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The Stardust Settler in an interstellar traveller designed for more than 70,000 years in deep space. Estimated to travel just close to 3/4 of light speed. It carries a mini fusion star that sheds light on the ship as it travels and creates livable habitats that rotate to create gravity. The Settler carries the Stardust Agitator on it's bow (capable of battle and planetary landing), two solar shuttles, four fighters, and a host of drop shuttles for emergencies and additional planetary reentry. Figures:
Stardust Settler: 140studs or about 44"
With Agitator undocked: 117 studs or about 37"
6 total LED are placed throughout the ship- one in the star, one in the bow as a menacing "eye", three on the rear as blinking thrusters with one additional in the aft bridge. The gravity wheel spins freely through the use of a hand crank the rear of the capital city (future plans may include a motor attachment). This build was started on Aug 31st 2019 and semi-documented via Flickr, Twitch and Discord.
Barrel-aging wine gets complicated as one approaches the theoretical limit of lightspeed. That is why the Interstellar voyage of Spaceship O. Fournier is of such extreme interest to both physicists and enologists -- not to mention collectors of fine wine with multi-generational time horizons.
This is without doubt the most speculative venture ever undertaken by humans. The wine has completed secondary fermentation and is now in the process of being loaded in barrels aboard the giant Spaceship O. Fournier. Next it will be launched (on a very closely guarded secret trajectory) towards a (equally secret) distant star. It will loop around the star and return to Earth at near lightspeed to be bottled and sold. This will take at least several generations as time is experienced here on Earth.
So far, highly speculative "future" sales have funded three quarters of the cost of the mission, yet these sales account for only a third of the wine on the vessel. The remaining expenses have been made up (and a very tidy profit) by collecting wagers on the chances of this astonishing mission ever returning to earth. If it does in fact make it back, the remaining two thirds of the cargo can be sold at obscene profit! That is despite the distinct risk of the wine showing as "a bit young" due to its relatively brief experience of elapsed time.
Successfully returning to Earth with a sufficiently aged and vastly more valuable cargo will ensure that future generations of the current investors will become even more fabulously wealthy than they already are.
If you would like to get in on this fantastic investing opportunity, please send as much money as you can to me, Mantis of Destiny, in the Seattle area.
Interstellar landing accomplished, the rocketry rovers await further exploratory instruxion. Cannibals are at rest, crews sated with rocket fuel kocktails, estuary awaits combined assembled assault. Roger!
Waterfront Public Art Installation by Jason Klimoski and Lesley Chang, STUDIOKCA
March to November 2024
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Interstellar is a fantastic movie. I love the way it explores the depths of time dilation. And the Endurance is a cool unique looking ship.
I saw a lego version of the Ranger in the link below and thought I'd see if I could make one like his. I think it turned out okay. I put and opening hatch on the back and also gave it landing gear.
.lxf file
www.dropbox.com/s/ui40qmsvi2vgzb1/Ranger.lxf?dl=0
link
www.flickr.com/photos/jp_velociraptor/16339532836/in/phot...
4 years later, I finally returned to finish up the Ranger. All the shaping is done, just waiting on some bricklink orders to get everything in the right color. The brick-built solutions I came up with for the windows left me unsatisfied so I'll be printing some stickers to mask them in.
A short brickfilm featuring the model will hopefully be done by early July. Thanks for looking.
Since antiquity, wreaths have symbolized the cycle of life, death, and rebirth. It is fitting then that one of the best places for astronomers to learn more about the stellar lifecycle resembles a giant holiday wreath itself.
The star cluster NGC 602 lies on the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, which is one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way, about 200,000 light-years from Earth. The stars in NGC 602 have fewer heavier elements compared to the Sun and most of the rest of the galaxy. Instead, the conditions within NGC 602 mimic those for stars found billions of years ago when the universe was much younger.
This new image combines data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory with a previously released image from the agency’s James Webb Space Telescope. The dark ring-like outline of the wreath seen in Webb data (represented as orange, yellow, green, and blue) is made up of dense clouds of filled dust.
Meanwhile, X-rays from Chandra (red) show young, massive stars that are illuminating the wreath, sending high-energy light into interstellar space. These X-rays are powered by winds flowing from the young, massive stars that are sprinkled throughout the cluster. The extended cloud in the Chandra data likely comes from the overlapping X-ray glow of thousands of young, low-mass stars in the cluster.
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC; Infrared: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, P. Zeilder, E.Sabbi, A. Nota, M. Zamani; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare and K. Arcand
Image description: A star cluster is shown inside a large nebula of many-colored gas and dust. The material forms dark ridges and peaks of gas and dust surrounding the cluster, lit on the inner side, while layers of diffuse, translucent clouds blanket over them. Around and within the gas, a huge number of distant galaxies can be seen, some quite large, as well as a few stars nearer to us which are very large and bright.
IFN = Interstellar Flux Nebula
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Nikon NIKKOR 180 F2,8 AIS ED
Imaging cameras: Nikon d7100
Mounts: ORION Sirius EQ-G
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Nikon NIKKOR 180 F2,8 AIS ED
Software: Photoshop CS 6 Adobe, Noel Carboni's Astro Tools for PhotoShop Noel Carboni Actions, PIXINSIGHT PixInsinght 1.8 RC7
Resolution: 4693x3375
Dates: Jan. 25, 2015, Jan. 26, 2015, Feb. 14, 2015
Frames:
50x150" ISO1250
81x150" ISO2500
7x200" ISO3200
26x150" ISO4000
Integration: 6.9 hours
Avg. Moon age: 11.71 days
Avg. Moon phase: 31.29%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 3.50
Temperature: -2.50
RA center: 145.811 degrees
DEC center: 70.637 degrees
Orientation: 90.057 degrees
Field radius: 3.754 degrees
Locations: Eldorado (6767' elev), @ Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
ILNP Interstellar on top of Morgan-Taylor Deja Blue. Nail tech showed the Interstellar to everyone she could find, then ordered her own. It was her idea to overlay it with the Deja Blue. Wife is also wearing the Interstellar.
For fun I created an 8-bit level. This comes mostly from growing up playing the Atari 2600 and games on my Ti-99/4A home computer. All pixel art in Interstellar Force was created using pixel art editor Pixen for Mac
Had a fantastic night out photographing the stars with a great Mate. This was taken at Lake Moogerah. I was going to PS the plane out (bottom left) but decided to leave it in.
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Strait out of camera!
Combine a dark room, a ceiling fan, some tape, some string, an LED, an old fiber optic lamp, a weird homemade lens filter, a camera, and a penny... and this is what you get.
Not to be thwarted by a bit of cloud cover today, I was very lucky to get a peak of the International Space Station crossing the disk of the sun over Karana Downs west of Brisbane at a distance of 443.7 km.
International Space Station
19 November 2016 - 9h47m13.60s
Crosses the disk of the Sun,
Karana Downs, Brisbane,
Queensland, Australia.
Transit duration: 0.59s.
Path Width: 6.54km.
Diameter of ISS: Angular size: 61.25″
Size=109.0m x 73.0m x 27.5m.
Satellite at Azimuth=80.4° E
Altitude=66.6° Distance=443.7 km.
Angular Velocity=56.0'/s
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A lightpainting by R W Watson. Search the "Cameratoss" group for info on the technique.
My photostream - www.flickr.com/photos/elray/
15.5'' by 15.5'' acrylic on whiteboard
many thanks to Sangroncito for source photo, seen here: www.flickr.com/photos/sangroncito/7825128728/in/photostream