DARK SIDE OF THE MOOM FULL

“For the outside of the palace, we tried to keep the shapes simple,” she said. The buildings were sculpted to look organic and they turned and changed profiles. The production designer looked at NASA images of the lunar surface and outer space for reference, and conjured the city as a floating galaxy that revolved around the palace. She made it all come together, and the day she showed me of Fei Fei standing in front of Lunaria with crazy, glowing colors, radiating light, made me laugh and then cry.”

DARK SIDE OF THE MOOM FULL

“The way Miró did his paintings, it feels like music,” he said, “and it’s full of childlike wonder. Keane then offered an additional inspiration for Lunaria: the surreal work of painter Joan Miró, who had a fondness for conveying the movement of abstract shapes. It was so harmonious with the elements.”Īnd it became an epiphany when Desrumaux smartly flipped the aesthetic for Lunaria, going from reflected light to Chang’e’s sourced light. She pointed out the white walls, and I said, ‘Yeah, they’re white.’ And she said, ‘No, they’re not white! They’re green and blue and gray and brown!’ She went on about the colors and the reflected light. “What Céline brought was her deep study into China and the little water town we visited together. If it was moving any slower, the twist would simply be in the other direction, but the outcome would be the same.Director Keane instantly embraced the production designer’s concept for connecting Lunaria to Chang’e as a stark contrast to earth. It has no choice but to stay put exactly like that. This would also have an effect of forcing the bulge to always stay underneath the Earth, because if it moved away, even a little bit, it would be pulled back. The moment the bulge passed underneath the Earth, there would be no more unbalanced force, so it would stay locked in that position. The Earth’s attraction would give rise to a torque (think: a twisting force) until it slowed down. If the Moon was rotating faster than it was revolving, it would be ahead. Now, the bulge caused by the Earth had to be near the point where the Earth is directly overhead. It really doesn’t matter which, as we shall soon see.

It was either rotating faster than its current revolution, or slower. There is no reason to suppose that the Moon was tidally locked from the beginning of its existence. Now, imagine the Moon very early on in its life. The water between these two regions gets sucked away to fill the two high-tide regions, so we have low tides in the places between the high tides.Ĭredits:dean bertoncelj / This is what we call a secondary high tide. Again, because it is not bound tightly, the earth is pulled more than the water, so it looks like the water level is going up (when in fact it is the soil beneath that is going down). At the same moment, on the exact opposite side, the earth below the water is experiencing a greater force of attraction than the water itself. This causes the water level to rise, which leads to a primary high tide. When the Moon is directly overhead, the water on our planet, being more loosely bound than soil, is pulled closer to it. Furthermore, since we are dealing with bodies the sizes of planets and satellites, this difference can add up to quite a bit, which is the reason we have tides in the first place. This means that when you get down to the tiniest details, the gravitational force on the near side of a body must be larger than that on the far side. Newton’s Law states that gravitational force decreases as the square of the distance between two bodies. Tidal forces occur because the gravitational force is not the same across a body.

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