All patriotism, no politics
Jul. 4th, 2002 11:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beetigerA sound I like: the deep boom of fireworks loud enough that you can feel them as well as see and hear them.
A sound I don't like: Loud cell phone conversations during a public display. (*ringring* "Yeah, we're over here... no, no, past the flagpole, on the other side...you know where there are a bunch of trees behind the stage...)
I heard an interview on NPR a few days ago with the composer of a new comic opera called Fireworks, the plot of which concerns an alien trying to find out about the source of strange colored fires emanating from certain parts of Earth at the same time each year. It made me wonder. Could one actually see a typical city's fireworks display from space? If you know more about this than I do, please let me know.
A sound I don't like: Loud cell phone conversations during a public display. (*ringring* "Yeah, we're over here... no, no, past the flagpole, on the other side...you know where there are a bunch of trees behind the stage...)
I heard an interview on NPR a few days ago with the composer of a new comic opera called Fireworks, the plot of which concerns an alien trying to find out about the source of strange colored fires emanating from certain parts of Earth at the same time each year. It made me wonder. Could one actually see a typical city's fireworks display from space? If you know more about this than I do, please let me know.
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Date: 2002-07-05 01:18 pm (UTC)You might be able to see a flash of light, but remember that most places they have fireworks, there's a lot of ground clutter... you'd probably lose the light there.
Now, if you had a ship at sea, out in the middle of the ocean, sending up fireworks, then you'd catch flashes of light... but you still wouldn't be able to see the pattern of the fireworks.