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The crap the music industry passes off as entertainment today in a word sucks! Any blonde big boobed pretty with half a singing voice will be pushed to the top as a star until she hits rehab and another takes her place. Pa ... lease. Hip Hop ... puke. Is talent dead in the world? I'm sure I'll get beat-up, but before you do, put your music where your mouth is. Here's a challenge for ya'. Think todays music stacks up against yesteryears?
Prove it. Below is a sampling of "real" music from real artist. I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
Maybe I can be converted.
Put your seat belts on for a ride back in time.
When music was heartfelt and great ...
Grand Funk Railroad - I'm Your Captain/Closer To Home
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son
Roger Waters + David Gilmour: Comfortably Numb, Live, O2 Arena 2011
"Lola"- The Kinks
Steppenwolf - Born to be wild 1969
Aerosmith - Cryin'
The Box Tops - The Letter (Upbeat 1967)
I'd Love to Change the World-Ten Years After
Three Dog Night - Mama told me not to come 1970
Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

Space ... "the final frontier".  Should we (as a nation) continue the journey?
http://library.thinkquest.org/C003763/index.php?page=mars05

It would be interesting to hear some opinions. Consider first the next closest star system is Alpha Centauri. Planets? Don't know. Still looking. How far away is it?
It's a little over 4 light years away. If you took a regular sheet of paper. At the bottom you made a dot. At the top you drew a large circle. The distance between the dot (earth) and the large circle (sun) would represent the distance the sun is from the earth or 93 million miles. To draw Alpha Centauri on our sheet of paper it would have to be a sheet of paper over thirty miles big because that's where the dot would go to represent the next closest star system.

The venerable robotic probe Voyager I, which has traveled farther from Earth than any man-made spacecraft, is racing away at nearly 11 miles per second and has already traveled 10 billion miles. It would need on the order of 80,000 years to reach Alpha Centauri were it traveling in that direction.

I dunno. Sounds like mission impossible to me. What do you think?