Tuning a 'Fazer' Upright Piano dating from the mid 1980s. Excellent pianos that weremade in Finland. Tuned for the Christmas concert at wombourne civic centre Wolverhampton
earlier this month, scientific american published this astronomy op-ed about inaccurate and “violent” language in astronomy and it was… really something. I do not know what their editorial standards are over there. I sent it to my dept group chat and we spent almost 3 days roasting it. “black hole is problematic for obvious reasons. how about we instead call it a once in a lifetime opportunity to feel what it’d be like to have your body stretched into a near two-dimensional line of atoms” and “instead of the chicxulub impactor, we could call it an unexpected visit from a celestial guest who offered an opportunity for new forms of life to flourish in ways they never had before” were some highlights.
but anyway, it’s a deeply weird thing to argue because I don’t think the biggest obstacle to public understanding of astronomy is field-specific language, it’s science fiction. it’s unironically science fiction. I have no fucking idea why this isn’t obvious. and the lines here get blurred because there are a lot of astronomers and astrophysicists who write scifi as a hobby. or if not that, they’ll answer questions about the mechanisms of the universe to help aspiring scifi writers who are concerned with accuracy. alastair reynolds, I love you, but you’re not helping.
I bring it up now because I noticed that a lot of people were chattering about the “dark forest hypothesis”, which is sort of an answer to that fermi question about where all the aliens are, if they exist. but it’s from a chixin liu novel. I’m sure there’s one person who takes this idea seriously because astro… takes all kinds, because it only takes one eccentric billionaire to fund your project of digging space junk out of the ocean To Prove Aliens Are Out There For Real… but I don’t think this is anywhere near the consensus. At all. like. astronomy is not a symposium where you sit around asking stupid questions about “what if everyone was Space Hitler?” it’s significantly more boring than that. you ask different kinds of stupid questions, but maybe that one is only applicable to me personally.
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I have four core memories linked to Sakamoto Ryuichi and his music.
Family trip in Bretagne, the weather was utterly terrible. The wind is so strong, we couldn't use the umbrella, the storms would drench us head to toe. When we could get to the car my father would always put on "the violins", the second track from the 1996 album. Years and years would pass before I knew the track title was Rain.
Summer of high school third year, walking home from the beach with my best friend of that time, sharing the headphones from my sister's old ipod nano. She played the piano and was a bit of a snob for electronic music, in the way 15 y/o are when they think they finally know better than anyone. I put on Thousand Knives from the album Playing the piano. Listening to it she said, in the scorching sun, "it's like the piano and electronic music are having a fight... and I can't decide who is winning".
I would stay up late almost every Thursday in the fourth year of highschool, since I've had discovered that after midnight on some radio station they would read smutty fic, pardon, erotic short stories. Between them, they would play songs, without the speaker telling the title or anything. One night they put on what to me was the most beautiful rendition ever of Amore I've ever listened to. Somewhere on that old phone I'm sure I still have the .mp3 of that airing, with the start missing, that I recorded that night.
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