Again, I'm just floored (so is the person in the photo!) by this kind of thing. To think such gigantic reptiles once populated this planet, for realsies. I mean if that doesn't sound like something out of the most way out kind of science fiction. And yet we had no idea such creatures existed until fossils began turning up around the 1820s.
Can you imagine what kind of plays Shakespeare would have written about dinosaurs if he'd known about them? But even suggesting that thunder lizards once existed on earth would probably have landed you in the stocks back then.
To me the fact that they belong to dinosaurs is almost as fantastic and awesome as if they DID belong to dragons. I've always found dinosaurs to be kind of hard to accept as a reality, especially when you stand next to those gigantic bones or visit a display of animatronic ones and realize, "these things once were actually real and alive."
Let’s see if I can explain. “The Eye of the Storm” is a proverb when you’re talking about a lull in a non-storm disaster. When you’re talking about a literal typhoon, that phrase is just the actual name of the weather pattern.
So the “eye of the storm” we’re talking about is the concept and origin of the phrase that is widely used as a proverb for non-weather related problems. Does that make any sense?
For example, if you had a huge battlefield with two armies shooting at each other and all of a sudden there were a momentary pause of action for no reason, someone might say that this is just the eye of the storm as a way to imply that it's a temporary pause and the violence will return soon. In that case, you're speaking idiomatically by comparing the battle to a storm along with the feature of a storm, the eye.
It's also confusing in another layer because the center of a storm being referred to as an eye is itself figurative. It's describing the structure of a storm as resembling that of an eye. So the center of a storm is not a literal eye, but the eye of a storm is an actual structure of a storm.
The issue here is that the structure being referred to as an "eye" is idiomatic for a different reason than someone would invoke the phrase "eye of the storm" idiomatically. It's two completely different idioms shorting out against each other. And in the case of this image, that is literally the eye of the storm.
To put it another way, all you have to do is move the quotes to fix the issue.
Proverbial can also indicate a well-known or familiar way of saying something, so your are correct in saying this is the proverbial eye of the storm, since it’s a metaphor we commonly use to describe the phenomenon
it means, "if you wanted to see what the Eye of the Storm from the old proverbs ACTUALLY looks like, here you go".. it's the Eye of Storms from the proverbs.. proverbial.. originally a reference to just the stuff from the book of Proverbs in the Old Testament..
The Schwarzschild Radius of a 40GM object is around 790AU, the orbit of Neptune is around 30AU. I’m sure the volume that the object can effect is beyond massive, but the “size” of a SMBH is defined by the point at which not even light can escape, the Schwarzschild Radius.
Still a Schwarzschild Radius of over 26 times the size of Neptune’s orbit is insane.
What are weird leap. Rock that may possibly resemble thousands if not millions of known species fossils when viewed from one angle with no way to test it, but we jump straight to dragons.
Why? I think we should just jump straight to Martian Charizards if we are going that far. Pokemon on Mars sounds like a promising game to me.
I have to say the knowledge of how enormously lethal polar bears are does put a slight damper on this image for me. These things can kill you easy, and I would not want to be this close to one. Let alone two.
The brain has incredile plasticity and can reform connectivity in the craziest circumstances. I wouldn’t rule out negative side effects (maybe hardcore headaches) but in terms of information flow I think the brain would be fine.
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