Like Cosmo Kramer with the Elaine’s friend, the High Talker’s ex-girlfriend Noreen, this story from late Friday slipped right past my news goalie.
Queen guitarist Brian May ain’t just a pretty face and an inexplicable amount of ’80s hair — he’s also a doctor…of astrofuckingphysics:
He was awarded his qualification Thursday by London’s Imperial College after submitting his 48,000-word thesis, “Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud,” which seeks to prove that planets and dust clouds in the solar system orbit in the same direction. Mr. May was an astrophysics student at Imperial College when he joined Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor to form Queen in 1970, but dropped out as the glam-rock band became one of Britain’s biggest music groups in the 1970s, with hits including “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “We Will Rock You.”
Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud? I swear, I almost wrote the same exact one, but some yuppie pre-frosh tripped the wire and everyone in the computer lab lost all our theses — I ended up with “Motion of Helium Atoms In An Excited State.” I was then informed to watch out…it’s a scorcher.
Lame and relatively obscure old-school Piven references aside, it’s not every day you meet someone with a C.V. that boasts “guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer, astrophysicist.” But sure enough, May will be formally presented with his doctorate in May (what other month would it be) at a ceremony at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Awesome. Kudos bar to you, Mr. May. Sorry, Dr. May.
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Interestingly, this song made for a good reference for the title of a doctorate post, but it’s actually funny that there is NO guitar in the studio version other than the solo after about 2 minutes. So I picked a song out for the guitarist that features very little guitar. Thought I’d call myself out on that before someone else did. Sweetness.
Talk to me when this asshole becomes an expert on missile defense and consults with the government. I can rip on Bodhisttva AND talk Aegis defense systems.