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Interesting to Think About

// November 11th, 2008 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

While subbing I read this pretty long article with a lot of scientific mumbo-jumbo I didn’t necessarily understand. I found it through Digg, and the article is basically saying how Scientists can justify “cosmic coincidences” without resorting to a benevolent creator theory or belief… aka, religion. But, it is interesting to think about it. From the end of the article:

If these cosmic traits were just slightly altered, life as we know it would be impossible. A few examples:

• Stars like the sun produce energy by fusing two hydrogen atoms into a single helium atom. During that reaction, 0.007 percent of the mass of the hydrogen atoms is converted into energy, via Einstein’s famous e = mc2 equation. But if that percentage were, say, 0.006 or 0.008, the universe would be far more hostile to life. The lower number would result in a universe filled only with hydrogen; the higher number would leave a universe with no hydrogen (and therefore no water) and no stars like the sun.

• The early universe was delicately poised between runaway expansion and terminal collapse. Had the universe contained much more matter, additional gravity would have made it implode. If it contained less, the universe would have expanded too quickly for galaxies to form.

• Had matter in the universe been more evenly distributed, it would not have clumped together to form galaxies. Had matter been clumpier, it would have condensed into black holes.

• Atomic nuclei are bound together by the so-called strong force. If that force were slightly more powerful, all the protons in the early universe would have paired off and there would be no hydrogen, which fuels long-lived stars. Water would not exist, nor would any known form of life.

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Moving Time

// November 1st, 2008 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Welp, I spend the last week or so moving so there hasn’t been much time for extra little projects. While moving out I found my old digital camera that i bought in college for like $125. I mean OLD. This thing is like 1.2 megapixels. It was cool ’cause i found the cable for it also, and downloaded the pictures. Talk about a blast from the past, has it really been 3 or 4 years since we graduated? Sheesh.

Judo Chop played a halloween gig at the Old Post office which was really cool. I put together a compilation video of some bits and pieces of our show… again, nothing special but the show itself was awesome. First off, the old post office is this amazing building with like, 6 story high ceilings. Here’s the vid:

Speaking of Judo Chop & Orange Line, I’m trying real hard to get back into the writing music thing. It’s tough to find time for everything you want to do, but I’m working on my discipline. We’re hitting up Dragonfly studios in December to track our song “Grace.” We’re gonna release our 10 song album that we’ve been sitting on for a long time finally as well. With the new song though, we’re going to have to do a video for it and put it together in a digital press kit to get agent representation.

Lots of people ask me when we’re going to play out as Orange Line. Now while I really do want to play some local shows so my friends can hear the band, we have our sights set higher than just doing bar gigs for 30 or 40 people. It’s easy to fall into the swing where you play the same show every time to the same people. Playing with other bands gets you a few new fans, but it’s an extremely slow and long road winning over 5 fans at a time. If we’re able to land a good agent, we can try to get gigs opening for significantly larger acts. In our eyes, a 3 hour drive to play a 15 minute opening slot for a larger act is much more benficial to our career than a local headlining show at a bar. Make sense? Gotta keep the goal in mind.