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Merry cronkmas yall :]
have a nice day— if your christmas is on 24th or 25th :)
spring tidings
image by Candice Ralph
Bidding autumn goodbye on my island as everything turns colder ❄️
The moon’s light influences lion prey behavior, dung beetle navigation, fish growth, mass migrations and birdsong.
Crowds of people gather to watch an evening spectacle on beaches in Southern California: Twice a month, typically from March through August, the sand becomes carpeted with hundreds or thousands of California grunion. Writhing, flopping, silvery sardine look-alikes lunge as far onto shore as possible. As the female fish dig their tails into the sand and release eggs, males wrap around females and release sperm to fertilize those eggs. About 10 days later, the eggs hatch and the little grunion get washed out to sea.
This mating ritual is set to the tides, with hatching timed to the arrival of the peak high tide every two weeks. But the ultimate force choreographing this dance is the moon.
Many people know that the moon’s gravitational tug on the Earth drives the tides, and with them, the life cycles of coastal creatures. Yet the moon also influences life with its light.
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Special Report: Moonstruck 50 years after Apollo 11, lunar science still surprises and delights
CREDIT: JPL/NASA
This story is part of a special report celebrating humans’ enduring fascination with the moon and exploring the many ways it affects life on Earth. More articles will be published in the coming weeks. See all the articles, plus our 1969 coverage of Apollo 11, here.
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For people living in cities ablaze with artificial lights, it can be hard to imagine how dramatically moonlight can change the nocturnal landscape. Out in the wild, far from any artificial light, the difference between a full moon and a new moon (when the moon appears invisible to us) can be the difference between being able to walk outside without a flashlight and not being able to see the hand in front of your face.
And animals respond. The presence or absence of moonlight, along with the predictable changes in brightness across the lunar cycle, can shape reproduction, foraging, communication and other aspects of an animal’s world. “Light is possibly, maybe just after the availability of resources in terms of food, the most important environmental driver of changes in behavior and physiology,” says ecologist Davide Dominoni of the University of Glasgow in Scotland.
Researchers have been cataloging moonlight’s effects on animals for decades and continue to mark new connections. Several recently discovered examples reveal how lunar light influences lion prey behavior, dung beetle navigation, fish growth, mass migrations and even birdsong.
M’Leigh Instant
Lunar Light...
A light used to guide the way
To usher the old year out, along with any negativity
Light a candle to bring luck, happiness and prosperity closer to you
Watch the fire, the flame flicker bringing in a new year to you
Partake in the festivities
Place up decorations, while you pass red envelopes around
Look back to the candle as you hear fireworks sound
image: Buy Shi cai chinese new year valentine's day gift wedding gift ...Alibaba
Let me know what you think and pass the thought along.
Lunar Light is now available for download. try it and give me some comments.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did finally finishing it
DOWNLOAD HERE
Notes:
EDIT: I know there is some slow down. I'm trying to find the source of this and plug it up asap
There is no pause menu implemented yet
Getting hit is still kind of off and I will tighten it up in the future
sometimes animations will glitch up, that's what happens when you make a web-like animator linked together with bools rather than proper transitional states >w>
Lunar Light by theyearbeforetime
“Golden Age”
Lunar Light
Astral Flight
Diamond Stars
Paint The Night
Earthshine
Blows My Mind
Dearest Moon
Gone Too Soon
Sunrise
Opened Eyes
Gaze Upon
Crimson Skies
Zephyr Knows
The West Wind Flows
Across The Sea
To Mykonos
Where Lovers Go
And Lovers Kiss
Blue-Green Water
Island Bliss
Ancient Myths
And Seaside Cliffs
Epic Ruins
At Your Fingertips
Enduring Tales
Of Love And Desire
Eros And Psyche
Taking Us Higher
Our Souls Transcend
Our Bodies Bend
When Hearts Are True
There Is No End
Our Lips Unite
We Breathe As One
Our Golden Age
Has Just Begun
Words By Andreas Liotsakis a.k.a. Strangelove Alchemist
