New Horizon to Pluto Proplits Public With New Space Data

N.A.S.A.'s New Horizon mission to Pluto did better than my song from 1991 named 'Beneath the Stars'. I wrote the lyrics hoping to get it out in time for D-Day commemoration in 1992. A hired band named New Image performed it with some rather crashing symbolism. I learned from the experience that songs made for hire may not have the kind of work in them one would want.

The lyrics ran something like (it's was registered at the copyright office in 1991 and I haven't memorized it); 'the world seems someone dreams, its running out of place, every year it snows and no one knows that's a mace behind your face,  drivin in to the wall, into the shadow of nights that brawl, peace must be a profit of outer space, electromagnetic space stations put up in the catapult's haste'

Trying to get too many things done in one mission (song) can make it tough for people to understand I guess. Too many metaphors.

I had hoped that driving into the shadow of the Berlin Wall (that was gone), and in the shadow of cold war brawls might evolve to a peaceful society with electro-magnetic mass drivers doing the heavy lifting for Earth and extra-planetary bodies to orbit in order to get space colonization going better. It's been more than a half century since the last human set foot on another world, and I am not happy with that at all.

Yet it seems like corporate is happy and content with a failed manned space program. Peace is not the common thing on Earth these days. Perennial middle east war with administration efforts to expand that into Ukraine a little have been dampened on the gloom axis with the recent Iran nuclear treaty that may pass congress. Iran is needed to help defeat ISIS and they probably need better surveillance drones and so forth. It is a complex situation since President Obama seems to hate President Assad of Syria enough to keep that war going for years with so many dying or being injured. Meanwhile there is no electro-magnetic catapult nor better ways of building on the moon or other planets with tech that can be pre-assembled without humans present. If easy to build shelters pre-existed the arrival of astronauts it could make things easier and cheaper.

N.A.S.A. did at least gets its mission to photograph Pluto. It certainly is a big clump of stuff left over from early formation of the solar system.

Type of Work:	Music
Registration Number / Date:	PAu001566526 / 1991-10-22
Title:	Beneath the stars.
Copyright Claimant:	Gary C. Gibson
Date of Creation:	1991
Authorship on Application:	lyrics: Gary C. Gibson, 1954-; music: Broadway Music (employer for hire)
Names:	Gibson, Gary C., 1954-
	Broadway Music

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/images/index.html

image credit N.A.S.A.