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A mother ship (or mothership) is a vehicle (e.g. ship, aircraft or spacecraft) that serves or carries one or more smaller vehicles. Examples include bombers converted to carry experimental aircraft to altitudes where they can conduct their research (such as the B-52 carrying the X-15), or ships that carry small submarines to an area of ocean to be explored (such as the Atlantis II carrying the Alvin). The mother ship may also recover the smaller craft, or may go its own way after releasing it.
In many languages, such as Chinese, Finnish and Japanese the word mother ship refers to an aircraft carrier; see 母艦 (literally "mother" + "warship").
The mother ship concept was used in moon landings performed in the 1960s. Both the unsuccessful American 1962 Ranger landers and the successful Soviet 1966 Luna landers were unmanned spherical capsules ejected at the last moment from mother ships that had carried them to the Moon and crashed onto its surface. In the manned Apollo program, astronauts in the lunar module separated from the command module in lunar orbit, descended to the lunar surface, and returned to dock in a lunar orbit rendezvous with the command module once more for a ride home to Earth.
Enter Shikari are a British rock/hardcore group that combine post-hardcore and various heavy metal sub-genres such as metalcore and alternative metal with elements of various electronic genres such as electronica, dubstep, trance and occasionally drum and bass creating a very strong electronicore sound, formed in 2003 in St Albans, Hertfordshire. The band is named after a boat belonging to Roughton "Rou" Reynolds' uncle, and a character in a play which he wrote before forming the band, both of which are named Shikari. Shikari also means 'Hunter' in Marathi, Persian, Hindi, Nepali, Urdu, Punjabi and Bengali. Their debut album, Take to the Skies was released on 19 March 2007 and reached #4 in the Official UK Album Chart. Their second album, titled Common Dreads, was released on 15 June 2009 and debuted on the UK Albums Chart at 16. Their third studio album, A Flash Flood of Colour was released on 16 January 2012 and was positioned at the top of the UK Album Chart for almost its entire week of release, however it eventually debuted on the chart at 4. The band are currently embarking on the A Flash Flood of Colour World Tour.
It's going out to the Mothership
We'll send it out to the Mothership
It's the K-I-D-B-E-Y-ON-D
Gonna rock ya, make you move
And work your body
If it about the groove party
People come see me
'Cause I been beatboxing since 1983
I'm gonna make your spine wine
Make your mind shine too
I'm emitting nine lives of fine vibes to you
Everybody say "Kid B whatcha gonna do?"
Hit me with your ooh-baba-laba, ooh-baba-laba, ooh
We're 'bout to turn matter into energy
Reformat the core data in your skeletry
Accelerate, people celebrate,
Feeling hella great, levitate, yo
Beam it up, elevate
Yeah! It's going out to the Mothership
Yeah! We'll send it out to the Mothership
Yeah! It's going out to the Mothership
Wrap it out, ship it out, kick it to the Mothership, yeah
Yeah! It's going out to the Mothership
Yeah! We'll send it out to the Mothership
Yeah! It's going out to the Mothership
Wrap it out, ship it out, kick it to the Mothership, yeah
Now when I refer to the Mothership
You can be sure that it ain't Close Encounters
Or some mafazicking other trip
Ain't talking 'bout little green men
Ain't off the deep end, I ain't
beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beepin' with little ET friend
It's more like a big ball of vibration and frequency
Reaching deeper wider and taller than we can see
So take your preconceived notions
And chuck them in the nearest ocean
'Cause this here's the potion!
Whatcha gotta do is commit to getting high with me
Share your love, share your sweat, share your fire with me
It's called the funk and it truly works
So dance, you beautiful chunk of the universe!
Yeah! It's going out to the Mothership
Yeah! We'll send it out to the Mothership
Yeah! It's going out to the Mothership
Wrap it out, ship it out, kick it to the Mothership, yeah
Yeah! It's going out to the Mothership
Yeah! We'll send it out to the Mothership
Yeah! It's going out to the Mothership
Wrap it out, ship it out, kick it to the Mothership, yeah
Yeah! It's going out to the Mothership
Yeah! We'll send it out to the Mothership
Yeah! It's going out to the Mothership
Wrap it out, ship it out, kick it to the Mothership!
Yeah! It's going out to the Mothership
Yeah! We'll send it out to the Mothership
Yeah! It's going out to the Mothership
Wrap it out, ship it out, kick it to the Mothership!
Yeah! It's going out to the Mothership
Yeah! We'll send it out to the Mothership
Yeah! It's going out to the Mothership