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[-] Rhaedas@kbin.social 27 points 2 years ago

"And Brian doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene.
He's got a daytime job, he's doing all right."

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

Nice to see him make good use of his degree. I always thought it was cool that there are two major British bands- Queen and Dare- with Astrophysicists in them.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago

In October 2006, May re-registered for his doctorate at Imperial College, and he submitted his thesis in August 2007

the revised thesis (titled "A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud")[1] was approved in September 2007, some 37 years after it had been commenced

In 2020, he participated in the team that contributed the stereography images of numerical simulations of asteroid disruptions and re-accumulations in a publication in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications

It actually sounds like he's pretty busy with the science these days.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Admittedly, I haven't been paying close attention to Brian May's physics career.

[-] Steeve@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

the revised thesis (titled "A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud")[1] was approved in September 2007, some 37 years after it had been commenced

The king of procrastination

[-] UniquesNotUseful@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Brian Cox was also in d:Ream.

American but E from the eels, his dad came up with the Many Worlds Interpretation

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

There's an episode of Nova where E talks about his dad and his tragic life. It's one of my favorites

[-] Corngood@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

There's actually a BBC doc about it too, which I thought was good:

https://www.eelstheband.com/parallel_worlds.php

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I'd hesitate to call Dare "major."

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I mean, they're not Queen, but they charted.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Would I know any of their songs?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I have no idea. This is the song I think of when I think of Dare. I also have to say, I'm not a big fan of Dare.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMEGgYNNrCw

Astrophysicist and public science educator Brian Cox is playing keyboards.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago
[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

A cursory search, which I ran before I commented, didn't reveal that fact for me.

Mere charting isn't a great measure, though, since plenty of ephemeral trash has done so as well.

[-] theodewere@kbin.social -1 points 2 years ago

it's simple enough.. Dare were major and Queen were positively astronomical, mate..

[-] bobman@unilem.org 22 points 2 years ago

They should really specify 'The band Queen'

[-] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

Ya brian didn't make sense I guess so it was just subliminally swapping it for brain and I thought the title was referring to queen elizabeth's brain

[-] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Which would have only been slightly weirder than the guitarist from the band Queen helping.

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Read the title as "Queen's brain may help..." which puzzled me I must say

[-] sizzler@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Read the title as "Queen Brian" and simply thought "about time"

[-] Endorkend@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

It's a given since he got his Sir Brian title from King Charles :p

[-] theodewere@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

late 20th Century swing quartet

[-] TomMasz@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago

Rock 'n' Roller in the streets
Astrophysicist in the sheets

[-] theodewere@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

and he wrote music that helped Flash Gordon save the Universe

[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

He's such a legend, this included, but I'll never be able to forget the story about his catastrophic arse failure

[-] spider@lemmy.nz 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not only is he the Queen guitarist

Pretty good vocalist, too.

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