Kevin Hainline

There is no chance.
There are no parts.

This is Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans for me, I mean, it's great, but Apple Music is like "wow, every year, you just can't get enough, you're in the top 1% of digging Bill Evans I guess"

the way he just walks into the other room, just stops the whole movie to leave it for a bit, to demonstrate our responsibility to each other; it’s kind of magical

I know it’s not a competition but I think when we look back we’re gonna be the most holy shit impressed by what MIRI has done

bummer about the lack of an X picture. I know what I'd put for the letter ("X is for X-rays that come from deep space") perhaps highlighting the rocket flights in the early 60s where the first astronomical X-ray observations were being undertaken

I Saw a Vision of Chocolate’s Future in an Amsterdam Brownie The real-life Willy Wonkas of confectionary are racing to cut the use of expensive cocoa. Their creations are delicious, but there’s a downside, too.

(As a fan of chocolate it's a great and very sobering article from @lararhiannon.bsky.social, but I just can't get over the weird graph similarities, like even down to the fact that 1 year is about 1 micron on the chart what is going on)

a chart showing the flux from a Y dwarf as a function of wavelength, with a picture of the little brown dwarf in the top right (it looks like a rose), and the 1D and 2D spectra underneath. It rises only at longer wavelengths. It looks a lot like this chocolate price chart.

this is from a paper I'm putting together of a 300 K brown dwarf and it's kind of insane how similar it is

I want to fit this cocoa price chart and determine the effective temperature of this obvious Y dwarf, I might see phosphine absorption halfway through 2024

it’s so perfectly watchable, it just moves, it sings and dances, I want four hundred more Hail, Caesars

It’s a brown dwarf! It’s not a mystery! It’s still an exciting distant brown dwarf, so I wouldn’t call it mundane.

YouTube video by suprefan Bon Iver - 29 #Strafford APTS - Live @ The Hollywood Bowl 10-23-16 in HD

Yeah, Creeks really sits with you afterward, oof.

I remember at the Hollywood Bowl how he started noodling around on something I didn't recognize, and he started singing weird, and then it turned out he just had the capo on the wrong fret:

(I've seen Bon Iver twice, once in support of 22, A Million at the Hollywood Bowl where Patti Smith opened for him in the rain and it ruled, and the other was in support of his self-titled album at Hollywood Forever cemetery at DAWN, you had to show up the evening before and camp, it was magic)

22, A Million is a triumph of art, just a brilliant and complicated look at fame filled with strange texture and sonic landscapes and you're right to praise it

(SABLE, fABLE is pretty goofy by comparison, kind of a low-key stoner album)

I guess the theory would also be that he himself developed the Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7 while he was faking the footage so that he could use the lens during Barry Lyndon?

I hate conspiracy theories! We went to the moon! Many times!

There's an overwhelming amount of evidence for the moon landing (the retroreflectors, pictures we've taken of the site since landing there, the moon rocks we brought back, etc etc), but we live in a time of conspiratorial thinking. When times are chaotic, people grab onto anything that "makes sense"

Generally it’s always asked in good faith! People want to learn, but they’re getting most of their science news from short form videos and news headlines.

The reality that “science is complicated and nuanced and often it’s difficult to know what the evidence says” is not easily communicated.

My most common questions from the public:

- has JWST discovered aliens / why haven’t we discovered aliens
- what happened before the Big Bang
- what’s inside a black hole

(also TikToks they saw about the earth being flat/the moon landing being fake, or sensationalized media attention to articles)

In my intro Astro class this week we were discussing the moon and a student asked me if “people thought the moon landings were fake” and another student brought up some of the TikTok “evidence.” It happens frequently with me.

The Fox Theatre stage, before my show. A slide is projected, large, saying “Star Trek and American Culture”, with the Enterprise D from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Two men, employees of the Fox, stand on stage. The theatre is empty.

Oh wow, it’s exciting (and intimidating!) to be on such a big stage for this talk!

My talk is today at 1 PM Pacific, and if you're interested, you can watch live online, too, you just have to register at the link!

YouTube video by ElliYeet "Thunderstruck" But Every Other Beat Is Missing. (CC)

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Imagine how a stadium would go apeshit at this beautiful nonsense

there’s this weird edit of AC/DC’s Thunderstruck where they edit out every other beat and I’ve used it in softball and it sounds insane and I would love to hear a crowd try to sing along to Brian Johnson’s unintelligible half syllables

Two pictures. Left, me standing as a child dressed as Lt. Commander Data, with my younger brother wearing a red sweater. We're both smiling. Right, me sitting on stage while the actor John de Lancie talks at an event. I'm very excited in both pictures.

I'm a life-long Star Trek fan. Here's me, as a child, dressed as Data, wearing a costume my mom sewed, with my little brother. And here's me also, a few years ago, talking with John de Lancie (Q!) on stage at an event, giddy to be so close to someone so omnipotent.

I spent my evening doing a deep research dive into Star Trek, because I'm giving a talk on Tuesday here in Tucson about the cultural impact of the series. These shows, and these stories, are so important to me as they helped me understand our responsibility to each other, and to our curiosity.

wait didn’t he graduate from emory

I was just up at the same observatory that Brule visited and the thing is he was right we do use these big dirty churches full of junk to look at stars

I finished it and I cried and cried and it’s something very special to have on my shelf, something that can directly tap into this vast warehouse of important emotion, it is an immense work and I never want anyone to try to “adapt” it I want it as it is, perfect, and forever

A used vinyl record for a band called for no reason Steeleye Span, sorry if you clicked this the joke isn’t that good whoops

we have steely dan at home

Legally required to point out the Diner in Tom’s Diner is right under NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, where someone in the crowd during a 1967 talk by John Archibald Wheeler coined the term “black hole.”

talking at carnegie today with an astronomer about infrared selection of AGNs and she said "ah, so, [the technique] is reliable but not complete" and I think I want that as a t-shirt

RELIABLE
BUT NOT
COMPLETE