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I had thought I scanned all the WIPs, but then I rememembered one or two that were missing. I found them and a couple of others in a different folder. (A real folder, I mean, not a computer folder.) This drawing is i some ways the daddy of them all. It isn't the oldest -- which dates to 1997 -- but it is the first of all the Mars drawings I've done since, finished or not. I began it shortler after one of the NASA Rovers entered a shallow crater and began taking photos. I made the rash guess that it would probably get stuck inside. Nope. The Force was with NASA that time, and the rovers lasted over five years longer, climbing steep hills and crawling into craters a hundred times as deep as this shallow pan.
It's only natural Saara would be a little amused by the primativeness of the Mars Rovers. Her people did this sort of thing about 2,000 years ago. She doesn't even require anything as crude as a spacesuit, despite -75 degree temperatures and less air pressure than you find a mile above Mt. Everest.
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It's only natural Saara would be a little amused by the primativeness of the Mars Rovers. Her people did this sort of thing about 2,000 years ago. She doesn't even require anything as crude as a spacesuit, despite -75 degree temperatures and less air pressure than you find a mile above Mt. Everest.
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I had one album -- the one where a magician is holding out a hand of cards. A couple of the songs stood out for me, but the rest all sounded the same. Four or five guitars all going at once, the same rhythm, the same tune just about. BOC didn't seem to be my thing so I eventually sold the record.
You pretty much summed up music for the last 50 years. Most bands are so homogenized I have a hard time telling their songs apart and the ones that aren't stand out as memorable. My music collection ranges from New Age to Indie-Pop to Classic Rock to Death Metal and within their genres (and especially within a single artist) they pretty much sound identical.
I've been known to complain about this myself. I blame it all on Rolling Stone, who around 1978 declared progressive rock a corruption of the pure rock & roll spirit. Ever since then, bands have been four guitars and a garage. Even a keyboard is somewhat suspect. The result is that I can't tell REM apart from U2. I've found my taste in the offbeat serves me well, though. I can always put on an old platter of Pere Ubu, Capt. Beeheart, Gentle Giant or Stan Ridgeway. I also like Kate Bush, Elvis Costello, The Travelling Wilburys, and Tom Waits. I'll even listen to Queen in a pinch. The newest things I can recall buying were The Bare Naked Ladies and the Crash Test Dummies. But they're over ten years old at this point.
I like bands like Suzanne Vega, The Sundays, Dido and Camera Obscura but also Amon Amarth, Tyr, The Lord Weird Slough Fey and Alestorm. I also have every album Bob Seger released (including concert bootlegs from the early 1970s) and about half on LP, most everything by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Clannad. (The last one's the band made up of Enya's siblings and uncles.)
I used to think we're in a music slump until I looked at the #1 hit on my birthday and realized crap's always been popular.
I used to think we're in a music slump until I looked at the #1 hit on my birthday and realized crap's always been popular.
I have a little Suzanne Vega and Sundays. Vega is a little too folky or something for me -- there are others like her I like better. I have all the Pink Floyd up until the album after The Wall. At that point I gave up on them. They had been recording the same album over and over again since Wish You Were Here. It come to the point where The Wall was really only one song on four sides of vinyl. I bet I have the only copy of the original cut that's only been plyaed twice! Led Zep's first two albums interested me most, then they seemed to become more a heavy metal band. I have a Clannad record. Odd, at least. I also have a record by Figgy Duff, a Canadian Maritime/Irish band. I got heavily into Steeleye Span at one time, but more lately it's seemed loud and garrish. I find myself appreciating their earlier, more authentic albums better than I did at first.
An international diplomatic incident, no doubt. Since one of Saara's serious interest is the development of aerospace on different worlds, she'd be inclined to go around the solar system and collect up all those old gizmos. But, no doubt the Russians and Americans would scream bloody murder -- those are *our* borken, worn out, lost and run down bits of garbage, give them back!
I've actually had the seed of a story start to take root in my mind that's along a similar vein. Some garage inventor discovers a cheap, efficient, and fast means of traveling through (interplanetary) space. His first "capsule" works okay, but is rather crude. To raise funds for a better version, he offers to retrieve whatever old equipment NASA will pay "shipping" for...
I suspect NASA would want most of them left where they are. Someday the may want to examine them to see how they are "weathered" by exposure to space. They also represent a sort of "claim" to that spot. Should anyone try to claim the Moon or Mars, they'd have a hard time doing it with NASA or other hardware on the ground. Many spacecraft remain in use, however limited. Both Voyagers are still sending telemetry back to Earth. Others were deliberately crashed. But, you might convince someone that retrieval of some surviving spacecraft is desireable -- as museum pieces. Your inventer would need some way of getting out of his own spaceship in hostile environments, though. Maybe a working spacesuit could be part of the price. Wouldn't work anywhere but the Moon or Mars, though. Titan and Venus would be much too hostile.
I would be honored to one day, after this body shuts down, to visit Saara and speak with her. You of course will most likely be there as well so we can meet and swap 'And there I was' stories together. If I get there first I am going to tell her sooo many lies about you and Gadget.
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