Easy Beats – Friday on My Mind
It's Hump Day. It's all downhill from here.
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It's Hump Day. It's all downhill from here.
Telstar 1, the first satellite to broadcast network television across the Atlantic Ocean in 1962, used only 14-watts of power generated by solar cells. Not only did it broadcast television, send faxes and telephone communications, it also allowed the United States and Europe to synchronize clocks accurately for the first time, within 1 millisecond. Previously, there was a 2 second mis-synchronization between European and American time based on 1950s cross-Atlantic wire technology.
It was destroyed in 1963, by the radiation from nuclear bombs being tested in atmosphere by the US and USSR -- and it's destruction was one of the reasons for the 1964 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, besides the fact that milk being sold in the US was showing up with alarming amounts of Cesium-137 from fallout.
California Radio Stations in the 1970s were prohibited from playing a version of this song, as the state police were concerned that motorists hearing the song on the radio could get confused and pull over.
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I haven't heard this song in ages, and somehow it just appeals to me today.
Some good driving music for the bright and sunny weather of today.
And now some Merle Haggard.
I told my mama on the day I was born
Don't you cry when you see I'm gone
You know there ain't no woman gonna settle me down
I just got to keep traveling on
And I sing
Green, green, it's green, they say
On the far side of the hill
Green, green, I'm going away
To where the grass is greener still
You know there ain't nobody in the whole wide world
Gonna show me how to spend my time
You know I'm just a good loving, rambling man
Now, buddy, can you spare me a dime