[lbo-talk] brilliant noise

Dwayne Monroe dwayne.monroe at gmail.com
Tue Sep 16 06:58:22 PDT 2008


shag posted:

Brilliant Noise takes us into the data vaults of solar astronomy. After sifting through hundreds of thousands of computer files, made accessible via open access archives, Semiconductor have brought together some of the sun's finest unseen moments.

[...]

<http://www.semiconductorfilms.com/root/Brilliant_Noise/BNoise.htm>

...........

Oh, that's very nice.

Few pleasures are as exquisite as the shock of terror felt when you see the sun's true face for the first time.

The illusion of ownership is shattered. 'Well, there it is' you think, 'this fusion reaction which seems so tame at a distance and understandable when described via maths on a white board. There it is, this massively wild thing.'

You scarcely seem to exist at all in its luminous shadow.

The vid (which is unreliable at the semiconductor site) is also available at YouTube:

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax2oe9UaFIE>

.d.

-- "I am death incarnate, a destroyer of worlds baby...just like that idiot Harry Potter!."

Nigel, brewer of ale .............................. http://monroelab.net/blog/



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