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[fajrdrako]

Years ago, I saw something like this in Scientific American and found it fascinating. They showed the Earth from 100 miles out, then 1,000 miles out, and so on, in geometrical progression, until the galaxies were specs.

This goes the other direction, right down to the microcosm, making me think of Blaise Pascal. I am a little skeptical of their visual depiction of a quark, but what can they do? At least it puts things in perspective.

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I have it bookmarked

[idiotgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Powers of 10"? That is such a neat video!

Re: I have it bookmarked

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Things like this are such fun because they really give a sense of the scale of things. On a human sort of basis.

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

That's nifty! Reminds me of Douglas Adams' Total Perspective Vortex, only less traumatic. I keep wanting to spell it as perspecktive...

That's a lovely icon you have there. Another lovely icon. *g* Actually, I saw it and thought of snagging it, but lost track of it before I'd made up my mind. So it's nice to see it again!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I've seen a lot of icons that relate to the Doctor and the wall. Many of them are sad - I like this one because it isn't. And because I think it's so good at capturing his personality: he is examining the wall, as he ought to be doing.

Cool place, Torchwood.

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's from when he first sees the wall/rift/thingy, isn't it? Love the eyebrow and love how tactile he is. I'm only surprised he didn't lick it!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's from when he first sees the wall/rift/thingy, isn't it?

Yes, he goes to examine it.

Love the eyebrow and love how tactile he is.

Always!

I'm only surprised he didn't lick it!

He probably did when we weren't looking.

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

He probably did when we weren't looking.

Oh. ::feels cheated::

Nine is still My Doctor, there's no doubt about that, but Ten has a sort of playful sexiness that's hard to resist. And rewatching the series while knowing how it will end is breaking my heart - poor lonely Doctor. *sniff*

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Oh. ::feels cheated::

That's what imagination is for, my dear. (Mind you, I want to see ALL the out-takes.)

Nine is still My Doctor, there's no doubt about that,

Mine too.

but Ten has a sort of playful sexiness that's hard to resist.

I'm not even trying to resist it. I'm just sitting back and enjoying every moment.


rewatching the series while knowing how it will end is breaking my heart - poor lonely Doctor. *sniff*

The Lonely Angel, who maybe thought he'd come to an end of the loneliness, if only for the duration of Rose's life.

I love the way 'loneliness' is played as a theme, along with variations of loss, rejection, hope, not leaving someone behind, and being the only one of a kind. Because it's all shot through with paradoxes: they lose people and find them again (e.g. Pete); they reject people and still hold on to them (Rose and Mickey); they do leave people behind (Captain Jack being the most significant example).

And all of these themes are made explicit in different ways, over and over - like the Doctor's explanation to Sarah Jane as to why he left her.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I think I hit 'reply' too soon, since my thought didn't stop there.

And all of these themes are made explicit in different ways, over and over -

It's very like a dance.

(I think I can persuade Beulah to come and watch some of the Nine episodes on Sunday. Yay!)

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

Love! Amazing.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes. It sort of pulls me in... or outward.

[countrycousin.livejournal.com]

neat! THank you!

Agree with you about the quarks. Far too many, for one thing. But if physicists go naming the flavors red, green, and blue, what else can one expect? :<) There was no physical basis for that other than they knew that there were three different types that they couldn't tell apart, and there are three primary colors, so . . .