Saturday, September 20, 2008

Reach the stars, give them all to you

I often think about the lyrics to the cher song, "If I could turn back time" I'll get the the time turning part later (maybe) what I'd like to touch on now is the "If I could reach the stars, I'd give them all to you"
Couple a points on that;
1) There's no way anyone with a billion lifetimes could ever visit all the stars so whats the point of giving them all to you?
2) If you wanted to sell the resources for all the stars, you don't need them all to fulfill all the needs of a few worlds, so still only a few would suffice.
3) I think it's more romantic to give a select few stars that had some nice attributes that make them unique and a special gift. Like flowers, if I gave all the flowers in the world to someone they might initially be happy until they realized that all the weddings and funerals that happen any were around that time would be flowerless. A lot of the flowers would go to waste and not even be seen because of the massive pile of flowers that I just gave...
4) What would giving a star be like? And if you could reach them do you mean like a little twinkle in the star and just pick it out like a diamond? Well that's just ridiculous, and any sort of astrological movement that isn't in the normal scheme of things could have world ending ramifications (as I'm sure some of the readers already thought of an wanted this to be #1 on the list) Well I figured she also might have meant that reaching the stars by space ship, plan a flag and declare it the property of whomever she wanted to give it to. That method has so many problems I could write another blog post on it! (Yeah that many, a whole blog post, wow!)
5) It's a little selfish to want ALL the stars. How many stars can one person really use an appreciate. it's not like there's a shortage of them, it's more like, "Really? you need a trillion?"

So in conclusion I think the song sounds great and we can all enjoy it on a superficial level, and I'd like to say that 5-15 stars of varying sizes is plenty of stars for one person, any more than that and you better be a star collector. Oh and for the love of God no moving stars!

*The north star is already owned by NATO so don't even try to get that one.
** The big dipper is owned by J.P. Getty.
*** Orion's belt is owned by some Arab sheik in Dubai, but just the belt.
****Funny thing they didn't acquire these stars b/c they are rich but b/c they had the foresight to claim them when Cher was handing them out.