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Les Cowboys Fringants:Les Étoiles Filantes
From LyricWiki
This song is performed by Les Cowboys Fringants and appears on the album La Grand-Messe (2004).
http://lyricwiki.org/Les_Cowboys_Fringants:Les_%C3%89toiles_Filantes

(English translation below)

***French original
Si je m'arrête un instant
Pour te parler de ma vie
Juste comme ça tranquillement
Dans un bar rue St-Denis

J'te raconterai les souvenirs
Bien gravés dans ma mémoire
De cette époque où vieillir
Était encore bien illusoire

Quand j'agaçais les p'tites filles
Pas loin des balançoires
Et que mon sac de billes
Devenait un vrai trésor

Et ces hivers enneigés
À construire des igloos
Et rentrer les pieds g'lés
Juste à temps pour Passe-Partout

Mais au bout du ch'min dis-moi c'qui va rester
De la p'tite école et d'la cour de récré ?
Quand les avions en papier ne partent plus au vent
On se dit que l'bon temps passe finalement...

... Comme une étoile filante

Si je m'arrête un instant
Pour te parler de la vie
Je constate que bien souvent
On choisit pas mais on subit
Et que les rêves des ti-culs
S'évanouissent ou se refoulent
Dans cette réalité crue
Qui nous embarque dans le moule

La trentaine, la bedaine
Les morveux, l'hypothèque
Les bonheurs et les peines
Les bons coups et les échecs

Travailler, faire d'son mieux
En arracher, s'en sortir
Et espérer être heureux
Un peu avant de mourir

Mais au bout du ch'min dis-moi c'qui va rester
De notre p'tit passage dans ce monde effréné ?
Après avoir existé pour gagner du temps
On s'dira que que l'on était finalement

... Que des étoiles filantes

Si je m'arrête un instant
Pour te parler de ma vie
Juste comme ça tranquillement
Pas loin du Carré St-Louis

C'est qu'avec toi je suis bien
Et que j'ai pu' l'goût de m'en faire
Parce que tsé voir trop loin
C'pas mieux que r'garder en arrière

Malgré les vieilles amertumes
Et les amours qui passent
Les chums qu'on perd dans' brume
Et les idéaux qui se cassent

La vie s'accroche et renaît
Comme les printemps reviennent
Dans une bouffée d'air frais
Qui apaise les coeurs en peine

Ça fait que si à' soir t'as envie de rester
Avec moi, la nuit est douce on peut marcher
Et même si on sait ben que tout dure rien qu'un temps
J'aimerai ça que tu sois pour un moment...

... Mon étoile filante

Mais au bout du ch'min dis-moi c'qui va rester...
Mais au bout du ch'min dis-moi c'qui va rester...

... Que des étoiles filantes




***English translation
If I stop a moment
To tell you about my life
Just like that, quietly
In a bar on St-Denis

I'd tell you the memories
Well-etched into my memory
From that time when aging
Was still but illusory

When I annoyed the little girls
Not far from the swings
And my bag of marbles
Became a real treasure

And these snowy winters
Of constructing igloos
And going back inside with frozen feet
Just in time for Passe-Partout

But at the end of the road tell me what will remain
Of the little school and the playground?
When the paper planes no longer fly on the wind
We tell ourselves that the good times are finally ending...

...like a shooting star

If I stop a moment
To tell you about life
I note that quite often
We do not choose but we endure
And that the dreams of little lads
Dissipate or collapse
In this hard reality
Which casts us in the mold

The thirties, the belly
The kids, the mortgage
The pleasures and the sorrows
The strokes of luck and the failures

Working, doing one's best
And struggling, and getting out
And hoping to be happy
A little before dying

But at the end of the road tell me what will remain
Of our little passage through this mad world?
After having existed to buy some time
We'll tell ourselves that we were in the end

...but shooting stars

If I stop a moment
To tell you about my life
Just like that, quietly
Not far from St-Louis Square

It's only with you that I'm okay
And that I lost the taste to care
Because you know seeing too far ahead
Isn't better than looking backwards

Despite the old bitternesses
And the loves that pass
The friends we lose in the mists
And the ideals which fall apart

Life holds on and renews
Like the springtimes return
In a puff of fresh air
Which appeases pained hearts

So if tonight you want to stay
With me, the night is soft we can walk
And even if we know that all lasts but a time
I'd like you to be for a moment...

...My shooting star

But tell me at the end of the road what will remain...
But tell me at the end of the road what will remain...

...Just shooting stars

Um, oh yeah, I guess I didn't make a clear point...

Point was this; evolution is an idea that jives with every scrap of evidence we've tossed at it. Significant challengers have risen, but further research has explained away the apparent contradictions to the 'natural selection' program.

Its incumbent on the current generation to inspire the next to keep piling up more clues and delving deeper into the intricacies of our natural world. In other words, one way science fails is by giving value to ideas that have little to no evidence to support them. And another way science fails is by allowing a neglect of critical thinking to flourish.

It is important to know that the earth revolves around the sun; we can then begin to understand seasons, shooting stars, other planets, the moon... etc. Similarly it is important to know that evolution occurs by natural selection; we can then begin to understand why there are hundreds of thousands of non-interbreeding beetle species, how ants know what to do, why my great grandfather looks just like me but was a foot shorter, why our bananas are in danger of being wiped out by a fungus, and why squirrels and cats can climb trees while little dogs can not!

http://www.videosift.com/video/One-Way-Shooting-Stars-are-Made
bollocks its a dupe
sorry man

I hate to have to do this, but since it is a dupe, I'm going to have to *discard...

Sorry to tell you, but this is a dupe:

http://www.videosift.com/video/One-Way-Shooting-Stars-are-Made

Well, I looked up the video and it kicks ass, so here it is-
http://www.videosift.com/video/the-pillows-Ride-On-Shooting-Star

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
thesnipe posted the FLCL ending credits, but the actual music video itself doesn't seem to have been posted yet.

In reply to this comment by fissionchips:
It looks like Ride on Shining Star hasn't been posted before!? Better get on that stat!

No prob. I like the music video too, so here it is:
http://www.videosift.com/video/the-pillows-Ride-On-Shooting-Star

In reply to this comment by thesnipe:
Thanks! Fixed!

In reply to this comment by fissionchips:
*dead
possible fix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qPSjE7VKjM

Thanks! Fixed!

In reply to this comment by fissionchips:
*dead
possible fix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qPSjE7VKjM

CODA SHIILOL (LONGCAT'S SONG) LYRICS
Wishing on a dream that seems far off
Hoping it will come today

Into the starlit night...
Foolish dreamers turn their gaze
Waiting on a shooting star....

But..., what if that star is not to come?
Will their dreams fade to nothing?
When the horizon darkens most
We all need to believe there is hope

Is an angel watching closely over me?
Can there be a guiding light I've yet to see?
I know my heart should guide me but,
There's a hole within my soul

What will fill this emptiness inside of me?
Am I to be satisfied without knowing?

I wish, then, for a chance to see
Now all I need (desperately....)

Is my...star to come?

Well, mycroft's answer didn't entirely satisfy me, but as I told him, I don't have the technical knowledge to challenge any further. So I shut up then - usually.

The story with the mcdonald clown is that I banned him for self-linking, he created new accounts to harass me, then another to try self-linking again, I banned him again, and that really set him off. Through the use of proxy server and scripting, he began leaving literally thousands of obnoxious comments on my profile - about 6000 or so in the span of a few hours. At that point, it became an issue of abusing the entire site, and the community responded. http://www.videosift.com/topusers?order=new&pg=2 should give you some idea of the level of his maturity and intellect.

In reply to this comment by rembar:
I'm a bit late responding, but no, I don't know anything about it beyond Google-fu. Luckily, it seems like Mycroft covered things pretty well.

...by the way, what went down with this Aaron McDonald fella?

In reply to this comment by jonny:
Do you know anything about this?

I'm a bit late responding, but no, I don't know anything about it beyond Google-fu. Luckily, it seems like Mycroft covered things pretty well.

...by the way, what went down with this Aaron McDonald fella?

In reply to this comment by jonny:
Do you know anything about this?

Did that help?

In reply to this comment by jonny:
Can you help me understand this? I feel like I must be missing something, but damned if I can figure it out.

>> ^MycroftHomlz:
You can't treat Mira with the same math and logic as a comet, because it produces its own energy.

I wasn't thinking of it like a comet, which does not emit energy (does it?). A comet's tail is created from material being stripped away by solar wind, and is visible because of reflected sunlight, correct?

The question about velocity was not a lack of understanding of basic physics, but a lack of a good description of Mira's linear velocity relative to the material through which it's passing. The wiki article only vaguely mentions it in passing, and notes its radial, not angular, velocity in the sidebar. Thanks for the nasa link, though, as that answers it exactly. It's linear velocity is roughly 130 km/sec, which translates to a distance of roughly 13 light years in 30000 years. Cool - that was the easy part.

But apparently I'm not getting my main question across very clearly. I understand that stars use fusion to generate the energy they are emitting. But the distal end of that tail is 13 light years away from the star and has been emitting UV radiation for over 30000 years. My question is not about the amount of energy released, but the rate at which it is being released. Are you suggesting that excited hydrogen atoms are taking over 30000 years to return to a low energy state without undergoing any other interaction after the star has passed?

A vast amount of energy is transferred to the interstellar hydrogen gas in a fairly short amount of time as Mira zooms by, but then the hydrogen is taking 30000 years to release that energy? That's what I'm not understanding. I mean, if hydrogen atoms can store that much energy for that long, then I'd recommend one of you smart physicist types start looking into hydrogen based batteries!

Ok. Johnny. I will try to answer your questions and if I can't I know someone who can.

angular velocity=velocity/radius

Also, my guess is: You are trying to backwards calculate the energy. You have to use the reletavistic correction for something going this fast.

I have to pick up some business cards and go to the gym. I will reply more in a couple hours.

>> ^jonny:
re: velocity - The 64km/s (≈ 143000mph) is radial velocity, so I guess it's not relevant, but I can't find any reference to its linear(?) velocity...