I'm so upset that the Beagle 2 has failed to connect with either the Mars Express or the telescopes back on Earth. Why can't we discover life or even fossils of microbes on our nearest neighbor? We so dearly need this to get out of the cage we're in. I know, I know, people will still crash planes into buildings even if there is evidence that life can occur somewhere besides planet Earth, but they'll have to invent some new philosophies to crash their airplanes over. With microprocessors that might not take very long, but again it springs the giant clown out of the box he's been wound up in for at least a century or two if not a millenium. You promised us so much and so far you've delivered the exact opposite. We should be vacationing on the moon but instead we're afraid to board a meager jumbo jet, and instead of having goods and services fabricated to meet our desires, we're expected to go back to sharecropping. Sure it's service industry sharecropping now, because the fields are all fallow, but is fuedalism any better if you get tipped? They blame unemployment on the minimum wage as if servitude is the real American Dream, and of course we're supposed to believe that everyone else in the world is dreaming it even harder than we are. The problem is we grew up with the dream and instead of the flying car you promised, we've got gridlock and however many preemptive strikes it takes to maintain it. Even the fu[king robots that make it to Mars land in a crater, and sure I believe we should immediately try again, but who's going to back me up on that one? You promised us there'd be a person next to that robot with enough common sense to avoid the crater, but you value people more than robots when you take them off the planet. Ironic, since here a machine is worth so much more than a human, which isn't to say that much. I never wanted all of your Utopia. I don't for one thing want to wear silver jump suits, nor for another subsist on vitamin pills. But I did believe a sizeable amount of that "progress" sh!t, and I guess some part of me still does (and the rest certainly wants to.) I knew something was up when Disneyland remodelled Tomorowland. The future they say, ain't what it used to be. The problem is, the future is right now. So get your damn robot probes in order! Maybe it was the choice of songs, why Blur? Maybe if you'd picked the Melvins or maybe Slayer we'd actually hear something no matter how deep the crater. Maybe it's the same old problem of imposing our culture where it doesn't belong and you should have just included tiny amplifiers so the fossilized microbes could sing for themselves.


