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post Oct 22 2008, 02:03 PM
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Did anyone notice, from http://www.met.tamu.edu/mars/142.html:

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post Oct 22 2008, 02:12 PM
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Hilarious stuff...


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post Oct 22 2008, 02:38 PM
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Colourisation and anaglyph from Sol 142 here, if anyone wants a look... smile.gif


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post Oct 22 2008, 06:50 PM
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... and Sol 144 images here...

Really want to say a big THANK YOU to Mark Lemmon for all his hard work putting the Phoenix images online in his easy-to-browse gallery...





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post Oct 25 2008, 07:04 AM
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Sol 148, and Phoenix snaps infamous British villain, Hissing Sid, on Mars... that poor, (almost certainly space-crazy by now) cat living in the probe had better watch out... unsure.gif


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post Oct 25 2008, 02:55 PM
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About time for this song:

I cant light no more of your darkness
All my pictures seem to fade to black and white
I'm growing tired and time stands still before me
Frozen here on the ladder of my life

Its much too late to save myself from falling
I took a chance and changed your way of life
But you misread my meaning when I met you
Closed the door and left me blinded by the light

Don't let the sun go down on me
Although I search myself, its always someone else I see
I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free
But losing everything is like the sun going down on me ...

Elton John, 1974


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post Oct 25 2008, 03:15 PM
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Damn; that was so appropriate, Dan. Life really sucks when it's just so real, you know? sad.gif

But, the hell of it is that there's always light:

When the Sun shines on my face
I see dancing dust motes, mysterious...can I see them closer?
Smells of pollen, green and sneezing

Walk the world, people's faces
How many know that we walk alien worlds now?
It doesn't matter....you are secure in your knowledge
That the dream unfolds

As the planet rotates massively into night
The ponderous sunset explodes
before your eyes, and maybe
you're the only one around you
who realizes what you're seeing

it is so precious to be alive, damn it
it is the only gift ever given
or ever needed
because you can see

and seeing is all you ever wanted from this world
and to see others makes life all worth the while


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post Oct 25 2008, 07:08 PM
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To get all classical on your @sses, here's a rough translation of the poem "Naenie" by Friedrich Schiller. I highly recommend the Brahms choral setting!

Even the beautiful must die.
Men and gods, masters over much, cannot soften the iron heart of the stygian Zeus [Hades].
Only once did love melt the heart of the monarch of shadows,
Yet on the threshold, he sternly revoked his blessing.

Not even Aphrodite could stanch the wound of the lad,
That in his beautiful side, cruelly, the wild boar had ripped.
Nay, the immortal mother could not succor the divine hero,
When falling at the Acaean gate, he fulfilled his fate.
But she ascends from the sea with all the daughters of Nereus,
Lifting loud the lament for her glorified son.

Lo, the gods are weeping,
Behold, every goddess is weeping,
For the beautiful fades away;
For that which is perfect dies.

Even a dirge on the lips of a loved one is glorious,
For what is common goes down to Orcus unsung.
Even a dirge on the lips of a loved one is glorious.


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post Oct 25 2008, 08:12 PM
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Beautiful words... but there is beauty in rock and dust, too...

Sol 148 colourisation


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post Oct 26 2008, 12:14 AM
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Indeed....great work, Stu! (Sigh)...it's sad to see the illumination angle continue to drop, though...

Beautiful poem, ILB, as well; did you do the translation?



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post Oct 26 2008, 03:22 AM
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QUOTE (nprev @ Oct 25 2008, 08:14 PM) *
Beautiful poem, ILB, as well; did you do the translation?


It's a mishmash of trying to turn an old word-for-word translation into something intelligible...anyone who has translated German - especially classical poetic German - will understand what I mean.

I was in a chorus that sang the Brahms setting of this poem, under the late Robert Shaw at Carnegie Hall in 1995. His wife was dying of cancer at the time (indeed, she died the next weekend), and there were tears streaming down his face as he conducted us in concert. It was almost too much to bear. This poem will always hold a special place in my heart, and it comes to me whenever I think of the inevitable passing of something or someone special (like Phoenix).


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post Oct 26 2008, 05:01 AM
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Wow. Wow.

Guess that it's just a mathematical identity: that which is immortal, is. It's one hell of a poem; read it 10-12 times now, still moves me deeply.

Certainly obvious why Mr. Shaw felt it for his beloved; God, I hope that we're all loved that deeply by someone.

(Enough. We're all steely-eyed missilemen here, right? rolleyes.gif Come to that, I'M supposed to be an amoral robot....move along, nothing to see here!!!)


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