New Cosmic Musical Note - B flat (-57 Octaves)

Ace of Spades HQ had this link in the sidebar about the Chandra X-Ray Observatory studies of the Perseus Cluster, but with a different title. When I started reading it, the musical aspect jumped out at me.

These sound waves are thought to have been produced by explosive events occurring around a supermassive black hole (bright white spot) in Perseus A, the huge galaxy at the center of the cluster. The pitch of the sound waves translates into the note of B flat, 57 octaves below middle-C. This frequency is over a million billion times deeper than the limits of human hearing, so the sound is much too deep to be heard.

 B flat to the minus 57th octave? We're gonna need a bigger bass, um, something or other...

Heavy Metal Rockers

No, not those kinds of rockers, these kind. You know, the ones old rockers now use.

Heavy Metal Kids - by Todd Rundgren.

Not that Todd's old or anything, but he did just celebrate his 65th birthday and is still kicking ass. Mick Jagger is a grandpa and Eric Clapton will be turning 70 here real soon. Stevie Ray Vaughan would've turned 60 this year.

h/t to Instapundit

R. I. P. Johnny Winter

Blues guitar legend Johnny Winter passed away Wednesday night Switzerland while on tour. He was 70 years old.

A buddy of mine is his drummer on this tour.

Play on, Johnny, you will be missed.

"If I Were Ted Cruz..."

This is just way too good not to pass along.

From American Digest.org and the Moron Horde over at Ace of Spades HQ: If I were Ted Cruz.

 

 

Be sure to read the comments at the link. This would also provide a ready pool of conservative talent from which to draw for years to come.

 

Ted Cruz, if you're reading this...

Just a Reminder...

...of what gas prices once were.

h/t The Political Commentator

Happy Independence Day

Here's another video y'all should see. It's Ronald Reagan's 1986 Independence Day speech.

Enjoy.