Radium as a dial illuminator

[facthunter]

Like the elderly streaker at the local Flower Show. Won First Prize in the Best Dried Arrangement section.  Nev

[Marty_d]

Was that where one onlooker turned to another and said "What's that she was wearing?"

"Dunno," replied the other, "But it sure needed ironing!"

[facthunter]

I don't know a lot about this stuff. I've led a very sheltered life.   Nev

[nomadpete]

Radium. It does strange things to people, Nev.

 

But I dunno know what radium has to do with the Dali Illuminator. Is this a religious thread?

 

 

 

Edited May 12, 2023 by nomadpete

[Jerry_Atrick]

9 hours ago, facthunter said:

I don't know a lot about this stuff. I've led a very sheltered life.   Nev

Not having to worry about bits that need ironing? I'd call that a privileged life 😉

Edited May 12, 2023 by Jerry_Atrick

[facthunter]

I had one pair of drip dry Pants and wore long underwear as well in winter.   Nev

[old man emu]

17 hours ago, nomadpete said:

I dunno know what radium has to do with the Dali Illuminator.

Not the Tibetan religious leader, but the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali

 

 

Many theories exist to explain the meaning of the melting clocks in that work, entitled The Persistence of Memory .

 

The concept of the dream is integral to understanding Surrealism and also plays a key role in unlocking the secret meaning of The Persistence of Memory. For Surrealists, dreams were very important. A major goal of the Surrealist art movement was to capture visually what it is like to be in the dream state. Understanding that The Persistence of Memory most likely relates to and depicts a dream state is the first step in revealing the hidden meaning of Salvador Dali’s mysterious painting.  The distorted melting clocks in The Persistence of Memory may symbolize our very different experience of time while we dream. Clocks don’t have much meaning or importance in the dream world. Perhaps it is for that reason that the clocks in Dali’s painting are melting away.

 

Another theory is that the painting is Dali's response to Einstein's groundbreaking Theory of Relativity, a new and revolutionary idea back in the 1930s. In his Theory of Relativity, Einstein proposed a new concept of time. According to Einstein’s theory, time is a relative and complex concept that cannot be tracked with such a crude, simple gadget as a clock or a pocket watch. In The Persistence of Memory, Dali’s clocks might be melting away because they are outmoded and losing power over the world around them.

 

[facthunter]

Spanish tend to believe in Haunted  Evil Spooky things. Many of their films feature it.  Nev

[onetrack]

I've been to the Salvador Dali museum in Figueres. You can't come out with the same view of the world again, as when you went in. 

[old man emu]

As a kid I read a biography of Dali. My favourite Dali quote, "He who farts alone, dies alone." 

[Jerry_Atrick]

I wondered why the step-father-in-law was no longer discrete when dropping them.

[onetrack]

And he who farts in a crowd is usually wished some form of horrible death for his toxic emissions.

[spacesailor]

How can a Clock Tell time when. 

The Earth revolves!  Then revolves around our Sun, ! That is revolcing around a dirty big black hole .

Deep thinker.

spacesailor

[Marty_d]

2 hours ago, spacesailor said:

How can a Clock Tell time when. 

The Earth revolves!  Then revolves around our Sun, ! That is revolcing around a dirty big black hole .

Deep thinker.

spacesailor

Not a silly question.  My brain isn't big enough to answer that, but I have heard that satellites have to use Einstein's theory of relativity to correct for the time difference between what they experience in space vs the rate that time passes on Earth.

[pmccarthy]

11 hours ago, onetrack said:

And he who farts in a crowd is usually wished some form of horrible death for his toxic emissions.

Confucius say man who fart in church must sit in his own pew.

[Marty_d]

Confucius say "I didn't say all that shit!"

[Jerry_Atrick]

I am so confused!

[old man emu]

43 minutes ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

I am so confused!

You are suffering from the Confician caused by misquotes.

 

And if Confucius was Chinese, how come he has a Latin name?

[Marty_d]

"Most quotations on the internet are mis-attributed" - Plato