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Jens 'n' Frens
Idle thoughts of a relatively libertarian Republican in Cambridge, MA, and whomever he invites. Mostly political.
"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures." -- Daniel Webster
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Wednesday, September 10, 2003 :::
Yahoo! News - Black Hole Strikes Deepest Musical Note Ever HeardAstronomers have detected the deepest note ever generated in the cosmos, a B-flat flying through space like a ripple on an invisible pond. No human will actually hear the note, because it is 57 octaves below the keys in the middle of a piano. I think it's clever of their marketing people to interpret a ripple with a period of millions of years as a sound wave. Don't get me wrong -- I'm not disputing that it qualifies as sound (though it clearly doesn't qualify as "heard"), but I don't think most people, upon seeing a ripple in interstellar gas, would calculate that it's a B-flat. Though Dean probably would.
I'd also like to say that, if you're looking for a name for an album, I think you could pick a title less appealing than "A Cacophonic Symphony of Inaudible Tunes" (for example, you could call it "Gilbert Gottfried Hums the Power Ballads of the Eighties", or "Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits").
Link from Reason's Hit&Run.
::: posted by Steven at 5:17 PM
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