Throwdown of the musical physicists: Cox vs May

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

2 luxuriant mops, 2 physics phds, one has a higher citation index, the other more number 1 records.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mki_v4MH_mc
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v240/n5381/abs/240401a0.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl-ai9HuR60
http://www-spires.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?irn=8673195

Poll Results

Option	Votes
May	5
Cox	4

― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 12:20 (thirteen years ago)

on musical output cox

― conrad, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 13:09 (thirteen years ago)

I prefer Carl Sagan's musical output:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc

― Karen D. Tregaskin, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 13:12 (thirteen years ago)

better hairdo too

― conrad, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 13:14 (thirteen years ago)

(ha, *james* may was doing this on monday night - nicely animated but a bit light:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012brt1

)

― koogs, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 13:16 (thirteen years ago)

And Sagan never wore that appalling sleeveless outfit on TOTP like Prof Cox. With a mullet, no less.

I know I was the OG Cox fan on ILX (this is my indie "I liked him before yooooouuuuu all did!" first album whinge) but I've kind of gone off him a bit. Not even so much for the annoyingness of the Wonders nu fans, but more, that whole thing whereby physical scientists suddenly feel the need to consider themselves experts on philosophy or religion the moment they've got a pulpit.

― Karen D. Tregaskin, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 13:19 (thirteen years ago)

the now show did a good pisstake of Cox last friday.

Brian Cox Live from glastonbury with Billy Bragg was pretty awful.

― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 15:45 (thirteen years ago)

have the book may did with p moore and some other dude, it's v good but i dunno how much of it is down to him

I've repped for cox's programmes, they're v good but tbh i dunno how much of that's down to him.

― Darranzhi MacKhakhala (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 16:01 (thirteen years ago)

"some planets might have yamaha dx7s. a yamaha dx7 is a popular make of synthesizer. here is a yamaha dx7, it's amazing" - brian cox on a yamaha dx7

― Once Were Moderators (DG), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 16:47 (thirteen years ago)

amuhzinguhhh

― Darranzhi MacKhakhala (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 17:29 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago)

seven years pass...

planets on bbc2 rn psyched

― daenerys baker (darraghmac), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 20:08 (six years ago)

I legit thought this was a thread on Carl Cox v. Derrick May for a second and was thoroughly confused.

― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 20:09 (six years ago)

Cox's apples and May's.... oranges

― or something, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 20:30 (six years ago)

srsly it's good

― godfellaz (darraghmac), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 20:24 (six years ago)

Jo vs. Theresa... errrrrrr

― John Harris is a Guardian columnist (Tom D.), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 20:28 (six years ago)

guys these are really fuckin good, total bliss-out graphics of deep space collisions, meteor impacts, early galaxy jupiter lurking around waiting for the sun to ignite, just the ticket

― godfellaz (darraghmac), Thursday, 13 June 2019 21:54 (six years ago)

bbc2 nowwwwww

― godfellaz (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 20:08 (six years ago)

can't right now but yeah the first one was grand, didn't anticipate feeling sorry for a planet - poor old mercury & venus, coulda been contenders. easier to make convincing cgi planets than dinosaurs for sure.

― The Pingularity (ledge), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 20:27 (six years ago)

I'm no Cox fan but I've been enjoying these.

― emil.y, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 21:19 (six years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.