They do n’t make them like this any longer . casual astrophysicist and guitarist for Queen Brian May has gifted us with a song in testimonial to NASA’ssuccessful missionto flyby Ultima Thule . It ’s pure space - opera house rock that merit a place in the nerd cannon right alongside Queen ’s soundtrack for Flash Gordon .
As the new year arrived here on Earth , the team at NASA start receiving the first information from the New Horizons spacecraft confirming it had reach a cryptic aim on the outer edge of our solar system . Ultima Thule is an objective in the frozen Kuiper belted ammunition . Frozen in fourth dimension , the object may allow NASA to collect data that ithopescan give us further insight into the history and formation of our solar system . May , who earned hisPhD in astrophysicsin 2007 , dusted off his signature red ax and laid down a fittingly over - the - top anthem to mark the occasion .
Dr. May has been working with the New Horizon mission ’s skill team and order theNew York Timesthat he was reluctant to put on his rock star lid when a colleague first requested a new song about the military mission . He say he thought it would be difficult because he could n’t “ call back of anything that rhymes with Ultima Thule . ” Ultimately we got a video with some utterly cheesy 3D graphic , singing guitar harmony , and lyrics like :
New Horizons no one ’s ever seen before .
Limitless wonders in a never stop sky .
We may never , never attain them .
That ’s why we have to try !
Yes . It is that earnest throughout the entire Sung dynasty , and it ’s just the good sort of optimism to welcome the newfangled year . Yes , the late Freddie Mercury would ’ve been able-bodied to really sell these lyrics , but May does an admirable line of work on his own .
We have a bunch more data to download from New Horizons over the coming calendar month at the sorely slow rate of one kilobit per secondly . But when the high-pitched - def images start to come in around February , zigzag up May ’s song once again and shout - along : “ The future is beckoning and onward and onward we fly ! ”
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