Eyewear wishes NASA a very happy 50th birthday today, tomorrow (its precise anniversary), and in the future. The space agency has, famously, put men on the moon, and used a Canada arm to good effect. Hopefully, it will redouble its efforts, in years to come, to get men and women onto Mars. Terraforming the Red Planet needs to be one of the later 21st century's goals. Meanwhile, the unmanned probes go on, allowing us to extend, literally, human knowledge. While I have never been an Asimov-addict, or a slide-rule afficionado, I do believe that hard science, heavy lifting, and all systems go can inspire. Houston has sometimes been the Cape of Good Hope. Talk about retro: Obama as Kennedy, NASA back in the news (in a good way). Is it time to release the clones of Elvis from captivity?
THAT HANDSOME MAN A PERSONAL BRIEF REVIEW BY TODD SWIFT I could lie and claim Larkin, Yeats , or Dylan Thomas most excited me as a young poet, or even Pound or FT Prince - but the truth be told, it was Thom Gunn I first and most loved when I was young. Precisely, I fell in love with his first two collections, written under a formalist, Elizabethan ( Fulke Greville mainly), Yvor Winters triad of influences - uniquely fused with an interest in homerotica, pop culture ( Brando, Elvis , motorcycles). His best poem 'On The Move' is oddly presented here without the quote that began it usually - Man, you gotta go - which I loved. Gunn was - and remains - so thrilling, to me at least, because so odd. His elegance, poise, and intelligence is all about display, about surface - but the surface of a panther, who ripples with strength beneath the skin. With Gunn, you dressed to have sex. Or so I thought. Because I was queer (I maintain the right to lay claim to that
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhNdxdveK7c
he claims he was *involved in this work* and knows the real inside story, that *we have been visited* and the Roswell was real and there are a number of *contacts* ongoing which the governments involved have been covering up for the last sixty yrs.
Over the next four yrs the UK are releasing all its UFO files and various other governments including Belgium, France, Mexico and Brazil have been doing so.
the interviewer, a young radio jock who says *this is easily one of the most incredible conversations of my life* -- asks if the intent of these non-earth citizens is malevolent and Mitchel says, well if that was the case we would know about it now, being as they are so advanced.
NASA's response to the interview is here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSOSLC-U5cU&feature=related
the Kerrangg jock rang NASA on the air and it is all very ...
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