Sh*tty Barn: Adam Faucett

http://www.shittybarnsessions.com/session?PAGE=77

He had the most beautiful singing voice of any man I've ever heard. Glad I had $10 and that they were selling his CDs for that amount (listening to it right now).

And, like so many Barn sessions, something unusual and unique happened: after his finishing song, he walked in front of the audience and sang A Capella.

Added:
Oh, and I was looking at his CD container this morning. It's got this design on it that took me a moment to remember: it's Galileo's observations of what he was seeing of Saturn!
http://futuregiraffes.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/ttt.jpg

Galileo kept looking up & seeing Saturn's rings change as it changes in relation to the Earth (which, of course, he drew). Sometimes we're seeing the rings straight on; sometimes we're almost looking overhead. So when he first saw them in his telescope (which had less power than what we've got today), his first description is of them as "ears" on either side of the planet.

As he was the first person to see the rings, he had no fricking clue what he was seeing; particularly since the view of the rings changes.

He never did figure it out. Christopher Huygens did:

Christiaan Huygens had discovered a satellite of Saturn, now named Titan. In 1656 he published a brief tract on the discovery and included an anagram containing his own theory about Saturn's appearances. He unveiled his theory in 1659, in a substantial book entitled Systema Saturnium ("The Saturnian System"). Huygens's theory was that the planet was surrounded by a thin flat ring that nowhere touched it. Although Huygens did think that the ring had an appreciable thickness, this was basically the modern solution of the problem. http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/observations/saturn.html

How cool is that!!