Brian May, Rock Legend, Publishes His Thesis 198
A year ago we took note when Brian May, guitarist for Queen for the last 30 years, submitted his thesis for a Ph.D. in astrophysics. The news now is that the thesis has been published. You, too, can read all about the population of tiny asteroids and space dust that cause the Zodiacal light. The completed thesis appears as the book "A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud" (Springer and Canopus Publishing Ltd., 2008), available at Amazon for $71.96. May was awarded his Ph.D. last summer and accepted a position as chancellor at a British university in November.
Too pricey (Score:5, Funny)
Rock music (Score:5, Funny)
Full thesis title (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Rock music (Score:5, Funny)
Two down, two to go (Score:5, Funny)
Now all he needs to do is learn how to do brain surgery and start making movies.
If you don't get the joke, rent this one:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086856/ [imdb.com]
and watch the extended version
Professors (Score:5, Funny)
His astrophysicist professors kept arguing with him that despite his assertions, fat-bottomed girls did not make the world go round.
Dedicatory (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Professors (Score:5, Funny)
However, it appears that travelling at the speed of light would make a supersonic man out of you.
Re:Good for him (Score:5, Funny)
As someone going for their PhD, I have to wonder if it actually does.
Re:Full thesis title (Score:5, Funny)
I wonder if he used a radio-ga-ga telescope to get his data?
WIth a cool doctoral dissertation like that (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Checking astro-ph... (Score:3, Funny)
He isn't going to publish it on a public source because he is
following the advice of everyone on Slashdot and adding some form of
value added feature to his music. At $71 a print he can make enough
money to support his touring habit and get all the money that the
labels never paid out from their lawsuits-to-protect-the-artists.
Think of it as a very expensive tour shirt except that has a lot more /end insane_justification
text on it and you can't get it on a tour.
Re:Full thesis title (Score:2, Funny)
No, it was "Fat-Bottomed Girls, They Make the Rockin' World Go 'Round: A Study of Possible Causes of Gravity."
(TOTALLY stolen from UserFriendly, go upmod that site if you like this comment)
Re:Rock music (Score:3, Funny)
Mercury or Uranus. Maybe both.
Obligatory Simpson's (Score:4, Funny)
Homer: "Rock stars- they know everything!"
Re:Too pricey (Score:1, Funny)
$71.96? Come on, Halo 3 was only $60 and that cost $100,000,000 to make.
So tell him where to stick that fancy label.
The real question is... (Score:3, Funny)
I think... (Score:5, Funny)
...he's going to be the only person in academic history to actually generate any income from selling his Ph.D thesis.
Re:Full thesis title (Score:5, Funny)
The rotation of oscillating rotational planets, as influenced by female homo sapiens with large gluteal regions.
Re:Dedicatory (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The real question is... (Score:5, Funny)
Is Brian May a LaTeX user? Perhaps he could write a song about it.
I Want to Break Free?
Chinese Torture?
I'm Going Slightly Mad?
Re:Rock music (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Full thesis title (Score:3, Funny)
The rotation of oscillating rotational planets, as influenced by female homo sapiens with large gluteal regions.
Fat-bottomed Girls to the less verbose-minded.
Re:Too pricey (Score:3, Funny)
So tell him where to stick that fancy label.
Somehow I doubt May has been sleeping on any sidewalks recently...
</inside-joke>
He's no Buckaroo Bonzai (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The real question is... (Score:3, Funny)
Perhaps if Freddie had been, he'd still be here now...
Oh, "LaTeX", not... you know...