Written by LordFezzington on 07.12.2011 at 00:38
Thanks for the heads up Troy!

Written by Promonex on 07.12.2011 at 07:40
John Haughm solo is still more enjoyable than Jason William Walton solo.

Written by Edmund Fogg on 07.12.2011 at 20:41
Really well written review. Since it's just a single, I don't really see the point of rating it, but that's just me. good job.

Written by X-Ray Rod on 15.12.2011 at 21:31
I got the single today. Pretty sweet cover tbh... The most beautiful thing is that the artwork is an image of the chilean coast near the juan fernandez islands. it was a nice surprise when I read it on the back of the packaging.

Written by Troy Killjoy on 15.12.2011 at 21:33

Written by X-Ray Rod on 15.12.2011 at 21:31
I got the single today. Pretty sweet cover tbh... The most beautiful thing is that the artwork is an image of the chilean coast near the juan fernandez islands. it was a nice surprise when I read it on the back of the packaging.

I was told there's an explanation as to what exactly the cover art depicts. Any word on that?

Written by X-Ray Rod on 15.12.2011 at 21:35
You want me to write off the entire text, don't you?

Written by Troy Killjoy on 15.12.2011 at 21:39
That would be nice, unless you can give a good tl;dr version.

Quote:

Large-scale fractal motion of clouds.
NASA image acquired September 15,1999

This Landsat 7 image of clouds off the Chilean coast near the Juan Fernandez islands (also known as the Robison Crusoe Islands) on September 15, 199, shows a unique pattern called a "von Karman vortex street". This pattern has long been studied in the laboratory, where the vortices are created by oil flowing past a cylindrical obstacle, making a string of vortices only several tens of centimeters long. Study of this classic "flow past a circular cylinder" has been very important in the understanding of laminar and turbulent fluid flow that controls a wide variety of phenomena, from the lift under an aircraft wing to Earth's weather.

Here, the cylinder is replaced by Alejandro Selkirk Island (named after the true "Robinson Crusoe", who was stranded here for many months in the early 1700s). The island is about 1,5 km in diameter, and rises 1,6 km into a layer of marine stratocumulus clouds. This type of cloud is important for its strong cooling of the Earth's surface, partially counteracting the Greenhouse warming. An extended, steady equatoward wind creates vortices with clockwise flow off the eastern edge and counterclockwise flow off the western edge of the island.
The vortices grow as they advect hundreds of kilometers downwind, making a street 10,000 times longer than those made in the laboratory. Observing the same phenomenon extended over such a wide range of sizes dramatizes the "fractal" nature of atmospheric convection and clouds. Fractals are characteristic of fluid flow and other dynamic systems that exhibit "chaotic" motions.

Both clockwise and counter-clockwise vortices are generated by flow around the island. As the flow separates from the island's leeward (away from the source of the wind) side, the vortices "swallow" some of the clear air over the island. (Much of the island air is cloudless due to a local "land breeze" circulation set up by the larger heat capacity of the waters surrounding the island).
The "swallowed" gulps of clear island air get carried along within the vortices, but these are soon mixed into the surrounding clouds.

Landsat is unique in its ability to image both the small-scale eddies that mix clear and cloudy air, down to the 30 meter pixel size of Landsat, but also having a wide enough field-of-view, 180 km, to reveal the connection of the turbulence to large-scale flows such as the subtropical oceanic gyres. Landsat 7, with its new onboard digital recorder, has extended this capability away from the few Landsat ground stations to remote areas such as Alejandro Island, and thus is gradually providing a global dynamic picture of evolving human-scale phenomena.

Image and caption courtesy Bob Cahalan, NASA GSF
Instrument: Landsat 7 - ETM+
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Landsat
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John Haughm
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Written by X-Ray Rod on 15.12.2011 at 22:09
Oh... I deserve lots of internets for this.

Written by Troy Killjoy on 16.12.2011 at 05:55

Written by X-Ray Rod on 15.12.2011 at 22:09
Oh... I deserve lots of internets for this.

That's amazing. The Wiki article helped explain it in a more concise manner so I understand it better now... I didn't realize it was such a special occurrence.

Written by xXIronDethXx on 18.12.2011 at 20:25
It points at Ft Canby Park Rd on the border of Oregon & Washington.

Written by Troy Killjoy on 18.12.2011 at 23:53

Written by xXIronDethXx on 18.12.2011 at 20:25
It points at Ft Canby Park Rd on the border of Oregon & Washington.

Good to know. I bet that's one of the places Haughm goes to unwind or gather inspiration for his music.

Written by RaduP on 07.11.2020 at 22:27

I can only dream of having 70+ comments on my review that aren't that one time Maniac Blasphemer tried to argue that women are privileged.