The first and most reliable is Sinead O'Connor's version of "The Foggy Dew". It had that effect on me when I first heard it as a teenager, and for whatever reason has not diminished.
The second and less explicable thing is thinking about NASA/JPL control rooms when something like a lander has touched down successfully. Big science makes me cry.
It's a pretty song, for sure, but really any song about a sort of doomed bravery is enough to choke me up. In fact there's an otherwise atrocious metal song about the Battle of Wizna which makes me teary when I can stand to listen to it.
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Date: 2014-02-11 08:28 am (UTC)The first and most reliable is Sinead O'Connor's version of "The Foggy Dew". It had that effect on me when I first heard it as a teenager, and for whatever reason has not diminished.
The second and less explicable thing is thinking about NASA/JPL control rooms when something like a lander has touched down successfully. Big science makes me cry.
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Date: 2014-02-12 04:06 am (UTC)Are you Irish? Or was it something about the singing?
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Date: 2014-02-12 06:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-02-12 02:30 pm (UTC)