I think it has to do with it cooling, but I'm no chemist. Here's the full video just in case: http://youtu.be/y_HY_bUr4Os

>> ^JiggaJonson:

Were the black impurities at the end the lead recombining with the silver? Or could that be a by product of whatever they were using to melt it down?

Man, that is so cool on so many levels. Leave it just as it is. Your uninspired is top drawer, my friend!

Makes me wish I were bronze again!

In reply to this comment by hpqp:
http://videosift.com/video/Shimmering-Silver-the-Stuff-of-Stars

If you have a better description, do tell (I wasn't feeling very inspired).

At the time of this videos, Indycars ran on methanol rather than ethanol. Ethanol has a very faint blue flame, but methanol is almost perfectly clear, though you can see the flames as sort of a shimmering disturbance in the air. These days Indycars run on ethanol, but it's more of a marketing thing than for any practical reason... the racing industry is hard up to show how "green" they are.



>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

>> ^bamdrew:
Are we sure this isn't a very elaborate Monty Python sketch?

While I am sure this is a joke, you can actually do this experiment at home with alcohol. Get yourself some everclear or some other very highly pure ethanol and set it ablaze. And did you notice he used the word inflammable. That is the correct word, we only recently made the word flammable up because it confused to many people.

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http://www.bettinamay.com/poem/2008/10/the-waking-galway-kinnell.html

"The Waking", Galway Kinnell

What just just happened between the lovers,
who lie now in love-sleep under the owls' calls,
call, answer, back and forth, and so on,
until one, calling faster, overtakes the other
and the two whoo together in one
shimmering harmonic -- is called "lovemaking."
Lovers who come exalted to their trysts,
who approach from opposite directions
along a path by the sea, through the pines,
meet, embrace, go up from the sea,
lie crushed into each other under
the sky half golden, half deep-blueing
the moon and stars into shining, know
they don't "make" love, but are earth-creatures
who live and -- here maybe no other word will do --
fuck one another forever if possible across the stars.
An ancient word, formed perhaps before
the sacred and profane had split apart,
when the tongue was like the flame of the heart
in the mouth, and lighted each word
as it was spoken, to remind it
to remember, as when flamingos
change feeding places on a marsh,
and there is a moment, after the first to fly
puts its head into the water in the new place
and before in the old place the last to fly
lifts out its head to see the rest have flown,
when, scattered with pink bodies, the sky
is one vast remembering. They still hear,
in sleep, the steady crushing and uncrushing
of bedsprings; they imagine a sonata in which
violins' lines draw the writhing and shiftings.
They lie with heads touching, thinking
themselves back across the blackness.
When dawn touches the bed their bodies re-form,
heaps of golden matter sieved
out of the night. The bed, caressed threadbare,
worn almost away, is now more than ever
the place where such light as humans
shine with seeps up into us. The eyelids,
which love the eyes and lie on them to sleep,
open. This is a bed. That is a fireplace.
That is last morning's breakfast tray
which nobody has yet bothered to take away.
This face, too alive with feeling to survive past
the world in which it is said, "Ni vous
san moi, ni moi san vous," so unguarded
this day might be breaking in the Middle Ages,
in the illusion fateful randomness chooses
to beam into existence, now, on this pillow.
In a ray of sun the lovers see motes cross,
mingle, collide, lose their way, in this puff
of ecstatic dust. Tears overfill their eyes,
wet their faces, drain quickly away
into their smiles. One leg hangs off the bed.
He is still inside her. His big toe
sticks into the pot of strawberry jam. "Oh migod!"
They kiss while laughing and hit teeth
and remember they are bones and laugh
naturally again. The feeling, perhaps
it is only a feeling, perhaps mostly due
to living only in the overlapping lifetimes
of dying things, that time starts up,
comes over them. They get up, put on clothes,
go out. They are not in the street yet,
however, but for a few minutes longer,
still in their elsewhere, beside a river,
with their arms around each other, in the aura
earth has when it remembers its former beauty.
An ambulance sirens a bandage-stiffened
body towards St. Vincent's. A police car
running red lights parodies
in high pitch the owls of paradise. The lovers
enter the ordinary day the ordinary world
providentially provides. Their pockets ring.
Good. For now askers and beggarmen
come up to them needing change for breakfast.

Drive boy dog boy
Dirty numb angel boy
In the doorway boy
She was a lipstick boy
She was a beautiful boy
And tears boy
And all in your inner space boy
He had hand girls boy
And steel boy
He had chemicals boy
I've grown so close to you boy
And you just groan boy
She said come over come over
She smiled at you boy

(repeat)

Let your feelings slip boy
But never your mask boy
Random blonde boy
High density rhythm blonde boy
Blonde country
Blonde high density
You are my drug boy
You're real boy
Speak to me boy
Dog dirty numb cracking boy
You're getting wet boy
Big big time boy
Acid bear boy
Babes and babes
And babes and babes and babes
And remembering nothing boy
Do you like my tin horn boy
It get wet like an angel
Derailed

You got a velvet mouth
You're so succulent and beautiful
Shimmering and dirty
Wonderful and hot time
On your telephone line
And God and everything
On your telephone
And in walk an angel

Look at me mum
Squatting pissed in the tube hole
At Tottenham Court Road
I just come out of the ship
Talking to the most blonde I ever met
Shouting lager lager lager lager
Shouting lager lager lager lager
Shouting lager lager lager lager
Shouting lager lager lager
Shouting mega mega white thing
Mega mega white thing
Mega mega white thing
Mega mega
Shouting lager lager lager lager
Mega mega white thing
Mega mega white thing
So many things to see and do
In the tube hole
True blonde going back to Romford
Mega mega mega going back to Romford
Hi mum are you having fun
And now are you on your way
To a new age tension headache

"Although everything was spinning perilously, I tried to start in the right direction and hack my way ahead. My route must have been far from straight, for it seemed hours before I was free of the mirage-plant's pervasive influence. Gradually the dancing lights began to disappear, and the shimmering spectral scenery began to assume the aspect of solidity. When I did get wholly clear I looked at my watch and was astonished to find the time was only 4:20. Though eternities had seemed to pass, the whole experience could have consumed little more than a half-hour."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Walls_of_Eryx

>> ^cybrbeast:
Wow, I didn't know so many people suffered from migraines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migraine#Epidemiology
I'm glad I don't have it, I would like to experience the aura though.

Why would you want that? When I get hit with an aura I'm nearly incapacitated because I cannot see anything infront of me and only see the edges. It really sucks and makes driving impossible. The video doesn't show it but for me that area in the C shape actually ceases to exist. I cannot see anything inside of it just the shimmering edges.

Thankfully I don't get the pain component however I do sometimes get vertigo 1 to 2 days after it. I'm told it's rare but it happens and it is very very bad.

>> ^poolcleaner:
>> ^budzos:
This is a ballsy movie. Love the costumes, makeup and animatronics. The location shooting always bothered me though, even as a 10 year old. Oz movies should be made on elaborate sets in a studio with controlled lighting.

I think less controlled light adds to the somber tone that the Director and DP look to have been aiming for. Things are no longer beautiful, just as the Emerald City no longer shimmers in green. Note especially the end of the film during the party scene, similar to Star Wars, Tic-Toc is polished, everyone is shimmering; more luminescent colors.


You could show that Oz has become a less inviting place without lighting the thing like Italian Spider-Man.

>> ^budzos:
This is a ballsy movie. Love the costumes, makeup and animatronics. The location shooting always bothered me though, even as a 10 year old. Oz movies should be made on elaborate sets in a studio with controlled lighting.


I think less controlled light adds to the somber tone that the Director and DP look to have been aiming for. Things are no longer beautiful, just as the Emerald City no longer shimmers in green. Note especially the end of the film during the party scene, similar to Star Wars, Tic-Toc is polished, everyone is shimmering; more luminescent colors.

yessir, a real keeper, shall we give her shimmering eye, the blankfist treatment??

edit-2 days later....only kronos got it, cause the rest a ya are way to slow on the up-take-
blankfist treatment = voting all her stuff out the queue-

and since no one did it, that means we got haters.....because I talk, and most react.....robotically....

minty, the men(boys) don't know, but the , little girls understand-

This is one of those "you had to be there" things. It must seem laughable to anyone who plays consoles or PC games today, but those little 8 bit worlds seemed so expansive. Atari Adventure was probably only eight rooms or something, and those dragons were made of a dozen pixels but they were scary beasts with shimmering scales to me.

*nostalgia

Nice complete post, by the way, with the cartridges in the desert and such.

In reply to your comment:
“"2. that it doubtfull [sic] that shimmer [sic] will prove theories acupuncture and life energy wrong." Of course he won't prove them wrong. To assume he can prove something wrong is a logical fallacy. It formally called, "The fallacy of appealing to lack of proof of the negative"

It's not on Shermer to prove their theories are wrong, it's on the acupuncturists to prove them to be right. To prove a negative, a person would have to be able to account for every moment and every location throughout the history of the entire universe to say definitively "That never happened anywhere, ever." Someone could say, "Santa Claus exists." I say, "No. He doesn't." They say, "Prove it." That's a fallacy. It's not on me to prove (or disprove) your claim. I'm not the one making it. I could just point to the person's lack of evidence and be done with it. I don't need to disprove Aliens abducted you. You have to prove it to me since you are making the assertion. That's where the burden lay.”



what ever

"2. that it doubtfull [sic] that shimmer [sic] will prove theories acupuncture and life energy wrong." Of course he won't prove them wrong. To assume he can prove something wrong is a logical fallacy. It formally called, "The fallacy of appealing to lack of proof of the negative"

It's not on Shermer to prove their theories are wrong, it's on the acupuncturists to prove them to be right. To prove a negative, a person would have to be able to account for every moment and every location throughout the history of the entire universe to say definitively "That never happened anywhere, ever." Someone could say, "Santa Claus exists." I say, "No. He doesn't." They say, "Prove it." That's a fallacy. It's not on me to prove (or disprove) your claim. I'm not the one making it. I could just point to the person's lack of evidence and be done with it. I don't need to disprove Aliens abducted you. You have to prove it to me since you are making the assertion. That's where the burden lay.

Shermer views on acupuncture were. kind of funny ...im glad you admit that shemmer was belligerent. that was my maine point.
shemer thinks acupuncture is based on a quack theory. he thicks that he the can prove 2000 years of life energy theories from the fare east as wishful thinking, with junk the establishment (Harvard) taught him.

as for you saying i think science is vague. that i would say is a mater of semantics.
science is a vague word in that . to talk about this subject i wanted to distinguish between value of science and pitfalls of modern scientific method. particularly the gold standard of randomized controlled studies.

what are you views on the ama and its highjack scientific method. do you not agree that the ama has used its power to promote itself under the banner of " we are so smart and our rigorous double blind studies are to help man kind. " i think the ama is extremely belligerent this respect

science is important and useful and can be used like a good tool that it is . but
my problem is with scientism. shemer is one who contends that scientism is the way of the modern world. this is a extremist view. even the establishment acknowledges this.
i repeat
1 scientific method is not wrong or unjust in it self but that individuals often use scientific method to achieve fame (shemmer) wealth the (ama).
2. that it doubtfull that shimmer will prove theories acupuncture and life energy wrong.
3. that science is not something that began in the 19th century.
4. that good science is a tool not a bandwagon that trys to debunk rather then understand.

star trek was a metaphor to the way people are so busy looking for big answers to "Save" or understand mankind at the cost of failing to see simple natural truths with out the blockage of being tide down to needing to get down to the jest of everything.
and you pint out the scientest / humans have so many flaws. i dont buy that excuse. its the same excuse people use when the get busted riging their so called scientific studys so they get fame and money . you should slow dawn and not just dismiss bad moral character. that is at the root of my skepticism of mikey Shermer and his followers who preach intolerance and dogmatism. remember other key words money

establishment
moral character
champion

In reply to your comment:
“I was hoping for some examples and some lively debate. You gave no examples (c'mon... flawed and outdated views on acupuncture? Acupuncture?!?), and although we are all entitled our own opinions regarding others, I think your personal opinion of Shermer is baseless. As far as debate, I don't think it will be possible to meaningfully debate with someone who views "science" as vague, thinks the AMA is the second-biggest corporation ever, and invokes Star Trek in his/her argument.

Even if Shermer were belligerent, science is not, and that is something I don't think you understand. As Ann Druyan explained very beautifully here (coincidentally, Shermer is sitting in the audience), scientists are human and have bias's. They can be assholes. They can be dismissive, strident, condescending, intractable, and prejudice, just like every other human being. But scientific method ultimately wins the day as its' built-in checks and balances overcome these things.

Your comment was all over the place, bighead, but I think your pessimism towards science and scientific method is based in ignorance rather some anecdotal experience. Read more. Think critically, not paranoidally. Don't be afraid to expose yourself to things you "know" to be untrue. If nothing else, you may learn the minds of those you disagree with. This isn't meant to be condescending. Just friendly advice.”



Shermer views on acupuncture were. kind of funny ...im glad you admit that shemmer was belligerent. that was my maine point.
shemer thinks acupuncture is based on a quack theory. he thicks that he the can prove 2000 years of life energy theories from the fare east as wishful thinking, with junk the establishment (Harvard) taught him.

as for you saying i think science is vague. that i would say is a mater of semantics.
science is a vague word in that . to talk about this subject i wanted to distinguish between value of science and pitfalls of modern scientific method. particularly the gold standard of randomized controlled studies.

what are you views on the ama and its highjack scientific method. do you not agree that the ama has used its power to promote itself under the banner of " we are so smart and our rigorous double blind studies are to help man kind. " i think the ama is extremely belligerent this respect

science is important and useful and can be used like a good tool that it is . but
my problem is with scientism. shemer is one who contends that scientism is the way of the modern world. this is a extremist view. even the establishment acknowledges this.
i repeat
1 scientific method is not wrong or unjust in it self but that individuals often use scientific method to achieve fame (shemmer) wealth the (ama).
2. that it doubtfull that shimmer will prove theories acupuncture and life energy wrong.
3. that science is not something that began in the 19th century.
4. that good science is a tool not a bandwagon that trys to debunk rather then understand.

star trek was a metaphor to the way people are so busy looking for big answers to "Save" or understand mankind at the cost of failing to see simple natural truths with out the blockage of being tide down to needing to get down to the jest of everything.
and you pint out the scientest / humans have so many flaws. i dont buy that excuse. its the same excuse people use when the get busted riging their so called scientific studys so they get fame and money . you should slow dawn and not just dismiss bad moral character. that is at the root of my skepticism of mikey Shermer and his followers who preach intolerance and dogmatism. remember other key words money

establishment
moral character
champion