OT: RIP John Glenn
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RIP
Jesus. 2016 can't let up for even a minute.
Every time I see a trending article about a celebrity I get very anxious.
You and me both.
but happy birthday kirk douglas for his 100 year old
Godspeed John!
It's reality, on a global scale 6,316 people die each hour
http://www.ecology.com/birth-death-rates/
RIP John!
Yeah Greg Lake Joined Keith Emerson today, leaving poor Carl Palmer all alone on the drums.
Yeah, Greg Lake was saddening :(. What a voice. I hadn't even realized that John Glenn was 95. Didn't know he was quite THAT old ;). Rest in peace gentlemen.
Laurie
I don't feel so bad about Glenn, because 95 and his life is a really good run.
But, man. The rest.
I know what ya mean. I'm still upset over Alan Rickman :( *sigh*
More sucker punches for us, huh? Well, John Glenn at 95, I don't think one could ask for more than that. Greg Lake too? Schma. I'm still upset about David Bowie and Prince.
This year has been awful. I dread to think how 2017 is going to turn out...
Devilsatdusk15: After the War would be useful for that.
2016 sucks. He was my first hero when I was a very young girl. So young I can't believe I even remember.
A true pioneer...
...Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, --and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of --Wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air...
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark or even eagle flew --
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
All is go and the clock is running. Godspeed Mr Glenn.
I remember watching the launch. They brought a television into the classroom for it.
Ah, I don't think John Glenn at 95 asked for a day of any of those 95 years but he acquitted himself quite nicely. I do hope neither suffered, whether at 69 or at 95. When it's your parent, your uncle, your aunt, your sibling, your grandparent, cousin, or friend, 69 or 95 or whatever age, it hurts.
Yes I agree about prince. I know a lot of people didn;t like his music. But he was one of my favorites.
Hint...it wasn't his music...it was his ego.
...same here.
Well I didn't hang with the guy or watch his movies so his ego was't a issue with me . but i have a lot of his music which I still listen too
I was in Grade 1 when the teacher announced that something special was happening that morning, and went on to explain that Glenn was on the launching pad atop a rocket etc. I'd missed the V-2's and Operation Paperclip, Sputnik and Gagarin and I suppose Alan Shepard (Wikipedia English link) so this became one of those fixed moments in my mind. A couple of years later Reader's Digest Corp. put Glenn's Mercury flight on the cover of their "Reader's Digest Treasury For Young Readers" - very cool in my opinion. With the coming of the Web I believe I may have read of the Atlas and Titan missile programs described as "construction technology on the scale of the pyramids".
I have always drawn a blank on those words of the announcer saying "Welcome, my friends, to the show that never ends... ...Ladies and gentlemen Emerson, Lake, and Palmer!!!"
I would like to find out what this was/is in reference to, eg. a specific concert, a track on a live album, what. For some reason I keep replaying this in my mind, at least as often as I play back President Kennedy's famous words about going to the moon and returning safely "before the end of the decade".
I'm familiar with the poem "High Flight"; it was reproduced in the 1950's book God Is My Co-Pilot. What I didn't know was that there was a movie!!! (Wikipedia English link). Woo-hoo! I've been reading a few of Nevil Shute's novels ("Most Secret", "Landfall", "Requiem For A Wren", "No Highway") so this is right up my alley, thanks.
In his book The Right Stuff about the early space program author Tom Wolfe pulled no punches to underscore how dangerous flying high and fast was, or the amount of guts it took to sit on top of a liquid-fueled rocket waiting to "blast" off.
"Welcome, my friends, to the show that never ends" is a line from the ELP song "Karn Evil 9" from their album "Brain Salad Surgery" and I suppose a line similar to what would be spoken by the master of the bigtop at a Barnum and Bailey Circus or other circuses or carnivals. "Karn Evil" is a play on the word "carnival".
Laurie
I read an old interview with Bowie recently. I was ASTONISHED to learn that two tracks which I've always liked -- "Golden Years" and "Ch-Ch-Changes" -- were in fact his.
Entertainers only owe me their art, and Prince was a consummate entertainer. I'm mean the guy played 21 instruments and was a bit of a perfectionist if he did have an ego at least he earned it. If you ever saw him live, he put everything into his performances, and you never got the feeling you could have just stayed home and listened to his album and got the same experience. When people mention personality traits about famous people I assume they're speaking from the experience of having met the person, or that they know them on more than a fan basis; otherwise they are only basing their perceptions on gossip and heresay. Prince didn't do a lot of interviews, so most of the stuff people say about him is only based on second hand info.
Yeah, David Bowie was really a tough one. Not that it's easy to lose anyone that you've grown up with and was a fan of, but dang, Bowie.
MJ, Bowie, and Prince where like the triad of unique beautiful "outside of the box" men and musical greatness. Now they are all gone.
High Flight is a beautiful poem and it almoist always brings acatch to my throat and a tear to my eye. Glenn having been a ploit makes it most appropriate.
Sometimes I feel so alone in this universe.
...I had the RD Treasury as well. Actually read the Right Stuff, yeah those were some heady times back in the old "X-plane" and early spaceflight days. Watched all the launches from Shepard's to the first STS flights. Every launch seemed to have a sense of celebration and excitement around it.