Star View

.. from your universe it would look like a black hole

Yes, are we ready to be gods?

Now, ehh, suppose you came upon this equation and unleash it

And give the world the kind of power you're talking about

Godlike... power

Wouldn't you think twice or three times before you said

"Hey! I've got it!"

What is the hallmark of science?

The hallmark of science is that it's reproducible

And in principle ... falsifiable

There's no going back the hands have been dealt

Life is the only wealth, why stop at managing health

Wait til they find out that man is enhancing himself

That we now have the technology to kill cancerous cells

The Kardashev scale,

Don't care if you went to Harvard or Yale

If you don't fight for the future,

You'll be a part of the sale (they sold the future)

You wanted to grow up so fast when you was a kid

Now you're trying to get back into shape stay youthful and live

What if I proposed a pill that would do what that did

You'd live 900 years like Methuselah's myth

What would you do with it, would you take it and swallow?

Or dismiss the solution and keep the age old problem?

I'd want to live to meet my great grand-kid's children

I'd love to see an exponential growth in my lyrics

Act like if I was immortal,

I'd stop being Eddie

But I should be able to choose whether to die when I'm ready

We have baby pictures of the big bang

These baby pictures of the big bang are

When the baby universe was about 300,000 years of age

So think of a baby being born,

We now have pictures of the universe an hour after birth (an hour)

We want a picture of the big bang as it's emerging the uterus,

As it's coming out of the womb (check it)

I never want to die, I shouldn't have to

I just want to take to space into the vacuum

Give me my own ship, let me explore the cosmos

The complex symphony unknown ensemble

The powers that be try to tell me to stop

But we all hail from a pale blue dot

Whether you like it or not

Use force to escape inertia

And celebrate my emancipation from Terra Firma

We are the source of where gods come from

Welcome, as we prepare to take you to type one

And you know whats more sick, as a war vet

I actually feel pretty honored to stimulate your cortex

So get lost in the vortex, it's the dark tunnel

Approaching the singularity of this dark funnel

And they're right as far as Greydon goes, Sagan got him

While the more gullible fell victim to the Reagan doctrine

Lyrically I want to be this generation's Common

They want us to change the message,

We'll just change the octave

The broken logic, and its basic dangers

All this for you to enjoy safe in your stasis chambers

Alright, just for the sake ... of this, discussion

Let us assume all of this turns out to be true

How big a step for humanity would

That be toward becoming a type I civilization?

Well, this would be an enormous big step with a lot of "ifs"

That have to be satisfied, of course

We're talking of inexhaustible forces of energy almost for free

This would be comparable

To the unleashing of steam power - about 150 years ago

So it was steam power that revolutionized the last century

So we're talking about a new leap on that scale,

If these results pan out

You know, that's interesting because it has always seemed like a race

Between self-destruction on the one hand

And attaining type one status on the other hand