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Carl Sagan Sings
gijoel writes "Someone with too much time on their hands and access to Auto-Tune has taken clips from Carl Sagan's Cosmos series to make this fantastic song. Watch for the Stephen Hawking cameo."
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I did not realize until now how far Slashdot has fallen in it's attempt to become dig. A two-sentance summary linking to a youtube video?
This is ridiculous, kdawson should be ashamed, his bosses should be embarrassed, and the advertisers should be asking some difficult questions.
Maybe they can use it to make some new Michael Jackson songs. You know, from back when he was alive and still black.
Hawking has repeatedly stated that if we are to survive long term as a species, we will have to inhabit other worlds or at least colonize space
And I thought guys like this were supposed to be *smart* and understand the scope and scale of things universal. Why exactly, does the universe need or want us to survive? If the universe doesn't need us, why do *we* need us? Our likely eventual nuclear destruction won't even register as background noise. You know, if the LHC creates a black hole and sucks in the Earth and 7 billion people into in in a minute, I'm OK with that - really. Nobody will be around *not* to be OK with it.
So let's say that we do colonize space and/or other worlds. Why do these guys think that the "colonists" won't end up just like us in due time? Because they'll all be peaceful, collective "space hippies"? Puhhhleeze. How odd that incredibly intelligent people who study nature on the grandest of scales refuse to acklowledge nature's most basic laws such as supply-and-demand of limited resources which create greed, jealousy, crime, class separation, etc.
Except that Autotune The News is unbelievably dull, and its creators have no sense of songwriting or rhythm. The Sagan video is something you could actually hum twenty minutes after hearing it -- Autotune The News is atonal noise.
I can only assume that your generation retro minds will melt happily when mr. Rogers will be 'made singing' once again through the miracle of Auto-Tune .. and this time it will be with Britney Spears, advertising for Apple.
And you will dig it.
such events may cause massive black holes to appear at random