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[–] 27 points 2 years ago

"And Brian doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene.
He's got a daytime job, he's doing all right."

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Nice to see him make good use of his degree. I always thought it was cool that there are two major British bands- Queen and Dare- with Astrophysicists in them.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    In October 2006, May re-registered for his doctorate at Imperial College, and he submitted his thesis in August 2007

    the revised thesis (titled "A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud")[1] was approved in September 2007, some 37 years after it had been commenced

    In 2020, he participated in the team that contributed the stereography images of numerical simulations of asteroid disruptions and re-accumulations in a publication in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications

    It actually sounds like he's pretty busy with the science these days.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    the revised thesis (titled "A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud")[1] was approved in September 2007, some 37 years after it had been commenced

    The king of procrastination

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Brian Cox was also in d:Ream.

    American but E from the eels, his dad came up with the Many Worlds Interpretation

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'd hesitate to call Dare "major."

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I mean, they're not Queen, but they charted.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Would I know any of their songs?

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    They should really specify 'The band Queen'

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    Rock 'n' Roller in the streets
    Astrophysicist in the sheets

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    and he wrote music that helped Flash Gordon save the Universe

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    He's such a legend, this included, but I'll never be able to forget the story about his catastrophic arse failure

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Not only is he the Queen guitarist

    Pretty good vocalist, too.

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