to me there is something uncanny About the tide pool. Yes the moon dragged the ocean off the land and yes some ocean life was left there and yes I looked at it up close. I got the sense that even though they say all life began in the ocean it has not been home to some of us for a very long time
but the /deep/ ocean. not the beach. im talking weird creatures in low light. its just such a foreign landscape to us. i love the idea that things move 3 dimensionally.
its just so ancient and wise
There's like forests of marine life sitting here when the tide goes down. They are chilling in ponds. Had my feet cleaned by a little council of shrimps.
The moonโs orbital plane is inclined relative to the earthโs by something like five degrees, so eclipses only happen when the moonโs orbit intersects the line where the two planes meet. Those points are called nodes I think
