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Post by descoladavirus on Aug 18, 2011 4:28:55 GMT
I could hug that rabbit til it kicks the crap out of me.
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Post by Geekette on Aug 18, 2011 9:05:50 GMT
On a side note, Chang'e as Tom draws her looks a little young to be married. I was guessing that she was around Matt's age, ie 13- or 14-ish. Maybe in the Gunnerkrigg-verse she's younger and unmarried. Or likes to transform herself to the age of guys she's after, like a major cougar. Or it may be that she ages as the moon-phase progresses, and then starts over again after 'dying' ala phoenix. I don't know much about Chang'e, but I do know that some other myths and legends have that sort of age-cycle linked with the moon (the association with mother, maiden and crone is first to mind). And if greek/roman/norse mythology has taught me anything, its that the occasional dalliance out of marriage with a mortal beau is completely acceptable. Unless you're married to the goddess of marriage, then you're kind of spitting in her eye.
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Post by scaramousche on Aug 18, 2011 10:02:53 GMT
Unless you're married to the goddess of marriage, then you're kind of spitting in her eye. Which wasn't a good enough reason to stop Zeus, as we well know
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Post by vebyast on Aug 18, 2011 16:59:22 GMT
I don't know much about Chang'e, but I do know that some other myths and legends have that sort of age-cycle linked with the moon (the association with mother, maiden and crone is first to mind). Hm. Math time. Lunar cycle is about 30 days, life expectancy I'll guesstimate at 75 years. If you do a whole life every cycle that makes every day correspond to 2.5 years of aging, which would be pretty distinctive if you started out 15 years old. That would be a tolerable explanation for why she didn't want to meet Matt the next day; I can imagine her being kind of embarrassed by being that much older than him the next day.
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Post by smjjames on Aug 18, 2011 22:44:37 GMT
However, Matt only asked if he could see her two days later, not whether he would ever see her again. Although she would just say look up on a clear night to that question.
Still, gods/goddesses can be pretty fickle or something.
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Post by Alexandragon on Aug 19, 2011 0:20:32 GMT
Tom here shows us sad continuation of this history...
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Post by rainofsteel on Aug 19, 2011 1:37:52 GMT
Tom here shows us sad continuation of this history... Interesting. The terminator appears horizontally across the Earth. Goddesses get to see things however they want.
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Post by warrl on Aug 19, 2011 3:02:43 GMT
Interesting. The terminator appears horizontally across the Earth. Goddesses get to see things however they want. The terminator appearing horizontally relative to Chang'e is not at all implausible; it's purely a function of just where she is on the moon. If she's near the equator, that takes care of it. The terminator appearing horizontally relative to North America is rather harder to explain.
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Post by mudmaniac on Aug 19, 2011 4:58:55 GMT
Interesting. The terminator appears horizontally across the Earth. Goddesses get to see things however they want. The terminator appearing horizontally relative to Chang'e is not at all implausible; it's purely a function of just where she is on the moon. If she's near the equator, that takes care of it. The terminator appearing horizontally relative to North America is rather harder to explain. I think Tom said this is a rough. considering also that Matt's in England why on Earth (hehe) is she staring wistfully at America?
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Post by rafk on Aug 19, 2011 6:07:00 GMT
Elsewhere, there is a moon girl sitting atop a ridge of an enormous fingerprint, listening to "Money for Nothing." +1 internet for you, sir
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Post by fronzel on Aug 19, 2011 6:20:49 GMT
The terminator appearing horizontally relative to North America is rather harder to explain. It looks good that way.[/artistic license]
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Post by smjjames on Aug 19, 2011 6:57:14 GMT
The terminator appearing horizontally relative to Chang'e is not at all implausible; it's purely a function of just where she is on the moon. If she's near the equator, that takes care of it. The terminator appearing horizontally relative to North America is rather harder to explain. I think Tom said this is a rough. considering also that Matt's in England why on Earth (hehe) is she staring wistfully at America? Maybe because the UK would be really hard to draw at that scale? I don't think it would be too hard for Tom, he is great with drawing details, but still......
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Post by hal9000 on Aug 19, 2011 7:22:00 GMT
The terminator appearing horizontally relative to North America is rather harder to explain. It looks good that way.[/artistic license] I suppose he might have been using this old classic as a reference: And here's an appropriate quote, from a NASA astronaut:
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Post by jasmijn on Aug 19, 2011 8:48:20 GMT
Or a cloudy eclipse during a new moon. A solar eclipse then, because lunar eclipses always occur on full moon.
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Post by eruedraith on Aug 19, 2011 11:53:19 GMT
I think Tom said this is a rough. considering also that Matt's in England why on Earth (hehe) is she staring wistfully at America? One or a combination of two reasons jump to mind: 1) Chang'e remembers him as the 'boy from earth' not 'the boy from the UK.' 2) The Earth has no sense of dramatic timing.
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Post by aaroncampbell on Aug 19, 2011 12:46:56 GMT
Elsewhere, there is a moon girl sitting atop a ridge of an enormous fingerprint, listening to "Money for Nothing." I'm not sure I'm going to listen to that song the same way again, now. (Not that that's a bad thing!)
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Post by warrl on Aug 23, 2011 3:22:15 GMT
Or a cloudy eclipse during a new moon. A solar eclipse then, because lunar eclipses always occur on full moon. A lunar eclipse occurs at the time of the full moon, and the moon goes into the shadow of the earth. The earth's shadow at that point (where it crosses the moon's orbit) is a little bit bigger than the moon, so the entire moon can be in shadow at once. However, it isn't vastly bigger, so when the eclipse is partial the terminator is quite distinctly curved - not almost straight. And of course this terminator appears on the moon, not on the earth. A solar eclipse occurs at the time of the new moon, and some portion of the earth is in the moon's shadow. But the moon's shadow that falls on the earth is quite a bit smaller than the earth; in fact I think the area of totality - where the moon entirely covers the sun - is smaller than Great Britain. Coincidentally it is almost exactly the same as the apparent size of the sun, which is really convenient for astronomers (particularly premodern ones). But the point is, it would not produce a terminator running roughly the full diameter of the earth at ANY angle, let alone an almost-straight one.
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