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Piece on display at Corning Museum of Glass by Ginny Ruffner depicts lightening as a "creative, rather than a, destructive force."
Mount Vesuvius overlooks the city of Naples. The destructive potential of its fiery clouds is proven: the remains of Pompeii and Herculaneum still remind us today … But the city of Naples continues to expand on the flanks all around this active volcano. Why do town planners allow Neapolitans to expand in the face of such potentially destructive forces?
More than 3 million people live within a twenty mile radius of the volcano.
Naples under Vesuvius Italy_w_0713
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Destructive emotion is one of the many emotions we have. Human being is biological machine which has a computer and produces a lot of different emotions and feelings. We may not consciously feel each our emotion, they may hide in our subcontious. Feelings and emotions run us, dominating our life. We are humans because of a lot of different emotions and feelings. Thinking and memory processes function within feeling and emotion processes. How severely they effect us is depend on a lot of factors.
Our emotions and feelings create for us very happy and very bad moments. Some of us may not able to control our bad feelings when our emotions become conscious. Some of the negative feelings may be very strong, which can be very harmful ( very destructive) for other human beings and / or ourselves.
We have to be aware of who we are and use some remedies before it's too late. At the end, we are responsible from each our action.
A few hours into the Cold Springs Fire near Nederland Colorado, the destructive force of the fire was readily apparent. What smoldered as a campfire for a couple of days turned into an inferno that burned 250 acres (100 ha) in a couple of hours. Eventually the fire reached 525 acres (200 ha), and destroyed 8 homes. The two culprits who didn't put their fire out have been apprehended.
To get a sense of scale, find the speck that is a helicopter carrying a water bucket in the smoke on the right of the picture.
The dark smoke indicates an area where a stand of trees has just ignited. Note the line of fire on the left side under the black smoke.
Fires like this are scary, particularly when started by nimnods, and it is terrible that people lost their homes and property. However fire has long been a part of this ecosystem, with fires of this intensity and size recurring every 200-300 years. Recovery will begin soon, probably aided by the water managers who want to keep the sediment out of Boulder Creek that drains this area.
Mil Mi-24 Superhind Mk5 "Krokodil" Heavy Helicopter Gunship (Krokodil = Crocodile, Russian)
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An even more massive and destructive beast than the previous variant. A beast of a helicopter, it is equipped with engines twice as powerful as it's predecessor, enormous turboshaft engines used to turn the two contra-rotational rotors, and two more on the sides are used as backup, more power, and speed making this newer variant good even when fully loaded with people and munitions. Their exhaust is also used for the NOTAR system built into this huge bird.
It is equipped with new equipment ranging from imaging and sensors to radar and weapons. A new camera system is attached to the nose for more accurate gunning, along with eye tracking equipment so that the user can aim simply by pointing their eyes. The new, durable, gatling cannon is now equipped with more than four times the ammunition than it's predecessor.
It can still transport 10 people, not including the pilots, but it can do so at a speed more than two times faster than the previous variant due to it's new engines. It is now considered one of the fastest transport helicopters in the world, setting aside the fact that it can both transport and gunship at the same time.
It isn't that much of a stealthy helicopter, however, but it does feature a slightly reduced RCS. It features two wings with 4 pylons each, and 2 pylons on the bottom of the body. It's wings can give the helo around 15% of it's lift. The outermost pylons can only be equipped with air-to-air missiles, and it's underbody pylons only with either remote controlled autocannons or free-fall bombs. The 6 free pylons underneath the wings can be outfitted with rocket pods, guided missiles, autocannons, bombs, air-to-air missiles, sensor equipment, and more.
It is able to deliver long range missile strikes if a friendly unit in the area guides it (infantrymen can use their on-chest computers.)
As a latest addition, they are equipped with a powerful anti-missile laser equipped in the nose along with imaging suite and a detachable TLS built under the cockpit area aside from other weapon systems.
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Despite the destructive and ugly forces of "Burgweid", the winter storm had also its beautiful side. For example the flooded marsh along a river that created nice reflections in the morning fog.
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The rabbits have been terribly destructive to my perennial garden through the years, but we haven't had as many in our backyard as previously. This little bunny has spent the summer here, though, and I have to admit he's pretty cute!
Not every ones cup of tea here in the UK but is the one wild mammal that children can get to see regularly. Less arboreal than then the Red Squirrel as the grey tends to feed extensively on the ground. Its not their fault that there over here in the UK that one lie's with the worlds most destructive and most dangerous animal on the planet called the human.
As horrible and destructive as fire is, it sometimes leaves in its wake something interesting or striking. I found this charred tree trunk to fit that description. Paramount Ranch, after the Woolsey Fire.
You are working so hard, in so many ways, to keep fighting for life. On this day seven years ago, you chose death…and somehow you lived through your own destructive actions. Contrary to what many people may think, and perhaps even fewer may say aloud, maybe this didn’t indicate you were selfish or a failure. Maybe this was the only way you knew to escape the indescribable pain you felt completely trapped within. Maybe you were not the failure—it’s amazing that somehow you managed to succeed at staying alive this long—maybe you were so deeply failed by individuals who should have cared about you, protected you, seen the signs and your pain and taken action to help you when you didn’t have the resources, understanding or knowledge to help yourself. Maybe you believed the message that had been deeply drilled into you: that you would be doing others and the whole world a favor if you were not here. Now you are trying your best to do the incredibly difficult work—which seems unexplainable with words—to keep fighting for life, every moment of each day and each night and in ways that are often “invisible” to others. Now you are fighting—even though you feel you don’t have any strength left for this—to let the light of hope shine upon all your scars. The scars of the places where you have hurt yourself because you believed the messages that you were worthless and in desperation you tried to do something to help numb the pain of the intense, never-ending, life-altering, life-threatening wounds that were mercilessly inflicted on you by others, which left other types of, even deeper, figurative scars within you. There are no words that seem adequate to describe or explain your experience. And while engaging in the healing process, it can feel as though the life-long pain is even deeper and wider than ever before as you do the necessary work—at a pace that is appropriate for you—of uncovering the truth of your experiences, which had to be pushed as far from your memory as possible for the sake of your survival, though these memories are never fully forgotten…the mind, spirit and body do remember. Though you often feel like a complete failure, it truly is amazing how far you have come from where you once used to be. You did the best you could for your whole life, with what resources you had available to you and within you. And in many ways it is so incredible to see the changes within you that have come through the God-given resources, support, work and wisdom of your mind and body. Though it feels impossible and like too much to handle, please do your best to keep fighting for life.
Visual pollution of the landscape on a huge scale.
Cyprus for many years now embraced the power of the Sun and harnessed it with very inexpensive solutions for getting domestic hot water. Instead of continuing these pioneering works, the government succumbed to external pressures and ruined the landscape with inefficient (German) wind turbines everywhere.
Brexit is beginning to sound quite liberating.
Apparatus for Non-Destructive Transmission of Biological Visualisation (ANTBV)
art work on the Esplanade in Redcliffe by artist Russell Anderson.
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Medium: Bronze and Stainless steel
These little fellows are very destructive to you home and other wooden structures... They don't eat the wood but they cut it out and make their nest there and it weakens the boards, etc... I have to have my house treated 4 times a year to keep them out now that I have gotten rid of them...
In case you are interested, this is info about The Carpenter Ant !!
This Groundhog or Woodchuck if you prefer has not put himself to bed for the winter yet! The days are still pretty warm, in the low 70's F but the nights are getting pretty chilly in the 40's and 50's. I am pretty sure he lives up under my evergreen bushes as I see where he comes in and out.
The rabbits have been terribly destructive to my perennial garden through the years, but we haven't had as many in our backyard as previously. This little bunny has spent the summer here, though, and I have to admit he's pretty cute!
"At times so self destructive
With no intent on moulding
But behind this emotion
My sensible heart
My sensible heart"
Sensible Heart by Colour and City www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuzLiPxrBhs
One of the many Parakeets we have locally, this one was living in this tree, whereas a lot of his mates live in peoples roof spaces, and can be quite destructive.
Taken in Ellington Park Ramsgate in 2015, there is now talk of a cull because of their destructiveness and the fact that local birds, apart from seagulls are being driven out.
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Aftermath of the terrible destructive force of the tornados on April 27, 2011 ~ Tanner AL- we were away in Orlando FL but our storage unit was hit. All we could think was "Thank GOD our family and friends are okay!" All the rest- just stuff!
And how in the WORLD our family and friends got anything salvageable out for us- beyond me! Forever in their debt.
Our thoughts go out to all those with loss of property, and wost of all- loss of family/friends.
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
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It seems the love I've known
Has always been the most destructive kind
I guess that's why now
I feel so old
Before my time
Yesterday, when I was young
The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue
I teased at life as if it were a foolish game
The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame
The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned
I always built to last on weak and shifting sand
I lived by night and shunned the naked light of the day
And only now I see how the years ran away
Yesterday, when I was young
So many happy songs were waiting to be sung
So many wild pleasures lay in store for me
And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see
I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out
I never stopped to think what life was all about
And every conversation I can now recall
Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all
Yesterday the moon was blue
And every crazy day brought something new to do
I used my magic age as if it were a wand
And never saw the waste and emptiness beyond
The game of love I played with arrogance and pride
And every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died
The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away
And only I am left on stage to end the play
There are so many songs in me that won't be sung
I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue
The time has come for me to pay for
Yesterday, when I was young
Songwriters: Charles Aznavour / Fred Ebb
The human capacity for destructiveness is a dangerous zone to wander. Finding oneself in awe of watching the world crumble beneath ones feet as the path on which one walks comes to a closing halt. At the end of the road, pure darkness lies ahead and it could overtake one's assumptions. Although one is to face forward, staring into the future, a continual pattern that is read too deeply to which a falsified scenario can conjure feelings of frustration and emptiness of the past. A feeling that can dwell, swelling the mind with discomfort, like good intentions overtaken by a rainy day. An entity that feeds on our dispositions, growing in time only to explode into a raging mess of emotional pain and anguish; yet accompanied by the warmth and compassionate nature of innocent attentiveness.
"Hope is a disposition of the soul to persuade itself that what it desires will come to pass, which is caused by a particular movement of the spirits; namely, by that of mingled joy and desire. Fear is another disposition of the soul, which persuades it that the thing will not come to pass. And it is to be noted that, although these two passions are contrary, one may nonetheless have them both together, that is, when one considers different reasons at the same time, some of which cause one to judge that the fulfillment of one’s desires is a straightforward matter, while others make it seem difficult.
And neither of these passions ever accompanies desire without leaving some room for the other."
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Or Woodchuck depending on what part of the country you're from I think. They are very destructive and I remember well the year I spent the whole summer trying to figure different ways to keep one out of the garden! This one, though obviously young was very busy trying to enlarge the opening in my plastic drain spout which is buried in the ground. I actually stepped outside onto the patio to enlighten him how I felt about those proceedings which put me within five feet of the little beastie. He froze for several seconds, long enough for me to click several times and then turned and with a bound of his fat little self he hightailed it back up into the woods. :) In answer to the question "how much wood could a woodchuck chuck"? I don't know because he was chucking plastic!
Anita and I are off adventuring for the first time in weeks and I can't wait to see what there is to see! Have a fabulous rest of the weekend everyone! :)
The 7.19.20 sun setting behind the #hogfire as seen from atop Thompson Peak near Janesville California.
I know first hand how destructive squirrels can be, especially in an attic, but you have to admire their agility and resourcefulness. I watched this little guy for about ten minutes. He knew I was watching, but went about his business as if he were totally alone.
I guess if you concentrate on one spot for too long , your eyes can become fixated and locked until you start banging your head. It gave me a headache just watching this male pileated woodpecker "bang his head against the wall". They have a lot more white on them than I expected.
James Marrs Penland (1876-1945) founded the Waco Drug Company in 1911, and the company became one of Texas' leading wholesale drug businesses before joining with six other Texas firms in becoming Southwestem Drug Corporation, one of the largest in the nation. For the length of his career, Penland served as a leader in his field and in his community, and the Waco Drug Company building serves as a reminder of his company's prominence in Waco's history. The building, which underwent remodeling under the Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives program between 2002 and 2006, is one of only a few large warehouses remaining in the downtown business district. The building, situated at the corner of Fifth and Mary Streets in Downtown Waco, was constructed in 1925 as the headquarters of the regional drug wholesale company. The building is 4 stories with a full basement and faces east on Fifth Street. Built of poured- in-place concrete construction with brick and tile infill walls, steel industrial windows, decorative cornices and molding, the building represents a fine example of early 20th century warehouse construction.
The Waco Drug Company building is a link to local industry that played a major role in the local economy throughout most of the 20th century. As an intact, preserved building that predates the destructive 1953 tornado, the building is also a significant reminder of a building type and style once common throughout the community's business center. It also embodies a type of building rarely constructed today, a warehouse with sufficient windows for natural light and ventilation, once common. Unlike warehouses and much of the large-scale construction projects today, the Waco Drug Company building features architectural details at a pedestrian scale, from the simple human scale of the bricks to the elaborate entry pavilion. Together with the Waco Hardware Company building, the Gradel Printing building (at the opposite end of the Waco Drag block), and the Behrens Drag Company building, the Waco Drug Company building is one of only four remaining loft-style warehouses in Waco.
For its history and significance described above, the Waco Drug Company building was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on March 24, 2008. All of the information above (and much more) was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration that can be viewed here:
catalog.archives.gov/id/40973017
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." --Jeremiah 29:11
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Subject: Abstract wheel of a destructive force.
Medium: Digital Artwork.
Inspiration: Feeling anxious about the recent decision made by the US The Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade and what is to come next...
2018 Road Trip to Tuktoyaktuk, NWT via Dempster Highway and the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway or ITH (Tuk Highway).
abandoned Mill, Bradford, Yorkshire.
Never, ever underestimate the destructive power of teenage boys
Alien art
My picture above is showing that an alien bird is picking up a leaf.
Development of some aliens from an animal stage to a developed stage ( at tree of life) might take very long time or the expected development might not happen at all if some components don't come together.
The environment, the world they are in, might not be very rich for the development of the aliens, and/or biological development might head in a very different direction. Their "tree of life" might not have proper branches for a progressive development. The tree would be weak, like a tree in a desert.
For a chemical reaction, we have to have specific atoms. We need substances to create other substances. For reactions to happen, we have to have some conditions present at the place where the reaction should happen.
Already developed aliens would be the lucky ones, passing all hurdles. When we consider the existence of billions of stars, planets and a lot of different places within planets in our universe, the probability would be very hight to be lucky for some aliens.
Another issue is that we might not see any alien at all because of the distance between stars and galaxies. Non of us ( we and aliens ) might reach the very high development to create very high technology to fly that far ( the distance between galaxies getting more in each day, expanding universe ) before our universe collapse, before the black holes pull the galaxies, before the stars of the planets explode, before the artificial intelligence takes over ( AI doesn’t need to be conscious and alive, and doesn’t need to have feelings and emotions. it can survive on its own if it is programmed properly ), etc.
Al might be the biggest threat to humans and aliens, it could wipe out them very easily. The creation of very destructive Al is possible when we consider how much hatred there are in our world between nations, races and between the people with different religions.