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Contents 1 Tuning vs Speed-Up 2 Lyrics 3 Time Dilation 4 Setting 5 Your Mother's Eyes 6 Fair use rationale for Image:Queen A Night At The Opera.png

[edit] Tuning vs Speed-Up

I strongly suspect that the song is speeded up half a tone, as opposed to having been recorded in Ab originally.

It is certainly played in G in the version on "Live Killers"--feline1 09:23, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

It's in G on the recording, guys.

[edit] Lyrics

I'm pretty sure the lyrics quoted here are wrong, and I'm going to change them. I posted this on the reference desk yesterday and got a response:

'39

In the article for the song '39 by Queen, it says the lyrics include, "your mother's eyes in your eyes/cry to me...All my life/still ahead/pity me!" I've been listening to my recording of the song over and over again, and I'm pretty sure they're "from your eyes" and "For my life". Can I get a confirmation on this? Black Carrot 02:18, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

[link to copyvio website removed], [link to copyvio website removed], and [link to copyvio website removed] agree with you. But [link to copyvio website removed] is the only one on the the first page of a google search that returned that it said "Your mother's eyes in your eyes cry to me." All of them, however, agree with you on the "for my life" part. schyler 03:09, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

So, if anyone disagrees, feel free to contact me. Black Carrot 14:38, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Time Dilation

The velocity calculated here (to produce the required dilation effect) seems to be based on the speed of light being 300,000,000 m/s. Would it not make more sense to use the exact value of c (299,792,458 m/s)? In this case the desired volocity would be 299777468 m/s. (As it stands, the velocity is greater than that of the exact speed of light and may upset some of the more 'picky' readers, myself included :D ) Oatzy 20:10, 08 December 2006 (GMT)

I tend to agree. Either remove the speed reference and leave the multiplayer of 'c' only or give a precise speed. Don't see the point this way. I'm going to fix the number, and if you prefer exclude it, as it was in the prev. version. Donny 17:30, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Express it as a fraction of c, and wikilink that to speed of light.--feline1 17:44, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

agreed. it is good enough as it is now. 99% is fair to show the reader an idea about this, we don't need all of the mega numbers, but we definitely didn't need mega numbers that were wrong. And yes, noone says that the travel was "exactly" 100 years. it is probably more of a figure of speach. Donny 19:28, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Quite. AND the entire concept is only "science-fiction" anyways ;-)--feline1 20:05, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Setting

It's either 2039-2139, or 2139-2239. the second is more relistic, but from quens pespectibe in the 70's/80's, the first might have seamed pheasible.Avianmosquito 16:20, 2 October 2007 (UTC)Avianmosquito

[edit] Your Mother's Eyes

While the lyric "Your mother's eyes, from your eyes, cry to me" COULD suggest that he is met with his daughter as an old woman, isn't it a little more feasible that he's met with his granddaughter and sees the resemblance of his daughter in her? It seems a little far fetched that in this apocalyptic future where the world is dying that health care would still be good enough that people could survive to live over 100 years old.

Then again, they could have developed something totally awesome that makes you live to 150 by that time, but I'm thinking pessimistically. ~~ Not logged in Tranchera ~~ 22:01, 1 November 2007

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Queen A Night At The Opera.png

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BetacommandBot (talk) 10:44, 21 January 2008 (UTC)