BuckarooBanzai

Welcome to space
What were you expecting?
It's a dangerous place
Thank you for investing
Go there for your rota
There for your orders
Fill up these quotas
We'll bill for your quarters
Report to your foreman
But watch for marauders
'Cause if you get eaten
There's fees for your mourners
Prosperity's there in the care of magnates
In Halcyon heaven awaits!
Did you think it was supposed to
Look like the poster?
It mostly does
Oh, if you'd only read closer
Just ten short years to a new frontier
Snooze as you cruise
And you'll wake up here!
You've been trapped in that ship
For an awful long time
So perhaps you have simply forgot what you signed
Oh, honestly?
Did you not read the colony policy?
That defines you as company property?
That waivers your say in autonomy?
The conglomerate's got you in lock and key
We put the dollar back into idolatry
If you're upset, you can rent an apology
We are a family forged in bureaucracy
No "I" in "team, " but there's "con" in "economy"
Were you expecting adventure?
Were you hoping for fun?
My friend, you're indentured
And pleasure's exempt from your tenure
So venture back down to your slum
That's provided at generous prices
Your worth is determined by your sacrifices
A small term of service when down on the surface
Internment's a freebie that comes with the purchase
We work
To earn the right to work
To earn the right to work
To earn the right to work
To earn the right to work
To earn the right to give
Ourselves the right to buy
Ourselves the right to live
To earn the right to die
Welcome to our little town
Why don't you settle down?
Here, just fill out the paperwork
And you can look around
We're happy as can be
Inside the valley cannery
We live to pack the cans of meat
And not to question where it's found
Until we end up in the ground
Around the corner in the yard
You know, we thought we liked the sound
Of finding glory in the stars
The board has taught us to be proud
Of never reaching very far
So we earn what we're allowed
And give it right back at the bar
The ale to cure what ails ya
Zero Gee Brew, your favourite flavour
So work 'til you bleed, ennobled by labour
Then purchase relief from your local retailer!
If you'd rather drop dead, that's fine
But you know that dropping down dead bears a fine
So you do your job and I'll do mine
I gotta meet a six foot deep bottom line
We make a fortune for the board
By selling boredom door to door
Because it's all that we deserve
And it is all we can afford
The secrets of the universe
And all the worlds to be explored
But our dreams are back on Earth
And now the work is our reward
And you'll be grateful
For seats at the table
Though it dips at one end
And the bench is unstable
You may waste your days
But at least you were able
To pay off your grave
Since we leased you your cradle
Be faithful and pray
We'll repay what you invest
Behave as you slave
For humanity's interest
On account that you're all on account
And we're quickly amounting
Humanity's interest
You'd think that we'd sink
To the brink of rebellion
With markets dependent
On peddling weapons
The architect tells them
The secret to Heaven
Is simply consuming
Whatever we sell them
We work
To earn the right to work
To earn the right to work
To earn the right to work
To earn the right to work
To earn the right to give
Ourselves the right to buy
Ourselves the right to live
To earn the right to die
You should have read the fine print, my friend
Should have read the fine print
You should have read the fine print, my friend
Should have read the fine print
Welcome to our little town
Why don't you settle down?
Here, just fill out the paperwork
And you can look around
We work and then we work
And then we work and then we work
And then we work and then we work
And then we end up in the ground
Welcome to our little town
Why don't you settle down?
Here, just fill out the paperwork
And you can look around
You should have read the fine print, my friend
Should have read the fine print
Here and here and initial here
Welcome to the family!

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This guy heard me and Byrne talking by the pool, and it turns out he was part of a barbershop quartet hired by the Ice Pirates for the #space_cowboy convention, and didn't have a ride back to Halycron when they took up permanent residence. He was cool, and we convinced him to stay awhile. Here's what he says about himself:

The Stupendium is a London based musician, animator and content creator, creating weird, wonderful and usually incredibly nerdy songs and animations. Join him on his journey to obscure, niche internet stardom! He has some pretty decent videos, wonderful facial hair and a great sense of discomfort describing himself in the third person.

http://www.patreon.com/thestupendium

THE STUPENDIUM ON SPOTIFY:
http://bit.ly/Stupendify

THE STUPENDIUM ON GOOGLE PLAY:
http://bit.ly/StuGooglium

THE STUPENDIUM ON iTUNES:
http://bit.ly/StupendiTunes

Thanks to @VVitchy for the link.

And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"
Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
Into the blue again, after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground
And you may ask yourself, "How do I work this?"
And you may ask yourself, "Where is that large automobile?"
And you may tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful house"
And you may tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful wife"
Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
Into the blue again, after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground
Same as it ever was, same as it ever was
Same as it ever was, same as it ever was
Same as it ever was, same as it ever was
Same as it ever was, same as it ever was
Water dissolving and water removing
There is water at the bottom of the ocean
Under the water, carry the water
Remove the water from the bottom of the ocean
Water dissolving and water removing
Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
Into the blue again, into the silent water
Under the rocks and stones, there is water underground
Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
Leting the days go by, water flowing underground
Into the blue again, after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground
You may ask yourself, "What is that beautiful house?"
You may ask yourself, "Where does that highway go to?"
And you may ask yourself, "Am I right, am I wrong?"
And you may say to yourself, "My God, what have I done?"
Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
Into the blue again, into the silent water
Under the rocks and stones, there is water underground
Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
Into the blue again, after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground
Same as it ever was, same as it ever was
Same as it ever was, look where my hand was
Time isn't holding up, time isn't after us
Same as it ever was, same as it ever was
Same as it ever was, same as it ever was
Same as it ever was, same as it ever was (I couldn't get no rest)
Same as it ever was, hey let's all twist our thumbs
Here comes the twister
Letting the days go by (same as it ever was, same as it ever was)
Letting the days go by (same as it ever was, same as it ever was)
Once in a lifetime, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground

Wikipedia

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I met this guy at the pool the other day, and we got to talking music. I dig his style.

Ok, 3, 2, 1...

I was enjoying a brief respite in the hotel tea room, with my 96 new cats, when someplace a shamisen starts rocking out and suddenly fists start flying through the shoji on the karaoke stage. These three burst through and have the place thrashing in less than 30 seconds.

Then a sixty foot tall Tom Morello showed up.

I'm not normally a metal guy, but after managing to navigate the mosh pit with all 96 cats, I found myself grooving to this one. It's an excellent example of what can be done with fusion of Western and Eastern music.

Lyrics:

Meta Ondo of Meta Village Festival
It's a festival, it's a festival, stop by
in a circle in a circle
Pihyala Let's dance!

[Verse 2]
Metamura Niki-san and Neki-san too
It's a festival, it's a festival, stop by
in a circle in a circle
Let's sing together!

[Pre-Chorus]
That's it, that's it, where are you!
A fool seen in a dancing fool
If you're the same fool, you can't dance
That's it, that's it, where are you!
If you don't dance, you can't sing
If you don't sing, you'll dance
Dance here, dance, dance
I can't go home!

[Chorus]
Dance! Dance!
Dance! That's it!
Shake it! Shake it!
That's right! That's right!
Sing! Sing!
Sing! That's it!
Scream! Scream!
That's right! That's right!

Wikipedia on Baby Metal

While strolling outside the hotel lobby after my recent talk on extradimensional Neuroscience, I was approached by a cat, then another, and another, until the courtyard was filled with purring fur. While I was somewhat intrigued, I've come to expect these things when I come to stay on the 13th Floor. I started humming up a little ditty the Hong Kong Cavaliers and I had been working on, when all of sudden the bell tower starts ringing... and the cats start singing about God in Japanese.

They were pretty good, so I invited them inside.

96 Neko (96 Cats [English], 96 Mao [Han] (March 30, 1993 - ) is a female singer who is active in the Japanese film barrage website NICONICO animation , and is often listed as a multi-voice singer in NICONICO animation . 96 Neko mainly re-sings VOCALOID songs with a relatively low range, but they can change their voices freely (for example: juvenile voice, cute grandma, sexy big sister...), and because they like mirror sound Lian so borrowed most of the songs composed by Jing Yinling and Lian . In addition to singing individually, 96 Neko also often sings with the VIP store manager who is also an online singer, or mixes with Kagamine in the original song . Some fans are used to comparing their singing voice with Korean-Japanese voice actress Park Lumi and Japanese voice actress Sawajo Miyuki .

Wikipedia translation

Thanks to @Mandy for supplying the cats.

First off, please let me express my appreciation for the talented FractalSauce, whose work "String Theory" I've chosen to represent the underlying complexity between extradimensional harmonics and quantum consciousness that I detail in this lecture.

Arigato, all for coming. I've been asked here today to give a talk on my studies of neuroscience, with a focus on the quantum entanglement of neurons, string particle harmonics, and how the two interact within certain extradimensional spaces when performing surgery. I'm going to focus on the 8th dimension, as that's my primary area of expertise, when dealing with specifics. Please note before I begin, that other spaces may have differing quantum frequencies than what I describe here.

Now, as per the revolutionary study done by Christian Matthias Kerskens and David López Pérez, Experimental indications of non-classical brain functions:

Recent proposals in quantum gravity have suggested that unknown systems can mediate entanglement between two known quantum systems, if the mediator itself is non-classical. This approach may be applicable to the brain, where speculations about quantum operations in consciousness and cognition have a long history. Proton spins of bulk water, which most likely interfere with any brain function, can act as the known quantum systems. If an unknown mediator exists, then NMR methods based on multiple quantum coherence (MQC) can act as an entanglement witness. However, there are doubts that today's NMR signals can contain quantum correlations in general, and specifically in the brain environment. Here, we used a witness protocol based on zero quantum coherence (ZQC) where we minimized the classical signals to circumvent the NMR detection limits for quantum correlation. For short repetitive periods, we found evoked signals in most parts of the brain, whereby the temporal appearance resembled heartbeat-evoked potentials (HEPs). We found that those signals had no correlates with any classical NMR contrast. Similar to HEPs, the evoked signal depended on conscious awareness. Consciousness-related or electrophysiological signals are unknown in NMR. Remarkably, these signals only appeared if the local properties of the magnetization were reduced. Our findings suggest that we may have witnessed entanglement mediated by consciousness-related brain functions. Those brain functions must then operate non-classically, which would mean that consciousness is non-classical.

A more succinct way to put it is:

...the signal indicating entanglement was only present during conscious awareness, which was illustrated when two subjects fell asleep during the MRI. When they did, this signal faded and disappeared.

Seeing entanglement in the brain may show that the brain is not classical, as previously thought, but rather a powerful quantum system. If the results can be confirmed, they could provide some indication that the brain uses quantum processes. This could begin to shed light on how our brain performs the powerful computations it does, and how it manages consciousness.

Now what does this mean for your average extradimensional traveler? Our brains rely on quantum entanglement to think.

This poses a difficult problem if the string harmonics of the space you're traveling to are in a different key than what your mind is used to. A quick primer on string theory as it relates to quantum gravity is important here:

String theory can be seen as a generalization of quantum field theory where instead of point particles, string-like objects propagate in a fixed spacetime background, although the interactions among closed strings give rise to space-time in a dynamic way. Although string theory had its origins in the study of quark confinement and not of quantum gravity, it was soon discovered that the string spectrum contains the graviton, and that "condensation" of certain vibration modes of strings is equivalent to a modification of the original background. In this sense, string perturbation theory exhibits exactly the features one would expect of a perturbation theory that may exhibit a strong dependence on asymptotics (as seen, for example, in the AdS/CFT correspondence) which is a weak form of background dependence.

This poses a difficult set of questions for the neurosurgeon, and as I've encountered a number of extradimensional patients with symptoms of extreme and often explosive psychosis, I'd like to provide the following checklist of triage techniques to the doctors, residents, and nurses in the audience in hopes of saving more lives:

1. What string harmonic frequency is your dimension tuned to, and at what frequency does your patient originate from?

As you can all hear, our current dimension is tuned to F, half a step down from the tone the traditional consensual dimension most of us term as "real reality" generates.

As such, there's a slight risk of madness for those of you from "real reality", as the quantum entanglement between the molecules that make up "real reality" and the 13th floor is stretched. Determining the frequency is key to an effective diagnosis. Dimensions with higher harmonic variances can often be extremely destructive to the patient traveling within, increasing the risk of psychosis substantially.

1. Ensure sterilization of quantum static in the operating theater and properly harmonize all surgical tools before surgery.

Ignoring this step can result in an extreme vibratory response in the patient, risking stroke, cardiac arrest, and explosive decompression. Check thrice - you'll thank me.

1. Use light, not knives

Traditional scalpels and surgical tools will likely result in injury to the patient due to harmonic dissonance, and should only be used in extreme circumstances. I recommend using properly tuned laser scalpels, as they're readily available in most cases, but recent advances in quantum nanobot technology suggest that they may be the way of the future on the extradimensional operating floor.

1. Recovery relies on return

This is my final point, and one I feel that's necessary to point out to our audience. Unless your patient has superhuman healing qualities, they will not heal properly until they return to their own dimension - the quantum entanglement is stretched too thin - both for their neurons to function properly, and for the cells in their body to heal. This dynamic persists in most extradimensional spaces. Often times return will remove the need for surgery, as the mind goes into overdrive healing it's stretched sting particles - as evidenced by the oft used trope of instantaneous recovery after an extradimensional adventure in movies and film.

That concludes my talk, and I hope it makes your journeys a little safer. Please feel free to ask your questions below - I will answer as many as best I can while I'm here at the #Space_Cowboy conference.

Arigato, and before I forget, the Hong Kong Cavaliers and I are doing a show on the Warp Stage tomorrow at 8 - hope to see you all there.