According to the FTC , a standard watt incandescent lightbulb produces around lumens, which means that 10 million fireflies might produce the same amount of light as 7. Instead, a collective hug suggests you were hugged 1, times by a single firefly group, and not individually by each firefly.
Again, if the swarm is delivering the hug, and a single firefly cannot act alone, then Adam Young did not receive 10 million hugs, he received 1, It's a poetic metaphor, yes, but not a literal reality. In this section Young also makes the interesting decision to enter a debate about the nature of consciousness.
What Young seems to be arguing is that a firefly is incapable of planning as an individual being, or perhaps experiences fear when confronted the possibility of performing a hug on its own.
He does not back up his theories. However, I can testify to the accuracy of this exchange. It seems strange to me that the man arguing in favor of firefly hugs would point out that their bodies may not be equipped for hugging.
Even then, they still flash on and off, rather than remaining permanently on. Additionally, we seem to have once again found ourselves circling the issue of insect consciousness. Here, Young asks us to further suspend our disbelief and accept that not only can fireflies experience happiness, but they can experience happiness from hugging him.
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Cybersecurity Mobile Policy Privacy Scooters. Phones Laptops Headphones Cameras. Tablets Smartwatches Speakers Drones. Accessories Buying Guides How-tos Deals. Health Energy Environment. I took a swing at it for a year and a half. I went to a little community college in my hometown. I went for my general arts degree. I was working a dead-end job at the time. I was spending more thought thinking about my music in between my job and school than I was paying attention to my schoolwork.
So that kinda went down the drain. But I gave it a shot, so my mom is grateful for at least that. I was loading trucks in a warehouse for Coca-Cola, a big bottling company warehouse. I started there after I graduated high school in , so I worked there for two years or so. And then I also worked a night shift in a warehouse at UPS, loading trucks for them.
How did that happen? In terms of all things Owl City, I started writing electronica music just on a whim. The response that came in was incredible. One thing led to another. I remember walking out of that place, and it was the best feeling in the world.
From there, things just started to grow. That was received a lot better than I had expected. From then on, it was onward and upwards. I got some record-label interest, took a few trips out to New York to talk to some different labels. Wound up with Universal Republic, and have been totally thrilled with them. I can remember sleeping out on a dock on the edge of this lake and looking up at the sky. There was a meteor shower that night. I remember thinking, what a cool idea of shooting stars being fireflies, and trying to translate that into music.
I was also influenced by the lack of sleep that tends to happen. That keeps me awake a lot, for better or for worse. Then I got a place of my own and finished it up. The story behind it is not very glamorous. My parents live in a year-old Victorian farmhouse in a really old, unfinished basement that I had sort of taken over. I remember recording during winter and having to unplug the furnace because it was so loud and I needed to get the room to be quiet.
The idea of writing a new record and coming out with new singles is a little bit daunting, just because of how it may or may not be received. But watching that song take off by itself is incredible. Every night out here on the road, people sing that song back to me the loudest. People are singing so passionately. They know every word. We have three shows left in the South, then we have two weeks off, then we head over to China and Japan in the last half of November.
No, never have. A little bit. A lot of people have compared your music to the Postal Service.
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