Gigaton: Official album thread

[Coach]

Gigaton is related to climate change

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/ene ... ry-change/

[96583UP]

and you just know that clip of music will be the best 12 seconds on the album before Ed jumps in with some spritzy-punk too-much-talking vocals

[Anders]

gigaton (plural gigatons)

1. A measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many billion tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy.
2. One billion tons.

[bodysnatcher]

If they are making an album with a climate change angle, it has the possibility of pissing off a good portion of their fan base. And I like that.

[evenslow]

and you just know that clip of music will be the best 12 seconds on the album before Ed jumps in with some spritzy-punk too-much-talking vocals

there's something vaguely orchestral about that music. i like it.

[bodysnatcher]

To be fair, that sound clip was more interesting than anything on the last two albums

[Anders]

Gigaton is related to climate change

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/ene ... ry-change/

«Scientists often measure the loss of ice from the planet’s two gigantic ice sheets, Greenland and Antarctica, in a particular unit called a “gigaton,” which is sometimes also spelled “gigatonne.” Either way, it’s not something you encounter in your ordinary life, because it’s incredibly “giga-ntic” — the kind of unit that planets depend on.
In the International System of Units, the prefix “giga” means 109, or one billion (1,000,000,000). Hence terms like “gigawatt” or “gigahertz.” Thus, a gigaton is equivalent to a billion metric tons.»

[scrub12]

Their instagram story shows the app up against the picture and it just makes it 3D from what I can see of the caps melting.

[96583UP]

and you just know that clip of music will be the best 12 seconds on the album before Ed jumps in with some spritzy-punk too-much-talking vocals

there's something vaguely orchestral about that music. i like it.

i do too

i just don't want to get my hopes up

i don't want to get hurt again

[Vindicator]

You know what? I fucking love this kind of hype. Nowadays, you just wait for Midnight on Thursday night and whatever new single is automatically uploaded to Spotify server with no fanfare. This shit is fun. I loved the artwork teases and reveals for Lightning Bolt.

Maybe the single is called Gigaton? Or the album. Either way, cool name. Better than fucking "Lightning Bolt" or "Backspacer"

[Coach]

we are losing 159 gigatons of ice from Antarctica per year, which is one third of all water in Lake Erie

[evenslow]

yeah i'm in on whatever this is so far.

[dprival78]

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/15/walmart ... l-yet.html

partnering with walmart?

[96583UP]

it is working

we are watching

and right now there is some Aussie skipping work to head out into a brush fire at 6am to find a burnt-down Gigaton poster

[epilogue]

Their instagram story shows the app up against the picture and it just makes it 3D from what I can see of the caps melting.

Come on be fair. It also makes the water flow.

[Anders]

If the Antarctic Ice Sheet melted, sea level would rise by about 60 meters (200 feet).

[dad]

To be fair, that sound clip was more interesting than anything on the last two albums

Hell yes it is. They’re giving me hope.

[96583UP]

thanks, Al Gore

[CopperTom]

Pearl Jam and their fans emit 2 gigatons of carbon pollution per tour.

[igotworms]

Environmental angle = Of The Earth's time has finally come.