I returned to the FP this evening; after staying away from the mean-spirited, fact-less taunting, I thought I'd leave a comment in a non-political article, hoping for some meaningful dialogue.
And just when some of that meaningful dialogue got going …
… along came one of the malcontents and transformed "meaningful" to "mean-spirited" …
So … back to posting spiritual images for reasonable people.
I'm trying to figure out a way to create imagery that will evoke negative, mean-spirited, fact-free, thumbs down responses with some personal insults tossed in.
Until then … it's going to remain lonely here in the civil, peaceful area.
Definitely fills the senses. Imagine being in the photo and experiencing them with all the senses. It might be a little too much to handle.
Ignore the thumbs down. You get thumbs down. I get thumbs down and sometimes with every comment I make. I never did think the thumbs was a good idea, but this is a real Democracy. LOL
I'm on a bit of a roll with this series … several new ones a day … and I've been going back through my old images to see if some will work in the series. Some do, some don't and I find myself at times, being surprised at those that work and those I end up trashing.
I think that makes it ever-challenging and responsible for the highs and lows.
Started enjoy the fantasy you've wrought about the same time I first read about " Proxima b ".
Since then, I've been mentally filing your work away in my alternate realty files.
To my mind, what you've brought us are the kind of shots that might be sent back by Yuri Milner's project, several decades from now. ( smile )
Back in April, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner pledged US$100 million toward a crazy plan to visit another star system.
The mission - Breakthrough Starshot - aims to get this done by propelling teeny, tiny spaceships to 20 percent the speed of light with powerful lasers.
Milner and famed physicist Stephen Hawking initially said their destination would be Alpha Centauri: a star system located some 4.37 light-years (25.7 trillion miles) away from Earth.
But the r ecent and groundbreaking discovery of a nearby planet could switch things up for Starshot.
Astronomers on Wednesday announced they’d discovered an Earth-like and potentially habitable world, called Proxima b, circling Proxima Centauri - a red dwarf star that’s even closer than Alpha Centauri by about 1 trillion miles (1.61 trillion km).
"The discovery ... provides an obvious target for a flyby mission," Avi Loeb, a physicist at Harvard University and a Starshot mission advisory committee chair, wrote in an email to Business Insider.
"A spacecraft equipped with a camera and various filters could take colour images of the planet and infer whether it is green (harbouring life as we know it), blue (with water oceans on its surface) or just brown (dry rock)."
The team hopes to "achieve a launch in two to three decades," says Loeb, and reach Proxima Centauri about 20 years later. The photos, meanwhile, would take at least 4.24 years - the distance in light-years from here to the star - to get back to Earth.
May The "Light" guide you … whichever "Light" you are able to "see."
Good night all.
Sail on bye.
Beautiful
I miss your photos as I come by less and less it seems
Pieces of sanity and reason in a sea of hate and discord
Thank you
RIO,
I have ceased going to FP articles and post images almost exclusively now; there are about 20 in this series and I'm doing new ones regularly.
I hope you'll look for them and come bye.
The newest one is a Midnight Fantasy Ferryboat Ride; I don't think I've posted it yet … I'll check, and if I have not, I'll post it tonight.
Well, no new customers, so, maybe tomorrow.
Mornin'.
Evenin'
A new fantasy, starry night image just posted.
I returned to the FP this evening; after staying away from the mean-spirited, fact-less taunting, I thought I'd leave a comment in a non-political article, hoping for some meaningful dialogue.
And just when some of that meaningful dialogue got going …
… along came one of the malcontents and transformed "meaningful" to "mean-spirited" …
So … back to posting spiritual images for reasonable people.
Enjoy the starry skies … and good night.
I'm trying to figure out a way to create imagery that will evoke negative, mean-spirited, fact-free, thumbs down responses with some personal insults tossed in.
Until then … it's going to remain lonely here in the civil, peaceful area.
AWESOME as always Mac. Its a rare event when I come her to the front page, but, I'm glad I did today!!
Thanks, Nona; I am every bit as glad that you stopped in.
Definitely fills the senses. Imagine being in the photo and experiencing them with all the senses. It might be a little too much to handle.
Ignore the thumbs down. You get thumbs down. I get thumbs down and sometimes with every comment I make. I never did think the thumbs was a good idea, but this is a real Democracy. LOL
Thanks, Six,
I'm on a bit of a roll with this series … several new ones a day … and I've been going back through my old images to see if some will work in the series. Some do, some don't and I find myself at times, being surprised at those that work and those I end up trashing.
I think that makes it ever-challenging and responsible for the highs and lows.
I'll post new stuff later today.
Fantastic work A-mac. Thanks for sharing with us.
Started enjoy the fantasy you've wrought about the same time I first read about " Proxima b ".
Since then, I've been mentally filing your work away in my alternate realty files.
To my mind, what you've brought us are the kind of shots that might be sent back by Yuri Milner's project, several decades from now. ( smile )
Back in April, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner pledged US$100 million toward a crazy plan to visit another star system.
The mission - Breakthrough Starshot - aims to get this done by propelling teeny, tiny spaceships to 20 percent the speed of light with powerful lasers.
Milner and famed physicist Stephen Hawking initially said their destination would be Alpha Centauri: a star system located some 4.37 light-years (25.7 trillion miles) away from Earth.
But the r ecent and groundbreaking discovery of a nearby planet could switch things up for Starshot.
Astronomers on Wednesday announced they’d discovered an Earth-like and potentially habitable world, called Proxima b, circling Proxima Centauri - a red dwarf star that’s even closer than Alpha Centauri by about 1 trillion miles (1.61 trillion km).
"The discovery ... provides an obvious target for a flyby mission," Avi Loeb, a physicist at Harvard University and a Starshot mission advisory committee chair, wrote in an email to Business Insider.
"A spacecraft equipped with a camera and various filters could take colour images of the planet and infer whether it is green (harbouring life as we know it), blue (with water oceans on its surface) or just brown (dry rock)."
The team hopes to "achieve a launch in two to three decades," says Loeb, and reach Proxima Centauri about 20 years later. The photos, meanwhile, would take at least 4.24 years - the distance in light-years from here to the star - to get back to Earth.
Many thanks, Arkansashermit.
I believe it was the philosopher, Diderot who contended …
"Art should not be an imitation of reality … one of the damned things is enough!"