What is the Universe expanding into..

[Galu]

Has everyone noticed the lovely wave diffraction patterns in the astronaut's image of the Isles of Scilly?

Physics in action on an enormous wave machine! 😎

 

[sheeple]

I thought it was a directivity chart of your final destination speaker coffin, tbqh. The double tweeter section, though reversed for a a humble on-camera gesture, picture-wise, was striving for the infinite and highest lifeform of all. Hence is responsible for an enormous amount of excessive energy which can clearly be seen in the open sea. Or the creator had too much of the absolute, idk.

 

[KaffiMann]

Clearly a 4 way speaker in the lower part there, dancing baby next to it.

 

[system7]

A Thousand Years ago, the Scillies were considered a very odd Place. 😕

This, my friends, is the original Island of Atlantis. Used to be called Ennor.

Used to be one Island. But global warming has led us astray.

 

[KaffiMann]

Whole thing looks a bit like a cauliflower pattern...
Wonder if the galaxies form like a cauliflowers.
Are there any scientific theories based on cauliflower?


If there is a kind of creator for this universe, could it be a cauliflower?

Edit:
Or perhaps rhubarb?

 

[system7]

A Thousand Years ago, the Scillies were considered a very odd Place. 😕

This, my friends, is the original Island of Atlantis. Used to be called Ennor.

Used to be one Island. But global warming has led us astray.

 

[Galu]

Are there any scientific theories based on cauliflower?

Houston, we have cauliflower!

 

[system7]

It's not often I do a double-post, but certainly fell on my backside there. 😱

Kaffiman seems to be unaware of the connection between King Olaf of Norway and the Scillies. So for a bonus point, what is the connection? Nothing to do with Cauliflowers.

 

[Bonsai]

Delving deeply into the archives, I have, er, "Dug Up" a picture of James Harold Wilson's grave on St. Mary's. I like the old Graveyards in some macabre sense.

Peaceful places. Quite sobering about our journey from the cradle to the grave. Lovely flowers. Personally I want to be cremated. When I am gone, I am gone. 😀

Indeed, I will be cremated as well.

 

[Galu]

Nothing to do with Cauliflowers.

Could it have something to do with rhubarb?

Rhubarb – a versatile fruit that welcomes the Nordic climate – ARCTIC GRUB

Rhubarb reminds me of summer in Norway – my mom would have a small area behind our stabbur (outhouse) where rhubarb would grow like crazy. Rhubarb thrives in a northern climate, and is one of the few fruits except berries we can successfully grow that far north. As kids, we were happiest just eating the rhubarb stalks picked straight from the ground, dipped in a big bowl of sugar.

Reminds me of my boyhood, when my mum would give me a stalk of rhubarb and a poke of sugar. (poke: Scots for paper bag).

 

[KaffiMann]

I've been far more interested in Doggerland.
Doggerland - Wikipedia

King Olaf is a bit too religious for me. He probably thought he did a lot of good for his time.
It is very likely he was "converted" into Christianity in that area (Scilly).
What followed was the return to Norway to "convert" the masses, going a bit like like:
"Hey, do you wish to willingly convert to Christianity?"
"No?"
"Go over there to get yourself decapitated then."
"NEXT!"

Graphic example follows:

Forcible conversions
Olaf routinely used force to compel conversion to Christianity, including execution and torture of those who refused.[18][19][20] Raud the Strong refused to convert and, after a failed attempt using a wooden pin to pry open his mouth to insert a snake, was killed by a snake goaded by a hot poker through a drinking horn into Raud's mouth and down his throat. Eyvind Kinnrifi likewise refused and was killed by a brazier of hot coals resting on his belly. The possibly apocryphal figure, Sigrid the Haughty was said to have refused to marry Olaf if it meant forgoing her forefathers' religion, upon which Olaf slapped her with his glove, an act that prompted her to unite his enemies against him years later.[21

Olaf Tryggvason - Wikipedia

 

[Galu]

Indeed, I will be cremated as well.

Indeed, that is also my burning ambition! 😀

 

[system7]

Kaffiman, you definitely win a coconut for your knowledge of St. Olaf. 😀

Perhaps a more conflicted Man than commonly thought. He met a hermit in the Scillies. Off St. Martins.

Me, I've always been a Mercian. More of sensible Leofric in me than hot-blooded Uhtred.

Uhtred survives - The Last Kingdom: Episode 5 Preview - BBC Two - YouTube

My seasonal book. Looking forward to this one. Can't wait. 😀

 

[gpauk]

Indeed, that is also my burning ambition! 😀

Oooh... Not environmentally friendly - think of your posthumous carbon footprint! (or so some like Greta might say...) 😀
Not sure what's a better way though - there are those the recommend freeze drying...

 

[Bonsai]

Anything to avoid the worms.

Just ‘sayin

 

[Disco-Pete]

Simple, mummification.

 

[KaffiMann]

Think I'm going for burned and get the ashes pressed into some kind of rock.

 

[Disco-Pete]

Pumice, it's great for defoliating

 

[Galu]

I'm fed up with the aerial view of the Isles of Scilly, so here's one of Rockall Island instead.

Rockall is an eroded volcano situated in the Atlantic Ocean, 300km from the Outer Hebrides or the Western Isles of Scotland.

Who would think that such an insignificant lump of rock has been, and remains, such an enormous bone of contention!

 

[Bonsai]

Simple, mummification.

Jeez no. Have you seen what those Pharaoh dudes look like?