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CHAI. Grounding Set – Available at DUBAI Event
Grounding is the art of reconnecting with the earth beneath you, bringing balance and serenity back into your life amidst the chaos. It’s about finding stillness, becoming present, and allowing the worries of the world to fall away.
Our Grounding set is designed to support that practice, giving you a space to slow down and reset.
This set includes:
•Chairs (available in 4 rich wood tones): The perfect balance of modern design and rustic charm, these chairs invite you to sit, breathe, and reflect.
•Table (available in matching 4 wood tones): Thoughtfully crafted with a minimalist aesthetic, the table serves as a grounding point for your favorite objects—a place to display your books, morning coffee, or personal mementos.
•Decor Pack: Complete your grounding experience with carefully curated decor pieces that harmonize with the set
Why Grounding Matters
In today’s fast-paced world, we are constantly bombarded with sensory overload. The simple act of sitting, breathing, and feeling your space can have profound effects on well-being. This set is your invitation to create a personal retreat where you can center yourself daily.
Transform your home into a space of mindfulness with the Grounding set.
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Feeling of déjà vu? Well, E.T. is a common enough name in these parts!
Plumped, hairy lips, bandy legs and stereo earmuffs = beauty, out of this world! ;-)
Remember; beauty is in the eye of the beholder! - So, please make an effort! ;-)
As you may have noticed, I had to clip his wings a bit to stop him flying away! But don't tell the kids that, for heaven's sake! ;-)
The technical term for this is 'grounding'! But not to worry, dear friends, the Flying Doctor will soon have him airborne again! ;-)
The gear! (new tab) - Shh!!! Mum's the word!
You can see more by simply scrolling down the page a bit! ;-)
SP-EXB Boeing 737 MAX 8 Enter Air Warsaw Chopin 11 September 2019. Stored due to the type grounding.
Was working outdoors over the weekend when suddenly the sky began to darken. I looked up to see the first wave of storm clouds rolling in advance of a cold front. When things like this happen during my down time, I react immediately. Work is halted and I'm off with the camera as fast as legs can carry me. I've learned over the years that the time to jump is at the first notice of stormy skies. Often the initial wave offers the most diversity in terms of texture and more chance of the darkness being broken with areas of bright sky. It's this tapestry of dark and light that translates into amazing photographic sky tones. As the rain move closer, the clouds have a tendency to flatten out in terms of contrast and depth. There is overcast but without much texture. Not only that, but there's a wonderful sense of energy and even urgency in the initial phase...both in terms of the atmosphere, but more importantly how it makes me feel. No two storms are exactly the same, and I appreciate each one of them in some unique fashion. But the common denominator is the rush I feel standing out in the open as the storm is unleashed over my head. This evening was no exception. The mild temperatures of the day were mixed with intermittent cold blasts as heavy winds buffeted the cemetery. The wind, the sound of the wind, and the clouds roiling overhead make me feel so alive, and fill me with energy. At times I stopped shooting and simply stood atop the central knoll like a human weathervane, turning to face the wind and take in the sights. I feel a real oneness with the environment at times like this. No one in their right mind would want to be here now, yet it feels perfect natural to me. In fact my presence seems somehow necessary. I was here for photography but I never let that overshadow the experience. I actually think the photos benefit from this state of mental connection. Some of my most spontaneous work arises in these moments. And I'm left with vivid memories that never leave me.
Departing over Liberty Station/Point Loma. Liberty Station is great for catching departures and rare reverse ops landings at SAN. This jet was painted in special colors when it first joined the JAL fleet, but was repainted during the 787 grounding in Spring 2013.
The first in a series of three showing a combined total of 46 Boeing 737 Maxes in storage due to the type's grounding. Such is Boeing's need for parking space that the Icelandair and TUI aircraft occupy what was previously an employee car park.
With thanks to my good friend Brian Worthington without whom these photos wouldn't have happened.
Grounding ourselves in nature helps us to recenter our beings, relax, and practice mindfulness. If you don't have immediate access to nature by you, exploring nature themed sims in Second Life is a great alternative to do so! Check out SL's nature destination page to explore! secondlife.com/destinations/nature
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Zürich (- Kloten) (ZRH / LSZH)
Switzerland 4.2002
"Swissair grounding" in the background
First Flight 1.1993
Del. 2.1993 to TACA International Airlines N374TA
Color Air G-COLC
Heliopolis Airlines SU-ZCD
Ecoair International SU-ZCD
Flash Airlines SU-ZCD ✔
Cayman Airways VP-CAY
Having a bit of fun making a mess in our family members home. We are always a handful when together and the groundings never end but I'm happy to be grounded with you Cuzzy <3
Olympus Airways Airbus A321 climbing out of Manchester Airport.
TUI is operating this airframe as a wet lease, due to the grounding of the Boeing 737 Max aircraft.
21st August 2019., Dublin Airport, Ireland
Norwegian have been using Evelop Airlines to substitute for the grounding of their Boeing 737max flights from Dublin to the United States
26th May 2019., Dublin Airport, Ireland
Operating for Norwegian on the Dublin - Newburgh NY after the grounding of the B737MAX
C-GZSG - Boeing B-737MAX-8 - WestJet
at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)
c/n 60.516 - built in 2018
Currently stored YHM due to the worldwide B-737MAX-grounding -
looks like this will become a long visit
Note that I could have completely erased the tower, but I wanted the picture to have some grounding in reality if you squint your eyes.
I read somewhere that walking barefoot grounds you with the earth. Apparently, it imparts all kinds of health benefits as any imbalance of electrons in your body is balanced out with those of the earth. That's kind of what I had in mind in this image when my wife was walking ahead. As for me, I don't have much tolerance for hot sand on a warm sunny day and you're more likely to catch me hopping around looking for a cooler patch. My earthing has to be done at the water's edge.
Wizz Air A320 turning onto runway 26 at LTN. A victim of the COVID-19 groundings, this 2018 build is now being stored at Doncaster Sheffield Airport.
Swift Air Boeing 767, with Eastern titles, departing runway 6L at Toronto Pearson YYZ, operating a service for Sunwing due to the grounding of 737 Max fleet
Our Daily Challenge: Ground or Grounding
Not only did I take this image whilst grounded to the ground, as Miss Maggie is also grounded, it is very grounding having Miss Maggie in my life.
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Norwegian Air UK (Charles Lindbergh) 787-9 Reg: G-CKWF as "Nortrans 1762" from Stewart. Dreamliner covering after the grounding of the 737 Max aircraft.
LOVE: It's the circle of life
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga-ijQP0KxY
"You should never take more than you give" . . .
Blessings to all human kind.
With the grounding of the MD11's, FedEx has had to bring in outside help for Peak Season. Here Apex Logistics (operated by Atlas) 747-400 departs Memphis for Honolulu. This "Queen of the Skies" was originally delivered to Asiana Airlines as HL7411 in 1996.
I set my alarm just a little later than I would've liked, but I did manage to be down by the river in time to capture this. Watching the sun come up has become a new obsession of mine; it's so grounding and thrilling at once!
started adding images of roots and sky to the history textbook I had in 1989. I feel that the GDR version of history we were meant to believe in can do with some grounding and with open skies.
Underneath thousands of feet of Thwaites Glacier’s solid ice, a bot filmed peculiar features, where melting is much faster. It’s an ominous sign for rising sea levels.
Matt SimonFeb 15, 2023 11:00 AM
Icefin robot in the sea beneath the ice
Photograph: Rob Robbins/USAP
Icefin the robot is designed to go where no human can, swimming off the coast of Antarctica under 2,000 feet of ice. Lowered through a borehole drilled with hot water, the torpedo-shaped machine takes readings and—most strikingly—video of Thwaites Glacier’s vulnerable underbelly. This Florida-sized chunk of ice is also known as the Doomsday Glacier, and for good reason: It’s rapidly deteriorating, and if it collapses, global sea levels could rise over a foot. It could also tug on surrounding glaciers as it dies, which would add another 10 feet to rising seas.
In a pair of papers published today in the journal Nature, scientists describe what Icefin and other instruments have discovered underneath all that ice. Simply put: trouble. Models of future sea-level rise characterize the bit of Thwaites that’s floating on the ocean—known as an ice shelf—as having a fairly simple, flat underside, but the robot found that 10 percent of it is way more complex. There are terraces, for instance, of vertical walls over 30 feet high where melting is happening much faster than in flat areas. That small portion is “contributing 25 percent of the melting that we see,” says Britney Schmidt, an Earth and planetary scientist at Cornell University, who leads the Icefin project. (She’s the lead author of one of the papers and coauthor on the other.) “So it's a really outsized impact.”
Hotwater drilling of the borehole in Antarctica
Hot-water drilling of the borehole in Antarctica
Photograph: Peter Davis/British Antarctic Survey
As those features melt, they may be sending shocks through the system. “What we know about Thwaites is that it's falling apart,” says Schmidt. “We've been looking at it for the last 30 years, watching rifts and crevasses propagating across the system and destabilizing the whole ice shelf. And what we're showing here is the way that the ocean kind of works into these weak spots, and in a sense makes it worse.”
To deploy Icefin and other instruments, Schmidt and her colleagues drilled down near the glacier’s grounding line, the point where the ice lifts off the Antarctic land mass and starts floating on the sea. Thwaites’ risk of melting isn’t due to rising atmospheric temperatures above, but from rising ocean temperatures below. Its grounding line has retreated 10 miles inland since the late 1990s, which means that now more of the glacier’s ice is making contact with warm saltwater. A phenomenon known as tidal pumping is not helping: The ice heaves up when the tide comes in, allowing yet more water to rush underneath.
Photograph: Peter Davis/British Antarctic Survey
Scientists have good estimates of where the retreating grounding line is, thanks to satellites watching for tiny changes in the ice’s elevation. But they haven’t had a good picture of what the glacier’s belly looks like at the grounding line, because it’s under thousands of feet of ice. “These data are really exciting because we're getting a look into a hidden system,” says University of Waterloo glaciologist Christine Dow, who studies Antarctic glaciers but wasn’t involved in the research.
Video: ITGC/Schmidt/Washam
With Icefin, the researchers could remotely pilot a camera while measuring the salinity, temperature, and oxygen content of the water. “We saw that the ice base itself was very complex in its topography, so there's lots of staircases, terraces, rifts, and crevasses,” says British Antarctic Survey physical oceanographer Peter Davis, the lead author of one of the papers and coauthor on the other. “The rate of melting on different surfaces was very different.”
Where the glacier’s underside (or basal ice, in the scientific parlance) is smoother, melting is definitely happening, but at a much slower rate than where the topography is jagged. That’s because a layer of cold water rests where the ice is flat, insulating it from warmer ocean water like a liquid blanket. But where the topography is sloped and irregular, there are more vertical surfaces where warm water can attack the ice, including making incursions from the side. This melting creates a peculiar “scalloped” look, like the surface of a golf ball.
These complex, expanding basal features could then influence the rest of the ice. “If you open up features underneath the ice, you also get similar reflections of them on the surface, because of the way that the ice is floating,” says Davis. “So there's a fear that if you're widening these rifts and crevices under the ice, you can destabilize the ice shelf, which could lead to greater disintegration over time.”
If you’re feeling relieved that the flatter bits of basal ice are insulated against melting to a certain degree—don’t be. “It sounds like what we're saying is that there's less melting than there was before, and that's not true,” says Schmidt. Instead, they’re showing that the dramatic deterioration of Thwaites has been happening under conditions that are milder than models previously estimated. “That's important,” she continues. “That means that it takes less to get this degree of change.”
Video: ITGC/Schmidt/Washam
Put another way: Thwaites’ underside may be much more sensitive than previously believed. “What it shows us is that it's easier, perhaps, to knock these systems out of equilibrium in the first place,” says Davis. “In the past, we have associated rapid retreat with rapid melting. And I think what the results are showing us is that you don't need rapid melting to drive retreat. What you do need, though, is a change in melting. So you need something to shift the system away from a balance.”
That’s especially troubling because it means that the retreat of the grounding line can’t be explained by sky-high rates of basal melt, says Alexander Robel, head of the Ice and Climate Group at Georgia Tech, who wasn’t involved in the new papers. And other factors could set off further melt. “If ocean temperature or ocean circulation were to change in the future,” says Robel, “we could potentially get even higher basal melt rates that would produce even faster grounding line retreat rates.”
Better understanding how Thwaites is crumbling is critical for projecting how quickly it’ll add to sea-level rise. Typically, forecasts are based on simplified models that represent the underside of ice sheets as flat or sloped—partly because instruments like Icefin are only just beginning to map them in detail, partly because of the computing power needed to parse such complexity over vast areas.
But the complex features that Icefin has discovered could be essential for modeling the glacier in much finer detail. “This is such a key region for Antarctic stability,” says Dow. “Any data we're getting from there is going to be hugely valuable for trying to figure out what that system will do in the future.”
compulsory pilotage, obliged to take pilotage in certain difficult or restricted waters where grounding or other type of accident can be restricted waters or cause damage by leakage of fuel oil and environmentally damaging charge.
A State may provide for compulsory pilotage national waters, while it is difficult to introduce compulsory pilotage in international waters. This applies especially to the Danish sund and belts that have the status of international passages, which further comes to Denmark by Sund duty (tax) waiver in 1857 renounced ever would introduce compulsory pilotage in Transit waters.
January 01, 2026
How could we build a liveable space habitat?
In the not-too-distant future, humanity will be faced with the challenge of building permanent homes in space. For this to happen, space habitats will need to closely replicate Earth’s gravity, while dealing with the threat of radiation and meteorites from outer space. Through his research, Werner Grandl at Space Renaissance International in Italy considers how these challenges could be overcome. Through a series of recent studies, he conceives a feasible design for a rotating space habitat, shielded from outer space by a mined‑out asteroid.
The idea of human settlers establishing permanent homes in space is a staple of our favourite sci-fi. Over the past century, countless films, books, TV shows, and video games have found creative, often elaborate ways to convey the threats and motivations which would force humanity to leave Earth behind and explain how they might survive in the harsh environment of space.
Yet today, many of these fictional threats look all too familiar in the real world. Werner Grandl at Space Renaissance International explains, ‘Besides man-made disasters like global warming or nuclear war, there are a number of serious natural threats to planet Earth such as asteroid impacts, super-volcanoes, and ice ages.’
For Grandl, the ever-looming presence of these threats creates a pressing need for us to think about what realistic extra-terrestrial habitats could look like and consider how they could be constructed in the not-too-distant future. ‘The construction of self-sustaining colonies in space using lunar and asteroid resources will be the next step of human evolution,’ he says.
Accommodating the human body
Beyond the staggering feats of engineering required to build these habitats, some of the most important challenges to consider in their design are related to the limitations of our own bodies. Having evolved on Earth, the physical attributes of our muscles, bones, and many other vital biological systems are finely tuned to functioning in the gravitational field of our home planet. If we leave this familiar environment for extended periods, medical problems will inevitably start to emerge before long. ‘A lack of gravity can cause danger for human health such as bone demineralisation, muscle atrophy, and orthostatic intolerance,’ Grandl explains.
Artificial Gravity Orbital Station AGOS: a spinning space station, built in three stages.
Just like generations of sci-fi writers – although with far higher stakes – this challenge will be one of the first things we will need to consider when conceiving future space colonies. To provide a suitable home for the human body, habitats will need to generate their own artificial gravity, which matches Earth’s field as closely as possible.
A familiar grounding force
To simulate gravity, future space habitats will need to spin. ’Rotating space habitats can provide simulated gravity and a comfortable environment for astronauts and space settlers,’ says Grandl. The effect is achieved through the effect of centrifugal forces – you have probably experienced this effect yourself when driving a car around a tight curve or riding the loop-the-loop on a rollercoaster.
Prototype Asteroid Habitat for 2,000 people: the rotating torus is driven by magnetic levitation bearings; sunlight is beamed into the cave and distributed by a central mirror cone.
Here, the idea is that the manned part of a space habitat will constantly circle around the centre of the station. In this way, a person standing on the inner rim of the circle would feel like they are being pulled downwards by gravity, when in fact the floor is pushing them upwards, towards the centre of the habitat’s rotation.
Designing a rotating station
In one recent study, Grandl took this concept a step further. In his paper, he envisages a habitat built from interconnected cylindrical modules, which spin around the axis of a central cylinder – powered by a non-rotating framework of solar panels.
Grandl then shows how such a habitat could be enlarged in stages: eventually reaching a diameter of 102 metres, incorporating some 32 living quarter modules, which could comfortably house up to 180 people long term. He also considers how an agricultural sphere could be attached, providing food for these inhabitants.
A home inside an asteroid
Low-gravity environments aren’t the only challenge. In the harsh environment of space, without any atmosphere to protect them, future space habitats would face a constant threat of bombarded with radiation from the Sun, as well as tiny meteorites hurtling through space. Building further on his earlier concept, Grandl next considered how rotating habitats could be made safer by housing them inside hollowed-out asteroids – shielding them from outer space.
‘Near-Earth asteroids can be mined and the remaining cave would be a natural shelter against cosmic rays, solar flares, micrometeorites,’ he describes. ‘Inside excavated asteroids we can build self-sustaining human outposts in space providing artificial gravity.’
To reach this point, Grandl has conceived a multi-step process. It starts with a pair of unmanned space tugs, docked to either side of a near-Earth asteroid using anchors drilled firmly into the rock. Using advanced propulsion systems, the tugs could then pull the asteroid into a stable orbit around Earth, beyond the Moon.
From here, mining can begin along the axis of the asteroid’s rotation. At this point, the asteroid is connected to a manned space station – with the space and equipment required for digging, as well as carrying, processing, and storing mined materials.
After boring a straight tunnel into the centre of the asteroid, a larger spherical cave could then be excavated, taking up around half of the asteroid’s total volume. While mass is being removed from the asteroid, its orbit would be continuously stabilised by the two space tugs, still docked to either side. Finally, once mining has finished, a rotating habitat could be constructed inside the cave.
The future path to space
While our technology is still a long way off from being able to build these habitats, Grandl is confident that with the current pace of advancement, they will one day be perfectly feasible. Before we get there, he envisages a step-by-step improvement in our understanding of survival in space. ‘As a first step, we should build a rotating space station in Earth’s orbit to study the influence of different gravity-levels on human health,’ he describes.
Space habitats could be made safer by housing them inside hollowed-out asteroids – shielding them from outer space.
From here, we could build on this understanding to modify designs of manned space habitats to ensure the highest possible standards of safety and comfort for their inhabitants. Ultimately, by starting to tackle these challenges now, Grandl hopes that the possibility of permanently manned space habitats will begin to look far more feasible in the coming decades. In turn, his ideas may one day help to accelerate humanity’s exploration of the solar system, and to ensure our future in the face of whatever disasters we may one day face.
Personal Response
How long do you think it will be before humans will be able to live permanently in space?
It will depend on political decisions. In a best case scenario, a spinning orbital station as a successor of the present ISS could be built by 2035. First habitats inside hollow asteroids may be constructed in the last decade of this century. It will depend on the development of mining techniques in space.
References
Grandl, W, Böck, C, (2023) Asteroid habitats—Living inside a hollow celestial body. In: Badescu, V, et al, (eds), Handbook of Space Resources. Switzerland: Springer Nature, 763–785. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97913-3_22
Grandl, W, Autino, AV, Böck, C, (2023) Artificial gravity orbital dtation (AGOS)-the simulation of gravity in a rotating space station, 74th International Astronautical Congress (IAC).
Grandl, W, Bazso A, (2013) Near Earth asteroids — Prospection, orbit modification, mining and habitation. In: Badescu, V, (eds), Asteroids. Heidelberg: Springer Berlin, 415–438. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39244-3_17
Behind the Research
Werner Grandl
Werner Grandl was born in Vienna in 1957. He graduated from the Technical University of Vienna in 1984. He is a trained architect and civil engineer in Austria. His research interests include space stations and space colonies, and the use of lunar and asteroid resources.
Research Objectives
Werner Grandl describes the construction of self-sustaining colonies in space using lunar and asteroid resources.
Funding
Space Renaissance International (SRI), Viale Risorgimento 57, 22073 Fino Mornasco (CO), Italy.
Collaborators
Clemens Böck
Adriano V Autino
Cite this Article
Grandl, W, (2024) How could we build a liveable space habitat?, Research Outreach, 139.
DOI: 10.32907/RO-139-5856553861
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Ever since the US Federal Aviation Administration lifted the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX in December 2020 after prolonged testing and recertification, numerous countries have also began lifting the restrictions allowing the aircraft to fly in commercial service with the necessary modifications in place.
The UK Civil Aviation Authority and the European Aviation Standards Authority both lifted the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX on 27th January 2021, with the affected aircraft having software updates to MCAS, pilots undergo further training and rewiring of avionics.
TUI fly Belgium became the first European carrier to operate the Boeing 737 MAX since the grounding was lifted on 17th February 2021, and their reintroduction has been steady with little incident.
More recently, LOT Polish Airlines began the process of reintroducing Boeing 737 MAX 8s into service on 24th March 2021 and so far two have returned to service, with the 3 remaining examples currently pending. During the grounding, all of their Boeing 737 MAX fleet had been stored initially at their Warsaw-Chopin hub before being parked longer-term in Lublin. Since the grounding was lifted, the Boeing 737 MAXs have been returning to their hub in Warsaw-Chopin prior to reintroduction.
Prior to the grounding, LOT had been utilising Boeing 737 MAX 8s into London Heathrow on their twice daily flights (LO281/282 and LO279/280), but during the grounding, Boeing 737-800s and Embraer E190/E195s took over before their eventual return on 27th March 2021.
Currently, LOT Polish Airlines operates 11 Boeing 737s, which includes 6 Boeing 737-800s and 5 Boeing 737 MAX 8s. LOT Polish Airlines have 10 Boeing 737 MAX 8s on-order.
Lima Victor Alpha is one of 5 Boeing 737 MAX 8s operated by LOT Polish Airlines, delivered new to the flag-carrier on lease from ALC on 1st December 2017 and she is powered by 2 CFM LEAP-1B engines. She was placed into long-term storage at Warsaw-Chopin between 21st February 2019 to 14th June 2019 until being parked at Lublin on the same day until 25th March 2021 where she returned at Warsaw-Chopin prior to re-entry to service after the grounding was lifted.
Boeing 737-8 MAX SP-LVA on final approach into Runway 27R at London Heathrow (LHR) on LO281 from Warsaw-Chopin (WAW).
Stacking stones is often interpreted as a spiritual symbol representing patience, balance, harmony, and connection to the earth; the act of carefully placing stones on top of each other signifies a mindful practice, while the stones themselves can be seen as a representation of stability and grounding, often used in various cultures to mark a sacred space, create memorials, or as a focus point for prayer and meditation.