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A view of the Sassnitz-Mukran port, from the stern of the FS Sassnitz. The stern door is already open as the ship backs toward the linkspan.
First glimpse of the glacier for our tour group - the ice only appears blue in the winter, in the summer the surface ice gets porous and gives a white appearance.
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A lovely dusk walk from the coffeeshop to the Thursday night party. Mostly uphill. Suffice to say that this lad had an easier time getting down to campus than I had getting up to the house. Also: my trip was filled with considerably less terror.
back to the bosque for a couple... This was taken right before dawn as the snow geese were gathering for a dawn ascension.
UP SD40N #1972 leads an Evansville grain train through Mount Prospect, approaching the connector that will take the train to Proviso.
Driving to the NASA Chris Hadfield factory near New Orleans. There's lots of overhead electrical cables that supply energy to the factory and its electric arc furnace.
074 is approaching Ballinasloe with the 09.05 SuO Dublin Heuston - Galway.
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This scene near the southern entrance to Seymour Narrows in British Columbia may look placid, but that's only because the currents are slack.
Captain George Vancouver described Seymour Narrows as "one of the vilest stretches of water in the world."
Currents can reach speeds of 15 knots, or 17 miles per hour. That may not seem like much, but it's terrifyingly fast if you're in a boat. On top of that, when the currents are running, these are some of the most turbulent waters in the world.
As if that weren't enough, until 1958 Ripple Rock compounded the hazards of transiting Seymour Narrows.
According to Wikkipedia:
"Ripple Rock was a submerged twin-peak mountain that lay just nine feet beneath the surface of Seymour Narrows. It was a serious hazard to shipping, sinking 119 vessels and taking 114 lives. On April 5, 1958, after twenty-seven months of tunneling and engineering work, Ripple Rock was blown up with 1,375 tons of Nitramex 2H explosive making it the largest commercial, non-nuclear blast in North America."
There it is! The Cygnus supply ship was a welcome sight to the astronauts on the International Space Station just over a week ago. Launched three days before on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the Orbital ATK's Cygnus spacecraft approached the International Space Station above the backdrop of a picturesque planet Earth. The Sun was setting off the image to the upper left, illuminating clouds well below the approaching vehicle. The robotic Cygnus spacecraft was captured first on camera and later with the space station's Canadarm2 by ESA's Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet and NASA's Expedition-51 Commander Peggy Whitson. Commander Whitson, a biochemist, has now set a new American record for the most total days in space. Besides essentials, the Cygnus carried equipment to bolster over 200 science experiments being conducted on the football-field sized Earth-orbiting outpost. via NASA ift.tt/2oZrHKD
This is what the runway usually looks like in Mulia: www.flickr.com/photos/indo_pilot/4562664116/ (note the large mountain in the distance, not visible in this photo).
This photo is what happens when someone lights half a hillside on fire in the valley below. It can make for a somewhat more tricky approach and departure!
A heavy ore train pulled by two BR151's.
Delmenhorst-Heidkrug.
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