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I think babies and young children seem to have more of a lantern of consciousness than a spotlight of consciousness.
You may be imagining huge monsters lurking in the deep sea, but most of the animals are very small, like this lantern fish.
Here we have Diogenes with his lantern.
The next moment, as soon as they finished and disappeared into the shadows, a young man with a propane lantern came on, hung it up on a tree, set up a curtain.
It seems totally magical, but these bioluminescent signals arise from carefully orchestrated chemical reactions that happen inside the firefly lantern.
Driven now by sexual selection, some adult fireflies like this proud male evolved a shiny new glow-in-the-dark lantern that would let them take courtship to a whole new level.
When a female sees a flash from an especially attractive male, she'll aim her lantern in his direction, and give him a flash back.
Inside its lantern are two chemicals, a luciferin and a luciferase.
If our eyes were adapted to see light of 1900 megahertz, then a mobile phone would be a flashlight, and a cell phone tower would look like a huge lantern.
To make matters worse, it's so dark out that you can barely see, and the old lantern you grabbed on your way only illuminates a tiny area.
Remember: no more than two people can cross the bridge together, anyone crossing must either hold the lantern or stay right next to it, and any of you can safely wait in the dark on either side of the gorge.
And because you'll need to make a couple of return trips with the lantern, you'll want to have the fastest people available to do so.
So, you and the lab assistant quickly run across with the lantern, though you have to slow down a bit to match her pace.
After two minutes, both of you are across, and you, as the quickest, run back with the lantern.
The professor and the janitor take the lantern and cross together.
So she grabs the lantern from the professor and runs back across to you.
In 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche reimagined a story in which Diogenes went into the Athenian marketplace with a lantern, searching in vain for a single honest person.
Far too noisy,far too long,far from subtle.And it had Lance Percival in it.I don't really need to go on but I shall because "Too late the hero" or 'ero as our professional cockney might have it, is one of the worst kind of movies.The kind that pretend to be one thing but turn out to be quite another.Here we have a bash - crash no prisoners war movie full of squaddies with gritted teeth firing machine guns at other squaddies with gritted teeth accompanied by belicose music ,dramatic sunlight through the trees and much crunching of the undergrowth.One by one the good guys are killed off until only the professional cockney and the smug yank are left and then there's a rousing climax as they race across a huge expanse of open ground the Brits have inexplicably left unmined outside their camp until one of them gets his and the other collapses at the feet of his lantern - jawed C.O. who clenches his teeth manfully.OK.It's a Robert Aldrich war movie,a sort of "Dirty Half Dozen",but hey,now it's 1968 man,it's not cool any more to make war movies,let's pretend we've made an anti - war movie and really clean up.
Suddenly the car has a puncture and leads to 6 of them spotting a lantern in the forest and a cozy place where sone one apparently resides( it is a an open courtyard basically).
One has seen a light in the distance (in the jungle) and all except one go to find what it is, and it's an old ruin with a lighted lantern.
at the end of the scene, they are startled by nothing and in the corner of the screen you see a man's hand holding up a lantern to light the set.
When he passed before the Voreux, already growing gloomy at the bottom of its hole and with no lantern yet shining from it, he stopped a moment to watch the departure of the day-workers.
Before him the Voreux was crouching, with its air of an evil beast, its dimness pricked with a few lantern lights.
At this hour of the night nothing was alive, not a lantern, not a voice; and the sound of the pump itself was only a distant moan, coming one could not say whence, in this annihilation of the whole pit.
An induction coil gathers the electricity generated and directs it to a specially designed lantern.
In this lantern one finds a glass spiral that contains only a residue of carbon dioxide gas.
There were rays of gigantic size, five meters long and with muscles so powerful they could leap above the waves, sharks of various species including a fifteen-foot glaucous shark with sharp triangular teeth and so transparent it was almost invisible amid the waters, brown lantern sharks, prism-shaped humantin sharks armored with protuberant hides, sturgeons resembling their relatives in the Mediterranean, trumpet-snouted pipefish a foot and a half long, yellowish brown with small gray fins and no teeth or tongue, unreeling like slim, supple snakes.
I saw its green and red running lights, plus the white lantern hanging from the large stay of its foremast.
Madame Lefrancois was asleep near the cinders, while the stable-boy, lantern in hand, was waiting to show Monsieur and Madame Bovary the way home.
I can see, thank you; Justin has the lantern."
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