Light Speed
How a terrible 80s pop-rock hit forces me to rant about the speed of light.
As a skeptic I believe that our obsession with 80s music is a prime example of confirmation bias: we tend to remember the few songs that were actually good and forget how utterly crap all the rest of the music was. But for some arcane reason the radio in the laboratory was tuned to an all 80s station today. My poor ears caught parts of the lyrics of Europe’s The Final Countdown and something just didn’t make sense… besides the über-cheesy synthesizer melody. Prepare for a jump to hyperspace»