True Grit Gonna Smack Mars, It'll be 'Sweet'

The social media explosion promoting the upcoming Curiosity Rover landing on Mars late Sunday night/wee hours Monday morn was amazing today. NASA rocked it hard. Were you among the million who caught the frenzy? It was waaaay cool. I loved the blunt question: "why do this? Why go to Mars?" And the equally blunt, ballsy, John Wayne-esque answer....."BECAUSE WE CAN! (Muthafucka!)" okay, okay, I added the expletive, but that's what everyone felt strongly underlying in the answer, because the room split with laughter with the way the scientist replied quickly, definitively--fiery! Then she added; "why not go. We need to go. We have the ability. Let's do it. Let's send this big baby up there. We've got to go. We've got to find out how far we can push ourselves. It's in our nature to find out. It's in our nature to explore. We are bound for the stars. What are we waiting for?!" Jesus Christ! I almost made a phone call in to JPL to her on the spot and screamed RIGHT ON BABY! So in 48 hours big, bad Curiosity does tricks that defy circus performers in order to wheel and deal thru the very light air and touch down on the martian surface. Awesome! I felt that we needed to reach back into the deep of the early 70s for some power rock magic from the rock god innovators The Sweet and turn them loose with a little gem called Set Me Free. It's one of my favorites. Crank this puppy to eleven and throw your hook-em horn fingers into the air and salute Curiosity as it hurtles its massive ass toward history up on red Mars.