April 11, 2011
Inspired To Go Ot
image by Damian Peach
In past times, shadow-filled craters were sometimes called ink pots, after the glass bottles that held ink for quills - remember them? Grimaldi, Schroeter, Madler and Schmidt all used quills and ink pots in writing their observing notes, so calling a darkened crater an ink pot was an easy simile. But we don't use such antiques now so what name should we use? Nothing easily comes to mind - for something dark we can think of a toner cartridge, but the shape and the sound are all wrong. A black hole in a can would be a more modern description, but is too distracting. This is a common problem. We live in a world of modernity but have Chuck Wood
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