Sunset, 12/11/13
Posted on December 11, 2013 Posted by John Scalzi 26 Comments
Complete with a sun pillar giving the sunset a nice, Mordor-like glow.
Whatever
FURIOUSLY REASONABLE
WHATEVER
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I spy with my big-huge-nasty-flaming eye…
Nice one indeed!
Or an alien death-ray.
Well, you did say you were in Boehner’s district. Heck, even has the eye!
One Does Not Simply Walk into Bradford.
Oddly enough, in Columbus, there was a pillar with the sunrise, too.
Looks like an indication of a Sith with severe compensation issues to me.
Holy wow.
“An” sun pillar?
Fixed.
Well, someone leveled to 90 there. #WorldofWarcraft
“An” sun pillar?
No, Anu sun pillar!
Nice!
And the cloud above it looks like a Nazghul!
COOL!
Gorgeous!
I had two thoughts when I saw this, the biblical pillar of fire in Exodus and the beam that guides you in some video games.
Uh oh. I feel for you having Sauron move in down the road. That guy’s going to bug you every time he loses his contact lens, yanno. And don’t get him started on that stupid ring. Well, there goes the neighborhood.
That is impressive.
The sunset has a “Mordor-like glow”? That’s means it’s “precious”? Nicht wahr?
(Surprised I’m the first here to mention “precious”).
Fire the orbital ion cannon!
The clouds around the sun pillar almost look like fingers trying to hold the pillar …
Helix, I see your ion cannon, and am ordering my starship to counter with an orbital strike…
Sun pillar? Hah! I knew that.
*quickly hides Take Me With You, I Can Cook Human sign behind back*
Somebody reached Super Saiyan 1.
This reminds me of the scene in Hocus Pocus where the teens open that book (yes, the one with the freaky eye and made from human skin) and they’re not supposed to and the light shines up and through the house. Which leads me to my next thought…WHAT was Athena doing while this photo was taken?!; pretty sure I know!
It’s a Big-O-Beam! Watch out for those Martians. And the livestock.