They put a telescope in outer space So Mother Earth could look about her space And what she saw was rather shocking It was Stephen Hawking And he was talking 'bout expanding Universal understanding
And that telescope Forced her to contemplate as well as cope
With cosmological conjecture And how that affects yer Morning commute
And faced with this dilemma, I ask you What on earth's a Mother Earth to do?
Turn off the Hubble Stay out of trouble Live in a bubble With Barney Rubble
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We'll pull the plug and watch it plummet down No need to shoot, we'll simply dumb it down
Before it spoils our education With information And fills our heads up with a lotta That erroneous errata More importantly, we got a
Brand new paradigm NASA is singing, "Can you spare a dime?"
And there's a starving astrophysicist We don't need his assis- Tence anymore.
'Cause from now on we spell intelligence With a silent S-C-I-E-ence
Turn off the Hubble Stay out of trouble Live in a bubble With Barney Rubble
Turn off the Hubble Live in a bubble Like Barney Rubble 'Cept only double
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Now, Gallileo Went way over his head That's what they said When he was excommunicated
He was a menace To Genesis, they say And to this day We say to that Yea, verily, yea
And so we sent the president a list Of every brilliant fundamentalist
Which some might call oxymoronical Like the Times and Chronicle And all them eggheads at the college With degrees in Big Bang-ology They ought to just apologetically acknowledge that
Our destiny Is manifestly Charleton Heston-y
Let's saddle up and send a man to Mars Where better than to Mars? The planet from Which some Would tell us men have come
And incidentally, we've discovered that An expanding universe makes us look fat
Turn off the Hubble Stay out of trouble Live in a bubble With Barney Rubble
Turn off the Hubble Live in a bubble Like Barney Rubble 'Cept only double
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Yes, given half a mind, you know the Shrub'll Turn off the Hubble!