One last post before bed...

[byslantedlight]

...cos look how pretty it was outside at twenty to ten tonight... *g*Not only that, but I went to archery - and shot rubbish, but it was at new distances - 30m and then 50m - instead of 20! Every second time I go there's a different condition to shoot under though, I don't have time to... to settle into it - ack. On the bright side, chappy didn't shout at me this time, and was in fact quite friendly. Also I came home and actually finished that piece of work, so now I'm a day ahead, which is where I wanted to be so that I can have Thursday "off" (not really off, just off on unpaid work - induction for NT volunteering... though they will teach me how to claim my travel expenses, and I think I might at this one cos it's a proper half-hour's drive away, not ten minutes up the road like Wimpole was).

Okay, and now I'm rabbiting on when the other thing I meant to post was this - today's NASA apod. I love this...Credit to Damia Bouic You can click through to the big version, but if you can't be bothered - on the left is the sunset from Earth, and on the right is the sunset from Mars! And the Martian sunset is blue, not red/orange like ours! Just imagine if you could see it though, even once... *sighs for a future that isn't here yet*

Comments

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

A new shooting distance must take a bit of adjusting to, I would think. Hope you do get the chance to settle in to the new variables - to all the variables they can throw at you, in fact, then you can say ha! :-)


And oh, sunset from Mars - what an incredible, wonderful picture, the fact that it could be taken and sent back to Earth is just, well, literally wonderful! The sun is smaller .... I mean, of course it is, but you can see it!
I wonder why the sunset is blue ... hmm, must investigate *g*

[dollidaydream.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for posting the sunset pictures. They really moved me. When I was younger I couldn't think about the future in the sense of moving to space stations and colonising new worlds because I knew that it would not happen in my lifetime, or if it does that it won't happen for me - so I understand your wistfulness.

[helenraven.livejournal.com]

That is a stunning night-time picture. And something about the smaller tree on the left somehow makes the landscape look not-quite English, but more some sort of desert scrub. Fascinating.

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

Wow wow WOW... the 'two worlds, one sun' pictures are breathtaking, particularly in the larger version. So hopeful and scary and inspiring. You know me though - given the choice I'd stick with the left hand one :D

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

Amazing photos, especially the NASA set. And now I'm quite wistful about twilight evenings where there's still a dim daylight glow at 9.40pm. Much more of a chance of experiencing that again, than of seeing a Martian sunset. (but wouldn't that be awesome!)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Apparently they don't know why the sunset on Mars is blue - it's under investigation. *g* Particles in the atmosphere seems to be the general theory. *g* And isn't it amazing - of course it's happening, and we know it is, but... yes! Seeing it!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I'm very impressed - it didn't occur to me to stop thinking about the future because it won't happen for me! It sounds quite a practical approach to life! *g* I'm more John Cleese in Clockwork, somehow - it's not the despair that gets to me, it's the chance that something might happen! *g*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I know what you mean about the extra element from that little tree - in fact it's a very English tree, but very young and only just out of bud. Maybe it dreams its a cactus in exotic foreign lands... *g*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Aren't they fabulous! I'd be on the right-hand one in a heartbeat, but we could wave... *g*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Aren't the NASA pics fab? I do love the long twilight evenings here, but I long to see a Martian sunset... and presumably will only ever long for it... *sighs*