I used a 14” telescope in my homemade observatory to capture Saturn and Tethys, one of its moons.
You can see spokes on the rings, my first time capturing them so vividly!
Umberto Eco, qui possédait 50 000 livres, disait ceci à propos des bibliothèques personnelles :
"Il est insensé de penser qu'il faut lire tous les livres qu'on achète, tout comme il est insensé de critiquer ceux qui achètent plus de livres qu'ils ne pourront jamais en lire. Ce serait comme dire qu'il faut utiliser tous les couverts ou les lunettes, les tournevis ou les forets que vous avez achetés avant d'en acheter de nouveaux.
Il y a des choses dans la vie pour lesquelles nous avons besoin de toujours avoir suffisamment de provisions, même si nous n'en utilisons qu'une petite partie.
Si, par exemple, nous considérons les livres comme des médicaments, nous comprenons qu'il est bon d'en avoir plusieurs à la maison plutôt que quelques-uns : quand on veut se sentir mieux, alors on va au « placard à pharmacie » et on choisit un livre. un livre aléatoire, mais le bon livre pour le moment. C'est pourquoi vous devriez toujours avoir un choix nutritionnel !
Ceux qui n'achètent qu'un seul livre, ne lisent que celui-là et s'en débarrassent ensuite. Ils appliquent simplement la mentalité de consommateur aux livres, c'est-à-dire qu'ils les considèrent comme un produit de consommation, un bien. Ceux qui aiment les livres savent qu'un livre est tout sauf une marchandise."
Paris has long been one of the greatest cities in the world.
A 1328 register, made for tax purposes, records that there were 61,098 households in the city; at 3.5–4.5 persons per household, this means that the population of Paris at the time stood at 210,000–270,000 people.
In 2020, two men managed to turn Earth into a giant “sandwich” by placing slices of bread on exact opposite points of the planet.
In January 2020, two men successfully turned Earth into a giant “sandwich” by placing slices of bread on exact opposite sides of the planet at the same time. The project was organized by New Zealand student Etienne Naude, who used online mapping tools to locate his geographic antipode in Málaga, Spain. He then teamed up with Spanish chef Ángel Sierra through Reddit, and with the help of GPS coordinates and laser pointers, they aligned their positions to sandwich roughly 12,724 kilometers of Earth between two pieces of bread.
Although internet creator Ze Frank first carried out the idea in 2006, the 2020 recreation drew worldwide attention because of its remarkable geographic precision. Since most land on Earth is opposite open ocean, finding a true land-to-land antipode is extremely rare. The playful experiment quickly went viral across major news outlets and became a memorable symbol of global connection just before pandemic lockdowns began around the world.
I sat down, opened PS and then started drawing and here we are, a new isometric map and ready for adventure. You can get the clean, nice version over at my Patreon page at the Tier 2 level. #dungeonsanddragons https://t.co/wJ6Ue5Sgjx
The original Star Wars movies were so loved because:
-Spaceships and laser swords are cool.
-It's WW2 in space mixed with a Western in space. All-American tropes like gunslinger and fighter pilot, but in a space opera.
-It has a religion that is real. Yes its kind of cringey 1970's California Buddhism but it's still in there. Plus the religion assists with laser sword fights.
-The setting has a delightful archaeo-futurist tone. It's after the fall of a cleaner, better civilisation ("an elegant weapon....from a more civilised time...") and it has a mix of hard sci-fi tech and scrappy junkyard tech plus all kinds of aliens that just exist as a kind of backdrop.
-The acting is fine, the pacing is excellent, the dialogue has just enough exposition to let you figure out what's going on but not too much to ruin the mystery.
-Nothing like it had ever been made. It felt genuinely new. And the scale of the story was so large, it felt impossibly epic. For the 70's it really did blow people's minds.
Martin Lorentz, a 29-year-old carpenter who spent three years helping rebuild Notre-Dame’s medieval wooden framework (the “forest” of beams) after the April 2019 fire, married his fiancée Jade inside the cathedral.
A German carpenter reportedly left a pencil in the rafters while building a house in the 1600s, and it is now considered the oldest known surviving pencil in existence.