The White Shoe Slaying (Set 1 of 7)
London
Flickr has had a re-boot and, as a result, it has released all of the photos of mine it previously had locked up under the ‘Flickr Pro’ paywall. As a result I suddenly have access to 3,000 photos I took between 2007 and 2012 when I was much more interested in photography.
I’m going to be slightly self-indulgent and choose a few of my favourites to post in location-based sets. The first being ‘London’.
Illustrations by Sean Lewis:
If Earth Had Rings
First off, they would be really pretty to look at. They would also dominate the sky in both night and day at exactly the same place as they would never rise nor set. And at night you would see the Earth’s shadow swing across the rings, like in the 4th photo here.
However, life would be very different on Earth if this were the case. Nocturnal animals would have a hard time being nocturnal, as the light reflecting from the rings would illuminate the night.
Because we are closer to the Sun than Saturn is, the rings would be more rocky than ice, making them less bright but still pretty bright. In fact, you would see far less stars at night (living anywhere other than the equator or the arctic circle) because of the light pollution and not to mention ruin most meteor showers because of that.
During the day the rings would block sunlight in certain regions of the planet creating wild weather cycles and effecting plant life as well. So basically, they would be definitely pretty to look at but they would also make a whole lot of things screwy.
Illustrations by Ron Miller // io9
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ialu:
yiqing yin haute couture s/s ‘13 (detail)
(Source: amishpigeon)
