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He could no longer tolerate silence except when he was sleeping, or talking over the circuit to Earth, he kept the ship’s sound system running at almost painful loudness.Īt first, needing the companionship of the human voice, he had listened to classical plays - especially the works of Shaw, Ibsen, and Shakespeare - or poetry readings from Discovery’s enormous library of recorded sounds. Mission Control, he knew, was watching him closely for the first signs of any abnormal behavior he was determined that it should watch in vain - at least, for any serious symptoms.īowman was aware of some changes in his behavior patterns it would have been absurd to expect anything else in the circumstances. David finds himself very lonely, as the only human being for 9.5 astronomical units.) He kept himself neat and tidy no matter how tired he became, he never skipped a shave.

(ed note: Due to an series of unfortunate events Astronaut David Bowman's fellow astronauts (and one sick AI) are all killed. And drinking songs in spaceport bars is a pastime that is never going to go out of style. In science fiction all of the above forms way occur, depending upon the tech level of the locale.
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Though he did later upgrade to a barely better Microsoft Zune.
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Not to mention the many digital audio file formats.Īfter all, in the science fiction movie Guardians of the Galaxy Peter Quill's most prized possession is his antique Sony Walkman with the Awesome Mix vol.
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So popular in fact that it is often enjoyed simultaneously with other entertainment.įrom the primitive hunter-gatherers singing around the tribal fire, to traveling bards/minstrels/jongleur, to symphonies and operas, to player pianos, to Thomas Edison's wax cylinders, to Berliner Gramophone, to jazz and rock-n-roll, to vinyl 45 hit-singles and LP records, to portable transistor radios, to boom-boxes, to Sony Walkman, to Portable CD players, to Apple iPods, to the many ways of streaming music from the internet. For the other 23 hours and 55 minutes of a standard day, music is quite popular. Even if they are living on the third planet of Tau Ceti. As long as human beings are still human beings they are going to want entertainment.
