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Model : Mario Ferreira
For Strobist groups
one light fallof Set up
1 Godox 600 watts P1/2 with Octobox 90cm Grided
Model - Airi
Makeup artist - Summer Johnson
Pentax 645D
Pentax 645 150mm
Lighting - Black background. Gridded Beauty Dish powered by Profoto Pro-7a as the main light . Square softbox front and low as fill. 2 medium size strip softboxes behind that were adding rimlight (powered by Profoto compacts). Another profoto compact with a gridded zoom reflector aimed at the background. Strobes triggered with PocketWizards.
Chris Willson
Met Andrew Lloyd aka Blob the scientist last Saturday while I was down in Benvoy, had a nice chat and then he let me take his picture...lovely fella and he's blogger!
Check him out....http://blobthescientist.blogspot.ie/
Hotter Droughts — Yep, it's getting hotter and drier out there. California's hotter drought has already killed millions of trees, particularly in low-elevation forests. “Hotter droughts,” which are severe droughts associated with human-caused climate change, are an emerging but poorly understood threat to forests worldwide. As climate change drives much of the nation into hotter, drier conditions, forest managers and scientists are not able to rely on historical patterns of temperature and precipitation for planning and decision making. Yet it is critical to identify forests and tree species most at risk.
Thus, USGS scientists and their collaborators are using California’s recent hotter drought (2012-2015) as a preview of the future, gaining the information needed to help forest managers adapt to a warming world.
Read more about hotter droughts and effects on forests at on.doi.gov/HotterDroughts
Photo credit: Nathan Stephenson, USGS.
Scientist here are working on teleportation. They can get things to teleport but the things seem to die.
18x24 Acrylic painting for the Dia De Los Bandidos show.
This is one of my recent favorite paintings I've done. It's something new I am trying. It has no outlines.
Available for purchase, email me.
'' The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competative '' - Donald John Trump
"It's really cold outside, they are calling it a major freeze, weeks ahead of normal. Man, we could use a big fat dose of global warming!" - Donald John Trump
'' This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop. Our planet is freezing, record low temps,and our GW scientists are stuck in ice! '' - Donald John Trump
'' It's freezing in New York - where the hell is global warming? '' - Donald John Trump. Republican and 45th president of the United States of America.
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This photograph was taken at 14:41pm on Monday May 16th 2016 of Bear Glacier, situated on Highway 37A heading in towards the Town of Stewart, and descending towards Strohn Lake along Bear River Pass, Northern British Columbia, Canada.
The area was declared a Provincial park in 1998, and the glacier which began receeding in the 1940's, once spanned the lake and met the highway, but is now a shadow of it's former self, partly due to global warming. It is estimated that 80 per cent of British Columbia, Yukon and Alberta's mountain glaciers will be gone within the next fifty years. Another sign of imminent chaos which we are finally starting to take notice of.... well at least some of us are!
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Nikon D800 Focal length 60mm Shutter speed 1/1200s Aperture f/11.0 iso100 RAW (14Bit)Hand held. Nikon back focus button enabled. AF-C Continuous point focus with 3-D tracking. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto white balance. Nikon AF Fine tune on (+9).
Nikkor AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8G ED IF. Jessops 77mm UV filter. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Two Nikon EN-EL15 batteries. Nikon DK-17M 1.2x Magnifying Eyepiece. Nikon DK-19 soft rubber eyecup. Digi-Chip 64GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDXC card. Lowepro Transporter camera strap. Lowepro Vertex 200 AW Photo/ 15.4" Notebook Backpack camera bag.
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Nikon D800 Firmware versions A 1.10 B 1.10 L 2.009 (Lens distortion control version 2)
HP 110-352na Desktop PC with AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU processor. AMD Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB SATA storage. 64-bit Windows 10. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. WD My Passport Ultra 1tb USB3 Portable hard drive. Nikon ViewNX2 Version 2.10.3 64bit. Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.
OFFICIAL POLICE REPORT:
At approximately 0100 hours on March 29th 2018, a 911 call was made from an apartment complex near the site of the incident, reporting a large crash from the upper floors of the building and a body down below. Within the hour a team was went to the area to investigate. The body on the ground was identified as Dr. Simon Griener, a bio-engineer working at a nearby university, with his own private lab in the upper floors of the building. The team then gained access to the lab, where they confirmed the broken window seemingly covered in the scientist's blood. As well the team noted a set of tanks with one containing a humanoid life form and the other shattered with its liquid contents spilled over the floor, though there was no trace of what might have been in it. There were signs of struggle in the lab, and it was suspected that a life form similar to the one still in the tank had escaped and thrown the doctor to his doom, though this is entirely unconfirmed. A bio-hazard team was called in to retrieve the tanks, whose contents are still unknown. The bio-hazard team suggests that one of Dr. Griener's colleagues might have thrown him out the window and flown the scene, though the original team insists that the window was far too thick for any human to destroy with such force. The investigation is ongoing.
END REPORT.
Dr. Mary Johnston, Carolyn Griner and Dr. Ann Whitaker (left to right), scientists at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), complete a training session in the MSFC’s Neutral Buoyancy Simulator, a facility used to simulate weightlessness. The scuba diving is part of special training the three took to better qualify them for their duties of designing experiments on materials processing in space. The training increased their understanding of the problems associated with doing experiments in space, such as aboard Spacelab. Dr. Johnston specializes in metallurgical engineering, Carolyn Griner in materials sciences, and Ann Whitaker in lubrication and surface physics. Carolyn Griner continued her career at MSFC, serving as the director of the Mission Operations Laboratory. In 1994 she was appointed as Deputy Director of MSFC, and for 9 months in 1998 served as acting Director. She retired from NASA in December 2000. Over a 16-year period Dr. Ann Whitaker served at NASA as chief of the Physical Sciences Branch, the Engineering Physics Division, and the Project and Environmental Engineering Division. In 1995 she served in several leadership positions in Marshall’s Science and Engineering Directorate. In September 2001, Dr. Whitaker was named director of the Science Directorate at MSFC.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 75-HC-664
Date: 1974
Last-second entry for the Time Paradox Contest at The Lego Contest Network.
"December 21, 2012. The scientist Viktor Von R'lyeh, doctor in chemistry, physics, engineering and philosophy, has discovered how to travel in time and space using wormholes. After this discovery, he wants to do an experiment, so he builds a high-tech laser weapon. When he finishes building the weapon, he turns on the wormhole machine and sets the date of one minute before finishing the weapon. When the wormhole portal opens, he slays himself in the past with the weapon."
Then, how could he have fired his weapon if he was shot before finishing it? But if he didn't finish it, he didn't shoot, so he didn't die, so he could have built the weapon...
I was just guessing at numbers and figures
Pulling the puzzles apart
Questions of science, science and progress
Do not speak as loud as my heart...
(Coldplay)
Model: Anja
Foto+Bea: www.facebook.com/unplugged.photo
Smoke Photo Art.
"Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos."
David Cronenberg
I sometimes tint the smoke to match the object, but in this case I had the smoke done already and liked the colors so I tinted the color of the original glass. One flip of the smoke, coloring, and a little fractalius processing to sharpen it up.
All of my work is Copyrighted. Please do not repost this photo without my permission or without a clear link back to this photo. www.flickr.com/photos/psycho_babble/7272537552/in/photost...
OFFICIAL POLICE REPORT:
At approximately 0100 hours on March 29th 2018, a 911 call was made from an apartment complex near the site of the incident, reporting a large crash from the upper floors of the building and a body down below. Within the hour a team was went to the area to investigate. The body on the ground was identified as Dr. Simon Griener, a bio-engineer working at a nearby university, with his own private lab in the upper floors of the building. The team then gained access to the lab, where they confirmed the broken window seemingly covered in the scientist's blood. As well the team noted a set of tanks with one containing a humanoid life form and the other shattered with its liquid contents spilled over the floor, though there was no trace of what might have been in it. There were signs of struggle in the lab, and it was suspected that a life form similar to the one still in the tank had escaped and thrown the doctor to his doom, though this is entirely unconfirmed. A bio-hazard team was called in to retrieve the tanks, whose contents are still unknown. The bio-hazard team suggests that one of Dr. Griener's colleagues might have thrown him out the window and flown the scene, though the original team insists that the window was far too thick for any human to destroy with such force. The investigation is ongoing.
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Collection Name: RG104 Department of Economic Development Commerce and Industrial Development (CID) Photograph Collection
Photographer/Studio: Unknown
Description: A woman peers into a microscope while working in an agricultural lab.
Coverage: United States - Missouri
Date: n.d. [1950s?]
Rights: public domain
Credit: Courtesy of Missouri State Archives
Image Number: RG104_CIDNegs_055-142.tif
Institution: Missouri State Archives
The 2017 field season was record-breaking for Operation IceBridge, NASA’s aerial survey of the state of polar ice. For the first time in its nine-year history, the mission, which aims to close the gap between two NASA satellite campaigns that study changes in the height of polar ice, carried out seven field campaigns in the Arctic and Antarctic in a single year. In total, the IceBridge scientists and instruments flew over 214,000 miles, the equivalent of orbiting the Earth 8.6 times at the equator.
The mission of Operation IceBridge, NASA’s longest-running airborne mission to monitor polar ice, is to collect data on changing polar land and sea ice and maintain continuity of measurements between ICESat missions. The original ICESat mission launched in 2003 and ended in 2009, and its successor, ICESat-2, is scheduled for launch in the fall of 2018. Operation IceBridge began in 2009 and is currently funded until 2020. The planned overlap with ICESat-2 will help scientists connect with the satellite’s measurements.
Read more: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/big-year-for-icebridge
For more about Operation IceBridge and to follow future campaigns, visit: www.nasa.gov/icebridge
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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Scientist Barbie (2018) compared to Fashionistas Barbie (2017)
I rebodied the Fashionistas on MTM. I just deboxed the scientist. The Fashionistas is prettier, but I do like the scientist doll's hair and simple makeup. Mine has a few flaws (missing eyepaint and uneven lips), but I really bought her for her lab coat, glasses, and flask.
Scientist Barbie's hair is long layers. She cannot tilt her head forward. Mattel changed the way they make the neck knobs. Some of them only go side to side - the hiking MTM is even like that.
Hello everyone, here is my lab that I made for the mad scientist from LEGO Minifigure series 14, A.K.A. the Monster Series.
I don't really know how I feel about the terrain around and the entrance, but I guess it's not too bad.
Anyway, let me know what you guys think and leave a like if you enjoyed.
Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed the presence of electrically-charged molecules in space shaped like soccer balls, shedding light on the mysterious contents of the interstellar medium (ISM) – the gas and dust that fills interstellar space.
Since stars and planets form from collapsing clouds of gas and dust in space, “The diffuse ISM can be considered as the starting point for the chemical processes that ultimately give rise to planets and life,” said Martin Cordiner of the Catholic University of America, Washington. “So fully identifying its contents provides information on the ingredients available to create stars and planets.” Cordiner, who is stationed at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is lead author of a paper on this research published April 22nd in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
The molecules identified by Cordiner and his team are a form of carbon called “Buckminsterfullerene,” also known as “Buckyballs,” which consists of 60 carbon atoms (C60) arranged in a hollow sphere. C60 has been found in some rare cases on Earth in rocks and minerals, and can also turn up in high-temperature combustion soot.
C60 has been seen in space before. However, this is the first time an electrically charged (ionized) version has been confirmed to be present in the diffuse ISM. The C60 gets ionized when ultraviolet light from stars tears off an electron from the molecule, giving the C60 a positive charge (C60+). “The diffuse ISM was historically considered too harsh and tenuous an environment for appreciable abundances of large molecules to occur,” said Cordiner. “Prior to the detection of C60, the largest known molecules in space were only 12 atoms in size. Our confirmation of C60+ shows just how complex astrochemistry can get, even in the lowest density, most strongly ultraviolet-irradiated environments in the Galaxy.”
Life as we know it is based on carbon-bearing molecules, and this discovery shows complex carbon molecules can form and survive in the harsh environment of interstellar space. “In some ways, life can be thought of as the ultimate in chemical complexity,” said Cordiner. “The presence of C60 unequivocally demonstrates a high level of chemical complexity intrinsic to space environments, and points toward a strong likelihood for other extremely complex, carbon-bearing molecules arising spontaneously in space.”
Most of the ISM is hydrogen and helium, but it’s spiked with many compounds that haven’t been identified. Since interstellar space is so remote, scientists study how it affects the light from distant stars to identify its contents. As starlight passes through space, elements and compounds in the ISM absorb and block certain colors (wavelengths) of the light. When scientists analyze starlight by separating it into its component colors (spectrum), the colors that have been absorbed appear dim or are absent. Each element or compound has a unique absorption pattern that acts as a fingerprint allowing it to be identified. However, some absorption patterns from the ISM cover a broader range of colors, which appear different from any known atom or molecule on Earth. These absorption patterns are called Diffuse Interstellar Bands (DIBs). Their identity has remained a mystery ever since they were discovered by Mary Lea Heger, who published observations of the first two DIBs in 1922.
A DIB can be assigned by finding a precise match with the absorption fingerprint of a substance in the laboratory. However, there are millions of different molecular structures to try, so it would take many lifetimes to test them all.
“Today, more than 400 DIBs are known, but (apart from the few newly attributed to C60+), none has been conclusively identified,” said Cordiner. “Together, the appearance of the DIBs indicate the presence of a large amount of carbon-rich molecules in space, some of which may eventually participate in the chemistry that gives rise to life. However, the composition and characteristics of this material will remain unknown until the remaining DIBs are assigned.”
Decades of laboratory studies have failed to find a precise match with any DIBs until the work on C60+. In the new work, the team was able to match the absorption pattern seen from C60+ in the laboratory to that from Hubble observations of the ISM, confirming the recently claimed assignment by a team from University of Basel, Switzerland, whose laboratory studies provided the required C60+ comparison data. The big problem for detecting C60+ using conventional, ground-based telescopes, is that atmospheric water vapor blocks the view of the C60+ absorption pattern. However, orbiting above most of the atmosphere in space, the Hubble telescope has a clear, unobstructed view. Nevertheless, they still had to push Hubble far beyond its usual sensitivity limits to stand a chance of detecting the faint fingerprints of C60+.
The observed stars were all blue supergiants, located in the plane of our Galaxy, the Milky Way. The Milky Way's interstellar material is primarily located in a relatively flat disk, so lines of sight to stars in the Galactic plane traverse the greatest quantities of interstellar matter, and therefore show the strongest absorption features due to interstellar molecules.
The detection of C60+ in the diffuse ISM supports the team’s expectations that very large, carbon-bearing molecules are likely candidates to explain many of the remaining, unidentified DIBs. This suggests that future laboratory efforts measure the absorption patterns of compounds related to C60+, to help identify some of the remaining DIBs.
The team is seeking to detect C60+ in more environments to see just how widespread buckyballs are in the Universe. According to Cordiner, based on their observations so far, it seems that C60+ is very widespread in the Galaxy.
This work was funded by NASA under a grant from the Space Telescope Science Institute. The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and ESA (European Space Agency). NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy in Washington, D.C. NASA is exploring our Solar System and beyond, uncovering worlds, stars, and cosmic mysteries near and far with our powerful fleet of space and ground-based missions.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
For more information: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/soccer-balls-in-space
Ladies rock outer space! Vote to make this a real LEGO set: ideas.lego.com/projects/147876
This project celebrates five pioneers of NASA. If it receives 10,000 votes, you could soon buy one at a LEGO store near you! The full set, as seen here, includes a frame, five minifigures, and vignettes including a microscale Hubble Space Telescope, space shuttle, instruments of the Apollo era, and replica of a famous photo showing the code that got astronauts to the moon.
Meet the Women of NASA:
MARGARET HAMILTON, computer scientist: While working at MIT under contract with NASA in the 1960s, Hamilton developed the on-board flight software for the Apollo missions to the moon. She is known for popularizing the modern concept of software.
KATHERINE JOHNSON, mathematician and space scientist: A longtime NASA researcher, Johnson is best known for calculating and verifying trajectories for the Mercury and Apollo programs — including the Apollo 11 mission that first landed humans on the moon.
SALLY RIDE, astronaut, physicist, and educator: A physicist by training, Ride became the first American woman in space in 1983. After retiring as a NASA astronaut, she founded an educational company focusing on encouraging children — especially girls — to pursue the sciences.
NANCY GRACE ROMAN, astronomer: One of the first female executives at NASA, Roman is known to many as the "Mother of Hubble" for her role in planning the Hubble Space Telescope. She also developed NASA's astronomy research program.
MAE JEMISON, astronaut, physician, and entrepreneur: Trained as a medical doctor, Jemison became the first African-American woman in space in 1992. After retiring from NASA, Jemison established a company that develops new technologies and encourages students in the sciences.
Thanks for your support! To vote, and for more information, visit: ideas.lego.com/projects/147876
LEGO's new female scientist. My blog about her on Scientific American Blogs: blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/09/02/breaki...
My custom scientists/sci popuarizers in LEGO: www.flickr.com/photos/pixbymaia/sets/72157623988000684/
Old growth temperate rainforest and montaine Eucalypt Forest in East Gippsland is ancient, magnificent, awe inspiring in its biological diversity and ecological complexity, and mind numbingly beautiful and humbling to behold.
While there has been, since first European settlement, moderate timber harvesting and clearing to open up farmland, widespread clearing ramped up from the 1970’s onward as our Govt decided this majestic old growth forest was best pulped and sent to Japan to make toilet paper.
I, as an environmental scientist, along with three colleagues from our State Govt Environmental Department decided to spend a weekend with the crusty protesters on the forest blockades in East Gippsland, to make up our own minds where we stood in relation to our employer, the Govt Department responsible for both environmental conservation and exploitation of forestry resources through licensing of logging coupes to private logging operators.
While initially we felt a little antagonistic to the law breaking, dreadlocked, crusties, who just seemed to be a parody of environmental protesters, within a very short time all four of us felt passionately, deeply, unequivocally, the magnificent old growth forest should not be logged, not for any reason, not now, not ever, and especially not for toilet paper.
These “Tripods” are built with rough sapling poles (dragged in from other logged areas) over the access roads into a logging coupe, one or two protesters will sit up top of the tripods, ladders removed and the idea is that the loggers, or authorities, or even police, cannot dismantle or remove the Tripods without endangering the people occupying them. And no amount of yelling or cajoling or threatening arrest and imprisonment will coax them down. It’s a waiting game, a delay tactic, overnight when no logging operations occur the occupant would be replaced by another.
It’s a gutsy, risky, desperate move, I love them for it, thank goodness they have the balls to do it. We all kept the vision front of mind when we returned to our pen pushing in the Environment and Conservation Dept.