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As the Vleeptron High Non-Junk Science Council recently reported, there is controversy among astronomers about what Comet ISON will do after it passes Earth and dives toward the Sun.
Some believe it will behave as almost all comets behave and whip around the Sun in a highly eccentric elliptical orbit, and then head back into far space, never to return in our human lifetimes.
But some think ISON will be drawn directly into the Sun's huge gravity field, and will smash into the Sun. And so ISON will cease to exist as a comet. Its constituent atoms will be absorbed into the Sun.
On Thursday Lou Reed died, age 71, at his Long Island home after a long struggle with liver disease.
This was one of my favorite Lou Reed songs, maybe my favorite.
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fly into the sun
from the 1984 album
"New Sensations"
by Lou Reed
I would not run from the holocaust
I would not run from the bomb
I'd welcome the chance to meet my maker
And fly into the sun
fly into the sun, fly into the sun
I'd break up into a million pieces
and fly into the sun
I would not run from the blazing light
I would not run from its rain
I'd see it as an end to misery
As an end to worldly pain
An end to worldly pain
I'd shine by the light of the unknown moment
To end this worldly pain
Fly into the sun, fly into the sun
I'd shine by the light of the unknown moment
And fly into the sun
The earth is weeping, the sky is shaking
The stars split to their core
And every proton and unnamed neutron
is fusing in my bones
And an unnamed mammal is darkly rising
As man burns from his tomb
And I look at this as a blissful moment
To fly into the sun
Fly into the sun, fly into the sun
I'd burn up into a million pieces
And fly into the sun
To end this mystery answer my mystery
I'd look at this as a wondrous moment
To end this mystery
Fly into the sun, fly into the sun
I'd break up into a million pieces
And fly into the sun
