Hello Earth

[trimm@netcom.com (Trimm Industries)]

I'm absolutely certain this thread has been beaten to death in
rec.music.gaffa, but that's never stopped me from making a fool
of myself before, so...

The connection between "Hello Earth" and Challenger going *poof*
are more than a little obvious.  Now, I've read (I'm not making
this up, honest) that Kate wrote this song as a tribute to the
"Challenger 7".  The problem is, the song is from 1985 and if
my alcohol-addled memory serves me, McAluff et al assumed room
temperature in 1986!

I seem to recall, at the time of the Presidential Commission on
the Challenger Disaster, thinking how "Hello Earth" would make
appropriate background music for this bunch, particularly the
line about "Murderer!  Murderer!" as the Morton Thiokol managers
tried to obfuscate their role in the explosion of the SRB.

Someone help me out here... am I losing my mind or can Kate see
into the future with 20/20 vision?

Gary Watson
trimm@netcom.com