Definitely pic o’ the day quality, this image is a painting by Douglas Herring which I found via the Squidblog. Yes, it may have been painted ten years ago, but obviously it was lying dormant all this time, waiting until the stars aligned in the ancient pattern once again.
Look around you, people: can “Mercury’s in retrograde” explain all of this?
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That’s the Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA and be sure to click on it to get to the original site; full-size, it’s amazing. Passed along by DefrostIndoors, of Bridlepath.
This is what a lunar eclipse looks like when viewed from the moon: it looks like a solar eclipse, which it is, proving once again that things are relative.
What interests me is the apparent miles-high towers visible in South America and Asia, on the rim of the world. Is this something we haven’t been told about yet? Hmmm, must be off to Cryptome and check out Unidentified Miles-High Buildings. Or would it be “Kilometers-High?”
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I totally stole this from Juvenal, who will hopefully forgive me because I’ll pass along that his blog is full of pictures of Helen Mirren topless and next week’s winning lottery numbers.
For realz.
Also, oh joy: now I’ve got Bonnie Tyler stuck in my head.
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