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Rhino Syncs
I finished reading The Salmon of Doubt yesterday and I discovered a few more eerie coincidences concerning the date Douglas Adams died (May 11th) and the name Del Rey, which is the name of the book publishers who printed his last book.
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| Page 237 of The Salmon of Doubt ... "Life was too short ..." |
This is the last time
Cause you and I,
we were born to die"
Lana Del Rey (Born to Die)
Page 237 of the Salmon of Doubt - "Life was too short..."
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| 2001?! |
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| Warwick was born on 3 February 1970 (2/3/70) |
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| Page 237 and 2001? Kubrick movie memes? |
If you listen to the guy in the video below, he says that if you fold a piece of paper 42 times that is enough to reach from the earth to the moon?! Hmm.
"Feet don't fail me now
Take me to the finish line
All my heart, it breaks every step that I take
But I'm hoping that the gates,
They'll tell me that you're mine
Walking through the city streets
Is it by mistake or design? I feel so alone on a Friday night"
Take me to the finish line
All my heart, it breaks every step that I take
But I'm hoping that the gates,
They'll tell me that you're mine
Walking through the city streets
Is it by mistake or design? I feel so alone on a Friday night"
The
movie Broken Hearts Club was released in Adams' home
country on the exact day he died of a heart attack.
11th May 2001 -
(UK Release).
Jeff Who Lives at Home (2011) was released in the UK
(Douglas Adams was
an Englishman) on
11th May 2012.
Also The Dish was released in the UK the same day Adams died.
"The Dish is a 2000 Australian film that tells a somewhat fictionalized story of the Parkes Observatory's role in relaying live television of man's first steps on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.
It was the top grossing film in Australia in 2000."
The Dish
Douglas
Adams (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) died on the same date and in
the same state, California, as Walter Sydney Adams.
Long-time director of Mt. Wilson Observatory.
Birthplace: Kassab, Syria.
"Born in Syria, where his parents were Christian missionaries, Walter S. Adams saw heaven in a different light and became one of his time's leading astronomers.
He worked at the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin, then accompanied his mentor George Ellery Hale to Mt. Wilson Observatory in California, where he succeeded Hale as the Observatory's director.
An expert on stellar spectroscopy, he was one of few scientists with a knack for explaining astronomical news in terms a layman could understand, and as such he was for decades quoted whenever space made the news.
He described his direct work with spectrograms as "the only fun I have."
He identified Sirius B as the first known white dwarf star, and his measurements of gravitational redshift helped confirm the Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.
With Arnold Kohlschütter, Adams showed that the absolute magnitudes of stars could be determined by the relative intensities of their spectral lines.
With Hale, he discovered magnetic fields in sunspots, and measured the differential rotation of the sun.
With Theodore Dunham Jr., he discovered carbon dioxide in Venus's atmosphere, and discerned several elements in interstellar gas clouds.
His 1941 analysis of the atmosphere of Mars made headlines for its skeptical conclusion that finding life on Mars was extremely unlikely.
Though he "retired" in 1946, Adams continued working at the Hale Solar Laboratory until his death ten years later, and conducted some of his most important work during this time.
He was also deeply involved in the planning of the Palomar Observatory,
and he served for forty years on his local library board."
Walter S. Adams
Warwick Davis plays Oberon in the movie Ray. (Del Rey?-)
It was the top grossing film in Australia in 2000."
The Dish
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| The Apollo 11 on its way to Room 237? 42? Adams? |
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| Walter Sydney Adams (December 20, 1876 – May 11, 1956) |
Long-time director of Mt. Wilson Observatory.
Birthplace: Kassab, Syria.
"Born in Syria, where his parents were Christian missionaries, Walter S. Adams saw heaven in a different light and became one of his time's leading astronomers.
He worked at the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin, then accompanied his mentor George Ellery Hale to Mt. Wilson Observatory in California, where he succeeded Hale as the Observatory's director.
An expert on stellar spectroscopy, he was one of few scientists with a knack for explaining astronomical news in terms a layman could understand, and as such he was for decades quoted whenever space made the news.
He described his direct work with spectrograms as "the only fun I have."
He identified Sirius B as the first known white dwarf star, and his measurements of gravitational redshift helped confirm the Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.
With Arnold Kohlschütter, Adams showed that the absolute magnitudes of stars could be determined by the relative intensities of their spectral lines.
With Hale, he discovered magnetic fields in sunspots, and measured the differential rotation of the sun.
With Theodore Dunham Jr., he discovered carbon dioxide in Venus's atmosphere, and discerned several elements in interstellar gas clouds.
His 1941 analysis of the atmosphere of Mars made headlines for its skeptical conclusion that finding life on Mars was extremely unlikely.
Though he "retired" in 1946, Adams continued working at the Hale Solar Laboratory until his death ten years later, and conducted some of his most important work during this time.
He was also deeply involved in the planning of the Palomar Observatory,
and he served for forty years on his local library board."
Walter S. Adams
May 11th is also my wife's birthday.
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| Lana Del Rey |
Del Rey's left hand is tattooed with the letter "M", referencing her grandmother, Madeleine, and the word "paradise".
Her right hand is tattooed with the phrase "trust no one".
She also has the phrase
"die young" tattooed on her right ring finger.
UPDATE: November, 2015
If you liked those Lana Del Rey synchs above, then you might like reading this post, as well?
You're the stellar synchro researcher, Daz. Nicely done.
ReplyDeleteIn Spanish, Del Rey means "of the king." They're an imprint of ballantine books, which is owned by random house (at least, the last time I checked!) Don't know why I included that last part except that there's nothing RANDOM about random house.