With an 8.5 and an 8 it'd be better to climb half-rope style (alternating clips) than twin-rope style. Especially if crossing from pillar to pillar this will offer reduced rope drag and improved traverse protection vs. either single+haulline or twin ropes in one biner. Also best protection vs. cut ropes if the scary pillar does move.
Can you make me shoes that focus the reverse Casimir effect? I have some files on a high shelf I need to get without a ladder.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070806091137.htm
So, um, higher energy collisions occur all the time when cosmic rays hit the lunar surface. No permanent black holes up there, just helium-3. Go figure.
A couple of years ago Buckethead was wearing anonymously full Residents costume and playing guitar (covering all the Snakefinger guitar parts) as the 5th Resident on the Icky Flix tour.
You could tell it was him though.
You get that in any discipline of music though. Once the music becomes an exercise in technical difficulty it often verges on unlistenable wankery. Then you get the artists that play music that is just as difficult to play but that actually works - like Coltrane.
Is either Steve Vai or Joe Satriani a Coltrane or Hendrix? No.
Is Buckethead? Yes, I would say so.