h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm writing an Guide Entry for the EG and what I'm looking for is a picture of telegraph poles stretching from the foreground to the background over the horizon.

Does one exist or can one be made?

If the later I humbly bed and offer of that the sky above the telegraph be lit with aurora!

Thanks!

I'm fascinated by the concept of bedding chocolate. And yet repulsed. But bedding it before offering it to other people is Just Not Done.

But back on topic...

I doubt we have such a thing at the moment - I've not come across it.

And it might be entirely possible to draw such a thing. (One point perspective is so refreshing!)

Depends on whether the Entry is worthy of it, though

Spot the typo....

Yeah - point perspective is exactly what I had in mind.

I scanned through the Picture archive earlier - but didn't find anything that matched the bill.

I've decided to write up my "What Hath God Wrought" QI thread with the geo-magnetically powered telegraphs running without batteries.

Going to try to navigate the path of describing the telephonic network system and technology. The science of solar events and storms and then the events in 1859.

Work in progress here: A43562586

Just started tonight sorting out some place-holder headings, and the links and doing some further research (reading the American Science journals from 1859 - 1860 with the direct observations made across the N. Hemisphere.)

Oh, I think it's conceivable that such a thing could be made.

I'll see what I can come up with. Remind me when it's in PR, just in case!

No rush. Just putting down a marker really.

How nice to have the QI crowd on the artists team!

? - no fingerprints or otherwise, I promise.

Oh, yes, please

This one might be fun for when I'm practicing vectors.

Well I'm off to bed for the night, I got as far as the May 1860 Vol XXIX.

I shall be dreaming of aurora - I know it!

(still there are worse things, I suppose...)

You could dream of a roarer...

I'm getting close to finishing this article now Mal, I'll be submitting it to Peer Review .... soon(ish).

You said you wanted a "heads up!" when it was close.



(Really excited to see what you'll come up with )

Nothing this week, I'm afraid - I have my final exam Thursday

This new weekly FP schedule means there's quite a bit of time to get it done.

No worries it 'ain't finished yet. - give me e break I don't react well to pressure

P.S Good luck!!

Thanks. Since I've not started looking for a job yet () I'm sure I'll have time after that.

The picture's on my list now, though

How's this?

http://hotimg25.fotki.com/a/80_128/62_65/telegraphpoles-vi.jpg

I just had a look at the entry, too. Didn't read it all, though.

Over 10,000 words, plus 2,000 more words in footnotes?

Try making it several entries. That's over 30 pages of material you have there now

I know...and some of it is bound to be replicated in other guide entries, I'm going to need a really good editor.

I figured best way to get it all done was to get it all out and to start trimming back when it's done.

I've still go the major stuff to finish off about magnetic storms and what they are and then the 1st draft should be complete.

Just looked at the image - one word:

BRILLIANT!!!!!!!

Exactly the sort of thing I had in mind.

Good luck paring it down. Maybe it would work better as two entries, an in-depth one about magnetic storms and one where there's just a paragraph with a link to that one?

I think I need to change the rails slightly - it now looks like they're on the outside of the ties, when really, the lines closer to the middle are meant to be the actual rails. But I drew it all on the computer, so that shouldn't be a problem - I'll revise it before I send it in.