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    Music Cover songs versus the original track, which ones are better?

    (2018) The Final Countdown (Europe) - Les Fo'Plafonds (2016) The Floppotron: The Final Countdown (2023) The Final Countdown on FLOPPOTRON 3.0 (2019) The Final Countdown on an Electric Toothbrush (Device Orchestra) (2015) Final Countdown on Musical Tesla Coils (Bobinas de Tesla) (Fabricio...
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    Music Talent Worthy of Wider Recognition

    https://www.speedoflightband.com/ (This band of siblings recently opened for another band of siblings The Warning (attempted search for =1&c[nodes][0]=20&o=replies']"The Warning" on PF) . ) Speed of Light - Teeth Speed of Light - Break Speed Of Light - Pain on a Chain (Official Video)...
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    Music Cover songs versus the original track, which ones are better?

    House of Pain (1984 album version, 1976/77 demo version for Gene Simmons) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_(Van_Halen_album) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Halen (1984) Van Halen - House of Pain (2015 Remaster) (1984) Van Halen - Full Concert - Monsters Of Rock Donington 1984 &t=21m50s...
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    Music Cover songs versus the original track, which ones are better?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Go_to_Sleep (May 24 1965) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Davies Here's the demo version The Kinks - I Go to Sleep (Demo Version) (Official Audio) (1965) I Go To Sleep - Peggy Lee (1967) Marion Maerz - I Go To Sleep (1967) - Beat-Club (2009) Sia - I Go...
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    Does it make sense to build new radio telescopes?

    https://public.nrao.edu/radio-astronomy/the-science-of-radio-astronomy/ How radio telescopes show us unseen galaxies | Natasha Hurley-Walker (TED) 'People didn’t believe it was possible': Dr Terry Percival (bolding mine) https://public.nrao.edu/news/from-cells-to-galaxies-and-beyond/...
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    Most Hard-Driving Music?

    OTOBOKE BEAVER - "I Checked Your Cellphone" Live 16,06,2023 at a SOLD-OUT Kanayama Brazil Coffee. (see also &t=15m40s I Checked Your Cellphone - Otoboke Beaver: Tiny Desk Concert (NPR Music) ; &t=2m20s Don't Light My Fire - Otoboke Beaver: Tiny Desk Concert (NPR Music) )...
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    I Please explain how length contraction and time dilation result in a constant c

    Restricting to relative-motion in 1 spatial dimension… light pulses involve the Doppler effect, which are direction-dependent (since the Doppler factor k depends on the sign of relative-velocity), whereas length-contraction and time-dilation do not depend on direction since \gamma is an...
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    A 1-Way Speed of Light

    Possibly useful (for conventions and links to references to theories and experiments): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_speed_of_light#Generalizations_of_Lorentz_transformations_with_anisotropic_one-way_speeds
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    Music Cover songs versus the original track, which ones are better?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicken_(music) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pee_Wee_Ellis (1968) (Alfred Ellis) James Brown (1968) FIRST RECORDING [THE CHICKEN] (JGC History) info: https://www.jazzguitarcomprehensive.com/rep/chicken,-the (2012) Pee Wee Ellis Assembly - The Chicken...
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    RIP Rainer Weiss (1932-2025)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Weiss https://news.mit.edu/2025/professor-emeritus-rainer-weiss-dies-0826 https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20250827 https://www.virgo-gw.eu/news/goodbye-rai-weiss/...
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    Music Cover songs versus the original track, which ones are better?

    More =1050205&o=date']Izzyful : #1,046 Tornado of Souls , #1,050 Cliffs of Dover More #1,815 Highway Star
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    Most Hard-Driving Music?

    More at #1,815 Highway Star in the Covers thread.
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    Site Usability nitpick -- Hyperlinks should be underlined

    Here are some sites you might like a little better: https://physics.stackexchange.com/ (you have to find a post with hyperlinks in the text or comments) https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/ (you have to find a post with hyperlinks in the text or comments) https://gregbernhardt.com/
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    I Understanding the historical shift away from absolute simultaneity

    (I'm new to the whole LET discussion.... and maybe this is off-topic... while LET appears to be primarily an interpretive alternative to special relativity, does it have any predictive power on its own, from purely LET-foundations? Could an LET-theorist, from first LET-principles alone and...
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    Most Hard-Driving Music?

    Here's another one from Japan (2019) おとぼけビ~バ~Otoboke Beaver - Don't Light My Fire ハートに火をつけたならばちゃんと消して帰って [Official Music Video] https://www.otobokebeaver.com/
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