Welcome to Vulcan - red sky!

[Therin of Andor]

6.15 am, Planet Vulcan. Stardate: Now.

No, actually it's Sydney, Australia, after a night being buffeted by winds blowing in from drought-ridden regions around Canberra, Tipaburra and Broken Hill, NSW.

Dust, dust, dust! The "red centre" is now on the east coast?

Funny, a few months ago Star Trek fans here were complaining that JJ Abram's planet Vulcan had the wrong colour sky in the 2009 "Star Trek" movie. As in, "How could a planet have red sky some days (TOS, ST III, ENT) and a blue sky (ST XI) on other days...?"

Well... here we go!

http://therinofandor.blogspot.com/2009/09/welcome-to-planet-vulcan.html

 

[Michael]

Ha, that's great! Isn't our planet beautiful?

 

[Peter the Younger]

Mother Nature is clearly a talentless hack who doesn't respect canon.


Nice picture though.

 

[Disillusioned]

Would that be near sunset or sunrise by chance?

 

[Therin of Andor]

Would that be near sunset or sunrise by chance?

As the caption says, 6.15 am, but the entire sky over Sydney stayed reddish most of the morning!

 

[urbandk]

great photo!

 

[F. King Daniel]

The dust thing was on the news over here in England this morning.

Try not to breathe.

 

[Therin of Andor]

great photo!

Thanks. It was literally aim-and-shoot from my back door, but it was the same eeriness in every direction for about six hours. Some people got up and thought Armageddon had hit during the night and it was the end of the world!

Try not to breathe.

Well, now I know why Kirk needed the tri-ox injection to battle Spock in "Amok Time" (TOS).

 

[barnaclelapse]

That's honestly a really awesome photo.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

WOW! Amazing and beautiful!

 

[M'Sharak]

There are some great pics out there right now. I like this one, taken by someone on his way to work, driving across the Sydney Harbour Bridge:

 

[Myasishchev]

Cool pics. Weird country.

I never understood what people's hangup about a blue sky on Vulcan was, anyway. If it's an oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere, it's likely to have a blue sky.

Colors tend to mean things about chemical composition, that's why I was taken aback when Dax on DS9 said she preferred "purple oceans." Yeah, I too love oceans that are chock full of in hydrogen suflide-producing purple photosynthetic bacteria!

I always assumed the red Vulcan sky in Amok Time was 1)a VFX limitation and 2)a result of time of day and atmospheric dust conditions. Just like Australia's red sky (well, the second one, not a VFX limitation of the Australian continent ).

 

[Therin of Andor]

Just like Australia's red sky

The important distinction here is that Australia's "red centre" in the outback often has skies this colour, during duststorms, although I've never seen them, nor has most of our population. The red colour is of the sky is caused by the natural colour of the airborn sand of our desert areas, much like the deserts around ShiKahr.

Yesterday's event was a once-in-70-years event for Sydney, our largest city, famous for bright blue skies. The winds had died down, but the red dust was still suspended, and had driften hundreds of miles. (It once occurred that the dust blew all the way to New Zealand - and they woke up to red snow on their mountain tops!)

Walking out into the back yard yesterday morning really did feel like walking out into an alien landscape. To all those ST XI unbelievers, who proclaimed the choice of a blue sky for Vulcan was a huge canonical blunder, Sydney says, "Now we know better!"

 

[trampledamage]

Walking out into the back yard yesterday morning really did feel like walking out into an alien landscape. To all those ST XI unbelievers, who proclaimed the choice of a blue sky for Vulcan was a huge canonical blunder, Sydney says, "Now we know better!"

There were probably news reports on Vulcan about the freak weather conditions (perhaps recent torrential rain?) that meant the sky turned blue for the first time in 70 years.

 

[Therin of Andor]

There were probably news reports on Vulcan about the freak weather conditions (perhaps recent torrential rain?) that meant the sky turned blue for the first time in 70 years.

Ironic that the rare perfect blue sky was about to be ruined by Nero.

 

[Myasishchev]

Just like Australia's red sky

The important distinction here is that Australia's "red centre" in the outback often has skies this colour, during duststorms, although I've never seen them, nor has most of our population. The red colour is of the sky is caused by the natural colour of the airborn sand of our desert areas, much like the deserts around ShiKahr.

Yesterday's event was a once-in-70-years event for Sydney, our largest city, famous for bright blue skies. The winds had died down, but the red dust was still suspended, and had driften hundreds of miles. (It once occurred that the dust blew all the way to New Zealand - and they woke up to red snow on their mountain tops!)

Walking out into the back yard yesterday morning really did feel like walking out into an alien landscape. To all those ST XI unbelievers, who proclaimed the choice of a blue sky for Vulcan was a huge canonical blunder, Sydney says, "Now we know better!"

Ah, I missed that. I was thinking you lived further inland--if the sky suddenly became red over Columbia, I think I would freak out.

Very weird country.

 

[SeerSGB]

There are some great pics out there right now. I like this one, taken by someone on his way to work, driving across the Sydney Harbour Bridge:

That would make a f--king awesome cover for a novel.

 

[Nerys Myk]

There are some great pics out there right now. I like this one, taken by someone on his way to work, driving across the Sydney Harbour Bridge:

That would make a f--king awesome cover for a novel.

The Road to Mars?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Just like Australia's red sky

The important distinction here is that Australia's "red centre" in the outback often has skies this colour, during duststorms, although I've never seen them, nor has most of our population. The red colour is of the sky is caused by the natural colour of the airborn sand of our desert areas, much like the deserts around ShiKahr.

Yesterday's event was a once-in-70-years event for Sydney, our largest city, famous for bright blue skies. The winds had died down, but the red dust was still suspended, and had driften hundreds of miles. (It once occurred that the dust blew all the way to New Zealand - and they woke up to red snow on their mountain tops!)

Walking out into the back yard yesterday morning really did feel like walking out into an alien landscape. To all those ST XI unbelievers, who proclaimed the choice of a blue sky for Vulcan was a huge canonical blunder, Sydney says, "Now we know better!"

Have you evolved inner eye lids yet?

 

[DEWLine]

What abuse the Vulcans' lungs had to put up with!