Special islands

[neurolurker]

Back in the uncomfortably cold winter, possibly looking for a warmer morning while watching YouTubes on TV, I queried out of the blue if there was a known real location that may have inspired Bali Hai from the book and musical "South Pacific." Turns out, yes. It's called Ball's Pyramid.  It looks like this:

   

A few minutes later in the YT roulette wheel came this remarkable coincidence of a newly clarified location on Jupiter:

   

From all the fragments of images in the folder it looks like I tried but apparently abandoned an effort to create a superimposition animation of the two images fading into and out of each other's shapes and colors. By extension, Earth fades out and into Jupiter and Jupiter fades out and back into Earth.  This is one of the frames:

   

But the actual movie remains imaginary.

[Ofnuts]

(06-03-2025, 06:42 PM)neurolurker Wrote: Back in the uncomfortably cold winter, possibly looking for a warmer morning while watching YouTubes on TV, I queried out of the blue if there was a known real location that may have inspired Bali Hai from the book and musical "South Pacific." Turns out, yes. It's called Ball's Pyramid.  It looks like this:



A few minutes later in the YT roulette wheel came this remarkable coincidence of a newly clarified location on Jupiter:



From all the fragments of images in the folder it looks like I tried but apparently abandoned an effort to create a superimposition animation of the two images fading into and out of each other's shapes and colors. By extension, Earth fades out and into Jupiter and Jupiter fades out and back into Earth.  This is one of the frames:



But the actual movie remains imaginary.

So we have pictures of Jupiter's surface? Or is it only one of its moons?

[neurolurker]

(06-03-2025, 09:59 PM)Ofnuts Wrote:

(06-03-2025, 06:42 PM)neurolurker Wrote: Back in the uncomfortably cold winter, possibly looking for a warmer morning while watching YouTubes on TV, I queried out of the blue if there was a known real location that may have inspired Bali Hai from the book and musical "South Pacific." Turns out, yes. It's called Ball's Pyramid.  It looks like this:



A few minutes later in the YT roulette wheel came this remarkable coincidence of a newly clarified location on Jupiter:



From all the fragments of images in the folder it looks like I tried but apparently abandoned an effort to create a superimposition animation of the two images fading into and out of each other's shapes and colors. By extension, Earth fades out and into Jupiter and Jupiter fades out and back into Earth.  This is one of the frames:



But the actual movie remains imaginary.

So we have pictures of Jupiter's surface? Or is it only one of its moons?

I believe you're right. I didn't actually watch the video at the time, just fell into the coincidence excitement trance of seeing the very similar images. I think the video had Jupiter in the title and I went with that idea. Thanks for clarifying!