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Queen guitarist Brian May weighs in on Pluto as a planet (he has a doctorate in astrophysics)
CNET ^ | August 29, 2019 | Amanda Kooser

Posted on 08/29/2019 9:19:58 PM PDT by DoodleBob

You might not care what Keith Richards or Jimmy Page think about Pluto's status as a dwarf planet, but when Queen guitarist Brian May speaks up about it, it's worth a listen.

May, who received his doctorate in astrophysics in 2007, posted his Pluto thoughts on Instagram late Wednesday after hearing about how NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine still thinks of Pluto as a full-on planet.

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) tightened up its definition of a planet in 2006 and demoted Pluto to dwarf-planet status, sparking an ongoing debate that just won't rest. May is on the pro-planet side of the argument.

"Pluto was discovered and named as a planet awhile before I was born," May wrote on Instagram. "At that time it was generally instinctively understood that a planet was one of a family of roughly spherical objects that orbited the sun (rather than orbiting something else)."

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Music/Entertainment; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; brianmay; instagram; jimbridenstine; nasa; pluto; queen; science; xplanets
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1 posted on 08/29/2019 9:19:58 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: DoodleBob

Any truth to the rumor that after someone said Mercury was going to be removed from the list of planets another person said “Another one bites the dust”? /sarc


2 posted on 08/29/2019 9:23:38 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement (God Bless America. Thank you, Kate Smith!)
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To: DoodleBob

My FAVORITE guitarist from about 12 to 15.

Still think he plays great but too bad I had to read about his enviro-wackiness.

But the music’s still great.

And Freddy was a fruit and paid the price but recorded some of their very good songs while he was quite ill.

Don’t know if he made peace with God but it must have been tough recording while so sick.


3 posted on 08/29/2019 9:25:50 PM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Oh, here’s Death On Two Legs with a spot of humor. Not bad.


4 posted on 08/29/2019 9:27:25 PM PDT by deadrock
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To: DoodleBob

He looks a bit like Issac Newton


5 posted on 08/29/2019 9:43:56 PM PDT by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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To: ConservativeStatement

No Uranus jokes allowed.


6 posted on 08/29/2019 9:49:50 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Obscured by Clods)
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7 posted on 08/29/2019 9:59:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: dp0622

Had friends that loved Queen. Not a big fan, but I do possess their Killer Queen live CD. Have the Killer Queen single also. The only other song I love beside KQ is “39”. Brian May did all the falsetto opera-like singing.


8 posted on 08/29/2019 10:06:49 PM PDT by o-n-money
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To: dp0622

I would like to play his guitar.
He and his father built it pretty much from scratch and he has played it all these decades as his main instrument.
They made copies of it so that he can play them in the event he breaks a string.
It’s called the Red Special and he wrote a book about it.


9 posted on 08/29/2019 10:12:49 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: o-n-money

Homo Freddie Mercury did the singing, they just multi tracked his voice.


10 posted on 08/29/2019 10:14:15 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: DoodleBob
Well, to be fair (and I must admit I'b biased because I love Queen), May IS a genuine pointy-head PhD on the subject. He doesn't walk around calling himself an honorary 'doctor' or KBE, or any of that nonsense. He's actually put his nose to the grindstone and earned his doctorate the old-fashioned way: by studying and testing. Kudos to him for actually walking the walk, instead of waiting for some faculty administrators in an ivy-covered stone building deciding to bestow an honorary title for his works. Hell, any of us could do that. Pick a windmill to tilt, make it a hobby, lobby a little, and sooner or later, someone somewhere is gonna put you in a robe, slap the mortarboard on your head, and declare you an honorary professor of whatever bullshit you've been spouting off about.
11 posted on 08/29/2019 10:16:42 PM PDT by Viking2002
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To: nnn0jeh

Ping


12 posted on 08/29/2019 10:34:31 PM PDT by kalee
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To: DoodleBob
Brian May's great-(X20)-grandfather?

Image result for isaac newton pictures

13 posted on 08/29/2019 10:35:14 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: rfp1234

Not even this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0czFnIvKOJY


14 posted on 08/29/2019 10:40:17 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: o-n-money

39 was the one song from Night at the Opera that was not referenced in the Mercury bio-pic. It seemed like most of the others were played (full or in part) and the rest mentioned. But not 39. Unless the reference was really oblique.


15 posted on 08/29/2019 10:40:26 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: right way right

“Freddie Mercury did the singing, they just multi tracked his voice.”

No, they didn’t. I saw them perform. Amazing bunch of musicians no matter what their flaws are.

L


16 posted on 08/29/2019 10:40:54 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: ConservativeStatement; Gamecock; SaveFerris
Any truth to the rumor that after someone said Mercury was going to be removed from the list of planets another person said “Another one bites the dust”? /sarc

"The planets of our solar system incinerating, like fat-bottom girls' flaming globes!" (Sorry, best I could do).


17 posted on 08/29/2019 10:51:27 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Lurker

Here it is live.
They roll tape during the choir part.

As for the recording, I’m only repeated what I read more than once.
They multitracked Freddys voice.
Bands do it when recording instruments all the time, when in the studio.

https://youtu.be/3p4MZJsexEs


18 posted on 08/29/2019 11:02:56 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: DoodleBob

Only song I like from Queen is “I want to break free.”

I also like The December People’s version of I heard the bells on Christmas Day, it’s done in the style of Queen. It’s a fantastic version.


19 posted on 08/29/2019 11:12:23 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: DoodleBob

Looks like effing Sir Issac Newton he does eh....


20 posted on 08/29/2019 11:18:25 PM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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