Comments on: twilight zone, the edge of light

twilight zone, the edge of light

nickyskye — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:28:55 -0800

The "terminator" is the dividing line between day and night as seen from on high. This shadow line is diffuse and shows the gradual transition to darkness we experience as twilight.

Color is a microconsciousness. The "twilight zone" The current terminator The terminator on the Earth and on the Moon

By: Artw

Artw — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:36:03 -0800

Now I know vhy humans cry.

By: chillmost

chillmost — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:37:02 -0800

Is it from the future?

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:42:35 -0800

I've always dreamed that one day the Terminator would be mixed with the Twilight Zone. This is not what I imagined.

By: sexyrobot

sexyrobot — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:42:37 -0800

Terminator sez: "I will be back"

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:45:28 -0800

Oops, meant to also include this nice definition of the terminator twilight zone.

By: Liquidwolf

Liquidwolf — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:51:03 -0800

I think of the "terminator" as containing all the colors of spectrum within. And as it it spreads into the daytime light it displays all the colors with the sky. Like a prism.

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:52:19 -0800

Come with me if you want to ~~live~~ avoid rickets.

By: Damn That Television

Damn That Television — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:54:01 -0800

I'm no scientist, but I feel comfortable speaking above my degree when I say that this shit is awesome as fuck

By: anoirmarie

anoirmarie — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:03:24 -0800

neat!

By: Naberius

Naberius — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:21:03 -0800

Listen, and understand. That terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead. Actually it won't even stop then. It will just keep going around and around the planet forever, no matter what you do. Are you listening to me?

By: lovejones

lovejones — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:21:57 -0800

This reminds me of the opening to Carlos Reygadas' Stellet Licht - one of the most stunning sequences I have seen on film. But please watch it on a big screen, it loses much of its power on youtube...

By: Cat Pie Hurts

Cat Pie Hurts — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:26:52 -0800

Previously on AskMe. (this is awesome, btw)

By: Dave Faris

Dave Faris — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:30:50 -0800

It really isn't always darkest before the dawn?

By: Artw

Artw — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:31:39 -0800

the terminator twilight zone. Actually it I think it was an episode of The Outer Limits

By: turgid dahlia

turgid dahlia — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:40:51 -0800

Oh damn you Naberius, I was gonna do that!

By: quin

quin — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:04:09 -0800

If the Terminator has taught us anything, it's to know when to shoot.

By: vronsky

vronsky — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:04:12 -0800

And now the purple dusk of twilight time Steals across the meadows of my heart High up in the sky the little stars climb Always reminding me that we're apart You wander down the lane and far away Leaving me a song that will not die Love is now the stardust Of yesterday The music Of the years Gone by

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:10:09 -0800

Magic hour!

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:11:42 -0800

(or, off preview, what quin said, but not as funny.)

By: LobsterMitten

LobsterMitten — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:17:32 -0800

You, Andrew Marvell by Archibald MacLeish And here face down beneath the sun Here upon Earth's noonward height To feel the always coming on The always rising of the night: To feel creep up the curving East The earthy chill of dusk and slow upon those underlands the vast And ever climbing shadow grow And strange at Ecbatan the trees Take leaf by leaf the evening strange The flooding dark about their knees The mountains over Persia change And now at Kermanshah the gate Dark empty and the withered grass And through the twilight now the late Few travellers in the Westward pass And Baghdad darken and the bridge Across the silent river gone And through Arabia the edge of evening widen and steal on And deepen in Palmyra's street The wheel-rut in the ruined stone And Lebanon fade out and Crete High through the clouds and overblown And over Sicily the air Still flashing with the landward gulls And loom and slowly disappear The sails above the shadowy hulls And Spain go under and the shore Of Africa the gilded sand And evening vanish and no more The low pale light across that land Nor now the long light on the sea: And here face downward in the sun To feel how swift how secretly The shadow of the night comes on...

By: alexwoods

alexwoods — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:24:48 -0800

Great post! Who is this Daddy Hinson badass, and what is that plane that he flys?

By: one_bean

one_bean — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:24:48 -0800

I'm sorry to have to do this. That shot of the Terminator is a composite.

By: one_bean

one_bean — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:25:19 -0800

...and I am an idiot for not noticing it says that on the same page. Carry on.

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:30:49 -0800

I'm looking forward to the first HDR shots from space. That will put a rest to all this terminator nonsense.

By: inigo2

inigo2 — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:43:03 -0800

Out of curiousity, was this post at all inspired by the answers to last week's Ken Jennings trivia questions?

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:50:46 -0800

lovejones, That's one of the most beautiful few minutes of film I've ever experienced. Thank you for that lovely gift. Cat Pie Hurts, years ago, 1976, I was in a small jet and the pilot gestured to look at the terminator line where night and day meet. He said that line can only be seen up high, like 20,000+ feet. So it's not the light and dark thing the AskMe poster wanted to know. In her case I think I'd have suggested a term like luminance contrast. I couldn't remember the phrase for that line, the terminator, for over 30 years and was so excited when I came across it today I wanted to share it here. Wish I'd seen that AskMe post 2 years ago. Thanks. LobsterMitten, ooooh, that poem! ahh. inigo2, never heard of Ken Jennings. So, no.

By: Nice Guy Mike

Nice Guy Mike — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:21:15 -0800

Who is this Daddy Hinson badass, and what is that plane that he flys? I'm not sure, but it looks a bit like a U-2 to me - long, high aspect-ratio wing and "superpod" near the root.

By: Nice Guy Mike

Nice Guy Mike — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:22:35 -0800

...and now that I've followed your link, alexwoods, I can confirm it is indeed a U-2.

By: Pronoiac

Pronoiac — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:32:22 -0800

inigo2: I was actually kind of miffed that this post came just over a day too late to answer the trivia question. That's bad timing!

By: Dave Faris

Dave Faris — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:37:09 -0800

That shot of the Terminator is a composite. I was also going to point out the same thing, even though its authenticity as a real photo doesn't diminish its ability to depict the Terminator -- except I saw that the caption under the picture clearly discloses that it's fake.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:38:31 -0800

answer the trivia question huh. Now curious. What is this connected with?

By: concrete

concrete — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:56:53 -0800

It´s from Ken Jennings´ Tuesday Trivia: 2. Two science fiction films, from 1983 and 1984, share their titles with two different names for the dividing line between day and night on the surface of a planet. What are they?

By: Artw

Artw — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:03:40 -0800

Return of the Jedi?

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:28:23 -0800

ah. Thanks concrete.

By: Rhaomi

Rhaomi — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:12:13 -0800

Naberius: "Listen, and understand. That terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead. Actually it won't even stop then. It will just keep going around and around the planet forever, no matter what you do. Are you listening to me?" Rotation Of Earth Plunges Entire North American Continent Into Darkness

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:13:03 -0800

LobsterMitten, looked up the poem you quoted. wow. So apt. Archibald MacLeish's poem "You, Andrew Marvell", alludes to the passage of time and to the growth and decline of empires. In his poem, the speaker, lying on the ground at sunset, feels "the rising of the night". He visualizes sunset, moving from east to west geographically, overtaking the great civilizations of the past, and feels "how swift how secretly/The shadow of the night comes on."

By: Quietgal

Quietgal — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:35:27 -0800

It's a lovely poetic term but sort of odd, since night and day cycle round and round, and nothing really terminates there. Another poetic and odd term is the termination shock, the shock wave formed where the solar wind is slowed down to subsonic speeds by the interstellar medium. The solar wind doesn't terminate there, it just slows down. At the edge of the solar system, I think the termination shock needs a poem too. Anyway, lovely pictures. Thanks, nickyskye.

By: mrzarquon

mrzarquon — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:23:58 -0800

> Who is this Daddy Hinson badass, and what is that plane that he flys? Lockheed U2 (yup, we still fly them). Probably a variant (guessing U-2S, tactical recon model, with single seater) with extra surveillance and imaging equipment in it (or extra fuel or both). One image has the line "hindu kush" so I am guessing he is running flights (or was) over the afghanistan/pakistan border. Who needs FISA when you got google?

By: mrzarquon

mrzarquon — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:28:54 -0800

Actually another image points to kuwait, and with the range on those things, he could be flying out of anywhere.

By: russm

russm — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:53:50 -0800

Actually it won't even stop then. It will just keep going around and around the planet forever well one day the earth will be tide-locked to the sun and then it'll stop... unfortunately I don't expect to still be around to gloat over this small victory...

By: metricfan

metricfan — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:59:49 -0800

Lovejones, That video was amazing. That's one of the most beautiful features of Kansas, a wide horizon to watch the sky. Storms and sunrises are great here, especially in the flint hills.

By: borborygmi

borborygmi — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:01:08 -0800

Cold hearted orb that rules the night Removes the colours from our sight Red is grey and yellow, white But we decide which is right And which is an illusion

By: sixswitch

sixswitch — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:29:47 -0800

Nocturne W.H. Auden Now through night's caressing grip Earth and all her oceans slip, Capes of China slide away From her fingers into day And th'Americas incline Coasts towards her shadow line. Now the ragged vagrants creep Into crooked holes to sleep Just and unjust, worst and best, Change their places as they rest Awkward lovers like in fields Where disdainful beauty yields While the splendid and the proud Naked stand before the crowd And the losing gambler gains And the beggar entertains May sleep's healing power extend Through these hours to our friend. Unpursued by hostile force, Traction engine, bull or horse Or revolting succubus; Calmly till the morning break Let him lie, then gently wake. The setting by Britten is beautiful but I can't find a link.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:57:12 -0800

borborygmi , Just looked up your quotation and realized it's from one of my favorite albums, Moody Blues, Days of Future Passed. Thanks.