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February 1, 2008
National Briefing | Science and Health
Across the Universe, Literally
By DENNIS OVERBYE
NASA will send the Beatles song "Across the Universe" across the universe on Monday, the agency said. At precisely 7 p.m., E.S.T. the song will be beamed by the agency's Deep Space Network of antennas at the North Star, Polaris, which is 431 light years away. The transmission is to mark the 40th anniversary of the recording of the song, as well as the 50th anniversary of both NASA and its first satellite, Explorer I, and the 45th anniversary of the Deep Space Network, which carries out communications between NASA and its far-flung fleet of spacecraft. In a message to the space agency, Paul McCartney, one of the two remaining Beatles, said, "Send my love to the aliens. All the best, Paul."

Words are flying out like
endless rain into a paper cup
They slither while they pass
They slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow waves of joy
are drifting thorough my open mind
Possessing and caressing me

Jai guru deva om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world

Images of broken light which
dance before me like a million eyes
That call me on and on across the universe
Thoughts meander like a
restless wind inside a letter box
they tumble blindly as
they make their way across the universe

Jai guru deva om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world

Sounds of laughter shades of life
are ringing through my open ears
exciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which
shines around me like a million suns
It calls me on and on across the universe

Jai guru deva om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Jai guru deva
Jai guru deva

Joe(the late great '68)Nation

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You need to add "In utero" to your poll, Joe. :wink:

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I wondered how long before another fogie would show up.

Joe(nice to see you)Nation

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I was in Pennsylvania.

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1968 was a very good vintage.

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Arguing with mrs. hamburger about whether I could embroider flowers on my jeans. She won.

Then I got out my oil pastels and drew flowers on my denim pants.

I was such a hip little kid.

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I was either in Kansas City with my brother, or else had already moved to New York City. It was the time of my greatest political activism, and I wanted in on as many anti war and civil rights activities as possible. I was a virtual social leper, so did not get in on as much as many of my counterparts, who were much more outgoing. I wrote letters to fill the gap.

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Portland Oregon just starting gradual school.

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In Winterlingen getting reading for my first school day.

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I was toilet trained, and spoke in sentences...

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About this time in 1968, we in the barracks day room watched transfixed as LBJ used his best poor boy hounddog face to tell us he wasn't going to run for President.

"Well," said Wacko (his name was Wykowski),"he's either going to end the war or kill us all."

Joe(he did neither. too bad.)Nation

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Lived in LA, worked in a lab - the time I decided I needed to do hematology and left the main lab group that I worked with both before and after '68. It was weird in many ways. We lab techs wore gawdawful starched uniforms. That lab was in midtown Beverly Hills. Some of the patients were very famous. Walking down the street on my lunch time was strange, me a stranger in a strange land. I lived in a small add-on place behind a duplex on Beverly Glen. First time I'd seen cockroaches... The playboy bunny of the year lived in one of the duplex units. Noisy...

That was a fine time for music.

My father died that year... so did others.

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I was on a bus going from El Paso to San Angelo, Texas when, at Big Spring, one of the stops, we heard the news about Martin Luther King's assassination.

The sky has not a single cloud in it, I remember thinking "the skies are not cloudy all day" and hoping the news was a mistake.

Joe(bad news, it seems, is hardly ever a mistake.)Nation

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The day MLK was killed, I was in my Brooklyn apartment, with a visitor, a kid from across the way. His wife was my friend, but I did not think much of him (She didn't, either. They were soon divorced). When the news came over the radio, the jerk jumpd up, grinning, and kissed him off. He ran away to tell his pals the good news. I was too stunned to do anything, but I never opened my door to that kid again.

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When MLK was assasinated, I was , off from school because I was mending from an accident. I was painting a showeroom next to my folks basement rec room. I remember hearing about the shooting when I was putting tape up for stripes in the room. I remember just stopping work to listen to the radio. I was graduating from HS that year

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In NYC.
I remember working in the Nixon campaign
( more successfully than when I did so in 1960 [tho rightfully, we won that election] ).
I was an Anti-communist spy for the House Committee on unAmerican Activities.
I was a chapter president of Young Americans for Freedom,
in support of the war against communism and of l'aissez faire free enterprize.
Our heros were Barry Goldwater, William F. Buckley, Jr., Ludwig von Mises, Hugh Hefner and Barbi Benton

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There were parallel universes within blocks of each other.

This was the middle of San Angelo,Texas, smackdab in the center of '68.

In a bar, I heard one Air Force TechSargent fuming to another that he had thought the young airmen were giving each other the "V" for Victory sign. Now he had found out the truth.

A minister asked a friend of mine why there was flower decal on her car.

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"Dunno," she said,"I guess I like it there." He seemed troubled by her answer.

There was a long argument at KWFR-AM/FM over whether Uncle Gordie, the longish haired ex-USAF deejay who also ran the Hole in the Wall Coffee House, was required to play "The Fighting Green Berets" song just because it was in the playlist. He never played it. The station manager said that he should play it every now and then. Okay, Gordie said, I'll play it.
Of course, when he did play it he followed it with Buffy St-Marie's "Universal Soldier".... .

Joe(Meanwhile...)Nation

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In the war against the 3rd Reich and Japan,
everyone knew what the V for victory sign meant.
It was no secret to Winston Churchill.

How did it degenerate into something else ?
Like surrender to the commies ?

David

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OmSigDAVID wrote:

In NYC.
I remember working in the Nixon campaign
( more successfully than when I did so in 1960 [tho rightfully, we won that election] ).
I was an Anti-communist spy for the House Committee on unAmerican Activities.
I was a chapter president of Young Americans for Freedom,
in support of the war against communism and of l'aissez faire free enterprize.
Our heros were Barry Goldwater, William F. Buckley, Jr., Ludwig von Mises, Hugh Hefner and Barbi Benton

So david can we assume you felt as much admiration for Nixon as you did for Robert Welch or perhaps Joe Pyne?

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Whew. I thought only I could remember Joe Pyne.

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Jai guru deva om

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