I'm just the messenger, the guy trying to sell me the victrola was some big time guru collector and he tried to sell me a cactus too...Well, that's surprising -- I doubt it was one play per record, of these wouldn't have been commercially packaged:
https://picclick.com/Original-cactus-thorn-gramophone-phonograph-victrola-needles-274797285497.html
There used to be a British 78rpm reissue record label that would remaster stuff by playing pristine copies of acoustically recorded 78's only, on an excellent tricked-out gramophone with a specific type of cactus needle and a concrete exit horn, situated in an excellent sounding church or other medium-large room, and recording THAT setup with a stereo microphone at 24-bit, 192kHz sampling. Don't remember the name or know if they're still in business, but some 78-heads certainly think cactus is the way to go.
Won't last long (steel needles used to wear out in a few tens of playing hours, as I recall), but there are postcard phonographs available online -- fold it up, put a pin or sewing needle in the right place, and spin the disk by hand. Audible without amplification, at least with old 45 and 78 records.
Very nice! Better to have it and not need it..........Just stocked up; think I'm good for a few weeks...
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I wonder how aliens will play that Chuck Berry recording launched into space on the Pioneer probe nearly half a century ago, and now past the Solar System itself? Did they include a needle, assuming aliens kept their own old phonographs?
Sure, and in the Brave New World, chemicals like that may not be permitted to be sold to consumers (in favor of requiring that pools be managed by professionals, or drained, for the safety of all). .
I believe that they even provided a top of the line at the time SHURE cartridge, although I suspect that the plastics in that would out gas rather quickly.There were some hieroglyphics etched into the record so if the aliens are smart enough they can figure out how to play the sounds of the whale and decide if we are worth fooling around with.
Oh, that's interesting, Faberryman. I was getting distinctly worried that a later faster probe would reach the aliens first, bearing disco music, and that the aliens would conclude that all intelligent life on earth was already extinct.
There are dolphins!Is there intelligent life on earth? Has there ever been intelligent life on earth?
There are dolphins!
+1000The only appropriate response to the thread title:
"I feel fine!"
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