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Did you take it yourself?rsk said:
rsk said:
Yes!DennisN said:Did you take it yourself?
Very cool! It's very eye-catching. And it also makes you think (well, at least me).rsk said:Yes!
I've made a display of mine, thanks to you:DennisN said:I started with buying a small Moon lamp, and I liked it so much I started looking for planet lamps too.
I gave away my small Moon lamp to my mother, and bought a bigger one for myself. I really like the Moon and Mars lamp in particular, because they are quite realistic looking (more than what is shown in the photos below).
Here are my lamps (I can change them to quite many different colors with remote controls):
The Moon
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Mars
(I think it looks a bit weird for some reason on this photo. It looks better in reality.)
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Jupiter
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Various Moon and planet lamps are available on Amazon e.g. here.
Oh wow!dlgoff said:
Dock duck go?DaveC426913 said:
Very nice!Keith_McClary said:Virga (precipitation falling from a cloud that evaporates or sublimates before reaching the ground).
If the pilings were made of hickory wood, it could be a hickory dickory duck.DaveC426913 said:Dock duck.
Or is it duck dock? I forget.
That cat is really stretching the definition of 'sitting in a box'.jtbell said:We've never owned a cat, but we don't need to, because we're often visited by our neighbo(u)rs' cats.
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A friend took in a stray cat. It would go away for long periods. She attached a note to it and found out it had three "owners".jtbell said:owned a cat
Funny you mention this. Just today, out sailing, me bro an me saw this black rectangle across the lake (left).DennisN said:problems with photographing very distant objects is the huge amount of warm air between the camera and target, which distorts the light and thus the image.
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Abandoned Grassy Mountain coal mine.
Edit:
Five years ago an Australian company applied to reopen this. Just last week (June 18, 2021):
I need the geological terminology for "skooshed".davenn said:what a wonderful piece of geology ... a whole lesson or two in what is going on there
Oh, I haven't seen the sea for soooo long! There is sea quite close to where I am now, but our Covid numbers are on the rise and I'm wary of public transport.morrobay said: