River ,'Out Of Gas'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tep, have you seen Series 7? It has some of that 'everybody is linked in weird ways' stuff that Lost has.
I sort of wanted to not like it because it is SO dark and cynical, but I was riveted. The concept of a national, death race type lottery where you must kill or be kill is presented so plausibly that I could only shake my head and think that it is only a matter of time.
What was the surprisingly dirty standard I heard recently? It had something about he's at his best when he's horizontal or something.
Horizontally speaking, he's at his very best.
"Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered."
Yes! That turned out to be impossible to google, and I couldn't hear it in my head at all. "Dirty standard"? "Horizontal best song"? NSM.
It's a totally dirty song.
"Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered."
It also includes "Vexed again. Perplexed again. At last I can be oversexed again."
Or maybe Velociraptors on a Zeppelin!
Once upon a time we were very close to getting this. Jess Nevins just did a whole write-up about Zeppelin Stories for Incognito:
Several zeppelin films were in pre-production, including the Willis O’Brien-directed War Eagles (in which Lost Race Vikings, riding pterodactyls, battle German zeppelins in the skies over New York), the Republic Pictures serial The City in the Sky (in which Ray “Crash” Corrigan would reprise his role from Undersea Kingdom and fight against a floating city of Yellow Perils), and the Universal Pictures serial Smilin’ Jack vs the Mad Baron (which would have been the first serial for comic strip aviator Smilin’ Jack). But on May 6th the Hindenberg burned.[link]
I need to repeat this bit because it makes me so happy: Lost Race Vikings, riding pterodactyls, battle German zeppelins in the skies over New York.
There should be a steampunk horror movie: Velociraptors in Pneumatic Tubes! Or maybe Velociraptors on a Zeppelin!
So you're saying I should add Velociraptors to the ongoing serial I'm writing for Steampunk Tales? I could do that.
This seems all basic astronomy to me. Why Do We See the Moon in Daylight?
Any clear morning this week around 10 a.m. you can see the moon riding high in the western sky. Many people are surprised to see the moon in full daylight, yet it is a completely normal occurrence.
A very common misconception in astronomy is that the moon is directly opposite the sun in the sky. In fact, the moon is only in this position for a single instant in the whole lunar month: the exact time of full moon, when it is 180 degrees away from the sun. The rest of the month it can be anywhere from 0 to180 degrees away and, at least in theory, visible in the daytime sky.
I wonder how many people have these misconceptions... how could one not notice the moon during the day?