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Peter Mulvey Performs Vlad the Astrophysicist

Peter Mulvey · music · Watch on YouTube

Music performance & songsCosmology & astrophysics

What it is

Folk musician Peter Mulvey performs Vlad the Astrophysicist, a spoken-word style song that touches on why civilizations may never meet across space and time.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Brought up in Fermi paradox and alien-contact threads as a song that makes the point about distance in time and space.

  • 1 people recommended it
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  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “There's a song by one of my favorite artists, Peter Mulvey, which touches on this point.”

    Spoken-word song on why civilizations never meet across time and space

    twinkletwinkle_, 2021-11 · Recommendation · in “Aliens might just be too far away”

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Topics: folk music, fermi paradox, aliens, peter mulvey

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