I always thought of a space shuttle landing when I heard this song, because objects that come through the atmosphere get heated up. Hence, "warm machine." In fact, I like the thought of this being about astronauts coming back to Earth after a successful mission and stepping out of the shuttle and greeting their loved ones. "This is the life, this is the ground." Almost forgetting what something is like until you're back, and noticing all over again how wonderful everything is.
There also seems to be a robotics/transhumanism dimension to it. Like we're on our way to making machines that think and feel like us, so we better be prepared for the way we see and define things to be turned on its head.
I always thought of a space shuttle landing when I heard this song, because objects that come through the atmosphere get heated up. Hence, "warm machine." In fact, I like the thought of this being about astronauts coming back to Earth after a successful mission and stepping out of the shuttle and greeting their loved ones. "This is the life, this is the ground." Almost forgetting what something is like until you're back, and noticing all over again how wonderful everything is.
There also seems to be a robotics/transhumanism dimension to it. Like we're on our way to making machines that think and feel like us, so we better be prepared for the way we see and define things to be turned on its head.