Oh, that was weird

( Minor spoilers for the movie Copying Beethoven )

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Downloaded (legally!) the Torchwood soundtrack album from Silva Screen. It's stunning - emotional strings-o-rama. Lots of heart-wrenching stuff around Owen and Tosh and their hard, sad lives. But it was Captain Jack's Theme, which I recognised at once but hadn't realised was specifically his, which poked me in the heart. The show would be so much less without its music.

The UFO screencaps John West rejected

A few of the ones I didn't end up including in my IBARW posting...

( Warning BIGness )

Science quotations

There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to his opinion as Fermi.
- Louis Alvarez

There once was a brainy baboon,
Who always breathed down a bassoon,
For he said, "It appears
That in billions of years
I shall certainly hit on a tune."
- Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.
- Elbert Hubbard

What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.
- Nikita Kruschev

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
- Wernher von Braun

The man in the moon isn't real. It's just a photo that the man who went there, put. Of himself.
- Alison, age 6.

ETA:

The information in our genome was witness to the birth of life on Earth. It bears all the marks of its passage through the ages, all the scars of its evolutionary heritage... Scientists don't know precisely how life began, but the near immortality of information has preserved a story that goes back to the very beginnings of life.
- Charles Seife