{"id":43223,"date":"2025-04-27T11:42:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T11:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=43223"},"modified":"2025-04-27T11:48:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T11:48:41","slug":"isosceles-and-icarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2025\/04\/27\/isosceles-and-icarus\/","title":{"rendered":"Isosceles and Icarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/XII\/Isosceles-and-Icarus-0.mp3\">Isosceles-and-Icarus-0.mp3<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/XII\/Isosceles-and-Icarus-0.mp4\">Isosceles-and-Icarus-0.mp4<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/XII\/Isosceles-and-Icarus-I.mp3\">Isosceles-and-Icarus-I.mp3<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/XII\/Isosceles-and-Icarus-I.mp4\">Isosceles-and-Icarus-I.mp4<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/XII\/Isosceles-and-Icarus-intro.mp3\">Isosceles-and-Icarus-intro.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>Isosceles<br \/>(If you please)<br \/>Our angle&#8217;s the same<br \/>(In this game)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>It&#8217;s not a matter of whether<br \/>We&#8217;re all in this together<br \/>Now it&#8217;s a matter of weather<br \/>Caused by human endeavor<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>Opposite sides (of the same bird)<br \/>Along for the ride (though absurd)<br \/>Nowhere to hide (have you heard the word)<br \/>Too much pride<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>Isosceles<br \/>(If you please)<br \/>Our angle&#8217;s the same<br \/>(In this game)<br \/>Don&#8217;t fly too close to the sun<br \/>(We might come undone)<br \/>Icarus is us<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>It&#8217;s not a matter of whether<br \/>Things are going to get hot<br \/>It&#8217;s baked into the weather<br \/>Thought&#8217;s the only hope we&#8217;ve got<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>Opposite sides (of the same bird)<br \/>Along for the ride (though absurd)<br \/>Nowhere to hide (have you heard the word)<br \/>Too much pride<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>Isosceles<br \/>(If you please)<br \/>Our angle&#8217;s the same<br \/>(In this game)<br \/>Don&#8217;t fly too close to the sun<br \/>(We might come undone)<br \/>Icarus is us<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>Opposite sides (of the same bird)<br \/>Along for the ride (though absurd)<\/p>\n<p>A SCIENCE NOTE<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"\" data-start=\"34\" data-end=\"64\"><strong data-start=\"41\" data-end=\"63\">Isosceles triangle<\/strong>:<\/h3>\n<ul data-start=\"65\" data-end=\"392\">\n<li class=\"\" data-start=\"65\" data-end=\"101\">\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"67\" data-end=\"101\">Has <strong data-start=\"71\" data-end=\"100\">two sides of equal length<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-start=\"102\" data-end=\"158\">\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"104\" data-end=\"158\">The <strong data-start=\"108\" data-end=\"153\">angles opposite those two sides are equal<\/strong> too.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-start=\"159\" data-end=\"392\">\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"161\" data-end=\"164\">So:<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"167\" data-end=\"392\">\n<li class=\"\" data-start=\"167\" data-end=\"242\">\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"169\" data-end=\"242\">Two angles are the <strong data-start=\"188\" data-end=\"196\">same<\/strong> (acute or obtuse, depending on the triangle).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-start=\"245\" data-end=\"392\">\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"247\" data-end=\"392\">The third angle can be different \u2014 if the isosceles triangle is <em data-start=\"311\" data-end=\"330\">perfectly upright<\/em>, the third angle is often <strong data-start=\"357\" data-end=\"370\">different<\/strong> (usually at the top).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"394\" data-end=\"403\">Examples:<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"404\" data-end=\"606\">\n<li class=\"\" data-start=\"404\" data-end=\"509\">\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"406\" data-end=\"509\">If the two base angles are <strong data-start=\"433\" data-end=\"445\">70\u00b0 each<\/strong>, the top angle is <strong data-start=\"464\" data-end=\"471\">40\u00b0<\/strong> (because all three must add to 180\u00b0).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-start=\"510\" data-end=\"606\">\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"512\" data-end=\"606\">In a <strong data-start=\"517\" data-end=\"545\">right isosceles triangle<\/strong>, the two equal angles are <strong data-start=\"572\" data-end=\"579\">45\u00b0<\/strong>, and the third is <strong data-start=\"598\" data-end=\"605\">90\u00b0<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Icarus<\/h3>\n<p>In Greek mythology, Icarus was the son of the craftsman Daedalus. He tragically died after flying too close to the sun with wings made of wax and feathers, ignoring Daedalus&#8217;s warnings. The story of Icarus is often used as a metaphor for overreaching ambition or recklessness. <\/p>\n<h3>From the album &#8220;<a href=\"\/songwriter\/tag\/angle\/\">Angle<\/a>&#8220;<\/h3>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/\">The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isosceles-and-Icarus-0.mp3Isosceles-and-Icarus-0.mp4Isosceles-and-Icarus-I.mp3Isosceles-and-Icarus-I.mp4Isosceles-and-Icarus-intro.mp3 [Intro]Isosceles(If you please)Our angle&#8217;s the same(In this game) [Verse 1]It&#8217;s not a matter of whetherWe&#8217;re all in this togetherNow it&#8217;s a matter of weatherCaused by human endeavor [Chorus]Opposite sides (of the same bird)Along for the ride (though absurd)Nowhere to hide (have you heard the word)Too much pride [Bridge]Isosceles(If you please)Our angle&#8217;s the same(In this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[4120,163],"class_list":["post-43223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daniel","category-lyrics","tag-angle","tag-climate-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43223"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43247,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43223\/revisions\/43247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}