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"Let's have a look at your communication system, Benny. I bet it's the damn transducer. We had problems with the '78 DMG transducers everywhere recently." says Kelly. She's so professional when she's at work. Benny is speechless! He has never met a scientist like her...
(The light comes from a Brickstuff Pico LED I managed to put between a round tile and a lightsaber hilt, to simulate a flashlight. Then I erased the wires in Photoshop.)
'It's getting quiet out there...Do you think BuildingBot is done?'
'I don't know, but the status panel suggest we have several pressurised area's we did not have before...'
'Best we both suit up before opening any hatches...
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Urged by a message from diwong I decided to get a picture from my space station 'as is'. Over the last few weeks, it had been changing almost daily because I gave myself too many options.
Starting with the space station from set 60227, I added a second node for connection modules, and modified both nodes to accept modules on 49699 panels in all directions.
These are the 3 modules from set 60227, and a capsule pinched from set 60350 (front node, downward).
I bricklinked a few more solar panels to keep the space station in power and added them to a new boom. The boom with solar panels can also be connected to any 49699 panel...
This is the
@Space_Station
and crew of 7 astronauts passing in front of the Moon seen Wednesday at 9:53pm from Fort Pierce, Florida.
It's fast, traveling at ~17,500 mph. The transit shown (in a composite series) took just over a half a second.
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At last we see what Benny has been up to. More, hopefully better, images to come when it’s fully assembled.
What looks like a bizarre alien planet is in fact Earth, photographed by astronaut Scott Kelly aboard the International Space Station during the auroral displays this past June. Aurorae have the signature colors of excited molecules and atoms at the low densities found at extreme altitudes. The greenish glow of molecular oxygen dominates this view. But higher, just above the space station's horizon, is a rarer red band of aurora from atomic oxygen. #iss #spacestation #funfactfriday
Spend a little time on this one zooming in on the large size. It took me awhile to photograph this one because I wanted to be able to zoom in on all the tiny details in a single shot.
Necropolis Corridor adventure tourism
Travellers enter the Necropolis Corridor from Trade Lane Delta-Nine at a designated "Nav-Point Omega-Six," though entry is restricted to "Authorised Personnel Only".Travellers enter the Necropolis Corridor from Trade Lane Delta-Nine, a bustling artery of interstellar commerce, at a precisely designated "Nav-Point Omega-Six." This specific entry point is not arbitrary; it is a critical nexus carefully monitored and controlled by the governing authorities of the sector. Access to the Necropolis Corridor is strictly limited to authorised personnel only, a rule rigorously enforced by security. Given its sensitive and perilous nature, entry is exclusive to those with legitimate, sanctioned reasons. Surveillance at Nav-Point Omega-Six involves continuous automated scanning and is unseen. There are no holographic instructions present; instead, a forbidding atmosphere warns of the grim dangers within.
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Vacation is over. Time to go back to the space station. But it's so good to be home, after all.
I took this photo because somebody (my wife) told me that I couldn't end the book just like that with this photo:
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So, after the work I had to come out with a new idea and prepare the "studio" in no time.
This is the result, it's not flawless but I hope you like it. :D
How Cyborg Spoodles Shape the Space Tourism Experience
Space tourism has evolved significantly. It was no longer just about the destinations, such as the swirling vistas of gas giants or the fractured beauty of asteroid fields. Now, it focuses on the journey and the delicate balance between mind and machine. The Cyborg Spoodle, a bio-engineered companion, was crucial in projecting experience.
What our travellers held were not pets in the traditional sense. They weren’t physically real. Instead, they were psychic resonators with advanced AI capable of intertwining with human neural pathways, creating personalised emotional landscapes. Loneliness in the vastness of space transformed into a shared sense of serenity. Anxiety before a risky maneuver melted away, giving way to calm focus. The virtual spoodles acted as an unseen imprint guiding the traveller's psyche, providing a gentle current in the ocean of space. Our travellers could feel their love, touch, smell and warmth.
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He doesn’t know exactly why, but every time he walks through one of those doors, he has a bad feeling.
Anyway, he’s a good neighbor, not so talkative, maybe, and he drools a LOT, but he never draws back when Benny invite him for a guys' night out.
The Strings of Necropolis Gully
A cold spike of dread bypassed the suit’s emotional regulators. I was the exhibit. My internal narrator fought back: Psychological stress response. Observe. "No," I whispered, my boots skidding as I turned from the dark doorway.
I stood in the open gully, trapped between impossible walls. Far above, an arched stone bridge spanned the chasm. It wasn't a bridge. It was a proscenium arch. This gully was the stage, and the masters were watching. The Paraknowing was no longer a signal; it was the atmosphere. It tugged, insistent. They are waiting for the show.
I felt the tug at my wrist. My gloved hand wanted to lift. "A cognitive hazard," I said.
The gully laughed through a cold ripple of jest from the stone. Puppet. The word was a description. I planted my feet, defiant, but a violent force snapped my head to the right. Look here, the gully commanded. My heart hammered. Now walk.
The tug was now an irresistible force, hauling me toward the bridge. My leg lifted, the boot grating on stone. It wasn't my choice. My internal narrator screamed a final, useless warning: Motor control compromised! I was moving. The puppet was beginning its dance.
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Moon (20% illuminated) + 7 humans, traveling over 17,000 mph aboard the International Space Station + clouds (lots of them, unfortunately).
(10-second tracked exposure)
Photo sequence of International Space Station passing over Rochester, NY taken over a two-minute period. Orion XT8 telescope. 1/1000s exposure.
The ISS (Space Station) flies past the Pleiades star cluster, with reddish Mars below, and the larger Hyades star cluster at left with the reddish star Aldebaran. This was March 30, 2019, looking west into the evening twilight sky. The ISS was rising out of the west and twilight glow, climbing up the frame here. The sky gradient is from twilight and the Zodiacal Light in the west.
Canadian astronaut David St. Jacques was on board at this time in early 2019.
This is a stack of 3 x 3 minute tracked exposures for the background to smooth noise, mean combined, plus the single 3-minute exposure with the ISS, layered in with Lighten blend mode, all at f/3.5 with the Sigma 50mm lens and Canon 6D MkII at ISO 200. High haze and clouds added the star glows. though I also added an Orton effect layer to boost the star glow effect. I used the app GoSatWatch to preview the path of the ISS and plan the framing and timing.
This is the International Space Station seen passing in front of the almost full Worm Moon at 12:57 am (EDT) Sunday, March 28, 2021. The transit was captured in Titusville, Florida, from the Max Brewer Parkway, just a few miles northwest from where four of the seven current crew members and most (if not all) of the space station itself was launched.
I used transit-finder.com for this shot; it is an invaluable resource to know where to stand and when to shoot.
The distance to the ISS is 457.72km, and it's traveling at 7.39 km/sec. The transit occurred at 12:57:18.76, and it lasted a mere .63 seconds. The fact that this shot is predictable to this level of specificity is impressive to me.
For hardware, I used an RF100-500 f7.1L lens with a 1.4x teleconverter on a Canon R5 (set to the 1.6x crop mode) for an effective focal length of 1120mm. I was shooting stills (vs. 8k video, which I'll probably try for the next transit I shoot). Also, I was using a tracking mount, mostly so I wouldn't need to keep repositioning the camera as the Moon moved across the sky.
For processing, the composite (L) was assembled after the transit (1 am road-side edits, for the win) in Photoshop. The tighter crop (R) is a stack of 65 images of the Moon (just before and just after the transit), combined in PhotoShop using a median stack mode, and then combined with the sharpest single image of the ISS. One additional note/complaint: despite the tracking mount, I did need to align the layers way more than I should have required. I was set up on the shoulder 12-inches off the white line of the road, and there was no traffic on the road (I mean, it was after midnight on a Saturday night) until literally 13-seconds after 12:57 am. As I'm trying to fire the camera without jostling it, I'm waving a red light so I'd be seen by a truck and trailered boat that blasted by at the worst time; the resulting wind was sufficient to move the camera ever-so-slightly.
The Sarcophagus
I found myself resting in a cryo unit that resembled a sleek, high-tech sarcophagus. The outer shell is made of brushed metal and glass, while inside, glowing, self-weaving nanotech fibres are tightly wrapping around my body. All I could think of were ancient Egyptian linen bandages. My face is partially obscured, but I can feel the signs of distress etched across. The lighting around me is dim, bathed in cold blue and amber instrument lights. How did I get into it, and why am I seeing myself in the revival cocoon?
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“Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men. Become a criminal of purpose. Be put in jail, and extricate yourself by your own wisdom.”
The cold war between Armitech Private Defense and the Hidden Demons continues, even if reason prevails with a peace agreement between both organizations, provocations do not cease from either side. Neo Tokyo District and Chinatown, opposing forces ready to clash, will this be a new war in Cocoon Station?
Shot taken at Cocoon, between Sectors Two and Three.
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Cocoon: Come for the Neon, stay for the Intrigue
Pinktron Command Center
Stardate 56,871
Timecode 10:21
Operator: 473
Transcript excerpt follows:
Captain! We have an incoming distress call! The signal is very faint. Its coming from somewhere in sector 8. Let me see if I can determine its exact location.....Yes! It appears to be coming from a small moon orbiting a planet called 'Earth'.
Do we have anyone near that sector?
I believe so Captain, let me check.....yes patrol unit 37 is only 4 clicks from there.
Send them right away. Were there any other details in the message?
The dialect is strange to me Captain, but I was able to make out something about...Tuna?
Will the Pinktron rescue squad be able to make it in time?
What will become of Fluffy?
...To be Concluded...
Once the 'Dane-Arm' was installed on the space station, my Space peeps could do a little job for a friend of mine; catching a Ulysses Space Probe.
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A friend of mine who loves the Lego real space stuff was a bit miffed that he as an early buyer missed out on the recent 'gift with purchase' from Lego with the big Space Shuttle set.
My tiny astronauts to the rescue (and Bricklink).
No stopping in uncharted space
No "stop and revive" in this perilous, uncharted space. The Rumour Mill's comfort is a memory, lost to time and trace. The exorbitant demand is a punch right to the gut. Our savings drained, our journey's hope, behind a costly shut.
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The International Space Station (ISS) in a passage past the waxing crescent Moon, Venus (between the ISS and Moon) and Mars (at upper left). Above the Moon and Venus are the stars Castor and Pollux in Gemini. At lower left above the thunderstorm clouds is Procyon in Canis Minor, while at far right in Capella in Auriga. This is overlooking the prairie lake, the Crawling Valley Reservoir in southern Alberta, on May 22, 2023. The ISS is rising out of the west and climbing up the sky. At this time the private Axiom Ax-2 mission from SpaceX was docked with the ISS, so there were 10 astronauts on board.
This is a single base image of a 4-second exposure with the Canon RF 28-70mm lens at f/4.5 and Canon R5 at ISO 100. A layered stack of 40 images taken before and after the base image as part of a time-lapse sequence was blended in to add the ISS satellite trail to show its motion. It is streaked due to the 4-second exposures. The gaps between the streaks are from the one second intervals between exposures.
'Ground control this is station.
Gus just stepped out to inspect the new arrival. He found an unexpected small space bot in one of the elements... Is that an addition from you, or do we have a stowaway?'
'Station this is control.
Tiny Spacebot was a last minute addition to hunt down stray parts if need be... Good luck with the assembly!'
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The Tiny Spacebot came with set 60227 (and something similar was in set 60228, with this head and arms connected to a tiny rover. I think of it as a modular system for robots.
The 'Manned Maneuvring Unit' is a little moc I made.
Nothing better than reading a good book all together!
Introducing the electronic eye (left) of the super computer that controls everything in Benny's space station... :D
The northern summer Milky Way setting over the mountains of Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada, with the Space Station rising at right, then fading into sunset, in a trail from the series of long exposures. This is from the Bison Compound viewpoint looking south and southwest, on September 21, 2019, in frames taken as part of a time-lapse.
This is a stack of 8 images for the ground to smooth noise, one image from the set for the stars to minimize trailing, and a stack of 6 images masked to reveal just the ISS trail. The trail fades to deep red as the ISS travels into the Earth’s shadow as it rose here and experienced sunset at their altitude. A mild Orton glow effect added with Luminar Flex.
Each exposure in the set was 30 seconds at ISO 4000 and f/2 with the Venus Optics 15mm lens and Sony a7III. Part of a 360-frame time-lapse.
This is the scene I created for my LUG's latest Event, "Mattoncini in castello", in Desenzano sul Garda.
I got the idea seeing a photo of one of those girls who can hold six beer mugs at the time, during Oktoberfest in Germany. The most appropriate candidate for that part was the brand new CHEF-A-TRON, properly modified.
Then I built the rest of the scene, in the inside of Benny's space station, with table and benches, and with Benny and his space mates drinking and singing together. And the poor Mr. Robot who tasted and enjoyed beer very much! Unfortunately, his circuits didn't enjoy it as much...
I took the photo during the event, with very poor light, so I'm sorry for the quality. Asap I'll take other photos of the different details that are not so clear here. But you can anyway enjoy the view of the lights and the ceiling.
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iss046e034355 (02/06/16) --- Earth observation taken during a night pass by the Expedition 46 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Astronaut Scott Kelly posted this photo on Instagram with the caption, "Day 318. Over a #Shanghai night. Wishes for a happy #ChineseNewYear! #GoodNight from @iss! #YearInSpace #LunarNewYear #YearoftheMonkey #China #earth #space #spacestation #iss"
Boeing Company technicians at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, prepare to install one of six hatches to the International Space Station module Node 1, later called Unity. Boeing manufactured Node 1 at Marshall from 1994 to 1997. It was launched to orbit on space shuttle Endeavour in 1998.
Image credit: NASA/Boeing
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