Tag: Astronomy
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RC 330: Lost Stars
Are we all lost stars trying to light up the dark? This episode is more of a downbeat/upbeat commemoration of some artists we have lost recently, have become stardust on the way to the big (Champagne?) Supernova. So this one goes out to Peter Green, Denise Johnson, Neil Innes, Andrew Weatherall and of course that…
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Hubble 3D Deep Space Field
Amazing and humbling stuff…Hubble has over the last few decades pointed into what seems dark and uninhabited space and picked up 10,0000 new points of light. Each of these isn’t a star, but a galaxy like our own made up of many stars – all from areas in the sky previously thought to be empty.…
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Gastronomy 101: The Meat Planet
What? You never knew about the Meat Planet? What do they teach at school these days? Thankfully Carl Sagan’s here to tell you about this beefy gastronomical marvel.
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Proto acid house from 1982
I’ve always maintained that Heaven 17’s masterpiece is an early acid house gem, partly because it was one of the first tracks to utilise the then new Roland TB303 in it’s squelchy (if not filter sweeped) glory. The 12″ mix makes this more clear. The original video is very prescient for modern times – showing…
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War of the World dubstep style
There’s been a few remix/alternative music versions of Jeff Lynne’s War of the Worlds – even fettdog did a mashup one a few years back – but this is the first time I’ve heard one where the alien martian spooky music fits the story so closely – so arriving from space and landing in Woking…