Sunshine and Science: Singing About the Sun

[FeynmanMH42]

http://www.acme.com/jef/singing_science/sun_shine-32.mp3

 

[Danger]

That link just gave me a message that it's 'forbidden'.

 

[heartless]

forbidden!11111112three

 

[hypatia]

oh jez, the sun is now forbidden?

 

[moose]

Haven't any of you encountered this problem before?

Copy and paste the link into your URL bar and then press enter and BAM

 

[Hurkyl]

Well, since the dawn of time, man has dreamed of destroying the sun. I guess making it forbidden is the next best thing.

 

[DaveC426913]

This your first exposure to They Might Be Giants?

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric....ht-Be-Giants/F5BA299896F93F61482568B100307DEE

They are a great group. Their most well-known song is 'Particle Man'.

 

[J77]

Surely, it's that Birdhouse in your Soul song

 

[DaveC426913]

Okay. That one too.

Or 'Istanbul Not Constantinople'.

 

[J77]

blimey - that brings back memories

did they do saturn 5 as well?

 

[FeynmanMH42]

What about "Boss of me?"
... and has anyone heard of Lemon Demon? They're one of TMBG's biggest fans and a great band : www.lemondemon.com
You may have heard of the Ultimate Showdown.

 

[Mk]

By George Carlin, famous comedian, when he decides to worship the Sun.

Bad word count:
poop=four
sex=one

War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. Results like these do not belong on the résumé of a Supreme Being. This is the kind of **** you'd expect from an office temp with a bad attitude. And just between you and me, in any decently-run universe, this guy would've been out on his all-powerful ass a long time ago. And by the way, I say "this guy", because I firmly believe, looking at these results, that if there is a God, it has to be a man.
 
No woman could or would ever **** things up like this. So, if there is a God, I think most reasonable people might agree that he's at least incompetent, and maybe, just maybe, doesn't give a ****. Doesn't give a ****, which I admire in a person, and which would explain a lot of these bad results.
 
So rather than be just another mindless religious robot, mindlessly and aimlessly and blindly believing that all of this is in the hands of some spooky incompetent father figure who doesn't give a ****, I decided to look around for something else to worship. Something I could really count on.
 
And immediately, I thought of the sun. Happened like that. Overnight I became a sun-worshipper. Well, not overnight, you can't see the sun at night. But first thing the next morning, I became a sun-worshipper. Several reasons. First of all, I can see the sun, okay? Unlike some other gods I could mention, I can actually see the sun. I'm big on that. If I can see something, I don't know, it kind of helps the credibility along, you know? So everyday I can see the sun, as it gives me everything I need; heat, light, food, flowers in the park, reflections on the lake, an occasional skin cancer, but hey. At least there are no crucifixions, and we're not setting people on fire simply because they don't agree with us.
 
Sun worship is fairly simple. There's no mystery, no miracles, no pageantry, no one asks for money, there are no songs to learn, and we don't have a special building where we all gather once a week to compare clothing. And the best thing about the sun, it never tells me I'm unworthy. Doesn't tell me I'm a bad person who needs to be saved. Hasn't said an unkind word. Treats me fine. So, I worship the sun. But, I don't pray to the sun. Know why? I wouldn't presume on our friendship. It's not polite.

 

[heartless]

the sun - gives heat, the sun - gives light... lalala
funny song

//edit
I found the lyrics,

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees

Yo ho, it’s hot, the sun is not
A place where we could live
But here on Earth there’d be no life
Without the light it gives

We need it’s light
We need it’s heat
We need it’s energy
Without the sun, without a doubt
There’d be no you and me

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees

The sun is hot

It is so hot that everything on it is a gas: iron, copper, aluminum, and many others.

The sun is large

If the sun were hollow, a million Earth's could fit inside. and yet, the sun is only a middle-sized star.

The sun is far away

About 93 million miles away, and that’s why it looks so small.

And even when it’s out of sight
The sun shines night and day

The sun gives heat
The sun gives light
The sunlight that we see
The sunlight comes from our own sun’s
Atomic energy

Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-smashing machine. the heat and light of the sun come from the nuclear reactions of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and helium.*

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees

 

[Danger]

Copy and paste the link into your URL bar and then press enter and BAM

Yeah, I tried that. It just brings up a screen with a box that has '404 ERROR' in it, followed by a ****load of hex code, and a message that I'm trying to access an non-existing page and the session is being terminated.

 

[heartless]

oh Danger, even thttpd fears your dangerous ways...
here you go,
http://rapidshare.de/files/20234044/sun_shine-32.mp3.html

(scroll down, press 'free' button / wait 20 seconds / input the given code / done! )

:)

 

[Danger]

Thanks, heartless, but still no-go. Computer fault this time. Windows gave me an error that 'CDDVDAccess.dll not found'.
I'll wait until I get home and swipe W's cable modem for my Mac. (Her PC is even more useless than this one.)

 

[heartless]

There is a very good solution to your Windows problem. Guess what it is :)

 

[heartless]

Here's another link, I hope it works.
http://coldgun.com/~dn5a-b/Danger/

 

[Danger]

There is a very good solution to your Windows problem. Guess what it is :)

It's not my Windows problem; I'm using my boss' machine. My computer is a 400MHz Power PC G-3 linked to my original 233MHz G-3. No problem.
Thanks for the effort putting that link together. It worked fine, assuming that it was an audio-only file.

 

[heartless]

Thanks for the effort putting that link together. It worked fine, assuming that it was an audio-only file.

No problem, it wasn't an effort at all. That was an mp3 song, the sun is hot, the sun is... :)