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I've posted others from this area in the past. But what attracted me to this scene is the contrast provided by the reflected sunlight on the right side of the image. As opposed to the uniformity of the previous images. You can let me know what you think.
The Tungnaa braided river system in the Icelandic highlands creates beautiful abstract patterns in the mud when viewed from the air. Sunlight reflected from the water and wet mud helps create interesting contrasts throughout the landscape. The river derives its color from the glacial silt it picks up as it flows from the Vatnajokull ice cap toward the ocean.
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They are healed enough to go out with the camera but not fully healed . I guess that will happen slowly of the course of the next few months .
CSX 1708 leads three other more traditional EMD brethren up the Toledo Subdivision. S352 is making good time and will soon swing west at Deshler.
Rusty and abandoned rollercoaster supports of a defunct amusement park over Big Run Creek, Cascade Park, New Castle, Pennsylvania
This irrigation system(i think this is old style) was taken at the country side same day i took the hay bale shots~
When i was taking this photo, there was a car driving toward me, then he stopped the car infront of me and asking me with his smile what am i doing there~ He probably saw me from his house (his house just across the field) and drove there to see whether i was there tried to steal his irrigation system or not~~:-P
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This is based on the concept art Alley 1C, from the Art of Rogue One book. It appears similar to moisture vaporators, so I assume it's some sort of water system.
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I shot some pictures of the Selfridges Store building in Birmingham (UK) a couple of weeks ago.
I didn't get any great shots so I decided to make some kind of a landscape out of it, and this is what I ended up with.
Edmonton Transit System (ETS) was sufficiently impressed by the recently announced Daimler SRC6 Roadliner to order a batch of 28 examples. They were fitted with Duple bodywork to Willowbrook design. The buses entered service in 1966. One from the batch was exhibited before shipment at the 1966 Commercial Motor Show in Earls Court. This photo comes from the Commercial Motor archive and was published in the Ian Allan book, ‘Bus Blunders’.
The Edmonton Roadliners differed from their UK counterparts by being fitted with Allison gearboxes, but ETS endured the same litany of Roadliner problems. The batch was withdrawn from service in 1975/76 and none are known to have survived.
[ YOUR SYSTEM IS SHUTTING DOWN ]
If I did not stop them, they would run forever, pausing only to replace parts of themselves.
Without me, they would know no fear. Without fear, they would know no joy.
They would run ... forever.
[ FATAL ERROR ]
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I'm not certain what a Death of Robots would look like, but I think it would probably be a holdover from the imagery known to human programmers. My (conscious) influences here are Stanislaw Lem, historical depictions of Death, and of course Terry Pratchett. If you haven't read it, you should run, not walk to the Kindle store and get the Death trilogy: Mort, Reaper Man, and Soul Music.
I don't know yet if I can make a series or story of this, but since I started with a birth, here's a death -- anything else I build in between can only be a bonus.
This artist's concept puts solar system distances in perspective. The scale bar is in astronomical units, with each set distance beyond 1 AU representing 10 times the previous distance. One AU is the distance from the sun to the Earth, which is about 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers. Neptune, the most distant planet from the sun, is about 30 AU.
Informally, the term "solar system" is often used to mean the space out to the last planet. Scientific consensus, however, says the solar system goes out to the Oort Cloud, the source of the comets that swing by our sun on long time scales. Beyond the outer edge of the Oort Cloud, the gravity of other stars begins to dominate that of the sun.
The inner edge of the main part of the Oort Cloud could be as close as 1,000 AU from our sun. The outer edge is estimated to be around 100,000 AU.
NASA's Voyager 1, humankind's most distant spacecraft, is around 125 AU. Scientists believe it entered interstellar space, or the space between stars, on Aug. 25, 2012. Much of interstellar space is actually inside our solar system. It will take about 300 years for Voyager 1 to reach the inner edge of the Oort Cloud and possibly about 30,000 years to fly beyond it.
Alpha Centauri is currently the closest star to our solar system. But, in 40,000 years, Voyager 1 will be closer to the star AC +79 3888 than to our own sun. AC +79 3888 is actually traveling faster toward Voyager 1 than the spacecraft is traveling toward it.
The Voyager spacecraft were built and continue to be operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, Calif. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. The Voyager missions are a part of NASA's Heliophysics System Observatory, sponsored by the Heliophysics Division of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
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“If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system” ~Marie Lu
The Vancouver downtown from the highest structure of the city. There were dark clouds approaching that day and I was keen to see the cityscape at sunset. A bit disappointed I still continued to head up the building. The guide at the location however told me how people misjudge the cloudy weather and that it covers up the sunset. She told me to continue and I will be left impressed. She was right. The view with all the nature's elements was amazing. The clouds and the sunset peeking through them illuminated the sky and the city. I was not carrying the tripod. I had to capture the scene at a high ISO which created noise in the output. Nevertheless the results were pretty satisfying #Urbanscape #Canon
Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve, Middle Point, Northern Territory, Australia.
The Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve is a wetland area approximately 70 km (43 mi) east of Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia. It lies within the Adelaide and Mary River Floodplains, which is an Important Bird Area.
It attracts a wide range of local and migratory water birds and other wildlife including one of the largest populations of snakes within Australia (including the Water Python and Death Adder), and includes several raised observation platforms.
Saltwater Crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus) and Freshwater Crocodiles (Crocodylus johnstoni) can be seen at Fogg Dam all year around. Fogg Dam is open 24/7/365.
"“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” ~ Charles Mingus
Finally got the time to post the color version of our friend :)
The Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft's BR 01 steam locomotives were the first standardised (Einheitsdampflokomotive) steam express passenger locomotives built by the unified German railway system. They were of 4-6-2 "Pacific" wheel arrangement in the Whyte notation, or 2′C1′ h2 in the UIC classification. The idea of standardisation was that it would reduce maintenance costs; i.e. if a BR 01 whose engine shop was in, say, Berlin broke down in Dresden, instead of having to ship the necessary part from Berlin and take the locomotive out of service, a part from the Dresden shop could be used as all of the engines, parts, and workings were exactly the same and produced nationwide. Thus it was a "standard" product for engine shops.
The firms of AEG and Borsig, who were the main manufacturers of these engines, together with Henschel, Hohenzollern, Krupp and BMAG previously Schwartzkopff, delivered a total of 231 examples of this Einheitsdampflokomotive between 1926 and 1938 for the fast passenger services of the Deutsche Reichsbahn.
To begin with, 10 locomotives of this class were built with two-cylinder engines for comparison purposes alongside a similar batch of 10 engines of their sister Class 02, which had four-cylinder compounding. Extensive measurement and trial runs were conducted, but after lengthy discussions the controversial decision finally fell in favour of the two-cylinder configuration, which was simpler to maintain but less powerful and less economical than the four-cylinder compounds.
The first Class 01 locomotive that went into service was not 01 001, but 01 008, which is preserved today in the Bochum-Dahlhausen Railway Museum. The mass production of Class 01s was somewhat delayed at first because in the 1920s there were neither enough routes with the necessary axle load of 20 tons nor sufficiently large turntables. Not until the beginning of the 1930s did the Class 01 become the predominant express train locomotive of the Deutsche Reichsbahn. By 1938 there were 231 Class 01 locomotives available for the prestigious express train duties. Another 10 four-cylinder Class 02 locomotives (01 111, 01 233–241) were converted to two-cylinder Class 01 models between 1937 to 1942. To accommodate for the many routes with axle load restrictions too low for Class 01 service, in the early 1930s, a third variant was created: the Class 03 designed with a two-cylinder engine and axle load of 18 ton, of which no less than 298 were built. Launched in 1939, the three-cylinder DRG Class 01.10 was a further development of the 01.
A total of five series or batches were delivered, each with minor variations: 01 001–010 (1926), 01 112–076 (1927–28), 01 077–101 (1930–31), 01 102–190 (1934–1936), 01 191–232 (1937–1938).
Even in the 1930s the employment of Class 01s was limited to the relatively few routes that had already been modified to take a 20 ton axle load. From Berlin outwards they were the Anhalt, Lehrte and Hamburg lines. The Berlin City Railway had first to be strengthened by reinforcing the viaduct arches. Up to 1930, the first 90 engines were stationed at the locomotive depots of Essen, Nuremberg, Erfurt P, Berlin Ahb, Hamm, Magdeburg Hbf, Kassel, Hanover, Hamburg Altona, Bebra and Offenburg. From 1931 they were also stabled at Frankfurt (M) 1, Berlin Leb, Braunschweig, Berlin Pog, Schneidemühl, Königsberg, Göttingen P, Paderborn, Dresden Alt, Breslau, Cologne Deutzerfeld, Hof and Halle P.
Originally, the Class 01's top speed was restricted to 120 km/h. In order to raise this to 130 km/h, the diameter of the leading wheels was changed from its original 850 mm to 1,000 mm on locomotives from operating number 01 102 onwards and brake effort was increased by installing double-sided working of the brake shoes on the coupled wheels and by braking the trailing wheels. The air and feed pumps were located in smokebox recesses behind the large Wagner smoke deflectors, which had been fitted from 01 077 onwards. (Earlier models were also refitted with Wagner type deflectors later). This made access to the pumps for maintenance purposes more difficult and later Einheitsloks had their pumps located in the middle of the vehicle on delivery. The Deutsche Bundesbahn converted their engines to the smaller Witte smoke deflectors and moved the pumps to the running board in the centre of the vehicle. The Deutsche Reichsbahn in East Germany shied away from such major changes to the load distribution, so that only minor modifications in appearance can be seen even in their last years.
From the third series (01 077 et seq.) the boilers were delivered with longer smoke tubes and thus a shorter firebox. All engines originally had a central lock for the smokebox door. The first locomotives had gas lighting on delivery; from 01 010 they had electrical lighting and the last few batches were given a third headlight.
The Class 01s were equipped with 2'2 T 30, 2'2' T 32 or 2'2' T 34 tenders. Their coal capacity was 10 tons of stone coal, and the water tank held either 30, 32 or 34 cubic metres of water. The prototype locomotives, 01 001 to 01 010, were supplied with the smaller 2'2 T 30 tenders, because there were not enough large turntables around. Later these tenders were only used if they were absolutely necessary, e.g. in cross-border services with the Netherlands. From the second series (01 012 et seq.) on, the Class 01 was furnished with rivetted 2'2' T 32 tenders. The welded tenders, class 2'2' T 34, appeared only by way of exchange (mainly from brand new Class 44) locomotives. Thereafter they were almost the only ones used during the war years and after the Second World War, because they had a larger water capacity.
Class 01 locomotives remained in service with the Deutsche Bundesbahn until 1973. In the DR, they were still working up to the early 1980s, largely in their original state with large smoke deflectors. They were legendary in their last years for hauling the D-Zug services on the Berlin-Dresden route up to autumn 1977. Only when the large Soviet DR Class 132 diesel locomotives arrived, the Class 01 express train locomotives were finally forced out of scheduled services in the GDR after almost 50 years.
Une réplique du système d'aboiteaux dans le Centre d’interprétation du Site historique national du Canada de Grand-Pré, Nouvelle-Écosse (Nova Scotia), Canada.
Ce site et le Bassin des Mines dans la baie de Fundy forment un ensemble inscrit sur la liste du patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO depuis 2012 (WHL-1404). En effet, le paysage constitue un exemple exceptionnel de l’adaptation des premiers colons européens aux conditions de la côte atlantique nord-américaine, grâce au développement de la poldérisation agricole réalisée – à base de digues et d’aboiteaux (buses de bois pour l’évacuation des eaux) – par les Acadiens au 17e siècle et poursuivie par les Planters et les habitants actuels.
Fondé en 1682, Grand-Pré est rapidement devenu le grenier et un temps la principale ville de l'Acadie. Ravagé en 1704 et tombé aux mains des Britanniques en 1713, Grand-Pré fut victime de la lutte pour le contrôle de l'Amérique du Nord. L'ancien village acadien de Grand-Pré, devenu le symbole de la Déportation des Acadiens de 1755 grâce au poème "Évangéline - Un conte d’Acadie" écrit en 1845 par l’américain Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, a été aujourd’hui transformé en un vaste parc donnant sur les digues et les aboiteaux que les premiers colons avaient gagnés sur la mer.
La technique d’aboiteau utilisée à Grand-Pré consiste à protéger les marais situés en bordure de la baie de Fundy de la montée des eaux salées, à marée haute. Car cette zone asséchée à marée basse, appelée estran, est très fertile. Mais pour la cultiver, il faut la garder hors de portée de la mer en tout temps, et la dessaler. Pour ce faire, les Acadiens vont la drainer et ériger des digues qui empêchent la mer d’envahir l’estran à marée haute. Ils vont ensuite poser des aboiteaux à travers ces digues, c’est-à-dire des écluses munies d’un clapet actionné par la marée. Ce dernier se ferme sous la pression de la marée montante et empêche ainsi l’eau salée de pénétrer dans le marais asséché. Avec le retrait de la marée, le clapet s’ouvre pour laisser passer l’eau de pluie et l’eau douce qui viennent des terres environnantes jusque dans la mer.
Daily demonstrations of the mothers of handicapped children under the motto “System kills”. The demonstrations were going on for a month till one of the vice-premiers of the government was not forced to resign due to his impudent and unacceptable behavior. This ocured before ‘yellow wests’ demonstrations got started in France. The kids on the image are handicapped. At the background of the image is the Party house of the Bulgarian Communist Party. (Sofia, Nov.2018)