Roughly thirty bazillion people have sent me notice about this YouTube video. It was made by astronomers, and spoofs observing at the Hawaii observatory to the tune of "Hotel California" .
I am probably the last astroblogger on Earth to post this, and since Science magazine even had it in this week’s issue (click the image below for the text), I have to assume I am the last person to have actually seen it, too.
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The original BA site (with the Moon Hoax debunking, movie reviews, and all that) can be found here.
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December 29th, 2007 at 8:29 am
Oh my goodness, this one has me actually up in tears (I wanted to study astrophysics, but somehow deviated from the path and went into literature and philosophy instead).
Beautiful!
^_^J.
December 29th, 2007 at 9:04 am
Love it, love Hotel California and always wanted to Mauna Kea.
December 29th, 2007 at 9:07 am
When do we get the version about Super-Kamiokande?
December 29th, 2007 at 9:45 am
sorry, should have said I always wanted to go to Mauna Kea.
December 29th, 2007 at 10:00 am
…and I guess I’m the only astronomer who doesn’t think it is all that funny!
December 29th, 2007 at 10:20 am
Brilliant!
December 29th, 2007 at 10:26 am
Nope, I must have seen it because I didn’t know about it until you told me. Heh. Loved it, but what I really loved was the scenery. What a glorious place to work. From what it looks like in the video, those people know it.
December 29th, 2007 at 11:02 am
Apparently, I am now the last person on earth to have seen it.
Thanks for sharing!
December 29th, 2007 at 11:29 am
No, I’M the last person to have seen it.
December 29th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Now that is funny!
The real song Hotel California is kind of creepy if you actually listen to the words.
December 29th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
Very funny. Now you weren’t the last one to see it!
“The real song Hotel California is kind of creepy ”
It’s more a lyrical version of Thomas Wolfe’s “You Can’t Go Home Again” It wasn’t until I was in my 30′s before I realized the full meaning of what Wolfe meant. I guess it happens to nearly everyone at some point in their lives. Maybe it hasn’t happened to you yet?
December 29th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
Besides the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, this is the other place I would love to visit!
December 29th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
“It’s more a lyrical version of Thomas Wolfe’s “You Can’t Go Home Again” It wasn’t until I was in my 30’s before I realized the full meaning of what Wolfe meant. I guess it happens to nearly everyone at some point in their lives. Maybe it hasn’t happened to you yet?”
It’s NOT about a cursed hotel in the middle of the desert?
December 29th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
“It’s NOT about a cursed hotel in the middle of the desert?”
LOL! If it was it would have been called Hotel Las Vegas.
December 30th, 2007 at 12:38 am
An altitude of difference between Hotel Mauna Kea and Mauna Kea Beach Hotel! One is closed after the big earthquake, but the summit one seems to be producing a mountain of new discoveries all the time, and they are willing to share the fascinating findings with the local citizens. How lucky we are to have such a world renowned observatory in our neighbourhood. The summit is snow capped for the past few weeks. I bet the tail bashing humpbacks also enjoy the spectacular backdrop.
The only odd feature of the song is her pronunciation of ‘Kea’. She makes it into a triphthong like ‘Keia’. She has a nice voice, though. The guitarist is superb! Wish he performs at one of the outreach lectures at Keck HQ.
Enjoyed the video thoroughly.
Mahalo!
December 30th, 2007 at 2:21 am
‘S okay, everyone. I’m the last person to have heard of this.
It was cool.
Thanks, BA. If you had not blogged about it, I would not have heard of it ever.
Blake Stacey – I guess if they do a “Super-Kamiokande” it would have to be to the tune of “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”.
In a lab I worked in in Glasgow a few years back, we did a short parody of the song “Bob the Builder” :- “Clare the Cloner”. It caused much amusement, but we were not sufficiently musical to do a good job of recording it a la Hotel Mauna Kea.
December 30th, 2007 at 4:48 am
Okay, so when do other observatories get their own songs?
Stuck on Kitt Peak (Dust in the Wind)?
J/P=?
December 30th, 2007 at 8:22 am
Absolutely wonderful. So much talent and effort. And that Kelly! Any chance she might like older men? I am in love, and I don’t mean with the scenery. She has a second career (on stage) if she chooses. And, yes, great guitar as well. Fabulous, fabulous, fabulous.
December 30th, 2007 at 9:24 am
Clever. Kelly does have a lovely voice, but I’m going to reword MO Man’s post:
They’re lucky they only got a flat tire. When I was up there last July my guide said taking one’s own car can be risky over the gravel roads and tow-trucks cost upwards of $600. It’s beautiful up there, though, and it was definitely a “hotel” I didn’t want to leave. Thanks for posting it, BA.
Now I can’t get, “On a volcanic highway, cool wind in my hair…” out of my head. (-8~
December 30th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
“Pale mists of the cyrogen,… drifting down through the air…”
LOL
December 30th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Love it! I feel so sorry over the tribulations of the poor folks who must make their living stargazing in Hawaii.
December 31st, 2007 at 1:17 am
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January 4th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Cecil Adams, in his The Straight Dope column, made a fairly good case that it’s about drugs, e.g., “You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.”
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