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General => Chat & Off Topic Stuff => Topic started by: Red_Hamish on January 02, 2006, 06:40:30 AM

Title: Awesome picture
Post by: Red_Hamish on January 02, 2006, 06:40:30 AM

Hello all, If you are interested in a picture of the world showing the light disturbance caused by our modern day living then check this one out ,

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights2_dmsp_big.jpg

there really aren't that many places which are not affected.

cheers

Jim

Title: Awesome picture
Post by: derekwarner_decoy on January 02, 2006, 02:30:23 PM

Hi PD's & yes Jim the snap is awesome but is it real?

1) the world is depicted as a flat plane
2) the world is in darkness irrespective of location
3) but the depicted  :idea:  :idea: lights are beautiful  

Sort of like shades of NASA & the shadows on the moon [no, not Hank Marvin & Bruce Welsh - other Shadows]

But if we went back further, was it not John Lennon who wrote.....

'late yesterday night I saw a  :idea: light from your window' then gave the song to Jerry Marsden to make a world wide hit  :?:

Possibly Mr Lennon had been up in the sky [with Lucy & the diamonds] & could see the light from........... :D - so  :shhh  , but I'd best stop this before Karina sees me adding more musical titles to the real world.....   :music  :music  :music  :hehe  :hehe  :hehe - regards Derek  :beer

Title: Awesome picture
Post by: derekwarner_decoy on January 02, 2006, 03:50:26 PM

Sorry all  -  "Light from a Window" - :oops - Karina has just corrected me in that yes Lennon wrote the work, offered it [at a $.........] to Jerry [of] Jerry & the Pacemakers who however declined the song & was thence offered to Billy J Kramer & the resulting WWH [world wide hit] - sometimes it is nice to think back & listen to  :music  :music  :music - .... 'I couldn't walk on, until you had gone from your window' ....thanks Mr Lennon ....... Derek

Title: Awesome picture
Post by: frankmcneilll on January 04, 2006, 01:59:00 AM

I recall a lot of people jumped on the words, 'Lucy', 'Sky' and 'Diamonds' as code for LSD, another Lennon 'hit.' Lennon claimed that LSD had not inspired the words or title for the song. I also think the picture was pasted together and that some of the lights were added or  deleted. It has been reported that one of the things members of a Martian invasion fleet would see first would the the Great Wall. The other thing would be the Japanese fishing fleet, if they came at night when thousands of boats use brilliant lights to lure fish to the surface.