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Can’t post it here because it’s proprietary and I’m not really a news organization (probably close enough, but I’m not looking for trouble). You can view it through here.
I’m not quite sure what we’re looking at. It looks to me like the old intro sequence effects for Dr. Who.
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March 10, 2012 at 4:26 pm
Just saying
Oh baloney. The image is from a public university. They can claim any usage restrictions they want, to no avail. If they produced the image with public funds, it belongs to the public. They’ve now released the image to the public. There you go.
March 10, 2012 at 5:20 pm
Eric Kirk
You’re probably right. I was just reading the print below the image, and it had me cautious. Probably they don’t want anyone claiming it for something profitable. Can’t imagine what that would be.
March 10, 2012 at 6:39 pm
anonymous
Who is Dr. Who?
March 11, 2012 at 1:48 am
Eric Kirk
Who is Dr. Who????? Only the most famous time traveler!
Here’s a video of all of the themes for each incarnation of Dr. Who since 1963.
March 11, 2012 at 8:19 am
Mitch
That doesn’t look like molecular nitrogen to me. It looks more like copper sulfate.
March 11, 2012 at 9:00 am
Bolithio
I’m not quite sure what we’re looking at.
Me either. It would be nice if they showed a sequence of pictures so you could see the change. This picture by itself just looks like cheesy computer graphics to me. What does this look like for real? Is there anyway to observe this in a more natural light spectrum or is too small?
March 11, 2012 at 10:09 am
tra
Actually, the dude simply calls himself “The Doctor.”
Of course, when people ask your name and you just respond that you’re “the Doctor,” people will often follow up by asking “Doctor who?” Hence the name of the show.
March 11, 2012 at 3:24 pm
Anonymous
Two schoolgirls in China have committed suicide in an attempt to travel back in time.
The girls decided to end their lives after one of them lost a remote control to a door, China Daily reports, via People’s Daily. Xiao Hua told her best friend and fellow classmate, Xiao Mei, that she was worried about coming clean to her parents. The names are reportedly pseudonyms.
In an effort to avoid potential consequences, the girls allegedly took inspiration
from a popular television show and committed suicide to travel back in time.
They left notes explaining their decision before jumping — and subsequently drowning — in a pool.
In a note obtained by the Shanghaiist.com, one of the girls explained her reasoning for her rash decision by writing: “In my life, I have two secret wishes. One is to time-travel back to Qing Dynasty and shoot a film with the emperor, and the other is to travel to outer space,” the Christian Post reports.
The chain of events has raised concerns about the influence of media on young children, and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television has placed restrictions on airing certain shows between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m., according to People’s Daily.
But some aren’t too sure about the story.
Anna North, a writer for Jezebel, observes that the article seems to highlight the apparent dangers of time travel-centered shows. She wonders whether the government had an influence on the direction of the article.
China Daily is a state-owned paper, described by the Committee to Protect Journalists as “straitlaced.” People’s Daily Online is the website of People’s Daily, which until recently described itself as “the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China” — it now offers a more circumspect description: “one of the world’s top ten newspapers.” It’s possible that Huang and China Daily were under pressure from the government to paint the girls’ suicide as a direct result of the evil influence of time travel.
Additionally, the Wall Street Journal points out that media experts in China have also indicated officials might have not been crazy about the “themes of the shows, which centered on escaping discontent in the current era to journey back in time to a better life.”
March 12, 2012 at 11:19 am
Jane
My understanding is that public agencies can hold copyrights and restrict distribution since, essentially, the State owns the rights. I don’t know if the same is true of trademarks but there are restrictions on what others can do with the trademarks.