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WCDT 4256-460 (May 4th - 8th, 2020)
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Gus_Smedstad on 06 May 2020, 06:30 ---I had no idea what a Theremin was, hence that didn’t register. The only electronic instrument I knew by name was the Moog.
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Fun fact; electronic instruments have been around since the 1800s! The singing-arc lamp is from 1899 and came about from William Duddell being tasked with trying to figure out how to stop the constant sounds carbon arc lamps produced[1]! I did a research paper on the history of electronic music for Music Appreciation back in college. Really wish I could find it since I'm having trouble trying to find the name of the instrument that used telegraph cables to make music.
[1] Carbon-arc lamps were widely used in place of the old lantern street lights even after the invention of the Swann-Edison lightbulb. The sound was described as a constant humming, hissing, or shrieking.
Case:
Before anyone asks about the suitability of theremins for dark matter detection or creating a 'pair instability supernova':
No and No.
Toodles,
Your Friendly Physics Department.
cesium133:
But they totally work as a quantum computer.
Cheers,
Your Friendly Physics Department Conspiracy Theory Planters
Tova:
--- Quote from: Gus_Smedstad on 06 May 2020, 19:18 ---From the same era, Dora and Emily in the same panel:
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2304
Not difficult at all to tell apart, back then. Hair and eyes primarily. Height too, but height's not always obvious in a comic. Unless we're talking at the ends of the curve, like Claire or Elliot.
Also, in looking back a bit from that strip to get context, I fell down a rabbit hole of revisiting old strips. I don't know if that happens to anyone else.
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No. It did not. Uh-huh. Nope.
wait where did that come from
Okay, so looking at all of these next to each other, I can definitely see where the Emily/Dora confusion came from.
Gus_Smedstad:
Man, the time you're putting into assembling supporting images for Internet forum posts. I wish I could not relate do that.
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