[26 Dec 2005|06:19pm] http://www.diatomeen.de/diatoms/index.html 5 comments|post comment

[26 Dec 2005|06:14pm] post comment

[26 Dec 2005|06:06pm] post comment

[18 Oct 2005|11:21pm] of cities and so much more if i want to find you i needed to hear 6 comments|post comment

[11 May 2005|04:35pm] 8 comments|post comment

[19 Oct 2003|06:17pm] 1 comment|post comment

photogram by adam fuss [11 Aug 2003|02:03pm] 2 comments|post comment

[13 May 2003|07:27pm] an aeolian harp. (someone felt their glasses crack) post comment

[05 May 2003|06:51pm] Birth of the Little Match Girl In brief, the eyebrows are visible in that they are born in giant molecular clouds composed of gas and dust. rapid eye movements begin. Rappid eye movements first occur. hidden inside dusty cocoons these cocoons prevent much of the visible light from young, protostellar objects from ever reaching us. We will use infrared light, which is not blocked as effectively by the surrounding dusty material to see deeper into the dust clouds and measure their structures. When a forming star contracts under the force of gravity, if the gravitational force were unchecked, it would squeeze the star down to nothing. A significant increase in fetal breathing occured after giving glucose to the mother. Opposing forces, principally gas pressure, counterbalance this contraction. A fetus born at this time will attempt to breathe. Eyebrows are usually recognizable. Eyelashes are usually recognizable. However, the gas pressure holding up the weight of the overlying layers would be decreased by the loss of energy as a star radiates, if the star did not replace the energy through hydrogen burning and other thermonuclear fusion processes. "Blink-startle" response have been reported. (By hydrogen burning we mean those nuclear reactions in which low-mass nuclei, like hydrogen, are fused together at very high temperatures to produce heavy nuclei plus energy; we do not mean ordinary combustion, which involves atomic and molecular reactions.) "Blink-startle" responses to vibroacoustic stimulation have been observed. The fetus apparently hears some sounds in utero. During a star's life, the "ashes" of one nuclear-burning phase provide the fuel for the next burning phase.A premature fetus born at this time may survive if given intensive care. Eventually, stars exhaust all available nuclear fuels and end their lives as primarily white dwarfs,(the skin of the fetus is reddish and has a wrinkled appearance) but the rarer large mass stars appear to meet their end as either a neutron star or black hole. Or as a ring holding a candle instead of a jewel. Or a letter written without words but with soot from a flame. Or a plaster cast of the empty space around a bed sheet. The fetal heart rate decreases overnight. She had drawn her little feet under her, but she could not keep off the cold. She rubbed another match on the wall. It burst into a flame, and where its light fell upon the wall it became as transparent as a veil, and she could see into the room. The table was covered with a snowy white table-cloth, on which stood a splendid dinner service, and a steaming roast goose, stuffed with apples and dried plums. And what was still more wonderful, the goose jumped down from the dish and waddled across the floor, with a knife and fork in its breast, to the little girl. Then the match went out, and there remained nothing but the thick, damp, cold wall before her. She lighted another match, and then she found herself sitting under a beautiful Christmas-tree. It was larger and more beautifully decorated than the one which she had seen through the glass door at the rich merchant’s. Thousands of tapers were burning upon the green branches, and colored pictures, like those she had seen in the show-windows, looked down upon it all. The little one stretched out her hand towards them, and the match went out. The Christmas lights rose higher and higher, till they looked to her like the stars in the sky. Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought the little girl. . (last part from hans christain anderson) there will be a lunar eclipse on the 15th 1 comment|post comment

[04 May 2003|12:31am] (future sea green bottle message to a certain cloud formation) post comment

[23 Apr 2003|10:54pm] where arrows gleamed and vanished lullabyelullabyelullabyegoodbyehush.hush.hush. post comment

[06 Apr 2003|08:55pm] * a diary excerpt from a sailor of the ship Endurance... .........the spray had frozen our outer clothing, we hung them on the mast, to have gained this glacified rock entirely destitute of vegetation even of, indeed, of anything except stones, that could be pressed into the service of man. not exactly an Utopia but to us, an even more barren place, if such a thing could possibly be conceived, would still have been an earthly paradise. excerpts from a sialors' diary... Dec 22 daybreak 2.30 am heavy swell course S 40degrees E. Then 50degrees 43 pm bending speniker. 6 pm lower top sail and for taken in. Cloudy sea moderating. Course S41degrees E Dec 23 fore lower and uper top sails set watch shifting coal Saturday afternoon in the Work House 6 pm strong fair wind Course S 33degrees E Dec 24 2 am daybreak Clear. Strong fair wind. sea rough. noon ship rolling same conditions. Dec 25 weather rough showry and cloudy. Christmas day cakes all over the fore castle but none like Murdo's cakes and oatmeal cakes 4pm had a few words with the mate over stearing. hard case bound south Dec 26 lookout off 5.30 clear. heavy sea strong south wind Course S 26degrees E. noon Lat 59degrees 3S's lon 172E Dec 27 4am sea cold and cloudy. 6.30am sighted two large Ice Bergs abeam flat tops resembling two large paddocks one about 4 miles square 10 am passing another. Noon all sails in weather very heavy Dec 28 3am started snowing continued all day sun dept at 10 pm midnight as clear as at noon no more darkness Dec 29 4am passing a hugh Berg. drift Ice all day course S 28degrees E Ther. 34degrees Dec 30th 4 am sea smooth clear and cold Course s30degrees E 5.30 am entered Antarctic Circle 64degrees 33S occasional Berg and drift Ice. 7pm entered a sea of pack Ice that makes the old "Aurora" tremble for and aft. 68degrees Ss still 600 from the base Dec31 Calm and mild zig zag cources through Ice continues all day meet the first peguings & seals on Ice. Mid night called on Capt. & Sir Earnest taking in New Year. Main Ice getting thiner calm & mild all day. Jan 2nd the Sun upall night Course westerly making for the land Ice very heavy cold breeze in the afernoon trimming coal. Jan 3rd 5 am held up by heavy Ice going slow ahead noon stopped taking ice on board for water 4pm under way. 6pm held up by heavy pack Jan 4 held up all day SE snow storm. Jan 5 got clear at 1 am held up 6 am for the day weather continued Jan 6 Wind moderating sighted Mt. Sabine at 7 pm 71degrees S. Sat noon making very slow progress 2? miles for 24 hours. Jan 7 clear & calm Ice breaking up noon 71degrees 46 S through a heavy pack Jan 8 fine clear weather 73degrees 31S Jan 9 11.30 am sighted Mt. Terror & Mt. Erebus 100 miles off both on Ross Isle Jan 10 fine clear morning 7.30 am entered McMurdo Sound towards Cape bird 20mls from Cape Eavns Hut 11 am stoped by solid Ice. land Shackleton & two men at Cape Royd his winter guarters, in 1907-1909 Expidition returned & reported no signs of party noon sighted 6 men with dog team crossing the Ice from Cape Eavns Shackleton, Mois and Doctor leaves ship to meet them arriving back at 11.30 pm took photos etc. reported 3 men dead Capt. Mackintosh, Rev Smith & Mr. Haywood, while another man in the Hut looking after Gear, etc. 3pm 6 men leave for Cape Eavns with dog team, another of four for Cape Royds to bring back specimens all on board 7.45 pm ship steams to the Sound and drifts there all night Jan 12 1am ship anchored to ice. 2 am party returned no trace of depot Jan 13 morning very cold air 22degrees of frost. erected a cross Jan 14 calm. noon put her bow up against the ice and remains so all day Jan 16 we were supposed to sail for home this morning. ice all round as far as the eye could see. no hope of getting clear 17 morning comes in with fallen snow. 18th 4am pack ice on horizon all all round seemingly 19th clear and chilly 20th Calm warm 6 am 21st 2 am Cold wind light pack wind increasing 22 Clear ice light 23 I wish I had told you that I love you 24th Clear and very cold 25th snowing heavy post comment

sudddenly [06 Apr 2003|04:58pm] and he looked almost with curiosity into his empty hands unclasped and would not eat nor drink but waited. the roof shook and he walked in without knocking. he said, 'I want the lovely Swan Maiden to stand before me, and through her feathers let her body be seen, and through her body let her bones be seen, and through her bones let it be seen how from bone to bone the marrow flows, like pearls poured from one vessel to another'. the wolves gathered together and went farther into the woods. * * post comment

navigation [ viewing | most recent entries ]