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"Melancholy Man and Mermaid (Encounter on the Beach)" (1896). A recurring motif in Munch’s life and art is the sea, both the coastal settings and the many fjords of the Norwegian landscape. But also the sea as inhuman and other worldly.
Utsuro-bune - Japan's UFO. In 1803 Japanese fishermen reported a drifting vessel that contained "a beautiful young woman" with red & white hair, dressed in strange clothes. They claim she held a square box "that no one was allowed to touch" & she spoke in a strange language.
@HexagonHeptagon That's so true. The space air-hostesses in 2001, for example.
The mothership in Close Encounters was 6 feet in diameter, & weighed 300 lbs. It was made of plexiglass, fiberglass, steel & plywood & took two months to build. 1000s of holes had to be drilled for wiring the lights, and many people, including Spielberg, took turns drilling holes
Antonio Vivaldi (1678 – 1741) died in poverty. Although he had been a successful Baroque composer, like many composers of the time, quickly changing musical tastes made his music outmoded. He was buried in a simple grave on ground that was owned by a public hospital fund.
Terrifying and wonderful images by Louis Boulanger (1806-1867) from "Fantômes" - by Victor Hugo (1829)
0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001%.
This is the time that organic life will exist in the universe, as a % of the entire life of the universe.
83 decimal points below zero.
Feel lucky to be alive
Data: B.Cox, Physicist
Saturn's moon Pan looks like frozen ravioli. The reason for its odd shape is loose material from Saturn’s rings being gradually deposited at its equator. The moons Daphne, Pandora & Atlas also resemble ravioli.
Photos: Cassini - nuclear-powered robot that orbited Saturn till 2017