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A beaver swims with its payload of grasses at Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge, near Saginaw, Michigan.
Both the Bumble Bee's hind legs were full of pollen, however the load didn't stop the bee from buzzing from one plant to the next. (1637)
The bee is a marvelous flying machine. She can carry a payload of nectar or pollen close to her own weight. Consider that even the most advanced design in aircraft can only take off with a load one-quarter of its own weight and you’ll appreciate the miracle that the honeybee can remain airborne with such a load.
her nectar “sacs” are full, the honeybee returns to the hive. Nectar is delivered to one of the indoor bees and is then passed mouth-to-mouth from bee to bee until its moisture content is reduced from about 70% to 20%. This changes the nectar into honey. Sometimes the nectar is stored at once in cells in the honeycomb before the mouth-to-mouth working because some evaporation is caused by the 32.5°C temperature inside the hive.
Finally, the honey is placed in storage cells and capped with beeswax in readiness for the arrival of newborn baby bees. Pollen is mixed with nectar to make “bee bread” and is fed to the larvae. A baby bee needs food rich in protein if the bee community is to flourish.
Enemy bombers streak overhead as they drop their deadly payload. Payback for not acting quickly enough to stop this deadly game of chicken between Russia, China, and the U.S.
It has now become a safe bet that we will meet our end by our own hand. We need bold leadership to lead us into the 22nd century. The current crop of politicians are far too old-fashioned in their thinking. Some of them are downright dangerous. We need someone with a head on their shoulders and I am not seeing it. What I see now is someone afraid of their own shadow. Either side stinks, if you ask me.
The bee is a marvelous flying machine. She can carry a payload of nectar or pollen close to her own weight. Consider that even the most advanced design in aircraft can only take off with a load one-quarter of its own weight and you’ll appreciate the miracle that the honeybee can remain airborne with such a load.
her nectar “sacs” are full, the honeybee returns to the hive. Nectar is delivered to one of the indoor bees and is then passed mouth-to-mouth from bee to bee until its moisture content is reduced from about 70% to 20%. This changes the nectar into honey. Sometimes the nectar is stored at once in cells in the honeycomb before the mouth-to-mouth working because some evaporation is caused by the 32.5°C temperature inside the hive.
Finally, the honey is placed in storage cells and capped with beeswax in readiness for the arrival of newborn baby bees. Pollen is mixed with nectar to make “bee bread” and is fed to the larvae. A baby bee needs food rich in protein if the bee community is to flourish.
a little bee buzzing around the Golden Delicious apple tree.
IT'S TIME!!! 8-)
The sea is calling and I must go!
I'm really looking forward to this weekend. Larry and I are heading down to the shore to open up the house.
Salt air. Sand. The ocean. Shore birds. The boardwalk.
I'm ready!!!
A forgotten 1950's Hough Payloader in a field off of Bourkes Road in the Ghost town of Bourkes in Benoit Township in the Cochrane District of Northeastern Ontario Canada
I was privileged to watch this little Song Sparrow taking a break from gathering brunch for the kids. If you look closely, it's holding a virtual smorgasbord of delicacies. Several times it looked like it was trying to sing too, or maybe just readjusting the payload. Birds really amaze me how they can do this - in fact, it went down to the stream edge to look for more goodies before we moved on.
DSC_2139DS • American Bald Eagle
This frame is 4 of 4 in the album. This is a 4 part series from the close to the water attempt to flying off with the fish. Total time for the 4 part series is approximately 0.4 seconds as my camera fires @ 10 frames / second.
When you open the album, notice the consecutive frame numbers, DSC_2136, 2137, 2138, 2139. If you open the metadata file, you'll notice all 4 frames taken at exactly with the same time / same second:
Date and Time (Original) - 2018:10:30 09:00:57
Date and Time (Digitized) - 2018:10:30 09:00:57
The click on the link to see the entire album:
A World War II vintage B-17 bomber delivers its payload amidst bursting antiaircraft flak in this simulated scene. It was created from an image that I took during an air show this summer. On this Veterans Day weekend, let us honor and remember all of our veterans and the sacrifices that they have made.
HSS
We joined a rocket launch event at the Snow Ranch, located in Central Valley of California, 2 hours east of the San Francisco Bay Area. The ranch owner graciously offers their land for monthly rocket launches, organized by LUNAR, the Livermore Unit of the National Association of Rocketry. This high power rocket called Mighty Thumper was launched from a distance, and had a perfect flight. The payload was a little parachute man, who floated down from the sky. See launch video at bit.ly/3ijtcAw.
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Red-necked wallaby or Bennett's wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus) with cub in her pouch, looking out. Standing between stinging nettle in the first morning light.
A light payload here for Re 484 016, heading a mixed freight from Basel SBB RB to RBL, hauling just one tank car, two container wagons and a flat one. Frick, 18-09-2025.
This is me in the good old days. I included this shot for my profile to illustrate that I was once young and fit. Incidentally, I'm the one standing up with all the hair! The picture was taken on a Royal Navy inshore minesweeper (courtesy of the Admiralty) during a scientific expedition and search for sunken treasure off the Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, England in 1966.
I’m leaning over slightly because my ‘payload‘ was rather heavy. My little friend was a giant spiny crayfish and they don't come any bigger. You need heavy duty gloves to handle one of these or else with a quick flip of its tail it's whisked away along with the skin of your hands. You have to approach it from above and press down hard with both hands until your companion arrives with a large sack. Then, as fast as you can, it’s ‘up and in’ tail first!
As for the dustbin, it was dustbin day, of course! But, in the state we were in at the time, no one had noticed the prop* not even the press photographer who took the photo!
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* Reference to the parody of "1066 and all that". The only difference between the two events, apart from 900 years of course, was that my French wife-to-be came over alone to conquer me and drag me back to France. But we fell in love and it's been one long battle ever since.
The wedding took place two weeks after this photo was taken (see below); on the very day that England won the world cup!
Take care, my friends, and many thanks for calling,
Colin ...
*(stage) prop = accessoire (de théâtre)
Back to : profile page or wedding!
The Douglas C-47 Skytrain or Dakota (RAF designation) is a military transport aircraft that was developed from the civilian Douglas DC-3 airliner. It was used extensively by the Allies during World War II. During the war the C-47 was used for troop transport, cargo, paratrooper drops, glider towing, and military cargo parachute drops. The C-47 remained in front-line service with various military operators for many years.[2] It was produced in approximately triple the numbers of the larger, much heavier payload Curtiss C-46 Commando, which filled a similar role for the U.S. military.
Approximately 100 countries' armed forces have operated the C-47 with over 60 variants of the aircraft produced. As with the civilian DC-3, the C-47 remains in service, over 80 years after the type's introduction.
Perhaps the biggest 1940s re-enactment show in the country. |Complete with a temporary airfield for the duration of the show, various aircraft can land and take off, and fly over the showground for air displays. Attending will be thousands of re-enactors from all theatre's of war, allies and axis , living history groups will displaying in adjacent fields . Add that to the hundreds of military vehicles attending .
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) is ready for fuelling. This image shows the spacecraft leaving the Payload Preparation Facility and being transferred to the Hazardous Processing Facility, where the fuelling operations will take place. This marks a major milestone in the launch campaign. Launch is planned for mid-April.
Next Juice will be ready for fuelling. Usually spacecraft are first fuelled and then connected to the payload adapter, but for technical reasons the order has been swapped for Juice. After fuelling, Juice will be positioned on top of the Ariane 5, ready for launch on 13 April.
Juice is humankind’s next bold mission to the outer Solar System. It will make detailed observations of gas giant Jupiter and its three large ocean-bearing moons: Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. This ambitious mission will characterise these moons with a powerful suite of remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments to discover more about these compelling destinations as potential habitats for past or present life. Juice will monitor Jupiter’s complex magnetic, radiation and plasma environment in depth and its interplay with the moons, studying the Jupiter system as an archetype for gas giant systems across the Universe.
Find out more about Juice in ESA’s launch kit
Credits: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Optique video du CSG – P. Baudon
Volvo A35D: Payload 32500kg with 15m³- 20m³ loading volume - 400 Horsepower (Gravel works Laxenburg - Lower Austria)
A big rig with an even bigger payload heads north to the mines while a loaded coal train sits waiting for its turn to head south from one of the loud-outs at Black Thunder Coal Mine.
It was interesting being out in rural Wyoming, far from any town and deep in mine country. The majority of the road traffic is mine related, with trucks hauling blasting agents and equipment, like this rope shovel dipper. Looking at the recent weld and paint marks, it looks like the dipper is returning from having its teeth replaced. These dippers can dig around 100 tons of earth and coal per swoop, and three scoops typically fill a gigantic dump truck. The coal is sorted from the other material and around 100 tons of coal ends up in each railroad hopper.
This week in 1992, space shuttle Columbia and STS-50 launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, carrying the first United States Microgravity Laboratory. The Spacelab long module included an Extended Duration Orbiter pallet and consisted of 31 experiments ranging from the manufacture of crystals for possible semiconductor use to the study of behavior of weightless fluids. USML-1 was a national effort to advance microgravity research in a broad number of disciplines. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center managed the Spacelab program for NASA. Today, the Payload Operations Integration Center at Marshall serves as "science central" for the International Space Station, working 24/7, 365 days a year in support of the orbiting laboratory's scientific experiments. The NASA History Program is responsible for generating, disseminating, and preserving NASA's remarkable history and providing a comprehensive understanding of the institutional, cultural, social, political, economic, technological, and scientific aspects of NASA's activities in aeronautics and space. For more pictures like this one and to connect to NASA's history, visit the Marshall History Program's webpage. (NASA)
Image credit: NASA
Confirmed: subject acquired target and is now exiting airspace with zero regard for aerodynamic efficiency. Fish shows no signs of protest. Efficiency rating: 9.7/10.
The James Webb Space Telescope was fuelled inside the payload preparation facility at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana ahead of its launch on Ariane 5.
Webb’s thrusters will use this propellant to make critical course-corrections after separation from Ariane 5, to maintain its prescribed orbit about one and a half million kilometres from Earth, and to repoint the observatory and manage its momentum during operations.
Fuelling any satellite is a particularly delicate operation requiring setup of the equipment and connections, fuelling, and then pressurisation.
Webb’s propellant tanks were filled separately with 133 kg of dinitrogen tetroxide oxidiser and 168 kg hydrazine. Oxidiser improves the burn efficiency of the hydrazine fuel.
These propellants are extremely toxic so only a few specialists wearing Self-Contained Atmospheric Protective Ensemble, or ‘scape’ suits, remained in the dedicated fuelling hall for fuelling which took 10 days and ended on 3 December.
The next steps will start soon for ‘combined operations’. This is when specialists working separately to prepare Webb and Ariane 5 will come together as one team. They will place Webb atop its Ariane 5 launch vehicle and encapsulate it inside Ariane 5’s fairing.
Then, no longer visible, Webb, joined with its Ariane 5 launch vehicle will be transferred to the Final Assembly building for the final preparations before launch.
Webb will be the largest, most powerful telescope ever launched into space. As part of an international collaboration agreement, ESA is providing the telescope’s launch service using the Ariane 5 launch vehicle. Working with partners, ESA was responsible for the development and qualification of Ariane 5 adaptations for the Webb mission and for the procurement of the launch service by Arianespace.
Webb is an international partnership between NASA, ESA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).
Find out more about Webb in ESA’s launch kit and interactive brochure.
Credits: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Optique Vidéo du CSG - P Piron
Since its arrival on April 29, the Psyche spacecraft has moved into the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where technicians removed it from its protective shipping container, rotated it to vertical, and have begun the final steps to prepare the spacecraft for launch. In the coming months, crews will perform a range of work including re-installing solar arrays, re-integrating a radio, testing the telecommunications system, loading propellants, and encapsulating the spacecraft inside payload fairings before it leaves the facility and moves to the launch pad.
The Psyche spacecraft will explore a metal-rich asteroid between Mars and Jupiter, made largely of nickel-iron metal. The mission is targeting an Aug. 1 launch atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy. After arriving in 2026, the spacecraft will spend 21 months orbiting its namesake asteroid, mapping and gathering data, potentially providing insights on how planets with a metal core, including Earth, formed.
Image Credit: NASA/Isaac Watson
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A unit train of wind turbine parts continues its way west down BNSF's Gallup Sub. In less than a couple miles, the train will be handed off to the Apache Railway, which will take the accompanying payloads to the final transload site outside Snowflake.
This week in 2011, space shuttle Endeavour, mission STS-134, launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on its final flight. During its 14-day mission, Endeavour delivered the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2, Express Logistics Carrier-3, and spare parts and a high-pressure gas tank for the Dextre robotic helper to the International Space Station. Today, the Payload Operations Integration Center at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center serves as "science central" for the space station, working 24/7, 365 days a year in support of the orbiting laboratory's science experiments. After 20 years of continuous human presence, the space station remains the sole space-based proving ground and stepping stone toward achieving the goals of the Artemis program. The NASA History Program is responsible for generating, disseminating, and preserving NASA's remarkable history and providing a comprehensive understanding of the institutional, cultural, social, political, economic, technological, and scientific aspects of NASA's activities in aeronautics and space. For more pictures like this one and to connect to NASA's history, visit the Marshall History Program's webpage.
Image credit: NASA
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This week in 1985, STS-51J launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on the first flight of the space shuttle Atlantis. This was the second mission that carried a payload for the U.S. Department of Defense. Today, the Payload Operations Integration Center at Marshall serves as "science central" for the space station, working 24/7, 365 days a year in support of the orbiting laboratory's scientific experiments. The NASA History Program is responsible for generating, disseminating and preserving NASA’s remarkable history and providing a comprehensive understanding of the institutional, cultural, social, political, economic, technological and scientific aspects of NASA’s activities in aeronautics and space. For more pictures like this one and to connect to NASA’s history, visit the Marshall History Program’s webpage.
Image credit: NASA
-Length: 110 studs
-Payload: 4 interplanetary nuclear warheads, 6 hull defense turrets, 16 proton missiles
-8 Growler attack fighter squadron stationed on board
The Artimus' purpose for the FIO, or Federation for Intergalactic Operations, was to be the most technologically advanced vessel in the Ghronis Galaxy. The Artimus will watch over the galaxy as part of the FIO's massive "peace keeping" fleet of crusiers, carriers and battleships.
This is my first real submission and participation in SHIPtember. I started this late July and finished it mid-August because of school scheduling conflicts (So technically Pre-SHIPtember). This was ridiculously fun to build, but also one my most challenging builds i've done to date. I'll most certainly be participating in the future =D.
I hope you like it!
Great Egret (m) Ardea alba
full frame
Dallas Texas
UT Southwestern Medical Center Rookery.
Photographers note: When I tried to process this image with photoshop. Photoshop curves or Photoshop levels told me that the photo was overexposed and I could not get details in the highlights. So then I used Canons raw software (I never normally use that one). And that software had zero problem recovering details in the highlights. Whew! Almost sent this image to the recycle bin.
Christopher's website
international crew of seven in support of the Spacelab D-2 mission. D-2 became the second Spacelab flight under German mission management. Two teams performed around-the-clock operations, conducting 88 experiments covering materials and life sciences, technology applications, Earth observations, astronomy, and atmospheric physics. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center was responsible for managing the Spacelab missions. Today, the Payload Operations Integration Center at Marshall serves as “science central” for the International Space Station, working 24/7, 365 days a year in support of the orbiting laboratory’s science experiments. After 20 years of continuous human presence, the space station remains the sole space-based proving ground and stepping stone toward achieving the goals of the Artemis program. The NASA History Program is responsible for generating, disseminating, and preserving NASA’s remarkable history and providing a comprehensive understanding of the institutional, cultural, social, political, economic, technological, and scientific aspects of NASA’s activities in aeronautics and space. For more pictures like this one and to connect to NASA’s history, visit the Marshall History Program’s webpage.
Image credit: NASA
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