Sixty thousand years ago, when modern humans first left Africa, they encountered other species of humanity, such as Neanderthals (imagined above, in an artist's interpretation), in Europe and Asia.
The rings are too distant to observe directly, so instead astronomers made use of a multiweek solar eclipse occurring in the distant system to monitor how light propagated around J1407b and constructed a model (imagined above by an artist) of the rings, which reach tens of millions of kilometers into space.
Now, in this latter war, accidents of scheduling have brought Jack Bauer and Leon Klinghoffer together, though not in the way imagined above and with far less heartening results.
The nihilist imagined above does not question the idea that ordinary ethical thought and talk commits us to ontological claims.
Sure, you could build something like the VR app I imagined above: a scrolling collection of virtual experiences, shared by friends and brands.
And if you're wondering what the iPad 5 in gold could look like, just imagine the above stretched to 9.7in.
It is easy to imagine the above as a gradual process that develops physiologically as the child grows up and moves on from infancy to childhood and from latency to adolescence, when the operatory thinking first concrete, then abstract facilitates (among other things) the awareness of the complexity and multidimensionality of one's own emotional experiences.
The unique hydrogeology of the Animas Valley can be imagined from above like a dartboard where that bullseye is the hottest spot.
Imagine if the above mentioned pastor had said about blacks or Jews what he said about gays: "I wish the government would round them all up, put them up against a firing wall, put a firing squad in front of them, and blow their brains out".
