They are here to see Shooting Into The Corner, part of the current Anish Kapoor exhibition, and a work that consists of a cannon firing shells of red wax through a doorway into the Small Weston Room at 20-minute intervals.
While studying fire tornadoes whirlwinds of red and yellow flame and ash in the lab, scientists have stumbled on a new blue fire tornado that is stable, quiet, and only 6 centimeters tall, Popular Science reports.
The firing of a red flare in a non-distress situation is illegal under the Merchant Shipping Act.
The objects were variously described as orange balls of fire, clusters of red or orange lights, or white lights.
And the poetical moments arise organically – as when in "Ten Kliks South" an artilleryman tells us, "I saw fires through the haze, or not even fires, just flashes of red in the dust and cordite".
The subtle fire of Aleppo red pepper finds its way into almost every local dish, either powdered, like a paprika, or cooked, pulped and dried in the open air into a brick-red paste.
The homemade mango-lemon pickle, a sweet accompaniment that helps balance the highly spiced foods on the menu, is another nice touch, as is the raita, a yogurt-cucumber sauce that quells the fire of both red and green chilies in some of the dishes.
The first is elegant, monolithic, silent and static; the second is a cannon that will fire 10kg drums of red wax, every 20 minutes and at 50km an hour, from the RA's Weston Room on to the wall of the adjoining gallery.
You could just love it -- the flare of red fire in the sky, the brief tattoo of blue fire behind your eyelids -- for no good reason.
It can further be argued that the representational or intentional content of their belief that fire engines are red is derived from the representational content of their experiences of red fire engines, since this belief is a perceptual belief.
