Hello Earth

["John D. Walker" <jdwalker@post.cis.smu.edu>]

Hi guys -
    Count me as a vote for "Columbia", it's pretty clearly a tape of an 
actual shuttle launch.  It's not hard to get audio of shuttle 
launches and NASA doesn't object to their use in this way - they like 
the publicity.  Rush used actual shuttle launch audio prior to this on the 
song "Countdown" from Signals (1982, if memory serves).  It sounds VERY 
similar although some specifics are slightly different.

    With the audio being so easy to obtain, and Kate's penchant for using 
"audio stock footage", it's got to be a tape.  Why spend a lot of time
duplicating something you can easily get (unless you're looking to 
justify 4 years between albums)?

L8R -
John