Wed 19.Dec.2012
Rhodes, Greece
People here and elsewhere are having fun with the alleged end of the world this Friday,
so here is my two euro-cents worth.
If the world ends, does the moon go with it? What about Mars? Saturn? The
massive black hole at the center of the galaxy (a.k.a.
Sag A*)?
And how
does all this square with Conservation Of Mass? Does the world's mass remain? Then
isn't the world still here? Or does it become energy? If that much mass converts
to energy all at once, it could have a solar-system wide impact.
Most important... if the world ends, is anybody throwing an after-party? It isn't
like you get the chance every day.
I've posted a few pictures of tunnels through the city wall, connecting the moat
to the town. By contrast, this tunnel runs inside the wall, connecting to a bastion
that serves now as a the ticket office for the Melina Mercouri Amphitheater a
little further along the moat.
Where is our luminous light in this picture? Up above the cloud cover, sorry
to say. The table cats were still irresistable.
This pebbling of the streets is not an ancient practice. The ancient
residents of the city depended on horses for transport. This pebble-paving would
have destroyed their hooves in short order. Like so much else that is romantically
picturesque here, the pebbled streets came from the Italians in the first half
of the twentieth century.
This sign points toward these ruins; I don't know whether they the ancient
or the Hellenistic.
A designer friend was talking recently about green roofs. This isn't what she
meant, but it will have to do.
Two bus stops in different parts of town.
The solstice is almost apon us.
Everybody have a good one if I don't check in again
before then.
Or even if I do.