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lethargic_manOn 20 August 1977 the Voyager 1 probe was launched, carrying, along with all its scientific instruments, a gold-plated record with (inter alia) music from planet Earth. Rock and roll was represented by Chuck Berry's immortal "Jonny B. Goode".
On 20 August 2017, forty years to the day later, NASA launched the Postman 2 spacecraft, bound, like its predecessor Postman 1, for the outermost reaches of the Solar System. This, too, bore a gold-plated record, and on it the twin worlds of rock and roll were represented by the Elvis Presley track... (wait for it)... "Return To Sedna".
<ducks the hail of cabbages>
On 20 August 2017, forty years to the day later, NASA launched the Postman 2 spacecraft, bound, like its predecessor Postman 1, for the outermost reaches of the Solar System. This, too, bore a gold-plated record, and on it the twin worlds of rock and roll were represented by the Elvis Presley track... (wait for it)... "Return To Sedna".
<ducks the hail of cabbages>
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Date: 2004-03-20 01:59 pm (UTC)Though I might point out that "red cow" has completely different associations for me, viz. the red heifer of Numbers 19, which passage is read yearly in shul and was part of my barmitzvah leyning ("reading" just doesn't give the right impression) many years ago.
Which brings to mind (courtesy of Fabien last year) the following (note: the Hebrew for "cow" is para):
(The legends read: "para-psychology", "parabola", "prehistory" (works better without vowels :o)), "paradox", "parachute", "parasite" and "red heifer".)
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Date: 2004-03-20 02:03 pm (UTC)Of course, Murphy's law says that after puzzling over this on and off for a day and a bit, I would finally get it seconds after submitting the post to say I didn't. Aaargh. ;^)
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Date: 2004-04-10 10:28 am (UTC)