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While I visited Andreas (Zypper), I created this build with his bricks.
Nearly all of the pictures were taken by him; edited by me.
I combined 2 Wombos for this one.
Prompts: Aliens living in underground cave city, style of Maxfield Parrish
Style: The City
I often wish the Wombo app would offer a landscape format. But then, I wouldn't have the fun of putting multiple images together like this. I really do love making these composites. I hope you enjoy viewing them.
Thank you for all your faves, comments and invitations!
I tried to use as little parts as possible to create a couple of the most famous starships in the galaxy. Hope you enjoy!
At every place, around every corner, in each next room, gallery, nightclub, beach, neighborhood, region there is always some thing, someone, someplace new and interesting to be found. The marvels others have become, created or inspired are endless in the data stream.
Sometimes I feel as though I am a disciple of a grand, religious technocracy. Or at the very least, sometimes I feel awareness of the gravity of spirit that dwells within these electronic light dreams created by the multitude of members of this grand communal dream world.
One thing is as certain about the data-stream dream world as it is about the mundane world; nothing lasts forever. Everything eventually fades, fails, crumbles into dust, dies or just goes away. I will miss the electronic dream world when one day, it's time too passes and it is a whisp in the night. A communal memory scattered in millions of minds across the globe.
Enjoy what you have, while you have it in both worlds. Sooner or later, it will all be gone
Algis Budrys / The Unexpected Dimension
cover: Robert Blanchard
Ballantine Books Inc.
(N.Y./USA; 1960)
ex libris MTP
Yesterday - on April 1st,2017, a fresh colorful edition of the Gacha Guardians started.
For the month of funny jokes, 22769 has created something special, Rideable Vehicles - the Hoverpods.
So lets look inside the machine to see wich Hoverpods can be won with every pull:
RARE:
Hoverpod Keths - LI 12
Commons:
Hoverpod Candy - LI 11
Hoverpod Kawaii - LI 11
Hoverpod Blue - LI 11
Hoverpod Biohazard - LI 12
Hoverpod Pink Start - LI 13
Hoverpod Pride - LI 12
Hoverpod Radioctive - LI 12
Hoverpod Rock'n'Roll - LI 12
Hoverpod Skull - LI 12
Hoverpod Ying Yang - LI 11
And -as you know from the previous edition of the Gacha Guardians- with every 25th pull you get one of the two (randomly selected) Gifts of the Guardians only available during the Gacha Guardians too.
Gifts of the Guardians:
Hover Roller - LI 7
Hover Chopper - LI 11
To see the Hoverpods in action, please have a look here:
All items have the next Owner permissions: no-copy, mod, trans - used scripts and animations may have different permissions.
The 22769 Hoverpods are rideable only on the Sim Ground.
To visit the Gacha Guardians please use the SLurl provided below:
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bella%20Gacha/112/175/29
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Gacha is a Game of Luck. For every pull (50L$) you get a randomly selected item in return.
„Hey Vic, that cake the cantina served today was almost as massive as 24-1 here.“
Vehicles used:
M:Tron Makuhari-Type ISFC (Inner System Fast Courier)
Shape inspired by @makuharisoundmachine
The star cluster Pismis 24 lies in the core of the large emission nebula NGC 6357 that extends one degree on the sky in the direction of the Scorpius constellation. Part of the nebula is ionised by the youngest (bluest) heavy stars in Pismis 24. The intense ultraviolet radiation from the blazing stars heats the gas surrounding the cluster and creates a bubble in NGC 6357. The presence of these surrounding gas clouds makes probing into the region even harder. One of the top candidates for the title of "Milky Way stellar heavyweight champion" was, until now, Pismis 24-1, a bright young star that lies in the core of the small open star cluster Pismis 24 about 8,000 light-years away from Earth. Pismis 24-1 was thought to have an incredibly large mass of 200 to 300 solar masses. New NASA/ESA Hubble measurements of the star, have, however, resolved Pismis 24-1 into two separate stars, and, in doing so, have "halved" its mass to around 100 solar masses.
'The Astronot' (bit.ly/FBAstro) is a feature film set in Central Oregon during the 1940s-60s. It is directed by Tim Cash of FFE Films & features a soundtrack by Pennan Brae. The trailer can be viewed here: bit.ly/AstroTease
Ever wondered why Mt. St. Helens exploded in 1980? And what's the story the government is covering up? Here's the first chapter of an illustrated Sci-Fi story I am writing. All the images are un-altered photos, except for one, page 5.
The crew has landed on the planet and discovered something unexpected.
"Captain, these plants, all this foliage...it's all artificial."
FIlm notes: The promotional materials and the movie poster show Sue and the Captain wearing the same style space suit. However, the studio was concerned that the public might get confused so they ordered a different suit for the Sue Reed character.
interdimensional futuristic mutant cyborg cop - #jonboam #drawing #mutant #cyborg #illustration #sciencefiction
Created in Google Gemini 2.5 Flash, aka, "Nano Banana."
Based on the thermal boreholes featured in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri PC game. Thermal boreholes were a late game option terraforming technology the player could choose.
civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Terraforming_(SMAC)
See more here: www.youtube.com/@journeymanplayer7459
Published in 1987, Klygot's epic, galaxy-spanning tale of libidinous circuitry gone mad was a commercial and critical flop.
These sci-fi book covers are an absolute blast to do :-D
"Planet of the Ood" is the 3rd episode of the 4th series of British science fiction series Doctor Who.
With the new Dungeon & Dragons minifigures, I've immediately thought of this Doctor Who species.
“FUTURISTIC SPACE STATION WITH ION ROCKET SHIP IN ORBIT ABOVE ANTARCTICA
CONCEPT PAINTED BY WILLIAM C. HOUSE OF AEROJET-GENERAL”
11” x 13.875”.
A cropped version of the image is available at the excellent & informative ATOMIC ROCKETS website, specifically:
www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/images/spacestation...
William C. House - The Real Deal. Multiple extracts from disparate sources, sort of chronologically:
“One of the best known champions of the turborocket was William C. House, who proposed a cycle in 1949 while an employee of the Aerojet Engineering Corporation.* House examined a number of bipropellants including liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. He apparently proposed this combination to the Air Force in September 1953 and later, but nothing came of it (fig. 30, bottom):
history.nasa.gov/SP-4404/p123.jpg
“William C. House, director of NERVA (nuclear engine for rocket vehicle application) operations of the Aerojet-General Corporation, has been named a vice president of the company. He has been with Aeroject since 1949. Four months ago he received the Navy’s Meritorious Public Service Citation for his work on the Polaris missile.”
In 1956, the Awards Committee of the Aerospace Research Council selected Mr. House to become a Fellow Member of American Rocket Society, forerunner of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Some of the others selected that year: William H. Pickering, director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; Simon Ramo, executive vice president, The Ramo-Wooldridge Corp., and Fred S. Whipple, chairman, Department of Astronomy, Harvard University & director, Astrophysical Observatory of the Smithsonian Institute.
mypatentprints.com/products/space-vehicle-patent-1960-spa...
Credit: ‘MyPatentPrints’ website
They’re ALL cool, but the “Fuel Station”, apparently a variant of this, is also courtesy of Mr. House:
paleofuture.com/blog/2013/9/12/space-taxis-air-sleds-and-...
Credit: “Paleofuture” website - which BTW is excellent…I’d almost forgotten about it!
From a 1969 citation:
“His education includes a B.S. (Aeronautical Engineering), California Institute of Technology. Prior experience includes service with Northrop Aircraft Company; U.S. Naval Engineering Experimental Station; Project SQUID, Princeton University; General Tire and Rubber Company of California and presently with Aerojet-General Corporation. His present position is Vice President and General Manager, Surface Effect Ships Division, Aerojet General Corporation.”
Finally, at least as of December 1972, Mr. House served on the board of directors of Caltech’s Alumni Association, being class of 1940.
Mr. House, as stated earlier, the real deal…rocket scientist…and talented artist!
Continue to RIP Good Sir and Thank You.