Saturn's moon Prometheus creates streamer channels in the planet's rings.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Eclectic Perambulations in the Noosphere
Saturn's moon Prometheus creates streamer channels in the planet's rings.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Many thanks to Tatcher a Hainu@Flickr (aka Eckhard Völcker) of Berlin, Germany
"There's something very important I forgot to tell you. Don't cross the streams… It would be bad… Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light."
—Egon Spengler/Harold Ramis on crossing proton streams
"After a harsh winter that threatened to stunt China’s winter wheat, June brought a welcome reprieve. Warm, sunny weather nurtured the developing plants, allowing them to mature quickly. As a result, northern and central China expected a bumper crop of winter wheat in 2010, reported the United States Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service."
There were once thousands of caravanserai, staging posts for the weary traveler, dotted throughout Asia, North Africa and the South-Eastern parts of Europe. The Silk Road, an important and extensive trans-continental network of routes, was dotted with them. Many still survive, but more, like the one in the Lut desert of Iran (above) are abandoned and slowly turning to dust.
Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai
Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day,
How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp
Abode his destined Hour, and went his way.
Stanza 17, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
"the Digital Gastronomy machines described here attempt to use the most advanced food technologies and techniques to retain the freshness of ingredients, increase the potential for personal creative expression and develop a new and tighter connection between food production and our digital lives"
