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every so often i remember how awesome the modern interconnected multicultural world is. i grew up getting to hear fairy tales from all over the world. africa, asia, europe, america. everywhere in between. i can have bagels for breakfast, curry for lunch, and ramen for dinner without even leaving the city limits. music and art and philosophy and technology that originated thousands of miles and years apart from eachother have come together and interwoven into something greater than the sum of its parts. its hard not fall into despair when thinking about the horrors but god. god the wonders.
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I really need to do more studying and write an essay on how Americanism is a genuine folk religion which reveres capital and the vague concept of βthe free marketβ as a god of providence to be pleased in order to lead a prosperous life, also that the founding fathers are prophetic, perhaps even messianic figures who basically gave birth to this god through the revolutionary war, and that the vast majority of conservative Christians in America revere capital more than the god they claim to serve in an ironic sort of golden calf situation.
There is a trend amongst depictions of the founding fathers to show them as literal christ figures, a trend that started very early in the nationβs life.
Iβd also like to point out Washington & Lincoln Apotheosis, artist unknown, about 1865, the same year as lincolnβs assasination
The personification of America in the form of Columbia, a goddess of both the land and the concepts that America tends to inhabit. A pre-anime Hetalia. She was often used in depictions of Manifest Destiny, a religions ideal that stated that America, by Godβs will, must go from coast to coast.
American Progress by, John Gast, 1872. Note the indigenous people cast in literal darkness, away from the light. The religions deification of America relies upon colonialism and white supremacy
Like, there are actual studies on this stuff. Look up βAmerican civil religionβ if youβre struggling for search terms. Or βAmerican founder worship.β
also worth noting the vatican lists americanism as a specific official heresy. so even beyond the mountains of scholarship on the religion of americanism from various religious & secular perspectives, the roman catholic church itself officially recognises it as a religious heresy in the general region of idolatry that can be used in official church courts as grounds for excommunication. and itβs a religious view thatβs drilled into americans so aggressively that to them it seems perfectly natural, whereas to most of the rest of the world βamericaβ seems more like a terrifying mind control cult than a country. this has led to large swathes of american catholics being members of a different religion than that of all the worlds other catholic populations and is a big part of how they became the closest thing to a pan-catholic in-joke, a global laughing stock if you will
Bioshock Infinite wasnβt ideal but making this subtext into text was probably one of the better things it did. Real interesting vibe, and they didnβt have to work hard to get there.
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Digital painting of the red giant star Betelgeuse and its newly discovered companion Siwarha. Simulations suggest giant stars have a small number of enormous convection cells rather than a huge amount of continent-sized convection cells as on the Sun, and that their photospheres are not a hard boundary but rather smoothly deform into a corona.
Betelgeuse is 640 times the size of the Sun (or 2.98 au radius). It is 65,000 times more luminous than the Sun. But as opposed to the Sun's 5800 K surface temperature, Betelgeuse is only 3800 Kelvins, leading to an almost candle-like yellow-orange glow.
Siwarha is depicted here as a K-dwarf, 2/3rds the mass of the Sun. It is thought to be responsible for a 6-year-long periodic change in Betelgeuse's apparent brightness--It casts a wake behind it as it travels through Betelgeuse's nebulous and dusty corona.
I think Spock could hang out with Squidward because they're the same type of cultured faggot but Squidward would get petty and mean about something and Spock would be like honestly mr tentacles I find this type of outburst very distasteful. & he would fix him
do they live in capitalist bikini bottom or socialist space future because the answer really affects whether spock fixes squiddy or systemic injustices change who spock is as a person.
I was imagining the enterprise comes to bikini bottom planet of the week style but I'm obsessed with the idea of spock working at the krusty krab & how that would affect him psychologically
The focus of this observation is a cone near Solis Dorsa that has a hint of an unresolved summit crater in THEMIS instrument data. This is likely a cinder cone, and seems associated with a dark patch in THEMIS nighttime infrared data. We want to compare with other possible cinder cones elsewhere. We can also look for boulders and bedding not mantled by any dust.
ID:Β ESP_077175_1570
date: 12 January 2023
altitude: 252 km
Grayscale cutout is less than 5 km across; enhanced color is less than 1 km. For full image including scale bar, visit the source link.
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I've been studying botany lately for the art book I'm working on, and, while not getting tooo bogged down in scientifically accurate things, still happily trying to apply some little details while drawing the flowers in my recent pieces :D thinking about what makes each specific flower itself.... that sort of thing πΈπΊπΌπ»π·πΉ
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Digital painting of the giant planet Jupiter as it may have appeared in the 1880s or so in approximately true color. This was based on a number of sources from the 1880s and 1890s, and is sort of a hybridized view of about a decade or two of Jovian sketches and early photography.
At this time, the famous planet-sized hurricane, the Great Red Spot, was a few decades old and very very large. It has been shrinking ever since then, and is now less than a third of the size it was in the 1880s.
More details and image variants below the cut:
Here are two early photographs of Jupiter. The earliest one, c, is from September 1879 taken by A. A. Common in London. Early photographic film was sensitive only to blue-violet light, so we can imagine that c is the blue channel only of a hypothetical color image. Photo d is from October 1890 seen by the Lick Observatory in California with a yellow filter.
Just to get a vague idea of what we're working with, I made an unholy abomination by using the Common photo as the blue channel and the Lick photo as the green and red channel. (Many of the color photos of Jupiter from the Voyager space missions used an orange filter as the green and red channel and a violet filter as a blue channel; this is the same concept at least on a color theory level.)
This was my result--the implication is that like in the late 1970s and early 2020s, Jupiter's normally pale equatorial zone was a rich orange color.
Of course, the two images are 11 years apart and a lot can change in that time, but the basic takeaway is that the dark blue equatorial zone is probably best explained by an orange-red coloration, rather than the equatorial belts having moved over time.
These drawings were also used as reference. b, a very cartoonishly exaggerated drawing, was made by Γtienne Trouvelot on 1880 November 1 at around 9:00 EST and depicts a double transit of both Io and Europa as well as their shadows across the face of Jupiter.
c, a much more modest and accurate sketch, was drawn by Thomas Elger in November 1881. It was from Elger's sketch that I took the proportions of the Great Red Spot.
I also used this sketch of mine from August 2021 as a reference for the orange coloration, since the colors used in this digitally colored pencil sketch were chosen to match the true colors I was seeing in the eyepiece of my 10" reflector telescope. Note how much smaller the Great Red Spot was in 2021 than in the 1880s.
The features are primarily a hybrid of Trouvelot and Elger's renditions of the planet. For fine detailing I used various modern sources such as Hubble Space Telescope, Voyager, and Cassini imagery of Jupiter.
The end result is a hybrid of many sources, and not an accurate depiction of any one moment in the 1880s-1890s period. However, the position of Jupiter's moons and their shadows represent a moment on the evening of November 1st, 1880, a few hours after Trouvelot's drawing was produced.
Astrophotos are usually shown inverted to match the view through an eyepiece. That's why the GRS was on the top of all of the above images. However, my drawing uses north = up to bring it into line with modern depictions of Jupiter.
This zoomed out view shows Europa as well as Io. The shadow on Jupiter belongs to Europa. Note that this view is from a random point in space near Jupiter, not from the Earth. Fun fact: Two of Jupiter's small asteroid sized moons are visible in this image as well. Can you spot them?
Here is a version cropped to 4:3 and with the shadow removed.
Here's a fictional 1880s style black & white photo, perhaps taken from the window of a steampunk space ship. To simulate the sensitivity of film to blue-violet light, I used just the blue channel of the image to produce this photo.
If instead the Voyager spacecraft was teleported to the 1880s, its view might look like this. The red and green channels have been merged, in a rough simulation of the orange and violet filters used by Voyager to produce color images. The hue was adjusted for a more pleasant appearance, and the contrast raised to match the look of 1970s prints of Voyager data.
