like their male counter parts.
But come on how is that cutting edge exactly?
Some writers just figured out that you can substitute male characters for female characters because really, they can do the same exact job.
Sort of like real life.
Anyway.
In this Doctor Who episode we did see something cutting edge, we saw something unique we saw a story that takes place in the future ( well, that’s a guess where Doctor Who is concerned-but stick with me here ) and in that future were books.
Books with pages that you can turn, pages that crackle and pop when they’re new and whisper when they get old.
How cutting edge is that?
Very.
After all.
A Science Fiction story about Time Travel had at it’s core…books…
books in a Library.
In these times when we walk around with a phone that is sort of like having a second brain that you can hold in your hand ( also a addressed in Doctor Who episode: Planet Of The Ood )
I found ” The Planet Of The Ood “episode to be more of a shot across the bow of the hi-tech ship everyone I know seems to be sailing on then then to be story a story about slavery or disease.
So I will freely admitt I thought is was a riot when my Cell Phone enslaved friends watched this and didn’t seem to see the comparison between themselves and the Ood and the guy who gets ” turned “.
I think that seeing a story about books
made me realize
how much I would miss them if they were gone.
So that must mean on some level
I must feel like they’re being taken away…made irrelevant.
When did that happen?
The funny thing is, The Doctor would know.
Doctor Who.
It has more then a real hot guy playing the lead role.
It happens to have some excellent stories too.
Enjoy…
and THINK next time you watch it.
a.m.
Global Warming is NOT funny.
So don’t laugh when I say
somebody is totally F*&^%$#@ up Santa’s back yard.
full story HERE
Do something so that you do NOT add to this very real problem. ( crazy Republicans who are looking to submit a comment to tell me off be warned, I moderate this blog- just doing my part to cut down on the death threats and potty language that seems to hang over us all like noxious clouds …or don’t you guys believe in things like the ‘theory’ behind clouds too? )
So the rest of you- educate yourself about this problem- otherwise I see a very Grim Christmas and possibly a tropical situation happening up there in the North Pole and new forms of life popping up all over the place ( well, if you count mutant animals and people with extra body parts as being a ‘new’ thing).
Hey.
Remember those dome cities in ” Total Recall ” when the glass failed?
Remember what happened to the people living there?
Ha.
Doesn’t seem like such a weird idea NOW does it?
So here’s a start.
Visit Al Gore’s site HERE.
And if you can’t take care of our Planet for your kids and friends and family do it for Santa and his Reindeer.
At least.
It’s all about words today here at the Bones.
If you could banish a word from the English Language what would it be?
Me.
I would flush the word boing.
Heck.
I wouldn’t even bother to flush it, I’d take a plunger and jam it down the first toilet I could get too before I could stomp it out of existance.
Who the hell came up with that one?
Boing.
It serves no darn purpose.
Oh and while I’m at it I say we loose Awesome…I don’t hate the word Awesome I just think it would be funny to see what happens if people can’t short cut a view by heading down ‘awesome avenue’ instead of EXPLAINING why they think something is so spectacular it sucks the air out fo their lungs and makes them feel that the Universe is truly a very big place and that feeling sends a tingle up and down their spine.
So … think about it what word would you like to lose?
The explosion of a star halfway across the universe was so huge it set a record for the most distant object that could be seen on Earth by the naked eye….Before it exploded, the star was about 40 times bigger than our sun.
The explosion vaporized any planet nearby.
Making a smart comment seems petty in the face of an event like this.
I mean in the blink of an eye
my faith in being protected from UV Radiation by smearing sunscreen on my body is gone.
When I was about 5 my baby cousin died from SIDS.
When I was in my twenties my friend put a shotgun into his mouth and ended his life.
When I was in my 30’s I slept with my phone because on some nights because I was ” On Call ” as a Mortician’s Apprentice and those calls meant that I was going somewhere to meet a family who were going through a devastating experience.
All of these events unfolded in my life with the same thing.
A ringing phone.
Years later I still equate the sound of a phone ringing me out of sleep with Death.
And now there’s this campaign ad:
“It’s 3:00 am and your children are safe and asleep. But there’s a phone in the White House and it’s ringing,” the male narrator says in the ad. “Something’s happening in the world. Your vote will decide who answers that call.”
The only word that comes to my mind now in regards to a candidate
who has so much to offer
would use this tactic….
is
Why.
Irregular Bones 