Roberto B (@user-55822457) and I now present track 12, "Egeia", in our album in progress "Midnight Coffee". We hope you'll enjoy it.

Created in collaboration on 1 July and 1 September 2021 (initial and final mix and recording, respectively, in MAGIX by Roberto B), and 29, 30 and 31 August (intermediate additions, mix and recording in GarageBand and Logic Pro X by Alex M), and posted here on SoundCloud on 3 September 2021 (by Alex M). The used sound effects come from Alex M's own sample - Gentle Early Morning Sea Waves (recorded on 26 August 2021, on the beach in Kariani, Aegean Sea coast, north Greece).

The artwork cover is designed and implemented by Alex M on 29 June 2021 (in Tayasui Sketch in Mac OS), and cropped and annotated by Alex M (in Mac OS Preview) on 30 June 2021.

Thank you so much, Roberto - for the beautiful musical ideas and our collaborations!

Duration: 7:40 minutes

Egeia - Roberto B & Alex M

Avi Loeb is no stranger to controversy. The prolific Harvard University astrophysicist has produced pioneering and provocative research on black holes, gamma-ray bursts, the early universe and other standard topics of his field. But for more than a decade he has also courted a more contentious subject—namely, space aliens, including how to find them. Until relatively recently, Loeb’s most high-profile work in that regard was his involvement with Breakthrough Starshot, a project funded by Silicon Valley billionaire Yuri Milner to send laser-boosted, gossamer-thin mirrorlike spacecraft called “light sails” on high-speed voyages to nearby stars. All that began to change in late 2017, however, when astronomers around the world scrambled to study an enigmatic interstellar visitor—the first ever seen—that briefly came within range of their telescopes.

The object’s discoverers dubbed it ‘Oumuamua—a Hawaiian term that roughly translates to “scout.” The unavoidably cursory examinations of this celestial passerby showed it had several properties that defied easy natural explanation. ‘Oumuamua’s apparent shape—which was like a 100-meter-long cigar or pancake—did not closely resemble any known asteroid or comet. Neither did its brightness, which revealed ‘Oumuamua was at least 10 times more reflective than one of our solar system’s typical space rocks—shiny enough to suggest the gleam of burnished metal. Most strangely, as it zoomed off after swooping by the sun, the object sped up faster than could be explained by our star’s waning gravitational grip alone. Run-of-the-mill comets can exhibit similar accelerations because of the rocketlike effect of evaporating gases jetting from their sunlight-warmed icy surfaces. But no signs of such jets were seen around ‘Oumuamua.

To Loeb, the most plausible explanation was as obvious as it was sensational: taken together with its possibly pancakelike shape and high reflectivity, ‘Oumuamua’s anomalous acceleration made perfect sense if the object was in fact a light sail—perhaps a derelict from some long-expired galactic culture. Primed by years spent pondering how we might someday find evidence of cosmic civilizations in the sky’s depths, he became increasingly convinced that, with ‘Oumuamua, the evidence had instead found us. In late 2018 Loeb and his co-author Shmuel Bialy, a Harvard postdoctoral fellow, published a paper in the Astrophysical Journal Letters arguing that ‘Oumuamua had been nothing less than humanity’s first contact with an artifact of extraterrestrial intelligence.

The paper has been a smash hit with journalists but has fallen flat with most of Loeb’s astrobiology-focused peers, who insist that, while strange, ‘Oumuamua’s properties still place it well within the realm of natural phenomena. To claim otherwise, Loeb’s critics say, is cavalier at best and destructive at worst for the long struggle to remove the stigma of credulous UFO and alien-abduction reports from what should unquestionably be a legitimate field of scientific inquiry.

The observations suggest this unusual object had been wandering through the Milky Way, unattached to any star system, for hundreds of millions of years before its chance encounter with our star system.

“For decades we’ve theorized that such interstellar objects are out there, and now―for the first time―we have direct evidence they exist,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, in November 2017.

Immediately after its discovery, telescopes around the world, including ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, were called into action to measure the object’s orbit, brightness and color. Urgency for viewing from ground-based telescopes was vital to get the best data.

Oumuamua (First Contact Album Version)

Music, lyrics and song : Jens - Joel
Instruments : Jens - Joel and Magnushttps://open.spotify.com/track/2BUNaqIZY1ZjGcnp6ltGxs?si=5d77c63bb3744ded

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beach walk

[ABOUT THIS SONG]
Little acoustic ballad. I think you've ever felt the feeling that you can't wait to tell your loved one that you love them so much. But, your loved one is sleeping or far from you. The first verse says, "Will you tell me what you saw in your dream tomorrow? Let me say 'Goodnight' to you for now.

[LYRICS]
目を閉じて
浮かんできたものを
明日僕に教えてくれよ
夢みてる　君におやすみ

今日はどんな一日だったの？
思えば君と話す時間もなかった
だからせめて　君におやすみ

You are you
君は君だから愛おしいんだよ
この気持ちを君は知ってるのかな

今日はどんな一日だったの？
やっぱり君の声が聞きたいよ
だけどそっと　君におやすみ

You are you
君は君だから愛おしいんだよ
だけど今　君は夢の中

目を閉じて
浮かんできたものを
明日僕に教えてくれよ
夢みてる　君におやすみ

My Cathedral Is Bigger Than Your Cathedral

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