tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557240086320000561.post3193193419629530367..comments2024-01-15T00:07:32.472-08:00Comments on Mars and Me: Spirit Sol 51Scott Maxwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11510688120932625522noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557240086320000561.post-50361073535440524632009-02-25T13:32:00.000-08:002009-02-25T13:32:00.000-08:00@jordigomezsuay I'll add your suggestion to the li...@jordigomezsuay I'll add your suggestion to the list of songs for the next rover. And ... well, I'll be damned. Somehow I always thought that The Clash's awesome "Should I Stay or Should I Go" was a cover of a Rolling Stones song. I'm quite embarrassed to learn that I was wrong, but I appreciate the correction!Scott Maxwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11510688120932625522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557240086320000561.post-62632061505710742072009-02-25T00:37:00.000-08:002009-02-25T00:37:00.000-08:00"If the rover lives until next December, he says, ..."If the rover lives until next December, he says, we'll get it as an evening object. This is a joke: there's no hope of that."<BR/><BR/>And, although not for the reason intended, the joke ended up being quite funny :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557240086320000561.post-67532838797665988752009-02-24T21:28:00.000-08:002009-02-24T21:28:00.000-08:00On another sort of things, a possible wakeup song ...On another sort of things, a possible wakeup song would be "La meva terra és el mar", that means "My land is the sea", but changing "mar" (sea) for Mars the lyrics seem made for the planet exploration:<BR/><BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u4RnaDWFoE<BR/>My land is the [Mars]<BR/><BR/>I'm a lonely navigator, I'm sailor without harbor, I've never had calendar, my clock is myself, who doesn't have seconds and have longer hours.<BR/>Old rudder that helps me, my address are you and the wind, get me out from this storm, get me out because I can't more, following a star maybe I missed the sky, and I lost my mind...<BR/>Give me power to shout: that I'm not from here, and I'm not from there, my land is the [Mars]. Give me power to shout: that I belong to me, I belong to nobody, and it will be this way forever.<BR/>I was born without frontiers, I don't believe in possessions, as I think that there are too much things that separate us, and we all are from the same world, I don't believe in nations nor duties, nor duties...<BR/>Give me power to shout: that I'm not from here, I'm not from there, I'm part of the ocean.<BR/>Give me power to shout: that I belong to myself, I belong to nobody.<BR/>My land is the [Mars] made of water and salt. Under the water there's no money, nor flags, nor nations, the silence that surrounds me is the beat that makes me live, live and be free, free!<BR/>Give me power to shout, that if the water is love, I'm not made of stone, wet me again.<BR/>Give me power to shout, that if the water is love, I'm not made of stone, wet me again inside the heart...jordigomezsuayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08665744323401141972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557240086320000561.post-37919095268792492962009-02-24T21:00:00.000-08:002009-02-24T21:00:00.000-08:00I don't remember how I discovered this blog, but I...I don't remember how I discovered this blog, but I'm getting sticked to it. With the rovers and this blog Mars doesn't look anymore like something distant and unknown. Congratulations!<BR/><BR/>Anyway, if you let me a little and unfair "but", with just two rovers running a record of 30 meters in one day, maybe we're discovering Mars like the blind men discovered the elephant: the blind who touched the trunk said that the elephant was long and soft like a snake, the one of the leg said it was cylindrical like a tree, and the one of the tail said it was small and furry.<BR/><BR/>BTW: "Should I stay or should I go" is a song by The Clash, not the Rollings.jordigomezsuayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08665744323401141972noreply@blogger.com