Words and music Antipodeans 2021. Recorded and mixed at Grovehill Studio, Cornwall, and mastered by Dr Hackey at the Hackey Sack

Eclipse

A victory song about overcoming anything difficult.
lyrics
a fish it struggled
in the water with a hook
to get uncaught
it shook and shook
until the fish, it became free
that fish is me

a bird it nursed a broken wing
it got shot, the wound did sting
the bird cried out to be free
that bird is me

a cat got stuck up in a tree
a dog attacked the cat, you see
the cat, it tried it's best to flee
that cat is me

no longer on the hook
no longer on the branch that shook
no longer on the lookout
baby
take a second look
credits
from Always NOW, released November 8, 2020

19. The Hook

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Just won’t burn

Avi Loeb is no stranger to controversy. The prolific Harvard University astrophysicist has produced pioneering and provocative research on black holes, gamma-ray bursts, the early universe and other standard topics of his field. But for more than a decade he has also courted a more contentious subject—namely, space aliens, including how to find them. Until relatively recently, Loeb’s most high-profile work in that regard was his involvement with Breakthrough Starshot, a project funded by Silicon Valley billionaire Yuri Milner to send laser-boosted, gossamer-thin mirrorlike spacecraft called “light sails” on high-speed voyages to nearby stars. All that began to change in late 2017, however, when astronomers around the world scrambled to study an enigmatic interstellar visitor—the first ever seen—that briefly came within range of their telescopes.

The object’s discoverers dubbed it ‘Oumuamua—a Hawaiian term that roughly translates to “scout.” The unavoidably cursory examinations of this celestial passerby showed it had several properties that defied easy natural explanation. ‘Oumuamua’s apparent shape—which was like a 100-meter-long cigar or pancake—did not closely resemble any known asteroid or comet. Neither did its brightness, which revealed ‘Oumuamua was at least 10 times more reflective than one of our solar system’s typical space rocks—shiny enough to suggest the gleam of burnished metal. Most strangely, as it zoomed off after swooping by the sun, the object sped up faster than could be explained by our star’s waning gravitational grip alone. Run-of-the-mill comets can exhibit similar accelerations because of the rocketlike effect of evaporating gases jetting from their sunlight-warmed icy surfaces. But no signs of such jets were seen around ‘Oumuamua.

To Loeb, the most plausible explanation was as obvious as it was sensational: taken together with its possibly pancakelike shape and high reflectivity, ‘Oumuamua’s anomalous acceleration made perfect sense if the object was in fact a light sail—perhaps a derelict from some long-expired galactic culture. Primed by years spent pondering how we might someday find evidence of cosmic civilizations in the sky’s depths, he became increasingly convinced that, with ‘Oumuamua, the evidence had instead found us. In late 2018 Loeb and his co-author Shmuel Bialy, a Harvard postdoctoral fellow, published a paper in the Astrophysical Journal Letters arguing that ‘Oumuamua had been nothing less than humanity’s first contact with an artifact of extraterrestrial intelligence.

The paper has been a smash hit with journalists but has fallen flat with most of Loeb’s astrobiology-focused peers, who insist that, while strange, ‘Oumuamua’s properties still place it well within the realm of natural phenomena. To claim otherwise, Loeb’s critics say, is cavalier at best and destructive at worst for the long struggle to remove the stigma of credulous UFO and alien-abduction reports from what should unquestionably be a legitimate field of scientific inquiry.

The observations suggest this unusual object had been wandering through the Milky Way, unattached to any star system, for hundreds of millions of years before its chance encounter with our star system.

“For decades we’ve theorized that such interstellar objects are out there, and now―for the first time―we have direct evidence they exist,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, in November 2017.

Immediately after its discovery, telescopes around the world, including ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, were called into action to measure the object’s orbit, brightness and color. Urgency for viewing from ground-based telescopes was vital to get the best data.

Oumuamua (First Contact Album Version)

The origin is extremely important. 
I am a Cosmic Traveller. I am, who I am!

Origin

All Instruments & Vocals by Martin Reed,
Composed & Arranged by Noel Gallagher,
Produced by Martin Reed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9yV1ta9Lq8

Up In The Sky - INC VIDEO

https://youtu.be/Nm31DLuQEP0

It doesn't work, everyone knows it doesn't work, logic and reason themselves show it can't work yet thankfully it won't harm the ones in charge of making it not work. 

Be wrong to be right, be bad to be good, be incorrect to ensure correctness.

Belittled with a knotted stomach day in, day in, day in....

Welcome to the hell of the metsys drawkcab.


Artwork:
Original pencil sketch by J.Rous.

Please use this link for the music video with more of my original artwork.

https://youtu.be/Nm31DLuQEP0

metsys drawkcab

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by
Carlos Vivanco

Dreams In A Blender

Lost In Dreams

Under The Universal 2.

Comparison

Fall 2019
A soundscape for a landscape.    -   Swedish Lappland

Synthesizers:
Moog model D
Moog Voyager XL
Moog sub 37

Aurora Borealis

Lifeboats set adrift across global oceans. From Cornwall and New Zealand. Fans of freeware. Love music. Lighthouse by Jeremy Eden. Alien Chestnut by Rock Hodgson.