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After that last entry I had to go find something cheerful to put here.


"Science takes us to the wonder."

Date: 2019-01-21 01:20 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] squirrelitude
It's gorgeous, and I had never before noticed the difference between the near side and the other faces. I suppose that has to do with the Earth shielding the near side from some bombardment. :-)

The video looked kind of fake for some reason (and yeah, I know it's a composite to begin with). I think it has to do with how the edges are handled; they're neither dimmed nor blurred, and there's no shadowing (as if the camera is the light source.) I guess they would have had to go to extra effort to add that realism.

Date: 2019-01-22 12:05 am (UTC)
squirrelitude: (Default)
From: [personal profile] squirrelitude
Oh huh, I didn't know this was unexplained! I had figured it was just textural differences, not composition differences. Wild!

What I do know for sure is that it means I can refer to the near side as the "dark side of the moon". :-P (Also works during a new moon.)

Date: 2019-01-21 03:09 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cjsmith
I hope you got a hance to see the eclipse last night! (Quite cloudy for most of it, where I live.)

Date: 2019-01-22 12:08 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cjsmith
Thank you! :) And I did get to see glimpses, some of which were beautiful. ♥

Re: something else you might like :)

Date: 2019-01-25 03:55 am (UTC)
med_cat: (woman reading)
From: [personal profile] med_cat
I think you would enjoy this one; I haven't read that much about King Arthur, but I really enjoyed this dramatic recitation, and ordered the book :)

I do know about Masefield's Arthurian cycle; and do you know who told me? You did! And you sent me a copy of it, too, a few years ago, which I have :)

Re: something else you might like :)

Date: 2019-01-28 01:10 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] med_cat
You've done many sensible things ;)

Re: something else you might like :)

Date: 2019-01-22 05:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] annonynous.livejournal.com
Huh. I did not know the late (great) Jeremy Brett had written an Arthurian book. Maybe it is not the same one who played Holmes in the BBC series? Lois, being the Anglophile she was, was a big fan of things Arthurian.

Ann O.

Re: something else you might like :)

Date: 2019-01-25 03:57 am (UTC)
med_cat: (H&W gray)
From: [personal profile] med_cat
Ah, no, Jeremy Brett hasn't written the book, or the script. He only plays King Arthur in this performance. And yes, it is the same Jeremy Brett who played Holmes in the BBC Granada series.

Here's his filmography: http://jeremy-brett.fr/crbst_8.html (this is TV only)

Date: 2019-01-22 05:57 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] vettecat
Beautiful - thank you for sharing.

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