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"In a world where you can do anything; be anyone or anybody ... be kind."
Welcome. Some of the documentation here extends the 'Carmona Family' music - and the story of Mike Carmona.
All of this goes beyond its main conclusion; it provides additional information, context, reflections, and/or about other events, news, updates, and even my own relative conclusions that come to mind.
The link also ties up loose ends or any other consistent and relevant afterthoughts that I might have missed in the last 83 years.
This last link is another favorite one of mine because I can upload just about anything from my computer.
Stories from the internet also, commentaries of my own, all kinds of TM pictures from A to Z, including astronomy, history, and other interesting things.
There is no end here - a freestyle link is my best answer to y'all.
The link is written from the point of view of the author as a narrator, in my case, by a musician, songwriter, music arranger, tejano music advocate, and a web designer since the mid-1990s. This link also explains my,'Music narratives and my outlook on life itself' ... but not to the 'Consensus of the majority'. So true.
I mean, I haven't found or met too many people or tejano music fans that agree with me on anything I say about tejano music. And finally, "My simple life has just been a charted journey of music experiences, different states and cities characterized by diverse genres, different forms and landscapes ... connecting music styles and heartbeats to local communities and adapting to new music horizons wherever I go."
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NASA in pictures ... NASA at work for all humanity.
Who do rockets curve when launched instead of going straight up?
When you were a kid, how did you think rockets worked? They blast off from a pad straight up, and then they're in space, right? The assumption makes sense — after all, straight up is where space is, and it seems like shooting straight up would be the fastest, simplest way to get there. However, as anyone who's actually watched a rocket launch can tell you, they do not fly straight up.
Rather, a launched rocket follows a distinct curve after it blasts off, gradually appearing to fly horizontally to us on the ground. It seems odd from our angle; surely just flying sideways wouldn't get you to space. The reality, however, is that curving the trajectory is the only way a rocket can hope to breach the bulk of the atmosphere into orbit. If a rocket did try to shoot straight up the way we assume, it would just fall right back down to where it was, possibly falling on top of something or someone.
You might think that a rocket's massive thrusters would be more than enough to get the craft beyond the atmosphere, but no matter how powerful they are, there's an equal or greater force working against them: gravity. Gravity would very much prefer that stuff on Earth stays on Earth, and as a rocket attempts to escape, it's constantly yanking down on the entire structure.
The rocket's thrusters are definitely powerful, more than enough to exceed the exerted force of gravity and fly upwards. This is why rockets are launched vertically, to generate as much downward thrust as possible. However, those thrusters are extremely resource-hungry, gobbling up fuel and power in record time. As soon as they start to lag, gravity will reassert itself, and quite violently. This is why a rocket can't escape to orbit on vertical thrust power alone — it'd never make it before the power starts to drop and gravity forcefully drags it back down to the launchpad with a violent crash.
If a rocket's thrusters aren't enough to escape Earth's gravitational pull and enter orbit, how does flying at an angle help? The important thing to remember is that "down" is not a universal direction. Gravity is always trying to pull us back toward Earth's center, but by curving a rocket's trajectory, we can use gravitational shifts to actually maintain a flight path out of the atmosphere. This is a maneuver commonly known as a "gravity turn."
The initial vertical launch of the rocket helps to get it through the thickest layer of the atmosphere, where both gravity and air resistance are still in full force. As it reaches the outer layers, the rocket begins to turn, gradually switching from vertical to horizontal thrust as it angles toward a line of orbit. Orbit isn't quite the same as full on zero gravity;
... when the rocket has reached a state of orbit, it's just far enough away that it's still technically being held by Earth's gravity, but because the force of gravity is weaker out there and the rocket is still carrying its launch momentum, gravity can't pull it toward Earth's center. Think of it like a toy plane that you're spinning around on a long rope. It's still attached to you, but because it's moving so fast, it maintains a horizontal ring around you instead of falling. Of course, this is all assuming that orbit is the goal, while something like an interplanetary launch would require a lot more work and planning like finding a perfect launch window.
All the problems and issues in our tejano music industry, all the tejano music promotions, advertising, marketing, even digital recordings and internet media/music platforms ... everything ... can be solved if you believe in my statement below:
"For all our music industry failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, us tejanos and tejanas are capable of greatness. We are a courageous generation, but without imagination, without a business alliance, and without total unity, we will go nowhere."
TEJANOmike 05/14/2022
My concluding thoughts and factoids on my site:
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"Someone who trains to be a musician will create stronger neural connections that link the two hemispheres of the brain to be musically creative."
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"I am just another voice in this complex society we live in ... and in the Internet music trends of today. Hard to say who is right - and who is wrong."
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"For all our music industry failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, us tejanos and tejanas are capable of greatness. We are a courageous generation, but without imagination, without a business alliance, and without total unity, we will go nowhere." TM 05/14/2022
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"In my most inner thoughts and subconscious, I ascertain that Almighty God must have made three things for man. First, He must have created our world for us to live and love one another; He must have created the splendor of the universe for us to see Heaven and His kingdom; and finally, He must have given man the special gift of music for us to understand all His creations."
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"Music is a gift. It is given to certain individuals to entertain the world, to bring smiles to the human heart, to change sadness and tears into happiness and joy. Music talks to our souls and humanity on a global scale. Music changes you. Music has changed me too. If I made a dent on this universal scale with my simple songs and music arrangements, well, in that case I have done God's will."
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Tejano music has gone through a lot of phases since the 1800s. It has fought racism, and political unrest, and has come out as the voice of the people. The Hispanic working-class considered Tejano music a representation of their struggles. Even after all the struggles, the singers that have dedicated their entire lives to this genre, and to preserving the music of their history have kept Tejano music alive.
Time ... can be defined as one's lifetime; a person's period of greatest activity or engagement; one's experience during a specific period or a certain occasion; also, a moment in time or in the past.
Ultimately, it is not what you get or even what you give. It is what you become.
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Life, and like music, I believe, can take us through so many roads, so many different paths, traveling through so many cities, but more importantly we also learn other things from so many people we meet along the way.
That is the beauty of life itself.
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"We are just music travelers through the dynamics of time and dark matter; moving through space in perfect synchronicity with universal gravity - and man's laws of quantum mechanics."
"The country music project we did together is an art, it is an architecture, and in complete partnership with all the
dynamics of music, with all the elements of songwriting, music arrangements, and coupled with the
connectivity of recording artists, studio musicians, Nashville artistry, and 88k Studio Media."