43: Gravitational Waves, The Loneliest Animal, and Graffiti

How long have we been searching for Gravitational Waves?  What is the loneliest animal, and what does it mean to be lonely?  And what really makes graffiti... graffiti?Support us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!Timestamps:(00:00:00) Intro(00:04:26) Gravitational Waves(00:41:01) The Loneliest Animal(01:14:17) Graffiti(01:45:21) OutroWe also learn about: Invisible ripples in spacetime that move at the speed of light and squeeze and stretch spacetime, Aristotle would have lost his mind at gravitational waves, Einstein’s theory of general relativity, gravity is bends in spacetime, Einstein’s 1915 prediction, gravitational waves are stupid… unless? pulsars are cosmic lighthouses, binary pulsars are two bowling balls dropped in a lake that we think are big enough to ripple to our shore, Einstein predicted them and then we found them, I found a math drawing in space, LIGO finding gravitational waves 100 years after Einstein’s theory, thank you Yano, gravitational waves click with Caroline, LIGO can measure 1/10,000th the width of a proton, measuring the collision of 2 black holes 1.3 billion years ago, International Pulsar Timing Array, the hum of the universe, the background hum of hundreds of thousands of black holes merging, hypothetical one dimensional cosmic strings, i thought you said this was silly, have you ever been alone in a crowded room, "I want to know what loneliness is to you Ella”, the elusive snow leopard, “just tell me how snow leopards fuck Caroline”, lonely ants live 11 times shorter, giving mirrors to make cows less lonely, the song of the Kauai Oo, lonesome George sold out, Albert the Albatross’s theme song, Albie the Albatross, finding 52 Blue the whale from declassified hydrophones, capitalism isolates animals too! are we projecting and processing loneliness onto conservation, Tom’s contractual Carly Rae Jepsen mention, graffiti used to only mean ancient graffiti, farts for the old man, I am Hiyya! Lysias is Handsome, is graffiti art? Kilroy was here, Faulkner wants to write a Kilroy was here, remember the writer and the reader and me, transient and permanent graffiti, NYC Subway Graffiti, “How did they do that?!”, graffiti as high art, Ivan + Hayley, local graffiti, Taki 183, Warren Robinett’s Atari graffiti, fuck you I was hereSources:LIGO: What are gravitational waves?The History of Gravitational WavesPulsarsWhat is LIGOLIGO 2015 DiscoveryCosmic ChirpsNANOGravInternational Pulsar Timing ArrayPulsar Timing ArraysThe NANOGrav 15 yr Data SetCosmic Strings---Snow Leopard Trust2022 Paper: Neurobiology of Loneliness, Isolation, and Loss: Integrating Human and Animal Perspectives2015 Paper: Social Isolation Causes Mortality by Disrupting Energy Homeostasis in Ants2019 Paper: Can Access to an Automated Grooming Brush and/or a Mirror Reduce Stress of Dairy Cows Kept in Social Isolation?Forbes: Companion Parrots May Be Less Lonely When They Phone Their Feathered FriendsGalapagos Conservancy: Lonesome GeorgeSmithsonian: Spix’s MacawThe  Call of the Kauai OoBBC: No Romance for Lovesick AlbatrossRSPB: The Black-browed Albatross, Albie, at RSPB Bempton CliffsThe Guardian: Albie the AlbatrossNOS: Why Do Whales Make Sounds?Smithsonian: Maybe the World’s Loneliest Whale Isn’t So Isolated, After AllThe Guardian: The Search for the Loneliest Whale in the WorldPBS: Ship Noises Mute the Songs of Humpback Whales2018 Paper: Change in Singing Behavior of Humpback Whales Caused by Shipping Noise---UCL Jeanine Ancelet on History of GraffitiPenn Museum on Mayan GraffitiASOR on Ancient Near East GraffitiSmithsonian Mag on Pompeii GraffitiIAS on the Athenodoros GraffitiBoston College Pompeii Graffiti TranslationMuseum of Cycladic ArtTim O Gorman on KilroyWilliam Falkner at UVA Q&A TranscriptHistory of American Graffiti Authors on PBSColosseum GraffitiHarvard International Review on BanksyNYT Interview with Taki183Adam Clayton's Letter to AtariRobinett on Adventure Easter EggWired Interview with Robinett Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinlearn