Thursday, January 20, 2011

ASTROPHYISCS!!!!!

Last night, my friend Robin Monheit, I attended The Secret Science Club at the Bell House which featured the amazing Astrophysicist Charles Liu. Astrophysics is my favorite kind of physics after quantum and particle, but after watching the amazingly hilarious, informative, and delightful Charles Liu... i may have to rethink that. The place was PACKED. At least 300 people, standing room only, and quiet enough to hear a pin drop. The crowd was filled with the kind of people you might expect at like, a Warpaint show... not the type of folk you might expect at a science lecture. Are science lectures the new indie rock show? Fuck, i hope so.

There's video of the lecture below -- 1 minute segments because that's how my G1 works... but the video also includes me on stage singing a couple songs with Liu. Kind of surreal. I was as excited about that as I was when AndrewWK put me up on his shoulders during one of his shows in 2003.

Anyway, I asked people to submit #astrophysicspickuplines on twitter. Here are the entries (including my own):

sarah lewitinn
I want to get theoretically physical with you and let you explore my clusters... maybe even my black hole.
Rosemary Gonzalez
RT @: I want to matter to you.
Kevin DeStefan
@
@ I'm CERN your bosons are giving me a raging Hadron.
A Second City Saint
@ let's go & play "Large Hadron Collider": you shoot your proton beams & make my particles accelerate
Danny Gonshor
Imma let you finish, as soon I spontaneously combust all up in you

Tom Fiffer
@
@ @ Sure, size matters, but everything is relative
David Capogna
RT @: I Wanna Some Of Your Phi!
Tom Fiffer
@
@ @ You're going out a white dwarf, but you're coming back a star!

Tom Fiffer
@
@ @ Is your universe expanding, or is that just a slide rule in your pocket?
Tom Fiffer
@
@ @ Can I show you my particle accelerator?
Allan M
@ "Hey baby, what's your sine?"
sarah lewitinn
I want to feel your skin before I see it (because light travels at 108,000 miles/hr). @
sarah lewitinn
I want to matter to you.

Johnny McDaid
@
@ ' I'm sensing some really dark energy between us...will you sleep with me?'
Johnny McDaid
@
@ 'who took the stars from the sky and shoved them up your ass?'.
Johnny McDaid
@
@ ok so how about 'Uranus is my favourite planet.'

sarah lewitinn
Show me your antimatter.
Justin Warfield
@
@ "is that a flux capacitor in your pocket, or...."
Aaron Steinbach
@
@ "hi, I like super-novas, do you?"
chantal claret
@ I have this big bang theory that I wanna test out with your help.
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chantal claret
@ I like your pi's
Tom Fiffer
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@ @ Can I show you my particle accelerator?
Maria Garcia
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@ "I'd love to be the tangent to your curves"
chantal claret
@
@ come with me if you have a thing for white dwarfs with black holes




And here are the videos:
























These next bunch of videos are of me on stage singing Astrophysics songs with Charles Liu:





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