Vampires don’t like sunlight but moonlight is actually also sunlight
Tell that to the werewolves.
Moonlight is only about 14% reflected sunlight, with a different spectrum (some wavelengths gets more absorbed than others, some more reflected, etc). If the two spectra of moonlight and sunlight were compared side-by-side with no mention of their origin, they basically appear as two completely different light sources, one peaking at the yellow wavelengths and the other peaking at the blue-green wavelengths.
To summarize; moonlight is not sunlight, it is reflected sunlight with a lot of its information lost or altered.
Does this mean that, with the right set-up, you could make light sources which mimicked moonlight accurately enough that it sets off someone’s lycanthropy? I’m not sure what such a device would be useful for, but it’d be neat nonetheless.
Technically, yes. In practice, whether it’s simple to do so or not will depend on the exact mechanisms that causes the transformation. I suspect the easiest way would be to get a lamp that mimics sunlight and shine it onto a surface of lunar regolith trapped behind a thin layer of transparent material to protect against oxidation.
this is amazing thank you
Okay but consider that the moon and the earth drift apart juuust a little bit each year—assuming that one’s lycanthropy is triggered by the AMOUNT of moonlight since what lore I know of consists of transformation on the full moon—eventually we’re going to be far enough away from the moon that the symptoms of lycanthropy will disappear forever
Actually no! I just heard a bit on NPR about this two days ago :3
The Moon is slowly drifting away, but it’ll eventually reach a static orbit and stop; it’s not going to fly off into space. What will happen though is kinda weird. When the Moon stops drifting away, the Earth-Moon system will become tidally locked. After that point, only one side of the Earth will ever face the Moon again. So it won’t be that lycanthropy will disappear forever; it’ll just only happen on half of the Earth :] :] :]
That raises another question though; will having the full moon always out, even during the day, mean that lycanthropes will always be shifted, or will the direct light of the sun overpower its effects during the day :?
HOLYSHIT, TIDALLY-LOCKED LYCANTHROPY PLANET
THIS IS THE BEST HIGH FANTASY KINGDOM DIVISION IMAGINABLE
THE KING OF ALL WOLVES!!!! A BORDER WITH BORDER CONFLICTS AND ROGUES WITH DUAL IDENTITIES!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
I am gonna be so sad if I cannot see the moon any more one day
The moon is a beautiful lesbian I want to be able to gaze up at her on cloudless nights
What I took away from this is that Moonlight is basically pirated art that a new artist put through Photoshop and put their own watermark on
“Original moonlight, do not steal”
Not to hijack, but my favorite novel ever, for ever and ever, concerns a world that no longer rotates, where magic rules the night and science the day.
I am the one that runs from both the living and the dead. Hunted by scavengers, haunted by those I could not protect. So I exist in this wasteland, reduced to one instinct: survive.
The Space Shuttle Endeavour docked with the ISS, as seen from a… http://ift.tt/1SkFupY from @humanoidhistory
Can you spot the shuttle in our stills of the Overture?
I totally didn’t realize you could see it in there! That is so cool! (Biggest version of the image I could find is from this tweet; image file itself here.)
Shuttle location after a cut, to avoid spoilers if you’re playing along at home.
#personal space #personal space show #space shuttle #we had asked our visual effects guy to put the shuttle in there #and we genuinely didn’t realize he did until he pointed at it #BUT IT’S SO TINY #you…you know you’re the ones who gave me the ship’s dimensions and measurements right? #our literal conversation (via @personalspaceshow)
I thought it would be cool to know how the audience for webseries differs from the audience for traditional television. There are a lot of things that prevent me from doing a real statistical study on that, so in the mean time, I looked at an interesting case study involving Battlestar Galactica and an upcoming webseries called Personal Space.
Friend of the show Madelyn has written about the differences in the audiences of Battlestar Galactica and Personal Space! Check it out!
This is an interesting discussion about webseries tending to have a higher proportion of women in both on-screen representation and in the audience.
Ooh; I didn’t appreciate the three-dimensional aspect of Overture’s design from that end-on rendering they’d shown previously. So it has that big torus, and then a smaller torus in a different plane. And that long boom thingy extending down (in this view) along the axis of rotation.
It must rotate to provide gravity, which means the big torus has relatively high gravity (one G?), while the small torus has lower gravity. Unless they rotate at different rates? But no, I don’t think differential rotation would be smart from an engineering standpoint. If I were designing a generation ship I’d try to reduce moving parts as much as possible to simplify maintenance and improve reliability.
I hope more information will be made available about the ship’s design. It’s nuclear powered; fission, I’m assuming? I wonder if the reactor is out of frame, at the end of that long boom extending down in this shot. Having it far from the crew quarters would reduce the need for shielding.
Personal Space: A Science Fiction Webseries – Astronauts aboard a generation ship have no idea their therapy sessions are broadcast on Earth as reality TV. – http://kck.st/21cKuiG
Ravens in the snow by Colleen Gara in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
Sometimes when you have a problem, all you can do is put your heads together and figure it out.
Go Poe Party! You guys can do this!
[Photo info: This image, titled “Raven Love”, received honorable mention in the amateur category of the 2016 Audubon photography awards. Photographer Colleen Gara wrote, “Besides being known for their intelligence, ravens are thought to mate for life. When I spotted this pair one morning, I tried to stay as still as possible. I wanted them to act naturally. Soon they began to preen each other. It was amazing to feel that these birds were comfortable in my presence. I zoomed in, and got this intimate shot.”]
The Space Shuttle Endeavour docked with the ISS, as seen from a… http://ift.tt/1SkFupY from @humanoidhistory
Can you spot the shuttle in our stills of the Overture?
I totally didn’t realize you could see it in there! That is so cool! (Biggest version of the image I could find is from this tweet; image file itself here.)
Shuttle location after a cut, to avoid spoilers if you’re playing along at home.
I just saw my first Stuart Knockabout last week Wednesday when I was sailing in Pocasset with my friend. They are a 28’ Herreshoff design and they are gorgeous. There is a little wooden boat builder in Pocasset, MA that has made all stuart knockabouts in existence, which isn’t a lot…they have just started making them out of fiberglass. A brand new one would cost about $100,000+ making them a very expensive day sailer.
When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress-tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet; And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget.
I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain; I shall not hear the nightingale Sing on, as if in pain: And dreaming through the twilight That doth not rise nor set, Haply I may remember, And haply may forget.”
