(Vimeo Direkthawking, via Beautiful Decay)
Destruction, Böller und Feuer in SlowMotion featuring Stephen Hawking? I’m completely sold.
Pink Terror Hawking
Carl Sagans autotuned Cosmos kommt auf Vinyl auf Jack Whites Label!
Vor ein paar Wochen lud John Boswell seinen Remix von Carl Sagans „Cosmos“ auf Youtube hoch, eine autotuned Version von dessen Astronomie-Show aus den 70ern inklusive ebenfalls autogetunter Zitate von Stephen Hawking. (Das Video und dessen Nachfolger hatte ich hier und hier.)
Jetzt hat Jack Whites Label Third Man Records den ursprünglichen Track gesignt und der kommt auf Vinyl und als superlimitierte 7″, die auf der B-Seite eine Gravur der goldenen Platte, die mit der Voyager Sonde 1977 ins Weltall geschossen wurde. Und das alles zusammen ist absolut Jesus Christ in a chicken basket, I’m standing on the fucking Moon!
The release is timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of Sagan’s birth. Also happening that day is a reception in United States’ Congress with speeches by senators, NASA officials and assorted scientists, all hosted by the Planetary Society, which was co-founded by Sagan.
Third Man Records, in conjunction with United Record Pressing, fabricated a special “Cosmos Colored Vinyl” of which 150 copies will be available…50 randomly inserted into mail orders for “A Glorious Dawn” and the remainder to be made available at the Third Man Records Nashville store front at noon on November 9th.
The one-sided single features a very special etching on the flipside. Reproduced from the original artwork, the etching copies the etching included with the Voyager Golden Record, set off into space in 1977 as the most elaborate message-in-a-bottle idea ever imagined.
Die Platte kostet schlappe €6,92, meine Bestellung ging über den Third Man Store eben grade raus und ich freue mich ja schon auf die Nachricht, dass die Rechteinhaber von Sagans Space-Show die Veröffentlichung verhindern wollen. Hier jedenfalls der Link zu Third Man Records, hier die Meldung auf TwentyFourBits: Jack White´s Third Man Records to Release Carl Sagan Remix “A Glorious Dawn” on Vinyl (via Stereogum) und hier nochmal das Video:
Carl Sagans Cosmos autotuned (feat. Stephen Hawking)
(Youtube Direktcosmos, via Forgetomori)
OMG, wie großartig ist das hier denn bitte? Carl Sagans Cosmos, autotuned und dann auch noch Stephen Hawking, autotuned und beide erzählen/singen über das Universum und Wurmlöcher und Space and Time. Fantastisch! Die Lyrics zu dem Dings nach dem Klick.
Gib mir den Rest, Baby…
Larry Dunstans mutierte Celebrity-Fotografie
Larry Dunstan fotografiert Promis und Behinderte (stellenweise nackt, deshalb ein sanft hingehauchtes NSFW), photoshopt die Ergebnisse dann nochmal ordentlich und heraus kommen zweigesichtige Stephen Hawkings und dreigesichtige Terry Gilliams. I ♥ Mutants.
Larry Dunstan (via Feingut)
Stephen Hawking’s explosive new theory
Prof Stephen Hawking has come up with a new idea to explain why the Big Bang of creation led to the vast cosmos that we can see today.
Astronomers can deduce that the early universe expanded at a mind-boggling rate because regions separated by vast distances have similar background temperatures.
They have proposed a process of rapid expansion of neighbouring regions, with similar cosmic properties, to explain this growth spurt which they call inflation.
But that left a deeper mystery: why did inflation occur in the first place?
Now New Scientist reports that an answer has been proposed by Prof Stephen Hawking of Cambridge University, working with Prof Thomas Hertog of the Astroparticle and Cosmology Laboratory in Paris.
The answer was there all along
n his TEDTalk released today, physicist Stephen Hawking asks Big Questions about life, the universe and everything. His talk was recorded at Cambridge, in a borrowed classroom — whose well-used blackboard happens to contain the Answer to life, the universe and everything. It’s visible in the upper-right-hand corner of the shot above.
Stephen Hawkings Universe
Ein wenig Kosmologie am Sonntag zum F??ehochlegen und Raketenrucksackabschnallen. Den tiefgefrorenen Han Solo einfach mal tiefgefroren sein lassen.
Where do we come from? The history of cosmology from flat earth to Big Bang: Eratosthenes and Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Edwin Hubble.
Episode 1 – Seeing Is Believing – Sequence 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5
Did the universe have a beginning? The Steady-State theory vs. The Big Bang, Albert Einstein, Georges Lema?tre, Fred Hoyle, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, cosmic background radiation.
Episode 2 – The Big Bang – Sequence 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5
What is the universe and everything in it made of? The creation of matter, the building up of elements in stars.
Episode 3 – Cosmic Alchemy – Sequence 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5
What is the destiny of the universe? Dark matter, WIMPS, MACHOS, neutrinos.
Episode 4 – On The Dark Side – Sequence 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5
Are black holes real? Ultraluminous quasars and supermassive black holes, wormholes, and singularities.
Episode 5 – Black Holes and Beyond – Sequence 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5
Is there a theory that will encompass everything in the known universe? Inflation theory, quantum mechanics, string theory.
Episode 6 – Answer To Everything – Sequence 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5
