burning the candle at both ends (in zero gravity)...

burning the candle at both ends (in zero gravity)...


this is a zero gravity visual imagery experiment.


imagine you're far up in space, in a spaceship, k?

and all the lights are off in the capsule.

and you've got a candle with a wick on each end.


you light both ends (and then let go of the candle).


you're floating in an otherwise dark spacecraft...
burning a candle at both ends (in zero gravity)...

so...

what exactly would that candle look like?

have they ever filmed such a thing?


like... how would the flame flicker?


oops, correction.


how would the _flames_ flicker? (plural)

because you'd have TWO flames (one on each end).


on earth, the flame from a candle sorta points upward.

it comes to a point, more or less,
(roundly bulging at the bottom --
kinda like a falling water droplet)
and it points away from the ground.


but, in zero gravity, would the two flames point
in opposite directions? or none at all?


in zero gravity, would the flames flicker at all?

maybe. if you were in the same room, making waves.

but what if you left the floating candle in its own room,
and you looked at it thru a sealed window?


would the two flames still be shaped like tears?

or like balls? or what? squares maybe?

heh. that's just silly.


in zero gravity, what shape would the flame(s) be?


and would the flames distort if the candle was, say, spinning?

they'd have to distort, wouldn't they? (from the oxygen
-- because you can't burn a candle in a vacuum, can you?)

but if the candle were spinning -- like the way you've seen
those astronauts spinning pencils just for fun -- how would
the two flames distort?

in what kind of shapes? in what kind of patterns? *

because you can't burn a candle in a vacuum, can you?


nope.

you can't burn a candle in a vacuum.



which naturally brings us to...



the sun.

whoa.



didn't see that coming, did 'ya?


light is such an interesting thinger.



-$Zero... Meanwhile... TheSun...

AndAllThoseStars... InSpace...

FaithfullyTwinkling...

DayIn... DayOut...

AndThereYouAre... InDarkness...

EyesClosed... (OrOpen)...

FutilelyFightingTheLight...

(WhatASillySight)...



* shaped like comets maybe?



"words!...
words!...
between the lines of age..."
-- Neil Young
[song: "Words"; from
the album: "Harvest"]


"As I walk through...
This wicked world...
Searchin' for light
in the darkness
of insanity...
I ask myself...
Is all hope lost?...
Is there only pain
and hatred,
and misery?...
And... each-time-I-feel-like-this-inside..
There's one thing I wanna *know*...
What's so funny 'bout
Peace, Love, & Understanding?
oooOooohhh
What's so funny 'bout
Peace, Love, & Understanding?"
-- Elvis Costello
[song: "What's so Funny 'bout
Peace, Love & Understanding?"]


"and i think to myself...
what a wonderful world..."
-- Louis Armstrong


"whhhatttt
thhhe
WorrrRLD...
Needs now...
is Love...
Sweeet love.........
it's-the-on-ly-thinggg...
that there's Just...
too-little-of..."
-- Artist Previously Forgotten
[singer: Jackie Deshannon; from the song:
"What The World Needs Now Is Love"]


MINISTER: That's it, is it?

APPLICANT: Yes, that's it, yes.

MINISTER: It's not particularly silly, is it?
I mean, the right leg isn't silly at all and the
left leg merely does a forward aerial half turn
every alternate step.

APPLICANT: Well, with a large grant, I think
I could make it much sillier.

-- MINISTER: John Cleese; APPLICANT: Michael Palin;
[Monty Python's "Ministry of Silly Walks" sketch]



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--------------------- How flawed is your "logic"? ---------------------


IF 3 + 3 = 5
AND 2 + 2 = 3 + 3
AND 3 > 2
THEN 2 + 2 = 5 is:

a] True
b] False
c] Unable to Determine
d] Logical Cognitive Dissonance/y


------------------------------ FREE CLUE ------------------------------


Don't bother making the false assumption
that the given assumptions are false.


---------------------------- S P O I L E R ----------------------------


The correct answer is: [a] True -- probably
(but only if you can explain it logically)

Because even a monkey has a 25% chance of picking the right answer.


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1 3 5 7 9 1 3 5 7 9 1 3 5 7 9 1 3 5 7 9 1 3 5 7 9 1 3 5 7 9 1 3 5 7 9 1
2 4 6 8 0 2 4 6 8 0 2 4 6 8 0 2 4 6 8 0 2 4 6 8 0 2 4 6 8 0 2 4 6 8 0

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