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Hawkwind - Silver Machine

I read this essay by Alfred Jarry called, "How to Construct a Time Machine", and...I seemed to suss out immediately that what he was describing was his bicycle. He did have that turn of mind. He was the kind of bloke who'd think it was a good joke to write this very informed sounding piece, full of really good physics (and it has got some proper physics in it), describing how to build a time machine, which is actually about how to build a bicycle, buried under this smoke-screen of physics that sounds authentic....I thought it was a great idea for a song. At that time there were a lot of songs about space travel....They'd put a man on the moon and were planning to put parking lots and hamburger stalls and everything up there. I thought that it was about time to come up with a song that actually sent this all up, which was 'Silver Machine'. 'Silver Machine' was just to say, I've got a silver bicycle, and nobody got it. I didn't think they would. I thought that what they would think we were singing about some sort of cosmic space travel machine. I did actually have a silver racing bike when I was a boy. I've got one now, in fact. – Songwriter Robert Calvert in Cheesecake No. 5, April 1981, as quoted here.

Silver bicycle or cosmic space travel machine? Why not both?

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Pioneer audio-lecture useful for learning how to contact or hunt raider rats, jackaloups, brush hogs, spiny jitters, and other wilderness beasts. Contents include: A1 How To Dress A4 How To Be Quiet And Stil A5 How Varmints Approach A6 Where To Watch A7 How Long To Stay A8 Scents B2 What To Expect From Animals B4 When To Call B5 How To Blow Varmint Calls B6 Wildlife Distress Sounds Demonstrated Cover for one of a series of instructional LPs by Johnny Stewart. Via LP Cover Lover. Track list via Discogs.

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You've heard of earworms? Well... Snail headphones by artist Klára Pernicová. The bottom image is, of course, from David Lynch's Dune (1984).

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Uni-Pods Illustration by Syd Mead

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Resurrection Burial Tomb

“A Resurrection Burial Tomb”...is a novel means to revive a dead person's body from the grave; and providing a little more security from an impending death; will preserve and prevent the human body from decay and will prolong the human life and tissue and return it into a conscious state, together with the means do do the same, and a means to produce energy, to do the same; comprising of: an artificial womb and a container with fluid having a crystal radio crown and antenna that connects to a radio and energy devices; wherein the deceased person is prevented from decay within said container and where energy is obtained from the radio crown that oscillates into the desceased person's nerves and brain and the entire contianer is within a building and tomb that is weather tight, wherein a nuclear device is used to generate electric energy and heat energy; wherein part of the dead person's bone is converted into a microprocessor and computer; wherein the computer and energy sources, drive a heart lung machine that keeps the dead person's remaining cell tissue alive, together with an artificial heart assistor pump...; wherein the desceased person's skeleton remains, will be revived to consciousness, using collegen, a microprocessor, coversion to a computer consciouness, artificial muscle that expands and contracts with energy and force, artificial nerves that will allow the dead person's skeleton remants; to independently communicate new consciousness and thoughts...; wherein processes in the Ressurection Burial Tomb, and Conscious Revival System; having interactions therein wherein; prior domestic priorities of the inventor's; cosmic radiowave crown, a Portable Nuclear Powered Engine and Electric Generator; a Hydrualic Leverage Engine, a Microwave Hot Water Boiler Heating System; the Zinc-Carbon Pill and Transistorized Plastic Paper Computer, the Artificial Heart Assister Pump; the Artificial Muscle Robot; and the Thermionic Electron Electric Generator and Artificial Liver Ammonia Diffuser; interact in new and improved functions that preserve the deceased person's and offer a little more security from our deaths. US Patent #US2005/0027316.

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