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September 10, 2003The Walrus of Love lives on!
From a Yahoo! News article entitled Black Hole Strikes Deepest Musical Note Ever Heard:
"One particularly monstrous black hole has probably been humming B flat for billions of years, but at a pitch no human could hear, let alone sing, astronomers said on Tuesday.
"'The intensity of the sound is comparable to human speech,' said Andrew Fabian of the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge. But the pitch of the sound is about 57 octaves below middle C, roughly the middle of a standard piano keyboard.
"This is far, far deeper than humans can hear, the researchers said, and they believe it is the deepest note ever detected in the universe."
Call me crazy, but I think it's Barry White. Think about it. If ancient heroic Greeks could be set in the sky as constellations after their death, why not posthumously install Barry White as an uber-bass black hole? It's the perfect vocation for a soul of his talents and expertise!
[Okay, okay...so I don't really think the black hole is Barry White. There is, if nothing else, that particularly sticky issue of it having existed for billions of years prior to Mr. White's existence. Still, it's apropos that we'd discover this crooning black hole so soon after his death.]
Posted by patrick at September 10, 2003 01:25 PM
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