"Don't you ever work?" "This IS work!"

I meant to link to this a while ago: it's the Piled Higher and Deeper strip dealing with the cartoonist's Oxford appearance. Amusing, though I feel constrained to point out that it ought to be Dessert, not Second Dessert * is unbearable snobbish pedant *

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1094

The Morning Stars Sing Together

No, really, they do. By radio waves!

Even more radio waves from space picked up by radio telescopes, with bonus astronomer snark from Jodrell Bank. Mostly it sounds rather more like early period Doctor Who watched on a badly tuned telly than anything that the Greeks imagined to be the music of the spheres, but it has its own beauty. I particularly like the "Jovian chorus". Jupiter, it turns out, twitters - like a bloodless dawn chorus, with added bat detector.

And talking of badly tuned tellies: a percentage of the 'interference' noise you get between stations is really, truly produced by radio waves which were emitted by the Big Bang. The whole thing is really quite awe-inspiring.

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( Beware the ramblings! )