IMAGINATION STATION
Close your eyes for a moment (well, not right now. Wait till you've read the whole paragraph) and imagine this: a ball of fire in a vast empty space. Spend at least ten seconds picturing this ball of fire. (Now close your eyes)
Done?
Good!
I used to do these stupid self-analyzation games with my family, but this isn't one of them. It's just a simple exercise to appreciate how people imagine things differently. Realistically, we all spin around the same ball of fire on a yearly basis. It's sort of our point of reference, but there is no indication that we will all recreate that same ball of fire in our minds when given the freedom.
Now answer these three questions for yourself and the fireball in your own head: What color was it? How big (relatively) was it? How high were the flames or eruptions, if there were any?
Done?
Good!
I used to do these stupid self-analyzation games with my family, but this isn't one of them. It's just a simple exercise to appreciate how people imagine things differently. Realistically, we all spin around the same ball of fire on a yearly basis. It's sort of our point of reference, but there is no indication that we will all recreate that same ball of fire in our minds when given the freedom.
Now answer these three questions for yourself and the fireball in your own head: What color was it? How big (relatively) was it? How high were the flames or eruptions, if there were any?
Labels: drawing, interactive, science
posted by k_sra at 11/29/2006 01:14:00 PM
9 Comments:
Color of fireball: red and orange
Size: The size of a beach ball
Flames stuck close to the fireball.
Does that mean I'm complex? :)
Red and Orange
About twice the diameter of the Earth
Flames pluming out the back to about a diameter.
It was travelling very quickly
Colour of fireball: red and orange, but with a little bit of that cool lava effect black on the surface.
Size: No idea. There was nothing else there to compare it to. Seemed pretty big, but it could be like when you have something stuck between your teeth that feels massive to your tongue, but when you actually get it out it's actually the size of a gnat's chuff.
No flames or eruptions, it was more like it was burning in on itself.
Now I feel like I should lie down on a couch and tell you about my relationship with my mother or something.
Um, I pictured the sun.
Does that mean I'm gifted?
(Maybe it just means I jumped ahead of myself.)
Huh, my fireball started out orange and red and then became green and blue. It was the size of the sun (duh, no imagination there) and it's flames/eruptions were at least as high as it was wide and they arched around it like the orbits of an atom...
What does it mean!?
Move over, lostdog. I'd better join you on the couch.
Here's my fireball. His name is Nam Hong-chul. At least that's how he is known around Manchuria.
I cheated and just kept reading, half picturing a fireball as I went. It was red and orange, the apparent size of my monitor (was actually huge, but I'm far away), has orange-yellow flames pointing in all directions, roughly twice as tall as they were wide, with heights roughly 1/50 the diameter of the sphere.
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