Althouse: Angelic sunrise.

March 30, 2020

Angelic sunrise.

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This morning, at 6:50.

20 comments:

Lucid-Ideas said...: There is something about water and proximity to it. 70% of the worlds population live within 100 miles of a major body of water (hardly surprising considering 2/3 of the earth's surface is water). I don't know what it is, but it is soothing and calming.

There is a wonderful beach in Brazil between Sao Paulo and Rio called Bertioga. It's a resort community very little known to outsiders and is mostly made up of wealth'ier' (middle class) Brazilians with the most beautiful white compacted sand beach you've ever seen. The water is cool and calm, and there's an island reachable by packet boat people seldom visit that's perfect for making love in the daytime.

The vastness of the ocean is immensely more humbling than the vastness of the cosmos. I know I'm nothing, but the ocean is something I can feel with my hands telling me so.; 3/30/20, 9:23 AM
Wince said...: "I think I see Blue. He looks glorious."; 3/30/20, 9:27 AM
Nonapod said...: The vastness of the ocean is immensely more humbling than the vastness of the cosmos

Because you can experience the ocean, be in contact with it, immerse yourself in it. At this point it's impossible for a normal human to fully experience the wonders and terrors of the greater Universe. You can read about things of truly unimaginable scale, gargantuan galactic superclusters, vast supervoids full of nothingness, black holes with the 66 billion times the mass of our own sun. You can behold amazing images gathered by powerful telescopes (like the iconic Hubble Deep Field images). But you can't ever go there. So they all seem unreal and distant.; 3/30/20, 9:40 AM
ThunderChick said...: Wince said...
"I think I see Blue. He looks glorious."

Lol! Was just watching that movie - it is a classic!

Beautiful picture though!; 3/30/20, 9:40 AM
Bay Area Guy said...: Well, that's nice! Should instill some hope and inner Zen on some of the anxious folks here......; 3/30/20, 9:45 AM
Wince said...: ThunderChick said...
Lol! Was just watching that movie - it is a classic!

"Just ring the fucking bell, you pansy."; 3/30/20, 9:46 AM
Bob Boyd said...: Watch this gifted fellow work his magic.
Turn the sound on.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1243708149149749248; 3/30/20, 9:53 AM
Etienne said...: I was thinking about New York City this morning. They are really getting whacked by the virus.

So I started thinking about mass-transit and tenement elevators.

With the rise in virus mutations and antibiotic resistant bacteria's, maybe we need to re-engineer dense societies.

I'm thinking smaller subway cars, smaller buss's. Of course reducing size means you have to increase the number on the tracks. But I envision 40 pods arriving at the station every 10 minutes.

Same thing with elevators. Instead of using cargo elevators for humans, the cargo elevators should be locked down without a permit, and the tenement should have one elevator per floor. People on other floors should not be on your (small) elevator.

Film at 11...; 3/30/20, 10:05 AM
Bob Boyd said...: One more time

https://twitter.com/i/status/1243898254259032065; 3/30/20, 10:11 AM
Etienne said...: When I worked for a Securities Bond company back in 95, they gave the programmers an elevator key. You had to get on the "keyed" elevator, as the routine elevator did not have that floor as a selection.

We had to ride the elevator alone, unless we recognized other programmers and checked their security cards.

It was funny seeing 10 people cram into the routine elevator, and two or three programmers going up in style.

I'm thinking our elevator was even cleaned more often, as it always smelled like Lysol.; 3/30/20, 10:15 AM
Etienne said...: When I met my future wife for the first time, I showed her my...

...elevator key.

She was so excited we almost had sex right under the Altar where Saracens and Huguenots were once slaughtered.

OK, maybe I made that up, but those black elevator keys, way back then, are like face tattoo's today...; 3/30/20, 10:24 AM
Howard said...: Rothko-esque; 3/30/20, 10:27 AM
Howard said...: Hyper Lucid today, cheers.; 3/30/20, 10:29 AM
Howard said...: Etienne, that sounds like what Elon Musk intensions Boring Company.; 3/30/20, 10:32 AM
tcrosse said...: The vastness of the ocean is immensely more humbling than the vastness of the cosmos

And we see just the top of it.; 3/30/20, 10:41 AM
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Narr said...: Cloud . . . lake . . . all it needs is a castle.

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Cloud looks kinda like spaghetti to me; 3/30/20, 10:50 AM
Etienne said...: ...but Musk is hated by the left because he is wealthier than our treasury, a (dare I say) billionaire.

No, no, the cities must be re-built by Unions and Democratic Mayors.

(smile); 3/30/20, 10:50 AM
Tomcc said...: Very nice; it lifts the spirits (so to speak)!; 3/30/20, 1:22 PM
Josephbleau said...: Looks like an elephants head to me, i’m gifted in cloud figure interpretation.; 3/30/20, 6:39 PM