Blue Sky Limousine

Still a good song: Watch It
Lyrics:
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, “The King and I”, and “The Catcher in the Rye”
Eisenhower, vaccine, England’s got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
CHORUS
We didn’t start [...]

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I saw a link on Yahoo recently to an article or video news unit about how we might go about putting human outposts on the moon and Mars. They said one option for terraforming Mars would be to add a bunch of methane gas to its atmosphere, giving it a much-needed greenhouse effect, which [...]

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Most of my posts here have been somewhat based on things that are for the most part known to be true, or at least highly plausible. However, occasionally I’ll make a post mentioning some “out there” theory. This is one of those posts.
There’s a site called RealSuperPowers.com, and it’s mostly about how there [...]

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The catchphrase “Go Green” seems to be picking up in usage, particularly in public service announcements geared toward younger people. “Go Green!”
I’ve mentioned before how it’s funny that just a few years ago caring about the environment was uncool. Looks like everyone’s starting to follow the new trend. But what does this [...]

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Years ago environmentalists were shunned by the public. Scorn was heaped upon tree-hugging hippies. Global Warming was seen as ludicrous. Caring about the environment seemed unnecessary. Now, everything has changed. Going Green is the thing to do.
What happened? I think major works like those of Al Gore, the UN, [...]

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Today I watched a show about what could happen if a super comet hit the earth and did to us what happened with the dinosaurs. I was surprised to learn that the outlook for us isn’t nearly as bleak, since many species have evolved to weather cataclysmic events.
There’s a toad or some such creature [...]

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So many people look to a vague solution that is, “Out there, somewhere,” which will fix global warming and put an end to our energy woes. But Human Energy is the most important energy of all. And if we don’t focus on it at an individual level, the world will be the worse [...]

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