We interrupt this broadcast to bring you the weirdest and most brain-bending un-Shooped image I’ve seen in ages… and that in a year that’s been pretty strong on brain-bending images.
The image is copyright Felix Kaestle/Associated Press, and can be found on this Wall Street Journal photoblog page; the caption says it’s “part of the stage setting for the opera ‘Andre Chenier’ by Italian composer Umberto Giordano, which will premiere [at Lake Constance near Bregenz, Austria] in July.” [Found via This Isn’t Happiness]
Personally, I suspect it’s actually an artefact left behind by one of the more playful interventionist splinters of The Culture. WE MAY NEVER KNOW FOR SURE.
Just look at it. Posted simply for the fact that it’s a cool thing to think about, and because we seem to be on something of a space riff in recent weeks, here is a picture of a bloody great cave entrance on the Moon.
That is all.
[ I could so write for BoingBoing. If, y’know, they invited me to. *hint, hint* ]
Offered for no other reason than that images like this still blow my mind in the same way that pictures from the Apollo missions blew my mind as a bookish seven-year-old protogeek: Nasa’s Deep Impact probe managed to get some photos of Comet Hartley 2 from just over 400 miles away [via MetaFilter].
![Comet Hartley 2 as seen by Deep Impact [image courtesy NASA]](https://futurismic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/comet-hartley-2-deep-impact.jpg "Comet Hartley 2 as seen by Deep Impact [image courtesy NASA]")
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