Missing blue
Sep. 12th, 2011 06:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ciroccojOne of the things I miss about living in Kingston is that I no longer get to see Lake Ontario. Eleven years I spent seeing it almost every day, because my life revolved around Queen's University (lakefront) or Bath Institution (a forty-minute drive away, hugging the lake all the way). I miss it.
::waving at Lake Ontario:: Hello Lake! Love you! Miss you!
Should look up the distance between Kingston & the US and Denmark & Sweden. Justin and I just read Number the Stars, set during WWII in Denmark, where the heroine goes to her fisherman uncle's house and looks across the water and sees Sweden. I only ever saw the US when I worked the border crossing at Wolfe Island.
I have a piece of origfic story that's been sitting on my hard drive for years and will probably never get off of it, partly set on Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the largest satellite in the solar system. I've always been fascinated by Titan because it's (I think) the only satellite with an atmosphere (although I think one or more of the Galilean moons may also have atmospheres) and it has a plentiful substance in solid, liquid and gaseous form, which many scientists believe is necessary for life to exist. On Earth it's water and on Titan it's methane, so it's possible Titan could have life that's evolved using methane as a building block. So, possibly stinky life, but life nonetheless.
Anyway, the whole "life is possible" thing isn't the part that interests me, in part because Titan's also intensely cold so any life that evolved there would no doubt want to have nothing to do with fire creatures like us. The part that interests me is that Titan also has weather, and an interesting topology consisting of more than just "high rocky ground," "low rocky ground" and "hole." It's also got lakes. One of them is named Ontario Lacus.
See? It wasn't a non-sequitur at all :) :)
::waving at Lake Ontario:: Hello Lake! Love you! Miss you!
Should look up the distance between Kingston & the US and Denmark & Sweden. Justin and I just read Number the Stars, set during WWII in Denmark, where the heroine goes to her fisherman uncle's house and looks across the water and sees Sweden. I only ever saw the US when I worked the border crossing at Wolfe Island.
I have a piece of origfic story that's been sitting on my hard drive for years and will probably never get off of it, partly set on Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the largest satellite in the solar system. I've always been fascinated by Titan because it's (I think) the only satellite with an atmosphere (although I think one or more of the Galilean moons may also have atmospheres) and it has a plentiful substance in solid, liquid and gaseous form, which many scientists believe is necessary for life to exist. On Earth it's water and on Titan it's methane, so it's possible Titan could have life that's evolved using methane as a building block. So, possibly stinky life, but life nonetheless.
Anyway, the whole "life is possible" thing isn't the part that interests me, in part because Titan's also intensely cold so any life that evolved there would no doubt want to have nothing to do with fire creatures like us. The part that interests me is that Titan also has weather, and an interesting topology consisting of more than just "high rocky ground," "low rocky ground" and "hole." It's also got lakes. One of them is named Ontario Lacus.
See? It wasn't a non-sequitur at all :) :)
