by Ann » Sun Feb 12, 2023 6:23 am
This APOD has a stark austere artistic quality, and with those seeming out-of-this-world (but not really) mammatus clouds gathering (ominously?) over a timeless sort of building, the whole scene is dreamlike. Who lives here? Who walks these streets?
The
Nighthawks? The Simpsons?
No, more likely
Edwin Perkins , or at least he used to live there - or he used to live nearby anyway!
Okay, but where did those clouds, which are really no evidence of aliens or mysterious dimensions at all, get that name? Mammatus clouds?
Wellll... they got their name because they seem to possess a defining characteristic shared by a lot of higher life forms on the Earth: humans, dogs, cows, badgers, bats, whales and elephants for example, but not birds, sharks or crocodiles. If you don't know what I mean, please enjoy this video of a Mama cat using specific parts of her body to suckle her kittens!
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
Oh, and no... those mammatus clouds are not likely to bring us any milk.
More likely a lot of rain! 🌧🌧🌧
Ann
[img3="Mammatus Clouds over Nebraska. Image Credit & Copyright: Jorn Olsen Photography"]https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2302/mammatus_olson_960.jpg[/img3]
This APOD has a stark austere artistic quality, and with those seeming out-of-this-world (but not really) mammatus clouds gathering (ominously?) over a timeless sort of building, the whole scene is dreamlike. Who lives here? Who walks these streets?
🐾 👣 👻 👽 🤖
The [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nighthawks_%28Hopper%29]Nighthawks[/url]? The Simpsons?
[float=left][img3="Detail from Edward Hopper's 'Nighthawks'"]https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy/ws-lawrencealkin/usr/library/main/images/hopper.jpg[/img3][/float][float=right][img3="Hometown of the Simpsons"]https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video_thumb/EmV903fW4AAkqAy.jpg[/img3][/float]
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No, more likely [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Perkins_(inventor)]Edwin Perkins[/url] 🥤, or at least he used to live there - or he used to live nearby anyway!
Okay, but where did those clouds, which are really no evidence of aliens or mysterious dimensions at all, get that name? Mammatus clouds?
Wellll... they got their name because they seem to possess a defining characteristic shared by a lot of higher life forms on the Earth: humans, dogs, cows, badgers, bats, whales and elephants for example, but not birds, sharks or crocodiles. If you don't know what I mean, please enjoy this video of a Mama cat using specific parts of her body to suckle her kittens! 😺
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaYXHAmVJio[/youtube]
Oh, and no... those mammatus clouds are not likely to bring us any milk.🥛 More likely a lot of rain! 🌧🌧🌧
Ann