I pictured Baghdad as Black Hawk Down's Mogadishu, all claustrophobic and high-contrast gun battles with desperate men in dark alleys, and mostly I heard Ride of the Valkyries, that grim killing opus in Apocalypse Now, retrofitted for our urban assaults and nighttime raids.
Then walk back along the beach, like nighttime commandos in daylight, or players from a primeval carnival.
As this is a radio telescope, not an optical one, there is no nighttime stargazing at Alma – you come here in dazzling daylight to be wowed by the scale, the site and the cutting-edge science.
But when he asks his father if he can go by himself (at nighttime), his father merely says: "Don't speak with your mouth full".
After Zuley took over in July 2003, Slahi was subjected to even more extreme interrogation tactics: multiple death threats, extreme temperatures, sleep deprivation and a terrifying nighttime boat ride in which he was made to believe that worse was in store.
Viewer numbers were boosted further still by the fact that it aired on a Friday, the one day in the week when the nighttime curfew enforced since the coup falls at 7pm rather than 1am.
Nighttime temperatures tend to fall sharply.
Daytime highs in summer often exceed 100 °F (38 °C) at lower elevations, and nighttime lows in winter often drop below freezing.
Daily maximum readings average 106 °F (41 °C) in Phoenix in July, and nighttime temperatures drop to an average of 81 °F (27 °C).
Winters are long, snowy, and cold, with nighttime lows reaching about 5 °F (−15 °C) in January; periodic cold snaps can send temperatures much lower.
In January, the coolest month, the average afternoon maximum temperature is 62 °F (17 °C), and the nighttime low is 51 °F (11 °C).
