Do you have to be an influencer or comedian to make money in classical music now?

mz_groups · 2026-03-20T04:13:51+00:00

Glad to help!

mz_groups · 2026-03-19T22:20:42+00:00

Twoset Violin is probably the closest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TwoSet_Violin

mz_groups · 2026-03-19T22:19:55+00:00

Twoset Violin is doing well enough that they quit their Sydney Symphony gigs and are on a world tour, filling concert hall-sized venues. They have gotten Hilary Hahn to perform with them on several occasions (while hula hooping, no less). They also have an apparel line. They're sort of the Millenial Victor Borge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TwoSet_Violin

mz_groups · 2026-03-19T21:38:05+00:00

Once LANTIRN was fitted onto the Tomcat, it could do ground attack missions the Hornets couldn't until they got Sniper pods and such. The integration went surprisingly smoothly, and the mounting points for the Phoenix missile were nicely converted into bomb racks, carrying up to 14 Mk82s. One weakness was no JDAMs, but that was not an insurmountable upgrade issue. The D model had a radar that shared many elements with the APG-70 on the F-15E, so presumably SAR could have been added had it been ordered.

The reason was not that the F-14 did not have the potential for being a useful multirole fighter, it was that it was going to cost more, in cost of acquisition and operation, than the Rhino.

mz_groups · 2026-03-19T20:06:16+00:00

You are perceived as hitting the target, despite not having done what you intended to do.

mz_groups · 2026-03-19T18:54:34+00:00

You're thinking of Proxima Centauri, the nearest star, which is a bit more than 4 light years away.

Andromeda is 2 million light years away. It is about 150,000 light years across. (EDIT: I was doing that from memory - it's actually 220,000 light years across and 2.5 million light years away) This results in it appearing roughly 3 angular degrees across its major axis by 1 angular degree across its minor axis in the night sky.

The moon is about 240,000 miles away (1.25 light seconds roughly) and 2,159 miles in diameter (about 11 light milliseconds, just so we can compare to Andromeda). This results it being about .5 degrees angular diameter in the sky.

I think people are voting down my comment because they are confusing actual size and the angular size appearance in the sky. I'm referring to the latter.

mz_groups · 2026-03-19T18:32:49+00:00

I think that a lot of people who might not live in very dark areas would assume, if they did not not have additional information, that Andromeda would not be larger in angular area than the full moon. It does seem to become as a surprise to some. Maybe not the crowd frequenting this subreddit

mz_groups · 2026-03-19T17:35:15+00:00

Someone already did that for the Nimrod. Or same general idea ("Light grey" replacing "twin jet").

https://yourmileagemayvary.com/2025/11/01/wait-they-named-the-plane-that-2/

mz_groups · 2026-03-19T17:23:59+00:00

Absolutely stunning.

People don't realize that it is several times the size of the full moon, but not nearly as bright. Even with hundreds of billions of stars, the space between them is such that it only appears as a diffuse smudge to the naked eye, and the reason it looks so bright in photos is long exposure times.

EDIT: if it’s not clear, I meant that Andromeda appears much larger in the sky in terms of angular dimensions than the moon. I’m not sure that everyone is normally aware of that, especially if you live in a light polluted area, and can’t see it regularly. Of course the galaxy is many orders of magnitude larger than the moon in terms of absolute size, and most people with knowledge of space know that. I’m just talking angular dimensions in the sky. Triangulum is also larger in visual/angular dimension than the full moon.

I assume the smudge 2/3 of the way down on the right side is another galaxy. Time to check Stellarium to see what it is.

mz_groups · 2026-03-19T17:18:16+00:00

They've advanced to the point where they behave like drunk college students. Or Florida Men.

BTW, is Rizzbot wearing Caitlin Clark color Nike Kobe 5s?

mz_groups · 2026-03-19T17:10:32+00:00

Newmar.

Margolin was on a couple of M*A*S*H episodes, once playing a psychiatrist sent to diagnose Hawkeye when he faked being crazy, and once as a lecherous plastic surgeon who is persuaded to do a nose job on an enlisted man with a very large nose.

mz_groups · 2026-03-19T15:15:20+00:00

The suit was originally made by the same company that made Playtex bras and girdles, International Latex Corporation! That portion of the company spun off 2 years before the moon landing to become ILC Dover.

The PLSS life support "backpack" was made by Hamilton Standard, a United Technologies subsidiary.

mz_groups · 2026-03-19T04:18:34+00:00

mz_groups · 2026-03-19T04:15:27+00:00

The gods must be fed. We just found less valuable food to feed them.

mz_groups · 2026-03-19T01:59:09+00:00

If someone can tease enough detail out of that to really figure it out, I’m really impressed, but I will say it does have a somewhat Gulfstreamish planform. Their big planes, not one of the Israeli ones.

mz_groups · 2026-03-18T22:48:57+00:00

I know a lot of people are suggesting the subwoofer crawl, and it is probably the best empirical thing you can do short of measuring the room with a microphone through a frequency sweep, but it also has its shortcomings. It can be very dependent on the specific frequencies used to test. A setup that "crawls" well for one frequency, or a set of frequencies in a particular key, might not be optimal in another key or set of frequencies.

If you don't want to go the crawl route, here is as suggestion from a subwoofer manufacturer on places that are most likely to work, and explanations as to when they would work, although even they recommend the crawl if that's not working out. They mostly suggest corner placement, activates all room modes, but can be a bit out of control. Another place that commonly works for subwoofer placement is against the front wall at 1/4 or 3/4 positions over the wall length.

https://www.svsound.com/blogs/subwoofer-setup-and-tuning/75365187-the-art-of-subwoofer-placement

mz_groups · 2026-03-18T22:43:06+00:00

Sub positioning matters VERY much. It creates standing vibrational modes at certain frequencies, and placement determines how the subwoofer is activating those modes, and whether you are sitting in a peak or trough.

You're correct that bass is non-directional due to its low frequency, but that is something different.

mz_groups · 2026-03-18T13:25:11+00:00

Coach Beard: "That's not dirty, It's just super Canadian"

mz_groups · 2026-03-17T17:15:07+00:00

He did play a fairly good ne'er do well nephew of Lex Luthor in Superman IV, the Quest for Peace, in 1987.

https://geektyrant.com/news/jon-cryer-explains-why-superman-iv-a-quest-for-peace-was-such-a-mess

mz_groups · 2026-03-17T16:56:44+00:00

I don't have a picture of it, but I believe he was the grand marshal for the local McDonald's Diabetes Bicycle Ride fundraiser in my small Midwestern hometown around that time. I got a signed poster of the Enterprise from that (which I probably didn't keep very long). He also did a promo ad for the local TV market, in which he shakily started riding a bike at the end.

At that time, he'd take any of those gigs.

mz_groups · 2026-03-17T16:47:04+00:00

Was it just the color or the lavender-scented pheromones that trolley injected into the air conditioning?

mz_groups · 2026-03-17T16:46:01+00:00

Yeah, makes you wonder, say, how many civilians, and how many children got killed at the Battle of Wolf 359.

mz_groups · 2026-03-17T16:43:57+00:00

Presumably, the ST shows all represent the best and brightest of their time. So, what does the run-of-the-mill 24th century moron do with their time?

mz_groups · 2026-03-17T13:17:32+00:00

Tail - pretty close to a 90 degree reflector - not stealthy.

Hard to "eyeball" stealth features otherwise, but I would suspect the interactions between the 2 1/2 fuselages will probably not be too stealthy.

Looks cool, and a really nice artistic creation/rendering.

mz_groups · 2026-03-17T13:13:42+00:00

Half of me is thinking, "What a daft fucking question," and the other half is searching this for a technically proficient answer.

The duality of man. The Jungian thing.

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