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"You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon?"
"Should I have?"
"It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs*.
Despite her humble origins and shabby exterior, the Millennium Falcon has played a role in some of the greatest victories of the Rebel Alliance and the New Republic. The Falcon looks like a worn-out junker, but beneath her hull she’s full of surprises.
It should be noted that a parsec is a unit of length/distance, not of time. Apologies to George.
Siemens Taurus 1116 252 and a Sister operated by Rail Cargo Austria (RCA) with a heavy cargo uphill the Brenner Railway line in transit at Matrei am Brenner (Tyrol-Austria)
At the Brenner border station, two Ă–BB Vectron locomotive took over the train further south.
See here the same train with the 2 Vectrons leaving Brennero photographed by Elias Prantl:
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Crossrail PB03 + 88001 Direct Rail Services op weg naar Aken-West, foto is gemaakt in Begijnendijk.
Crossrail PB03 + 88001 Direct Rail Services heading to Aachen-West, picture is taken at Begijnendijk, Belgium.
13/04/2016
Talk about out of this world! This is Webb’s first direct image of a planet outside of our solar system, and it hints at Webb’s future possibilities for studying distant worlds. Not what you expected? Let’s walk through the details.
Shown here is a gas giant named HIP 65426 b, which is about six to 12 times the mass of Jupiter. It is young as planets go — about 15 to 20 million years old, compared to our 4.5-billion-year-old Earth.
The four views of this planet, taken by Webb’s NIRCam and MIRI instruments, are each at a different wavelength of infrared light. The white star is the location of the host star. Its light is blocked by Webb’s coronagraphs. (Coronagraphs are sets of tiny masks that block out starlight, making it possible to see planets around them.) The bar shapes in the NIRCam views are artifacts of the telescope optics, not physical objects.
But why don’t these look like images of our solar system captured by missions like Juno or Cassini? The answer is that space is big and exoplanets are small — and far away from us! Don’t forget, we didn’t get our first detailed look at Pluto until 2015 when New Horizons visited.
Fun fact: if we sent a telescope to the nearest exoplanet traveling at the same rate as Voyager (17.3 km/sec), it would take 73,000 years to reach it. That is how big space is! And that is why exoplanet imagery from near Earth shows just dots of light.
Though Webb can potentially discover new planets, this one was found in 2017 using the SPHERE instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. Above Earth’s atmosphere, Webb can see details of this planet that ground-based telescopes cannot.
“Obtaining this image felt like digging for space treasure,” said Aarynn Carter, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who led the analysis of the images. “At first all I could see was light from the star, but with careful image processing I was able to remove that light and uncover the planet.”
Read more: go.nasa.gov/3wNDa4Y
Credits: NASA/ESA/CSA, A Carter (UCSC), the ERS 1386 team, and A. Pagan (STScI).
Image description:
The star HIP 65426 & 4 views of its planet “b.” The background of the image is black with many white & blue stars; it is not from Webb and is labeled the “Digitized Sky Survey.” Star HIP 65426 is labeled at top center. It has 4 diffraction spikes (telescope artifacts) from the top, bottom, left, & right. Diagonal lines down from the star to the bottom of the image highlight 4 inset boxes. From left to right, first is Webb’s NIRCam view of the exoplanet. It's a purple dot with purple bars at 11 & 5 o’clock. The bars are telescope artifacts, not physically present. The planet & artifacts have been colored purple. The filter used, F300M (3 micrometers), is on the image. Next is a similar NIRCam view using filter F444W (4.44 micrometers). This view is colored blue & has the artifact bars. Next is a MIRI view, colored orange. No bars are present. The filter is F1140C (11.40 micrometers). Finally, a MIRI view using filter F1550C (15.50 micrometers). It is a red large dot. A white star icon on all 4 images represents the parent star.
Of COURSE his name is Bobby- he says he wants to direct traffic in a big city but I think he's still a wee bit small, don't you?? :)
HTBT!
Direct Rail Services-operated Class 66/4 low-emission diesel locomotive No. 66427 passes Tredington Crossing in Gloucestershire with Tesco wagons en route from Daventry to Wentloog on 17th January 2017.
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Direct Rail Services Vossloh/Caterpillar UK Light Class 68s 68007 'Valiant' Nethertown on the Cumbrian coast railway line with 6M22 the 12:17 Hunterston to BNFL Sellafield nuclear flask train
Without warning the guard mech bursts into a horizontal rain of bullets like a sprinkler hooked up to a flame thrower. There is no cover here, only dunes of cracked rock and a canon that sounds like it's about to jam...
"EEIIIIOOOOORRRRGGGGG!"
Flit screams out as she takes a sonic blast straight to the shoulder. She hears the high pitched ringing sound of metal, wires and coils separating, She goes to fire her canon but cannot. Her arm isn't responding...
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Tonktastic Kevlar Vest + Pants - Graffiti
[Neurolab] EV3 ANDROID ARMS + HANDS
[Neurolab] N-Disc BackPack
*LPP* optional parts for "Damaged Sexadoll Torso" SLX
RO - Speed Demon Helmet - Fury - Opened
COCO - Lace UpBoots Black
Location Insilico North - ground zero
Special thanks to Merdo for bringing in the big guns.
control, xbox one, ingame photomode, edited with flickr app
another apology for the likely boring pictures. i cant get over how great this game looks but i acknowledge my lateness in seeing it. taking pictures is pleasurable even if they’re predictable. i just hope theyre not too boring
Direct Parking at Glasgow Airport has now been contracted out to Marbill, Beith. Seen at the Park & Ride site is Wright Streetlite RX12DYW which was new to Reading Buses as 153.
Direct Rail Services General Motors/EMD JT42CWRM Class 66/4 diesel-electric locomotives at Nethertown on the Cumbrian Coast railway with 5X41 a BNFL Sellafield to Carlisle Kingmoor TMD train. Class 37 602 is seen here on the rear of this train.
Direct Rail Services Class 68 68034 towing 37423 "Spirit of the Lakes " on 0z11 0900 Crewe Gresty Bridge Depot - Carlisle Kingmoor DRS Depot,photographed passing Brock on 10/10/2021
Direct Rail Services (DRS) 57301 'Goliath' drags Great Northern 365501 and 365505 pass Ely working the 5Q65 1106 Hornsey E.M.U.D. to Ely Mlf Papworth Sidings. The two BREL 365s were going to Ely Papworth Sidings for storage.
Direct Rail Services Class 68 68022 "Resolution" cruises through University with the 08:29 Swindon to Scarborough "York Moors Explorer". It was good to see an almost entirely BR blue and grey formation of loco hauled stock on a route that doesn't see much of it, this rake consisting mainly of Mark 2s with a Mark 1 kitchen vehicle. However, there was a single Anglia Mk 2 towards the end of the train.
Direct Rail Services 37259 erupts from Platform Eight at Crewe, paired with 37612. The locos were working from Crewe Gresty Bridge to Derby RTC.
Theatre Royal Bath Productions & Kenny Wax Aug 2016
Dress Rehearsal ReIatively Speaking by Alan Ayckbourn
Directed by Robin Herford Designer Peter McKintosh
Lighting Jason Taylor Sound Mike Walker
Robert Powell as Philip Liza Goddard as Shelia
Lindsay Campbell as Ginny Antony Eden as Greg
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Direct Rail Services Class 68 68005 "Defiant" departs from Birmingham New Street on the rear of the 15:47 Kidderminster down goods loop to Burton ot Wetmore sidings. Don't these locos look good!
December 2019 saw Kilkenny gain an NTA City service,operating on 2 routes:
KK1-Loughboy Retail Park-N77 Roundabout,
KK2-Purcellinsch-St Lukes Hospital
Both operating half hourly.
Services are operated by the Galway based City Direct,using 4 Wright Streetlights.192-G-1613 swings onto Johns Bridge on a Northbound KK1 working.
July 2020
Direct Rail Services Class 66 working towards the old Ferrybridge Power Station. Seen from probably 3/4 of a mile away.
Direct Rail Services Vossloh/Caterpillar UK Light Class 68s 68023 'Achilles' and 68001 'Evolution' diesel-electric locomotives at Nethertown on the Cumbrian coast railway line with 6M22 the 12:17 Hunterston to BNFL Sellafield nuclear flask train.
Travel to Croatia and Montenegro - April - May 2022 - Day 11
Detente dans un magnifique hotel 4 etoiles en bord de mer
Detendez-vous les prochains jours dans votre hotel 4 etoiles directement a la plage sur la fabuleuse cote adriatique montenegrine!
Les chambres tout confort sont luxueuses et modernes et sont equipeesde climatisation, salle de bain/WC et televiseur a ecran plat. Profitez de l'espace bien-etre de reve de l'hotel. Faites une pause a la piscine ou flanez tranquillement le long de la plage.
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This photo was shot from a hot air balloon.
UNESCO World Heritage Site.
From Wikipedia:
c. 15th century BC
The mortuary temple of Hatshepsut (Egyptian: Ḏsr-ḏsrw meaning "Holy of Holies") is a mortuary temple built during the reign of Pharaoh Hatshepsut of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. Located opposite the city of Luxor, it is considered to be a masterpiece of ancient architecture. Its three massive terraces rise above the desert floor and into the cliffs of Deir el-Bahari. Hatshepsut's tomb, KV20, lies inside the same massif capped by El Qurn, a pyramid for her mortuary complex. At the edge of the desert, 1 km (0.62 mi) east, connected to the complex by a causeway, lies the accompanying valley temple. Across the river Nile, the whole structure points towards the monumental Eighth Pylon, Hatshepsut's most recognizable addition to the Temple of Karnak and the site from which the procession of the Beautiful Festival of the Valley departed. Its axes identify the temple's twin functions: its central east-west axis served to receive the barque of Amun-Re at the climax of the festival, while its north-south axis represented the life cycle of the pharaoh from coronation to rebirth.
The terraced temple was constructed between Hatshepsut's seventh and twentieth regnal years, during which building plans were repeatedly modified. In its design, it was heavily influenced by the adjacent Temple of Mentuhotep II of the Eleventh Dynasty built six centuries earlier.[d] In the arrangement of its chambers and sanctuaries, though, the temple is wholly unique. The central axis, customarily reserved for the mortuary complex, is occupied instead by the sanctuary of the barque of Amun-Re, with the mortuary cult being displaced south to form the auxiliary axis with the solar cult complex to the north. Separated from the main sanctuary are shrines to Hathor and Anubis, which lie on the middle terrace. The porticoes that front the terrace here host the most notable reliefs of the temple; those of the expedition to the Land of Punt and the divine birth of Hatshepsut, the backbone of her case to rightfully occupy the throne as a member of the royal family and as godly progeny. Below, the lowest terrace leads to the causeway and the valley temple.
The state of the temple has suffered over time. Two decades after Hatshepsut's death, under the direction of Thutmose III, references to her rule were erased, usurped, or obliterated. The campaign was intense but brief, quelled after two years when Amenhotep II was enthroned. The reasons behind the proscription remain a mystery. A personal grudge appears unlikely as Thutmose III had waited twenty years to act. Perhaps the concept of a female king was anathema to ancient Egyptian society, or a dynastic dispute between the Ahmosid and Thutmosid lineages needed resolving. In the Amarna Period, the temple was incurred upon again when Akhenaten ordered the images of Egyptian gods, particularly those of Amun, to be erased. These damages were repaired subsequently under Tutankhamun, Horemheb and Ramesses II. An earthquake in the Third Intermediate Period caused further harm. During the Ptolemaic period, the sanctuary of Amun was restructured, and a new portico was built at its entrance. A Coptic monastery of Saint Phoibammon was built between the 6th and 8th centuries AD, and images of Christ were painted over original reliefs. The latest graffito left is dated to c. 1223.
The temple resurfaces in the records of the modern era in 1737 with Richard Pococke, a British traveller, who visited the site. Several visitations followed though serious excavation was not conducted until the 1850s and 60s under Auguste Mariette. The temple was fully excavated between 1893 and 1906 during an expedition of the Egypt Exploration Fund (EEF) directed by Édouard Naville. Further efforts were carried out by Herbert E. Winlock and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) from 1911 to 1936, and by Émile Baraize and the Egyptian Antiquities Service (now the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA)) from 1925 to 1952. Since 1961, the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology (PCMA) has carried out extensive consolidation and restoration works throughout the temple, and it was opened to the public in March 2023.
D-ASTX - Airbus A-319-111 - Eurowings (operated by Air Berlin)
(leased from BoComm Leasing)
at Duesseldorf International Airport (DUS)
c/n 3202 - built in 2007 for Air Berlin - operated as D-ABGG -
leased to Germania 03/2012 - 01/2014 as D-ASTX -
operating for Eurowings since 05/2017 -
stored SXF 01.11.2017 -
to LGW Walter 12/2017 (operating for Eurowings) -
leased direct to Eurowings 05/2019
The AIST is a robotic turret equipped with an M60 machine gun and a grenade launcher, capable of autonomously identifying soldiers and light aerial drones. Once identified, it engages and rapidly eliminates them: Plighia's army uses an electronic recognition system for all its soldiers, drones, and vehicles, system called "BODYGUARD" ensuring that the AIST does not recognize them as hostile and eliminates them. The AIST, however, does not engage the enemy when a friendly soldier is in its line of fire.
The DiMDET Mk. 4 is a directed energy turret (in this case microwave and sound) used to neutralize enemy soldiers and drones at medium-to-short range; it is a non-lethal device. It is also used by police to disperse and remove protesters, or to protect sites of special interest.
Direct Rail Services Vossloh/Caterpilar UK Light Class 68s 68017 'Hornet' and 68003 'Astute' top and tail Arriva Rail Northern's 2C40 the 08:42 Carlisle to Barrow-in-Furness passenger service at Seascale on the Cumbrian coast railway line.
Direct Rail Services 68019 'Brutus' pauses at Lowestoft, prior to working Abellio Greater Anglia's 2J77 to Norwich, calling only at Oulton Broad North. Trailing was 68018 'Vigilant'. 12/04/17.