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British Aerospace EAP (Experimental Aircraft Programme) ZF534 at Farnborough on 6th September 1986. The EAP was BAe's technology demonstrator for the Eurofighter and used the same basic layout as the eventual EF2000/Typhoon. ZF534 is now on display at the RAF Museum Cosford.
Photo by John W. Read.
- no flash
- no other light (only tv back to camera)
- background: rescue blanket
- illuminate with steady light (changable color --> green :-) )
postproduction with Capture One 8 (local mask at the face)
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Hoping l can use these in a mosaic, love the colours and the resin effect. Can't wait for them to dry (l hope!)
Serpentinite (= cumulate metakomatiite) in the Precambrian of Ontario, Canada.
Komatiites are very rare, magnesium-rich, extrusive, ultramafic igneous rocks. They are named after the Komati River Valley in South Africa, the type locality. Komatiite is an exceedingly rare type of lava. No volcano on Earth erupts this material today. Komatiites are essentially restricted to the Archean (4.55 to 2.5 billion years ago). Experimental evidence has shown that komatiite lavas, when originally erupted, were considerably hotter (~1600º C) than any modern lava type on Earth. This indicates that Earth’s mantle was much hotter than now. Other geologic evidence also indicates that early Earth’s heat flux was much higher than today’s.
Komatiite lava had a very low viscosity - it could flow like an ultradense gas. This property permitted the solidification of some individual lava flows that are only 1 cm thick.
The classic texture of komatiites is spinifex texture, named after clumps of long, spiky (& painful!) grasses. Komatiites with spinifex texture have short to long blades or plates of olivine mixed with smaller-scale blades of pyroxene.
All Archean komatiites are metamorphosed - the original igneous mineralogy (olivine, pyroxene, minor chromite, etc.) is gone to mostly gone. Such rocks are best termed metakomatiites, but the prefix “meta-” is usually not specified in writing.
Komatiites have economic significance, as many are closely associated with copper-nickel minerals (chalcopyrite & pentlandite), plus minor platinum-group elements, arsenides, bismuthides, and maybe a little gold and silver. Komatiites are a world-class source of nickel in Canada and Western Australia.
The outcrop seen here is part of a komatiite "lava lake" next to the Potter Mine in Ontario, Canada. This is near the world-famous Pyke Hill locality, which has numerous, thin komatiite lava flows. The rocks in the Potter Mine-Pyke Hill area are part of the Kidd-Munro Assemblage, which consists of ultramafic and mafic volcanic rocks intruded by mafic to ultramafic dikes and sill-like bodies. Minor felsic volcanic rocks are also present. Volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits occur in the Kidd-Munro Assemblage - they have been mined at the Texas Gulf Mine and the Potter Mine.
The rocks at this particular site were originally interpreted as part of a relatively thick komatiite lava lake, the last feature of a volcanic eruption. A newer interpretation says that this is a series of thick komatiite sheet flows (at least 6) in a paleo-depression. A thin lava lake may have originally capped the succession.
This is an exposure of serpentinized, cumulate-textured komatiite. Serpentinite is a low- to high-grade metamorphic rock dominated by serpentine (= magnesium hydroxy-silicate, Mg3Si2O5(OH)4). Serpentinite forms by metamorphism of olivine-rich igneous rocks, in the presence of water.
Serpentinite has a mottled greenish color, often has the look & feel of hard candle wax, and ranges in texture from crystalline to “foliated”. Many serpentinites have a foliated look to them, but it’s really not due to an planar alignment of crystals. The appearance of “foliated” serpentinites is really the result of extensive development of slickenlined surfaces. The original igneous textures may still be evident.
Many serpentinites have a component of magnetite (= iron oxide, Fe3O4) that is usually significant enough to feel a slight tug when a magnet is placed next to the rock. Some serpentinites have "veins" of white asbestos (= chrysotile serpentine).
Stratigraphy: Upper Komatiitic Unit, Kidd-Munro Assemblage, Abitibi Greenstone Belt, lower Neoarchean, 2.711-2.717 Ga
Locality: "Lava Lake" exposure outcrop near dirt road, southwest of the Potter Mine, north of Route 101, east-northeast of Matheson & south of the western end of Lake Abitibi & ~83 kilometers east of the city of Timmins, Munro Township, southern Cochrane District, eastern Ontario, southeastern Canada (~vicinity of 48° 35' 50.93" North latitude, 80° 12' 50.97" West longitude)
The completed Experimental Hall D. The hall was built as part of the 12 GeV Upgrade project. It is the newest experimental hall at Jefferson Lab.
Experimental webcam video animation
Thanks to alan.98 for identifying the music:
Mia Hsieh, is Taiwanese and it's the tale of a girl who loves the spirit of a lake and walks into it, never to return.
Nadine también me regaló estos dos ovillos de cinta de plástico, para hacer algo en plan experimental.
(See link) Norfolk Southern Railway cuts Knoxville operation
Norfolk Southern Railway is dissolving its Central Division headquarters, affecting about 50 local jobs, the company announced recently. “The Central Division, which was based in Knoxville, those operations are going to be combined with the operations of three other divisions,” said Susan Terpay, Norfolk Southern director of public relations for Tennessee and 12 other states.
That means the roughly 250 workers who remain at Knoxville’s rail yard will be reassigned to report the divisions based in Birmingham, Alabama, Decatur, Illinois, and Fort Wayne, Indiana.
The consolidation will take place Nov. 1. The move will end train dispatching from Knoxville, but the yard will continue to be a hub for through-train operations, according to a company news release. The jobs remain, it’s just that the authority for them will go to a different division.
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So... I wont be getting to see the trains anymore at the train yard. Unless they are passing thru, & there have been VERY few, & they arent stopping, just traveling thru. :( :( :(
These train graffiti pictures were just experimental. The train was moving. So the pictures were crappy, not worth adding to groups. Moving trains wont be something I will be pursuing :(
Old City. Knoxville, TN. 050519.
Come Organisation (1980)
Sophomore album from the British noise masters. Overall, not as harsh and extreme as later works, but still a good listen for those into the more 80's industrial sound. This is the 1st press limited to 850 copies.
The track "Birthdeath Experience" is 3 minutes of silence. I don't know how I feel about that. I get it from an art perspective, but would it be true silence? Thoughts anyone?
It was suggested to me by a friend to try out the "clone commander waist cape" for marine leg armor.
you can change the fov of the kinect if you use two lenses on the ir camera and ir projector that are exactly the same. this allows you to see things that are closer (if you use wide fov lenses) or further (if you use narrow fov lenses).
in the above pictures, the kinect is in the same position on the left as it is on the right. on the left there are no lenses, on the right both have a lens.
if there is significant lens distortion, only the central region will be decoded correctly.
the lens used here is www.cellularfactory.com/fulldet.jsp?d=39924&a=450&...
i'm not really sure how the focus works out here, but it just does :)