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El metro de Londres (en inglés: London Underground) es una red de transporte público ferroviaria eléctrica (un metro o sistema subterráneo) que funciona tanto por encima como por debajo de tierra en toda el área del Gran Londres. Es el sistema de transporte de este tipo más antiguo del mundo. Entró en funcionamiento el 10 de enero de 1863 y sus secciones más antiguas completaron 150 años de haber entrado en operación en 2013.1
Los londinenses suelen referirse a él como the Underground o de una manera más familiar como the Tube, debido a la forma de sus túneles.
Hoy en día existen 274 estaciones abiertas y más de 408 kilómetros de líneas activas, con más de tres millones de pasajeros que usan el metro cada día (948 millones de transportes realizados en el periodo 2003–2004). Es la segunda red de metro del mundo (después de Shanghái) por kilómetros y la primera de la Unión Europea.
Desde 2003, el metro forma parte de la organización Transport for London (TfL), que también administra los autobuses de Londres, incluyendo los famosos autobuses rojos de dos pisos. Anteriormente London Regional Transport era la compañía propietaria del Metro de Londres.
La tabla de abajo describe cada una de las líneas del metro de Londres, usando el color que se emplea para su representación en los mapas. También se da información sobre la fecha de apertura de la primera sección de cada línea y el tipo de túnel por el que circulan los vagones (subsuperficial hace referencia a una profundidad media de 5 metros; profundo amplía esta definición hasta los 20 metros, aunque esta distancia varía considerablemente). Mientras que las líneas de túnel son en su mayor parte auto-contenidas, las líneas de subsuperficie son parte de una red interconectada; cada una comparte vías con al menos dos otras líneas. El ordenamiento de subsuperficie es similar al del Metro de Nueva York, el cual también posee líneas "separadas" fuera de las vías compartidas.
El Metro de Londres posee 11 líneas. Hasta 2007 poseía una duodécima línea, la East London Line, pero ésta fue cerrada por trabajos de conversión para que sea transferida al London Overground cuando reabra en 2010.
El Subterráneo de Londres posee 268 estaciones; seis estaciones adicionales que están en la East London Line que son servidas por buses de reemplazo del Subterráneo, debido a los trabajos para que formen parte del London Overground. Catorce estaciones de Metro están fuera del Gran Londres, de las cuales cinco (Amersham, Chalfont & Latimer, Chesham, Chorleywood, y Epping) están bajo la autopista M25, que rodea a Londres. De los 32 municipios de Londres, seis (Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Kingston upon Thames, Lewisham y Sutton) no pertenecen a la red de Metro, mientras que Hackney sólo tiene las estaciones de Old Street y Manor House en sus límites.
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The London Underground (also known as the Tube or simply the Underground) is a public rapid transit system serving a large part of Greater London and parts of the home counties of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex. The network is considered the oldest rapid transit system, incorporating the world's first underground railway, the Metropolitan Railway, which opened in 1863 and is now part of the Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines; and the first line to operate underground electric traction trains, the City & South London Railway in 1890, now part of the Northern line. The network has expanded to 11 lines, and in 2013/14 carried 1.265 billion passengers, making the Underground the world's 11th busiest metro system.
The system serves 270 stations and has 402 kilometres (250 mi) of track. Within London, the Underground mostly serves parts other than the South: less than 10% of Tube stations lie to the south bank of the River Thames. Despite its name, only 45% of the system is actually 'underground' in tunnels.
The system's first tunnels were built just below the surface using the cut and cover method, and are large enough to take trains of normal size. Later, smaller circular tunnels – which give rise to its nickname the Tube – were dug through the London Clay at a deeper level. The early lines were marketed as the UndergrounD in the early 20th century on maps and signs at central London stations. The private companies that owned and ran the railways were merged in 1933 to form the London Passenger Transport Board. The current operator, London Underground Limited (LUL), is a wholly owned subsidiary of Transport for London (TfL), the statutory corporation responsible for most elements of the transport network in Greater London. The term 'Tube' is nowadays often used both in official publicity and in general usage to embrace the whole Underground system, though it is sometimes only applied to the lines that run in deep-level tunnels, excluding the Circle, Metropolitan, District, and Hammersmith & City lines.
As of 2012, 91% of operational expenditure is covered by passenger fares. The Travelcard ticket was introduced in 1983 and Oyster, a contactless ticketing system, in 2003.
The LPTB was a prominent patron of art and design, commissioning many new station buildings, posters and public artworks in a modernist style. The schematic Tube map, designed by Harry Beck in 1931, was voted a national design icon in 2006 and now includes other lines - the Docklands Light Railway, London Overground and TfL Rail - as well as the non-rail Emirates Air Line. London Underground branding is built around the symbols of the roundel and the Johnston typeface, created by Edward Johnston in 1916. London Underground celebrated 150 years of operations in 2013, with various events marking the milestone.
Saturn is truly the lord of the rings in this latest snapshot from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, taken on July 4, 2020, when the opulent giant world was 839 million miles from Earth. This new Saturn image was taken during summer in the planet's northern hemisphere.
Hubble found a number of small atmospheric storms. These are transient features that appear to come and go with each yearly Hubble observation. The banding in the northern hemisphere remains pronounced as seen in Hubble's 2019 observations, with several bands slightly changing color from year to year. The ringed planet's atmosphere is mostly hydrogen and helium with traces of ammonia, methane, water vapor, and hydrocarbons that give it a yellowish-brown color.
Hubble photographed a slight reddish haze over the northern hemisphere in this color composite. This may be due to heating from increased sunlight, which could either change the atmospheric circulation or perhaps remove ices from aerosols in the atmosphere. Another theory is that the increased sunlight in the summer months is changing the amounts of photochemical haze produced. "It's amazing that even over a few years, we're seeing seasonal changes on Saturn," said lead investigator Amy Simon of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Conversely, the just-now-visible south pole has a blue hue, reflecting changes in Saturn's winter hemisphere.
Hubble's sharp view resolves the finely etched concentric ring structure. The rings are mostly made of pieces of ice, with sizes ranging from tiny grains to giant boulders. Just how and when the rings formed remains one of our solar system's biggest mysteries. Conventional wisdom is that they are as old as the planet, over 4 billion years. But because the rings are so bright – like freshly fallen snow – a competing theory is that they may have formed during the age of the dinosaurs. Many astronomers agree that there is no satisfactory theory that explains how rings could have formed within just the past few hundred million years. "However, NASA's Cassini spacecraft measurements of tiny grains raining into Saturn's atmosphere suggest the rings can only last for 300 million more years, which is one of the arguments for a young age of the ring system," said team member Michael Wong of the University of California, Berkeley.
Two of Saturn's icy moons are clearly visible in this exposure: Mimas at right, and Enceladus at bottom.
This image is taken as part of the Outer Planets Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) project. OPAL is helping scientists understand the atmospheric dynamics and evolution of our solar system's gas giant planets. In Saturn's case, astronomers continue tracking shifting weather patterns and storms.
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 conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy in Washington, D.C.
For a labeled image: hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2020/43/4714-Image
For more information: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/hubble-sees-summertime-...
Credits: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), and the OPAL Team
The Space Launch System’s booster is seen a few hours ahead of the second and final qualification motor (QM-2) test, Tuesday, June 28, 2016, at Orbital ATK Propulsion Systems test facilities in Promontory, Utah. During the Space Launch System flight the boosters will provide more than 75 percent of the thrust needed to escape the gravitational pull of the Earth, the first step on NASA’s Journey to Mars. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
For the 30th anniversary of one of the most iconic images taken by NASA's Voyager mission, this is a new version of the image known as "the Pale Blue Dot."
Planet Earth is visible as a bright speck within the sunbeam just right of center and appears softly blue, as in the original version published in 1990.
This updated version uses modern image-processing software and techniques to revisit the well-known Voyager view while attempting to respect the original data and intent of those who planned the images.
In 1990, the Voyager project planned to shut off the Voyager 1 spacecraft's imaging cameras to conserve power and because the probe, along with its sibling Voyager 2, would not fly close enough to any other objects to take pictures. Before the shutdown, the mission commanded the probe to take a series of 60 images designed to produce what they termed the "Family Portrait of the Solar System." Executed on Valentine's Day 1990, this sequence returned images for making color views of six of the solar system's planets and also imaged the Sun in monochrome.
The popular name of this view is traced to the title of the 1994 book by Voyager imaging scientist Carl Sagan, who originated the idea of using Voyager's cameras to image the distant Earth and played a critical role in enabling the family portrait images to be taken.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S81-30630
Date: February 12, 2020
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft lands at White Sands Missile Range’s Space Harbor, Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in New Mexico. Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) is Starliner’s second uncrewed flight test to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. OFT-2 serves as an end-to-end test of the system's capabilities. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
With the growing success of their VCS line, EP Industries decided to delve into the drone market with their ACS (Automated Combat System) line. The first in the series was the RF-X02A, which uses a heavily modified AI system from a Hornet system. The unit saw moderate success, but it was not until the release of the unit's full-armor set that it came into widespread use. The extra armor not only adds new weapons, but covers most of the system's more integral parts with bio-laminate plates, greatly increasing its effectiveness in battle, at the cost of higher energy consumption.
This is based around Lu Sim's reFrame design. I swear it's coincidence that we both built mass-produced looking frames at the same time :P They even share some ideas and techniques!
I was impressed by the customizability & proportions of the reFrame, although the articulation of the basic design was kinda limited (namely in the arms) so I had to address that in this build. When the base mech was built, I felt like it needed something more, and thus the armor set was born. The armor doesn't really hinder the articulation at all, although it does make the waist joint want to bend all the time. I also tried to combine a more Japanese-esque head with a drone-like one, and I think it turned out okay.
Next up: Droneuary!
(Although I guess this technically counts as a drone, doesn't it?)
NASA image acquired: March 29, 2011
The first image acquired by MESSENGER from orbit around Mercury was actually part of an eight-image sequence, for which images were acquired through eight of the WAC’s eleven filters. Here we see a color version of that first imaged terrain; in this view the images obtained through the filters with central wavelengths of 1000 nm, 750 nm, and 430 nm are displayed in red, green, and blue, respectively. One of MESSENGER’s measurement objectives is to create an eight-color global base map at a resolution of 1 km/pixel (0.6 miles/pixel) to help understand the variations of composition across Mercury’s surface.
On March 17, 2011 (March 18, 2011, UTC), MESSENGER became the first spacecraft ever to orbit the planet Mercury. The mission is currently in its commissioning phase, during which spacecraft and instrument performance are verified through a series of specially designed checkout activities. In the course of the one-year primary mission, the spacecraft's seven scientific instruments and radio science investigation will unravel the history and evolution of the Solar System's innermost planet. Visit the Why Mercury? section of this website to learn more about the science questions that the MESSENGER mission has set out to answer.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
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On Saturday, October 7, more than 1,700 of Rochester Regional Health’s friends and employees gathered at the Joseph A. Floreano Rochester Riverside Convention Center for the system’s signature celebration.
Gornergratbahn AG (GGB, BVZ Holding AG): The Gornergrat rack railway connects Zermatt (1605 m a.s.l.) with the summit of Gornergrat (3089 m a.s.l.), in a route of 9.3 km. Of metric gauge, it is one of the few railways in the world that has a three-phase electrification, at 750 V/50 Hz. It uses the Abt system's rack. The line was put into service in 1898, and is electrified from the beginning. The service is mainly provided with EMUs of two cars, of three different generations.
Here we see train 234 to Gornergrat ready to depart from the Zermatt terminal. It consits of two of the most modern EMUs of this railway, the Bhe 4/6 3093 and 3091. They are part of a series of five built by Stadler Ral in 2022 (Polaris type, series 3091-3095).
This is a train I don't normally get to photograph as it runs Sun-Thu corresponding with my work week and is off the only two days I can usually get out. But this week, thanks to some early morning training I was able to get out after and try for something different. Knowing that the Providence and Worcester Railroad's WOGR/GRWO turns have had a nice matched pair of classic red and brown painted GEs of late I figured they were worth a look.
I made it to the Chair City just as they were pulling into the Pan Am Southern yard along the old Boston and Maine mainline. Having dropped their train and run back to the east end of the yard they have paused for the conductor to grab their EOT off the hind end before heading down another track to pick up a small cut of empty aluminum hoppers which is all they'll return to Worcester with. PW 3903 (B39-8E blt. Apr. 1988 as LMX 8594) and 4005 (B40-8W blt. Feb. 1992 as ATSF 561) will make quick work of the light train down the 26 miles of the former Boston and Maine Gardner Branch.
And as for history of this line, how about a little courtesy of the Holden Historical Society?
In 1869, the Boston, Barre and Gardner Railroad (BB&G) commenced construction of a railroad from Worcester (at Barber), through Holden, to Gardner. This 26-mile line, which cost 1.2 million dollars to build, opened in 1871. It was extended 10 miles to Winchendon in January, 1874 and later that same year the company leased the Monadnock Railroad north another 16 miles to Peterborough, New Hampshire. The BB&G thus attained a total length of 52 miles.
Beset by financial reversals, the Monadnock lease was surrendered to the Cheshire Railroad in 1880. The BB&;G was leased itself to the Fitchburg Railroad in 1884. The following year it was merged into the Fitchburg and became that road's Worcester Division. In 1900 the Fitchburg was leased and soon thereafter merged into the Boston & Maine Railroad (B&M), becoming the B&M's Fitchburg Division. As a part of the B&M system's Fitchburg Division the line through Holden was referred to at different times by various names including the Worcester & Contoocook (N.H.) Branch, the Worcester & Hillsboro (N.H.) Branch, the Peterboro (N.H.) Branch, and finally after the line was severed north o f Gardner, as the Worcester Branch of the Fitchburg Division. At Worcester, the line joined the B&M Portland Division's Worcester Main Line at Barber.
The original 52-mile BB&G line through Holden remained under B&M control for 73 years. In 1974, the line was bought by the Providence and Worcester Railroad (P&W) from the trustees of the bankrupt B&M which was considering the route for abandonment. The last B&M freight left Holden for Worcester in January 1974 and the P&W operated its first train over the line on February 2, 1974.
At various times, passenger stops existed at Chaffins, Dawson, Holden, Jefferson, and at North Woods. Holden and Jefferson were small country depots, while the others were flag stops with small shelters. Only two station structures remain: the Holden depot in its original location and the Jefferson depot which was moved in 1975 to a site next to the Wong Dynasty Chinese Restaurant on Reservoir Street.
In 1878 there were four round trip passenger trains between Worcester and Winchendon. This increased to six round trips at the turn of the century. Under B&M ownership, the old BB&G line became part of a rather unlikely through passenger route from Worcester to Concord, NH. This service ended after the floods of 1936 severed the line north of Peterboro. However, a round trip passenger local from Worcester to Peterboro would survive another 17 years, handling passengers and mail. In its last years, it acquired a certain degree of fame and became known as the Peterboro Local or the Blueberry Special. By the early 1950s the B&M was hemorrhaging financially from passenger train losses and was given permission to discontinue this train. It made its last run, with extra coaches and much fanfare, on March 7, 1953. It had remained a steam train with an ancient wooden combine and one coach almost to the very end, at which time steam power had been taken off and a diesel locomotive substituted.
B&M operated through symbol freights Worcester to Mechanicville, NY (WM-1), and Mechanicville, NY, to Worcester (WM-2), as well as a local freight that switched customers between Worcester and Gardner. The through freights between Worcester and Mechanicville, NY, operated until about 1968. WM-1 would arrive punctually in Holden at 7:30 every evening, switch the small yard, and then depart for Gardner and points west. The eastbound WM-2 passed through in the small hours of the night. The local switcher out of Worcester worked during the day. By the end of B&M control, through service on the line had been discontinued and the Worcester switcher ventured out the line only to service customers as needed.
The line has undergoing a dramatic renaissance since the P&W commenced operations in 1974 and today is a well kept modern 30 mph railroad. In fact it's so well kept that chasing a train along its length is downright challenging!
Gardner, Massachusetts
Wednesday March 16, 2022
Vermont Rail System's Newport to White River Junction train, NPWJ, rolls south along the Connecticut River through Barnet.
Railway Museum on Rizhsky Railway station. Moscow.
Железнодорожный музей на Рижском вокзале. Москва.
The VL10 (ru: ВЛ10) is an electric two-unit mainline DC freight locomotive used in the Soviet Union and is still operated today by the state owned Russian rail company RZhD and Ukrainian Railways. The initials VL are those of Vladimir Lenin (ru: Владимир Ленин), after whom the class is named.
History
The VL10 series was built as a replacement for the ageing VL8 which, by 1960, no longer met Soviet rail requirements. The VL10s were manufactured at the Tblisi Electric Locomotive Works (ТЭВЗ) between 1961–1977, as well as the Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant (НЭВЗ) during 1969 and 1976. It was also there that all the mechanical components for the series were produced. The first prototype of the VL10 series was built in the Tblisi works under the designation Т8-001. It was built in 1961 to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Soviet rule in Georgia.
Power type Electric
Builder Soviet Union
Tblisi Electric Locomotive Works, Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant
Build date 1961–1977
Total produced 2,882
AAR wheel arr. B-B + B-B
UIC classification Bo′Bo′+Bo′Bo′
Gauge 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 5⁄6 in)
Locomotive weight VL10: 184 tonnes
VL10U: 200 tonnes
Electric system(s) 3000 V DC
Current collection
method Pantograph
Traction motors 8×TED TL-2
Top speed 100 km/h (62 mph)
Power output 6,165 hp (4,597 kW)
Locomotive brake Regenerative
Friday, 26 March 2021, just after 11:00 pm. I have just checked the weather forecast, out of curiosity. Wish I hadn't! So thankful that all the scaffolding around my building will not be installed till 5 April. Of course, the forecast could always change by Monday.
"Some very rosy spring-like warmth this weekend will vanish quite thoroughly by Monday. In its place will be the effects of an incoming system which looks to bring a wide swath of snow, heaviest in the mountains and foothills of Alberta, and northern and eastern Saskatchewan. Much more impactful will be the system's strong winds, gusting 80-90 km/h for most of Monday across the two provinces. Blowing snow is a guarantee."
All five photos were taken on 4 July 2015, at the Olds College Botanic Gardens and Wetlands. I am adding the description that I wrote under a previously posted image taken on the same trip. It was an interesting and enjoyable outing, including seeing the barn and a cluster of mushrooms.
"Yesterday, 4 July 2015, was the Nature Calgary annual bus trip, and this year it was a visit to the Olds College Botanic Gardens and Wetlands. The College is approximately 95.0 km north of Calgary, roughly a 55 minute drive. This once-a-year outing always feels so good for everyone - no driving, simply relaxing on a bus. We had about three hours there, which sounded short, but in fact worked out quite well.
The mission of the College is:
"Our goal is to develop a Botanic Garden on the Olds College campus, which introduces, conserves, and maintains a diverse, well-documented and accurately labeled collection of prairie hardy plants.
Our collections will preserve our natural heritage, expand the role of Olds College as a Centre of Excellence in Horticulture, and gain formal recognition with the Canadian Botanical Conservation Network (CBCN) and the American Public Garden Association (APGA).
Olds College Botanic Garden will enhance and support education, training, demonstration, and applied research programs that span the generations and encourage the exchange of information and ideas with industry, students, other botanical gardens and the public.
The Botanical Garden will also raise awareness with the public regarding the importance of sustainable environments."
About the College:
"Not just a walk down the garden path, the gardens are designed to meet the instructional needs of courses and programs on campus, and are used as the location and subject matter for research projects. The Botanic Gardens are an aesthetically beautiful, diverse and well-maintained garden and constructed wetlands. Highlights include our collections of hardy peonies, lilies and roses, natural areas, a wide variety of aquatics, herb garden, fabulous annual displays each year and much more.
The Gardens are comprised of three phases spread over 25 acres and are populated with a wide ranging collection of prairie hardy plant material, both native and ornamental. The most established parts of the garden are the Central Portion opened in 2002.
The third and most recent phase of our Botanic Gardens is the East Portion which contains the Treatment Wetlands, opened in early September of 2013.
The three phases when considered together include naturalized landscapes, specialty gardens, walking trails, demonstration plots, an arboretum and 20 constructed treatment wetlands and display ponds. The area is complete with two public gazebos, an amphitheater and event areas. The Botanic Gardens & Treatment Wetlands has the ability to host weddings, reunions, graduations, workshops, and boasts 1.3 kilometers of trails throughout the gardens and wetlands.
Botanic gardens are quite different from other public garden spaces or show gardens. To be able to be identified as a botanic garden, several criteria must be met. For example, botanic gardens must:
Be open to the public
1. Exhibit a degree of permanence
2. Use a scientific basis as the foundation for their collections
3. Document and monitor the collection
4. Communicate information to other gardens, institutions and the public
The Botanic Gardens and Treatment Wetlands at Olds College is dedicated to meeting all criteria and continuing to expand its value to the college and extended community."
i said a hip hop a hippie to the hippie
to the hip hip hop, you dont stop
a rockin to the bang bang boogy say upchuck the boogy,
to the rhythm of the boogity beat.
now what you hear is not a test--i'm rappin to the beat
and me, the groove, and my friends are gonna try to move your feet
see i am wonder mike and i like to say hello
to the black, to the white, the red, and the brown, the purple and yellow
but first i gotta bang bang the boogie to the boogie
say up jump the boogie to the bang bang boogie
let's rock, you dont stop
rock the riddle that will make your body rock
well so far youve heard my voice but i brought two friends along
and next on the mike is my man hank
come on, hank, sing that song
check it out, i'm the c-a-s-an-the-o-v-a
and the rest is f-l-y
ya see i go by the code of the doctor of the mix
and these reasons i'll tell ya why
ya see i'm six foot one and i'm tons of fun
and i dress to a t
ya see i got more clothes than muhammad ali and i dress so viciously
i got bodyguards, i got two big cars
that definitely aint the wack
i got a lincoln continental and a sunroof cadillac
so after school, i take a dip in the pool
which really is on the wall
i got a color tv so i can see
the knicks play basketball
hear me talkin bout checkbooks, credit cards
more money than a sucker could ever spend
but i wouldnt give a sucker or a bum from the rucker
not a dime til i made it again
ya go hotel motel whatcha gonna do today (say what)
ya say im gonna get a fly girl gonna get some spankin
drive off in a def oj
everybody go, hotel motel holiday inn
say if your girl starts actin up, then you take her friend
master gee, am I mellow
its on you so what you gonna do
well it's on n on n on on n on
the beat dont stop until the break of dawn
i said m-a-s, t-e-r, a g with a double e
i said i go by the unforgettable name
of the man they call the master gee
well, my name is known all over the world
by all the foxy ladies and the pretty girls
i'm goin down in history
as the baddest rapper there could ever be
now i'm feelin the highs and ya feelin the lows
the beat starts gettin into your toes
ya start poppin ya fingers and stompin your feet
and movin your body while youre sittin in your seat
and the damn ya start doin the freak
i said damn, right outta your seat
then ya throw your hands high in the air
ya rockin to the rhythm, shake your derriere
ya rockin to the beat without a care
with the sureshot m.c.s for the affair
now, im not as tall as the rest of the gang
but i rap to the beat just the same
i dot a little face and a pair of brown eyes
all im here to do ladies is hypnotize
singin on n n on n on n on
the beat dont stop until the break of dawn
singin on n n on n on on n on
like a hot buttered a pop da pop da pop dibbie dibbie
pop da pop pop ya dont dare stop
come alive yall gimme what ya got
i guess by now you can take a hunch
and find that i am the baby of the bunch
'but that's okay i still keep in stride
cause all i'm here to do is just wiggle your behind
singin on n n on n on n on
the beat dont stop until the break of dawn
singin on n n on n on on n on
rock rock yall throw it on the floor
im gonna freak ya here im gonna feak ya there
im gonna move you outta this atmosphere
cause im one of a kind and ill shock your mind
ill put t-t-tickets in your behind
i said 1-2-3-4, come on girls get on the floor
a-come alive, yall a-gimme what ya got
cause im guaranteed to make you rock
i said 1-2-3-4 tell me wonder mike what are you waitin for?
i said a hip hop the hippie to the hippie
the hip hip hop, a you dont stop
the rock it to the bang bang boogie say up jumped the boogie
to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat
skiddlee beebop a we rock a scoobie doo
and guess what america we love you
cause ya rock and ya roll with so much soul
you could rock till you're a hundred and one years old
i dont mean to brag i dont mean to boast
but we like hot butter on our breakfast toast
rock it up baby bubbah
baby bubbah to the boogie da bang bang da boogie
to the beat beat, its so unique
come on everybody and dance to the beat
i said a hip hop the hippie the hippie
to the hip hip hop, a you dont stop
a rock on, pretty bubba to the boogity bang, bang,
the boogie to the boogity beat.
i said i cant wait til the end of the week
when im rappin to the rhythm of a groovy beat
and attempt to raise your body heat
just blow your mind so that you cant speak
and do a thing but a rock and shuffle your feet
and let it change up to a dance called the freak
and when ya finally do come in to your rhythmic beat
rest a little while so ya dont get weak
i know a man named hank
he has more rhymes than a serious bank
so come on hank sing that song
to the rhythm of the boogie da bang bang da bong
well, im imp the dimp the ladies pimp
the women fight for my delight
but im the grandmaster with the three mcs
that shock the house for the young ladies
and when you come inside, into the front
you do the freak, spank, and do the bump
and when the sucker mcs try to prove a point
we're treacherous trio, we're the serious joint
a from sun to sun and from day to day
i sit down and write a brand new rhyme
because they say that miracles never cease
i've created a devastating masterpiece
i'm gonna rock the mike til you cant resist
everybody, i say it goes like this
well i was comin home late one dark afternoon
a reporter stopped me for a interview
she said she's heard stories and she's heard fables
that i'm vicious on the mike and the turntables
this young reporter i did adore
so i rocked a vicious rhyme like i never did before
she said damn fly guy im in love with you
the casanova legend must have been true
i said by the way baby what's your name
said i go by the name of lois lane
and you could be my boyfiend you surely can
just let me quit my boyfriend called superman
i said he's a fairy i do suppoose
flyin through the air in pantyhose
he may be very sexy or even cute
but he looks like a sucker in a blue and red suit
i said you need a man who's got finesse
and his whole name across his chest
he may be able to fly all through the night
but can he rock a party til the early light
he cant satisfy you with his little worm
but i can bust you out with my super sperm
i go do it, i go do it, i go do it, do it , do it
an i'm here an i'm there i'm big bang hank, im everywhere
just throw your hands up in the air
and party hardy like you just dont care
let's do it dont stop yall a tick a tock yall you dont stop
go hotel motel what you gonna do today(say what)
im gonna get a fly girl gonna get some spank drive off in a def oj
everybody go hotel motel holiday inn
you say if your girl starts actin up then you take her friend
i say skip, dive, what can i say
i cant fit em all inside my oj
so i just take half and bust them out
i give the rest to master gee so he could shock the house
it was twelve o'clock one friday night
i was rockin to the beat and feelin all right
everybody was dancin on the floor
doin all the things they never did before
and then this fly fly girl with a sexy lean
she came into the bar, she came into the scene
as she traveled deeper inside the room
all the fellas checked out her white sasoons
she came up to the table, looked into my eyes
then she turned around and shook her behind
so i said to myself, its time for me to release
my vicious rhyme i call my masterpiece
and now people in the house this is just for you
a little rap to make you boogaloo
now the group ya hear is called phase two
and let me tell ya somethin we're a helluva crew
once a week we're on the street
just a-cuttin' the jams and making it free
for you to party ya got to have the movies
so we'll get right down and give you the groove
for you to dance you gotta get hype
so we'll get right down for you tonight
now the system's on and the girls are there
ya definitely have a rockin affair
but let me tell ya somethin there's still one fact
that to have a party ya got to have a rap
so when the party's over you're makin it home
and tryin to sleep before the break of dawn
and while ya sleepin ya start to dream
and thinkin how ya danced on the disco scene
my name appears in your mind
yeah, a name you know that was right on time
it was phase two just a doin a do
rockin ya down cause ya know we could
to the rhythm of the beat that makes ya freak
come alive girls get on your feet
to the rhythm of the beat to the beat the beat
to the double beat beat that it makes ya freak
to the rhythm of the beat that says ya go on
on n on into the break of dawn
now i got a man comin on right now
he's guaranteed to throw down
he goes by the name of wonder mike
come on wonder mike do what ya like
like a can of beer that's sweeter than honey
like a millionaire that has no money
like a rainy day that is not wet
like a gamblin fiend that does not bet
like dracula with out his fangs
like the boogie to the boogie without the boogie bang
like collard greens that dont taste good
like a tree that's not made out of wood
like goin up and not comin down
is just like the beat without the sound no sound
to the beat beat, ya do the freak
everybody just rock and dance to the beat
have you ever went over a friends house to eat
and the food just aint no good
i mean the macaroni's soggy the peas are mushed
and the chicken tastes like wood
so you try to play it off like you think you can
by sayin that youre full
and then your friend says momma he's just being polite
he aint finished uh uh that's bull
so your heart starts pumpin and you think of a lie
and you say that you already ate
and your friend says man there's plenty of food
so you pile some more on your plate
while the stinky foods steamin your mind s
tarts to dreamin
of the moment that it's time to leave
and then you look at your plate and your chickens slowly rottin
into something that looks like cheese
oh so you say that's it i got to leave this place
i dont care what these people think
im just sittin here makin myself nauseous
with this ugly food that stinks
so you bust out the door while its still closed
still sick from the food you ate
and then you run to the store for quick relief
from a bottle of kaopectate
and then you call your friend two weeks later
to see how he has been
and he says i understand about the food
baby bubbah but we're still friends
with a hip hop the hippie to the hippie
the hip hip a hop a you dont stop the rockin
to the bang bang boogie
say up jump the boogie to the rhythm of the boogie the beat
i say hank can ya rock
can ya rock to the rhythm that just dont stop
can ya hip me to the shoobie doo
i said come on make the make the people move
i go to the halls and then ring the bell
because i am the man with the clientele
and if ya ask me why i rock so well
a big bang, i got clientele
and from the time i was only six years old
i never forgot what i was told
it was the best advice that i ever had
it came from my wise dear old dad
he said sit down punk i wanna talk to you
and dont say a word until i'm through
now there's a time to laugh a time to cry
a time to live and a time to die
a time to break and a time to chill
to act civilized or act real ill
but whatever ya do in your lifetime
ya never let a mc steal your rhyme
so from sixty six til this very day
ill always remember what he had to say
so when the sucker mcs try to chump my style
i let them know that i'm versatile
i got style finesse and a little black book
that's filled with rhymes and i know you wanna look
but there's a thing that separates you from me
and that's called originality
because my rhymes are on from what you heard
i didnt even bite and not a god d--m word
and i say a little more later on tonight
so the sucker mc's can bite all night
a tick a tock yall a beat beat yall
a lets rock yall ya dont stop
ya go hotel motel whatcha gonna do today (say what)
ya say im gonna get a fly girl gonna get some spankin
drive off in a def oj
everybody go hotel motel holiday inn
ya say if your girl starts actin up then you take her friends
a like that yall to the beat yall
beat beat yall ya dont stop
a master gee am I mellow?
its on you so whatcha gonna do
well like johnny carson on the late show
a like frankie croker in stereo
well like the barkay's singin holy ghost
the sounds to throw down they're played the most
its like my man captain sky
whose name he earned with his super sperm
we rock and we dont stop
get off yall im here to give you whatcha got
to the beat that it makes you freak
and come alive girl get on your feet
a like a perry mason without a case
like farrah fawcett without her face
like the barkays on the mike
like gettin right down for you tonight
like movin your body so ya dont know how
right to the rhythm and throw down
like comin alive to the master gee
the brother who rocks so viciously
i said the age of one my life begun
at the age of two i was doin the do
at the age of three it was you and me
rockin to the sounds of the master gee
at the age of four i was on the floor
givin all the freaks what they bargained for
at the age of five i didnt take no jive
with the master gee its all the way live
at the age of six i was a pickin up sticks
rappin to the beat my stick was fixed
at the age of seven i was rockin in heaven dontcha know i went off
i got right on down to the beat you see
gettin right on down makin all the girls
just take of their clothes to the beat the beat
to the double beat beat that makes you freak
at the age of eight i was really great
cause every night you see i had a date
at the age of nine i was right on time
cause every night i had a party rhyme
goin on n n on n on on n on
the beat dont stop until the break of dawn
a sayin on n n on n on on n on...
like a hot buttered de pop de pop de pop
a saying on n n on n on on n on
cause i'm a helluva man when i'm on the mike
i am the definate feast delight
cause i'm a helluva man when i'm on the mike
i am the definate feast delight
come to the master gee you see
the brother who rocks so viciously
rapper's delight - sugarhill gang
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft launches from Space Launch Complex 41, Thursday, May 19, 2022, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) is Starliner’s second uncrewed flight test and will dock to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. OFT-2 launched at 6:54 p.m. ET, and will serve as an end-to-end test of the system's capabilities. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
The AAPRCO's Autumn Explorer is eastbound on Vermont Rail System's Clarendon and Pittsford Railroad mainline at MP A85.95. The A prefix is the mileage as measured from Albany, NY the headquarters city of this line's historic owner, the Delaware and Hudson Railroad. The trackage through here was built by a D&H predecessor in 1850 and the old brick depot was built by the D&H around 1890. Passenger service ended in 1936 and the derelict and nearly abandoned branch to Whitehall was sold to the Vermont Railway in 1983 and operated as the Clarendon and Pittsford (itself a small historic marble hauling road acquired by the VTR in 1972). Astonishingly after a six decade hiatus daily passenger service returned to these rails in the form of the state of Vermont sponsored Amtrak Ethan Allen Express from Albany. It's thanks to this service and the availability of Amtrak qualified crews and pre existing trackage rights that the AAPRCO charter was able to operate from Albany to Rutland with ease. The long abandoned and vacant station is allegedly owned by the railroad and has an uncertain fate.
The train left Albany-Rensselaer in the morning behind two Amtrak P42s as extra train 863 and traveled up CP's ex D&H Canadian main. At Whitehall they diverged on to CLP mainline. Ahead in Rutland the Amtrak power will be exchanged for red GP40-2 307 that will take the train south all the way to Hoosick Junction before returning to North Bennington to spend the night. The following day the train will travel north to Burlington where it will spend a few days.
The eight PVs on this year's trip listed in order are the: NYC 3, Promontory Point, Northern Sky, Northern Dreams, Dagny Taggart, San Marino, Wisconsin, and Chapel Hill.
Fair Haven, Vermont
Sunday September 27, 2020
“SPACE PROCESSING”
And there’s the following:
Thanks to the amazing work by G at his “Numbers Station” blog:
e05.code.blog/2021/07/19/construction-in-space/
ALONG with his conscientious & considerate linkage to the source, at:
archive.org/details/nasa-spinoff-1982/page/n14/mode/1up
Credit: user ‘chris85’/Internet Archive website
…contained within “NASA Spinoff 1982”, under the “Space Construction” section, on page 15, the following description pertaining to the image:
“The mobile work station is one example of a number of study and technology development projects aimed at exploiting the Space Transportation System’s capability for construction work. In one approach, structural components would be pre-assembled on Earth, collapsed into compact packages for Shuttle delivery, then expanded to original form in orbit. For erection of habitable structures, a technique being studied involves Shuttle delivery of fully-equipped modules which would be docked together to form a space station. A third approach involves in-space fabrication and joining of lightweight beams. The artist’s conception below depicts a space facility assembled by these techniques.”
10.25” x 13.5”, most likely on “THIS PAPER MANUFACTURED BY KODAK” photographic paper.
The photograph looks to have possibly been framed at one time. The covering on the verso has the look & feel of the peelable backing of vintage decals. I didn't check to see if it could be peeled off though.
Unfortunately, no signature is visible. The unfinished/brushstroke periphery look was sometimes used by Jack Olson. Although the clouds look like maybe Ted Brown, Henry Lozano, even M. Alvarez or Donald Bester? Whoever it is, it’s beautifully rendered.
A USAF HC-130J Hercules aircraft from the 79th rescue squadron flys over the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft as a Line of Sight (LOS) communications test is conducted between the two shortly after Starliner landed at White Sands Missile Range’s Space Harbor, Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in New Mexico. Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) is Starliner’s second uncrewed flight test to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. OFT-2 serves as an end-to-end test of the system's capabilities. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
This westbound Minnesota Metro Transit train is passing underneath the Minnesota Commercial's tracks in Minneapolis, MN, just west of Prior Ave. on the system's "Green Line," which runs down University Ave.
Rochdale Town Centre is a tram stop and the terminus on the Oldham and Rochdale Line (ORL) of Greater Manchester's light-rail Metrolink system. It was constructed as part of Phase 3b of the system's expansion, and is located on Smith Street, adjacent to Rochdale Interchange and Number One Riverside, in central Rochdale, England. It opened on 31 March 2014.
Boeing and NASA teams work around Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft after it landed at White Sands Missile Range’s Space Harbor, Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in New Mexico. Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) is Starliner’s second uncrewed flight test to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. OFT-2 serves as an end-to-end test of the system's capabilities. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Stylish! Innovative! Powerful! The new Ford Galaxia 500XL is all of those and more! From its powerful 430 cubic inch electro-combustive V-8 to the all-new invisible ray-shield "hard top", the Galaxia 500XL introduces a new era of open-feel motoring. Its quad-sensor driving cameras provide excellent wide-range visibility even in the lowest of light conditions and the front windscreen comes in a number of shades to be color-matched to your cars exterior paint. Hop into a Galaxia 500XL at your local system's Ford dealership and drive away in style.
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Hello everyone! For taking such a long absence, I seem to be back on a roll with these "cars of tomorrow". Hope you guys like this one, its a relatively simple build with a hidden (possibly illegal?) SNOT technique, can you figure out where and what I've done? As always, comments and constructive criticisms are always welcome, and thanks for looking!
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard launches from Space Launch Complex 41, Thursday, May 19, 2022, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) is Starliner’s second uncrewed flight test and will dock to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. OFT-2 launched at 6:54 p.m. ET, and will serve as an end-to-end test of the system's capabilities. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
Old barracks on Tern Island in the French Frigate Shoals, Hawaii.
Camera: Olympus OM-1
Lens: Olympus OM-System S Zuiko MC Auto-Zoom f/4 35-70mm. Yellow.
Film: Ferrania P30
Developer: Rodinal 1:50
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft onboard is seen as it is rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of the Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission, Thursday, July 29, 2021 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 will be Starliner’s second uncrewed flight test and will dock to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The mission will serve as an end-to-end test of the system's capabilities. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft lands at White Sands Missile Range’s Space Harbor, Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in New Mexico. Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) is Starliner’s second uncrewed flight test to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. OFT-2 serves as an end-to-end test of the system's capabilities. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
The library in the hamlet of Naselle is the most substantial and attractive building in town.
"Library service in Naselle started on April 21, 1986 in a stationary bookmobile near Lion's Park. The Naselle Library was originally opened as an experimental 'mini-library' to serve patrons formerly served by the bookmobile. A new library was built and opened in November 1991."
It has the hallmarks of the short-lived postmodern style, which looks better here than in its usual application as a garnish on strip malls.
About Timberland Regional Library
Timberland Regional Library (TRL) is a public library system that provides library services to the residents of five counties in Southwest Washington State: Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, and Thurston Counties. Under Washington State law, TRL is an Intercounty Rural Library District and is funded by property taxes and revenue from timber sales in the 5-county area.
In the 1960's the Washington State Library Commission initiated a demonstration project to improve library services in Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, and Thurston counties in response to requests from the counties' residents.
Through this cooperative effort, library services were consolidated to create a more efficient and economical regional operation, to increase the size of the library collections and to provide service for the first time in several rural communities.
Citizens voted in November 1968 to unite the five counties into one library district, the Timberland Regional Library (TRL). TRL services began in 21 libraries with Becky Morrison serving as the first Executive Director.
Since 1968, TRL has provided information, reading, and lifelong learning services at 28 libraries offering over 1 million items to more than half a million people. The library system is funded mainly by local property taxes with additional income from timber sales taxes.
Not only were community libraries added when opportunities and dollars permitted, TRL has introduced state-of-the-art electronic services in order to provide residents with the best available library service; to provide access to all, regardless of physical limitations or geographic location; and to increase the potential of success for everyone in the system’s five counties. All Timberland library programs are free and open to the public. Anyone needing special accommodations to participate in a library program may contact the library one week in advance.
A backdoor is a means to access a computer system or encrypted data that bypasses the system's customary security mechanisms.
A developer may create a backdoor so that an application or operating system can be accessed for troubleshooting or other purposes. However, attackers often use backdoors that they detect or install themselves as part of an exploit. In some cases, a worm or virus is designed to take advantage of a backdoor created by an earlier attack.
Whether installed as an administrative tool, a means of attack or as a mechanism allowing the government to access encrypted data, a backdoor is a security risk because there are always threat actors looking for any vulnerability to exploit.
There have been a number of high-profile backdoor attacks that have occurred over the last few decades. One of the most noteworthy was Back Orifice, created in 1999 by a hacker group that called themselves Cult of the Dead Cow. Back Orifice enabled remote control of Windows computers thanks to operating system vulnerabilities.
Western intelligence agencies have known for quite awhile that the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia (SRY) and Union of Songun Republics (USR) were in the process of developing a series of joint missile programs after snippets of the M-525PL Rod/WS525 Long Dong ASM TELAR's program documents began to surface following a managerial purge of the TELAR's associated design bureaus. Although a string of at least six separate programs was listed, it was unclear which were mere paper gimmicks and which had a shot of coming into actual fruition. Indeed many within the US Department of Defense (DOD) and its allied counterparts believed that the programs were fabrications meant to inflate the image of both the USR's and SRY's respective missile defense forces.
That dismissive perception was quickly flipped on its head, however, when images of an excess of Yugoslav troops protecting assets in USR port facilities were taken. American and Korean intelligence assets followed the Yugoslav forces as they moved farther inland and it was revealed that they were in fact protecting a convoy of cargo containers. Although these containers seemed innocuous on the surface--albeit still rather enigmatic--it was divulged that they in fact had a nefarious secret: They were collectively a camouflaged missile system.
Although the system's exact capabilities are a highly contentious subject among the intelligence and defense communities in the West and elsewhere, it is believed that its general nature is that of a typical vertical launch system insofar that its tubes are capable of carrying a range of munitions to cater to different mission statements. One container could carry long-range SAMs, another could have land-attack cruise missiles (LACMs), and yet another could carry SRBMs whilst all being served by the same universal radar and command post. This clandestine force-multiplication means that a relatively small attacking Yugo-Songun party could enter a state and have tremendous firepower at its fingertips thanks to the universality of standardized shipping containers. Indeed the more states engage in globalized trade, the more they could be undoing their own national security given every highway, shipping lane, port, or railway could be converted into a weapon. If commercial goods can be hauled down a route, then the chances of said route being used as an offensive avenue are equally as high.
Such a notion has instigated a flurry of panic in the international community. The American reverence for free and open trading policies across the globe has morphed into a nightmarish and lingering betrayal. Hence, the United States has continued to push for international legislation that would limit the proliferation and mere existence of what is known as the YSA-37 (or CSA-31 if discussing the Songun model) Gavel. Over the course of seven years, the US has managed to gain piecemeal victories towards those objectives, but nothing overwhelming useful has been done to annihilate the threat imposed by the YSA-37. For example, the US managed to garner support for an international treaty condemning the development and production of systems along the same lines as the Gavel (a rare instance given the US likes to keep all options available; see the Ottawa Treaty as an example); however, the US failed to get a UN condemnation of the system after the USR used its weight as a permanent Security Council member to negate such a motion. Indeed this stalemate is likely to continue as the USR is able to use the CSA-31 as a trump card to negotiate more favorable terms in other treaties and the SRY can use it to reduce NATO's impositions in Eastern Europe.
Furthermore, given neither Yugoslavia nor the Songun Republics have standardized their references to the system (i.e. there is no Yugoslav or Songun military designation for the unit), there are no clear figures as to how many units actually exist. This lack of standardization was likely done on purpose to--and here an earlier phrase may be borrowed--inflate the image of both the USR's and SRY's respective missile defense forces. Regardless of the prescribed reason for keeping the units unmarked, the immediate result is that states are unable to impose sanctions or other similar acts against either the USR or SRY since it is unclear if they actual possess the capability to infringe upon the security and integrity of other countries. For all the world knows, the Yugoslav unit photographed in the USR was a mock-up or is in fact the one and only battery to exist. This is unlikely, but that's the legalist argument used to deny other states the moral high ground in restricting the USR and SRY access to certain components of the international community (e.g. unmolested trade). Because of this ambiguity and the systems capacity to be nigh ubiquitous, the DOD lists the Gavel as the greatest conventional threat to American national security and interests abroad. This classification is likely to persist well into the future.
Credit for the dank forklift and pallets goes to the homie, Devid. Such a swanky set of designs.
One of the darker and more diabolical VCS units fielded during the First Greco-Roman War, the GRF HADES, was infamous due to its tendency to kill its pilots after they leave the life support systems of the cockpit. This was due to the immense amount of strain the unit put on the pilot due to its trans-dimensional travel. The GRF were desperate when they built the HADES, and did not bother to fix this major flaw. They did not even tell the pilots that their first mission in a HADES would be their last. Little did they know that the ghosts of the past would someday catch up to them.
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The 7th HADES unit fielded was piloted by an ace named Ambrosio Callis. After his first mission, before he exited the cockpit of his unit, a kind-hearted technician decided to let him know what would happen if he left the system's life support. Enraged that the GRF had coerced him into piloting such a machine, Ambrosio broke out of the hangar and quickly dimension-hopped away. He resolved never to leave the cockpit of his HADES until he had exacted sufficient revenge on the GRF.
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Over the years, Ambrosio (now known simply as "Unit 7") upgraded and enhanced his HADES, until he was permanently connected to the massive, immensely powerful killing machine. Unit 7 still has the ability to dimension hop, although its reactor has been improved so now it does not need to give off excess energy. However, if it becomes enraged, it will still seep energy from its head and chest. After the appearance of the Neo-GRF, Unit 7 became much more active, wiping out entire squads of NGRF units, and occasionally picking fights with the URE as well.
This bad boy's been a long time coming. I was rereading the description for Omar's HADES unit he built a while back for my universe, and had the idea of a heavily modified HADES with an insane pilot who would not leave the cockpit. My primary inspiration was the Graze Ein (minor spoilers for Gundam IBO), with a bit of the Berserk Eva 01 and Exia Repair mixed in. I basically wanted to take the aesthetics of the HADES and make it into a much larger, more menacing design.
Features an opening cockpit hatch, although you can't remove the pilot as he is attached directly to the mech and has no legs :P
On the afternoon of March 2nd 2002, the system's oldest SY 0271 passed the washery & stabling point with 18 loaded coal wagons (the third & fourth look very well loaded) from one of the deep mines to the CNR interchange.
Evade Tactical System's first release into the fields of warfare, the MGR-47 was a marksman's gauss rifle initially prototyped in 2035 and officially released in early 2036. this weapon was designed to fire accurately over extremely long ranges not reachable by conventional bullet weapons, while still remaining just as high quality.
credits:
cross - inspiration from his khellian "sand devil"
elliot - flash hider concept
option - help with the company name
cami - darkening
On Endeavour's middeck, the three STS-59 red shift crew members begin to organize what was believed to be among the longest mail messages to that point in Shuttle history. Astronaut Sidney M. Gutierrez, mission commander, is in the right foreground. Also seen are astronauts Linda M. Godwin, payload commander, and Kevin P. Chilton, pilot. Though early Shuttle flights could brag of longer teleprinted messages, this Thermal Imaging Printing System's (TIPS) message from the ground competes with those of recent Shuttle flights.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: sts059-05-007
Date: April 9, 1994
The Zagreus...
After winning the grand prix rally at the outer orbit, Vield's homeworld Bensin was attacked by the Deepness. He must fly back to save his little brother, unfortunately the only ship that he can take is the one that he can't control, because of its A.I. system's upgraded prejudice program.
Throughout NASA’s 43-acre rocket factory, the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, engineers are building all five parts of the Space Launch System’s core stage. For the first SLS flight for deep space exploration with NASA’s Orion spacecraft, major structural manufacturing is complete on three parts: the forward skirt, the intertank and the engine section. Test articles, which are structurally similar to flight hardware, and are used to qualify the core stage for flight, are in various stages of production and testing.
“One of the most challenging parts of building the world’s most powerful rocket has been making the largest rocket stage ever manufactured for the first time,” said Steve Doering, the SLS stages manager at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. “The 212-foot-tall core stage is a new design made with innovative welding tools and techniques.”
To build the rocket's fuel tanks, Boeing, the prime contractor for the SLS core stage, is joining some of the thickest parts ever built with self-reacting friction stir welding. NASA and Boeing engineers and materials scientists have scrutinized the weld confidence articles and developed new weld parameters for making the liquid oxygen and hydrogen tanks for the first SLS mission.
Image Credit: NASA/MSFC Michoud image: Judy Guidry
This section of river is referred to as the "middle Elwha," as it's between the two dams on the river. The dams were removed in 2011/2012. Before the dams were constructed eighty years ago, this short river had one of the largest salmon runs in the PNW. Hopefully this will be restored in the coming years.
A wider crop of this image was used on the cover of the US National Park system's annual report publication in 2012 -- with the graphic design and the NPS logo, it really popped.
Remains of a Kubota backhoe on Tern Island in the French Frigate Shoals, Hawaii.
Camera: Olympus OM-1
Lens: Olympus OM-System S Zuiko MC Auto-Zoom f/4 35-70mm. Yellow filter.
Film: Adox HR-50
Developer: Beerenol (Rainier Beer)
T-Centralen (Swedish for "The T-Central"; T being an abbreviation for "tunnelbana", the Swedish word for "underground" or "subway") is a metro station that forms the heart of the Stockholm metro system, in the sense that it is the only station where all three of the system's lines meet.
Since T-Centralen is the busiest stop with passengers connecting on multiple levels to catch various subway lines, the blue vines and flower motifs running along the walls on the Blue line side of the station were designed by Per Olof Ultvedt in 1975 to offer a few moments of soothing calm as passengers wait for and transfer to different trains.
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The AAPRCO's Autumn Explorer is southbound on Vermont Railway's B&R Sub rolling thru the Otter Creek Valley as seen looking down from US Route 7 above MP 44.3 on VRS' former Rutland mainline that once extended all the way to Chatham, NY.
The train left Albany-Rensselaer in the morning behind two Amtrak P42s and traveled up CP's ex D&H Canadian main. At Whitehall they diverges on to Vermont Rail System's CLP mainline, also former D&H for the trip to Rutland, VT. There the Amtrak power was exchanged for red GP40-2 307 that will take the train south all the way to Hoosick Junction before returning to North Bennington to spend the night, then the train will travel north to Burlington where it will spend a few days.
The eight PVs on this year's trip listed in order are the: NYC 3, Promontory Point, Northern Sky, Northern Dreams, Dagny Taggart, San Marino, Wisconsin, and Chapel Hill.
Wallingford, Vermont
Sunday September 27, 2020
Cable car No. 16 was built in Muni's shops and dedicated on April 10, 1990. The blue and yellow paint job is a nod to the transit system's colors from 1939 to 1947.
Part of the roof from the previous No. 16 (which was known as No. 516 until 1973) was built into the present car. That original was built by Carter Bros. in 1893-1894.
Corner of Jackson Street and Hyde Street, San Francisco
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In this modeled image of ISON, the coma has been subtracted, leaving behind the nucleus.
Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI) and Jian-Yang Li (Planetary Science Institute)
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More details on Comet ISON:
Comet ISON began its trip from the Oort cloud region of our solar system and is now travelling toward the sun. The comet will reach its closest approach to the sun on Thanksgiving Day -- 28 Nov 2013 -- skimming just 730,000 miles above the sun's surface. If it comes around the sun without breaking up, the comet will be visible in the Northern Hemisphere with the naked eye, and from what we see now, ISON is predicted to be a particularly bright and beautiful comet.
Catalogued as C/2012 S1, Comet ISON was first spotted 585 million miles away in September 2012. This is ISON's very first trip around the sun, which means it is still made of pristine matter from the earliest days of the solar system’s formation, its top layers never having been lost by a trip near the sun. Comet ISON is, like all comets, a dirty snowball made up of dust and frozen gases like water, ammonia, methane and carbon dioxide -- some of the fundamental building blocks that scientists believe led to the formation of the planets 4.5 billion years ago.
NASA has been using a vast fleet of spacecraft, instruments, and space- and Earth-based telescope, in order to learn more about this time capsule from when the solar system first formed.
The journey along the way for such a sun-grazing comet can be dangerous. A giant ejection of solar material from the sun could rip its tail off. Before it reaches Mars -- at some 230 million miles away from the sun -- the radiation of the sun begins to boil its water, the first step toward breaking apart. And, if it survives all this, the intense radiation and pressure as it flies near the surface of the sun could destroy it altogether.
This collection of images show ISON throughout that journey, as scientists watched to see whether the comet would break up or remain intact.
The comet reaches its closest approach to the sun on Thanksgiving Day -- Nov. 28, 2013 -- skimming just 730,000 miles above the sun’s surface. If it comes around the sun without breaking up, the comet will be visible in the Northern Hemisphere with the naked eye, and from what we see now, ISON is predicted to be a particularly bright and beautiful comet.
ISON stands for International Scientific Optical Network, a group of observatories in ten countries who have organized to detect, monitor, and track objects in space. ISON is managed by the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, part of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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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Probably the highest bus stopover in the country
Km. 50, Sayangan, Atok, Benguet
Near Philippine Pali (Phil. Highway System's highest point)
The crew access arm is seen as it swings into position for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of the Orbital Flight Test-2 mission, Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 will be Starliner’s second uncrewed flight test and will dock to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The mission, currently targeted for launch on 6:54 p.m. ET on May 19, will serve as an end-to-end test of the system's capabilities. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
Boeing and NASA teams participate in a mission dress rehearsal to prepare for the landing of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft in White Sands, New Mexico, Monday, May 23, 2022. Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) is Starliner’s second uncrewed flight test to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. OFT-2 serves as an end-to-end test of the system's capabilities. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Boeing and NASA teams work around Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft after it landed at White Sands Missile Range’s Space Harbor, Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in New Mexico. Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) is Starliner’s second uncrewed flight test to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. OFT-2 serves as an end-to-end test of the system's capabilities. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Picture [also] taken for the Photo Salon class of Caledon Oxbridge (yeah, yeah, I know how it sounds/seems like here 😏) of Second Life:
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🎵: [The best version of this song:-] 🏁 "Across The Universe"
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I see no-thing
and then some-
thing or two——
Right
Wrong
Up
Down
stream-loading
steam-rollin'
whatkindofTRAUMAbeyouholden?
Holden Caulfield saw it all too well and
he did get along super-swell——
until idiots like you who couldn't see,
yet decide what to sing on MTV(to a tee, to a 'T=MCsquareheadedILLogicbeesknees—
Well, my daunted,daunt-y,darn-tikki-friend-in
side my membranes of memory lane——
I do not want to KNow you anymore(ow! Yes!)
I do not want to careforYOU anymore(Yes;)
Because I ain't yo sitter
and definitely no maker-of-
shift-y belieb system(s) of hu(man)-ity
It is all your own UNdoing (by the way #newsflash)
how Karma plays its own role unto-onto you[r BeING a jerk
[un]towards VAST HUMANity that
cannot be calculated in two(set categorical 'boxes')
or
can/could it be your self-project
ed hate-love-turned-into-chilvarous disguise-in-mice ——
three times it runs(from your social charms[and savvy ]);
three times it is ... still ... justasblind / as my own.
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#rhymemaynotreasonmaynotrhyme :o)
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It will all make sense in the end.
ॐ
ओ३म्
We were talking about the space between us all /
And the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion /
Never glimpse the truth, then it's far too late, when they pass away /
We were talking about the love we all could share /
When we find it, to try our best to hold it there with our love /
With our love, we could save the world, if they only knew /
Try to realise it's all within yourself /
No one else can make you change /
And to see you're really only very small /
And life flows on within you and without you /
We were talking about the love that's gone so cold /
And the people who gain the world and lose their soul /
They don't know, they can't see, are you one of them? /
When you've seen be-yond yourself then you may find /
Peace of mind is waiting there /
And the time will come when you see we're all one /
And life flows on within you and without you
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Within You Without You (Remastered 2009) 🎵
#PisceanWisdom #forREALism ;)
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The River Tummel (Scottish Gaelic: Uisge Theimheil) is a river in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. Water from the Tummel is used in the Tummel hydro-electric power scheme, operated by SSE.
As a tributary of the River Tay, the Tummel is included as part of the River Tay Special Area of Conservation. The designation notes the river system's importance for salmon, otters, brook lampreys, river lampreys and sea lampreys.
Discharging from Loch Rannoch, it flows east to a point near the Falls of Tummel, where it bends to the southeast, a direction which it maintains until it falls into the River Tay, just below Logierait, after a course of 58 miles (93 km) from its source in Stob Ghabbar (3,565 ft (1,087 m)). Its only considerable affluent is the Garry, 24 miles (39 km) long, an impetuous river which issues from Loch Garry (2.5 mi (4.0 km) and 1,334 ft (407 m) above sea level). Some 2 miles from its outlet from Loch Rannoch the river expands into Dunalastair Water (or Dunalastair Reservoir), a man made loch formed by a weir, part of the Tummel Hydro Electric power scheme. About midway in its course the Tummel expands into Loch Tummel, between which and the confluence with the Garry occur the Pass and Falls of the Tummel, which are rather in the nature of rapids, the descent altogether amounting to 15 ft (4.6 m). Loch Tummel was previously 4.43 km (2.75 mi) long and 39 m (128 ft) deep, but with the construction of the Clunie Dam in 1950, the water level was raised by 4.5 metres, and Loch Tummel is now approximately 11 km (7 mi) long.
The scenery throughout this reach is most picturesque, culminating at the point above the eastern extremity of the loch, known as the "Queen's View" (Queen Victoria made the view famous in 1866, although it is said to have been named after Queen Isabel, wife of Robert the Bruce). The chief places of interest on the river are Kinloch Rannoch; Dunalastair, a rocky hill in well-wooded grounds, the embellishment of which was largely due to Alexander Robertson of Struan, the Jacobite and poet, from whom the spot takes its name (the stronghold of Alexander); Foss; Faskally House (beautifully situated on the left bank); Pitlochry; and Ballinluig.
The ancient name of the river, in its upper reaches at least, was the Dubhag.
Holyrood, Edinburgh. The white masts adorn the Dynamic Earth building. Salisbury Crags in the background.
Taken from Regent Road with Olympus OM-System S Zuiko Auto-Zoom 100-200mm 1:5
Just a fun take from this fun summer chase for today's Monochrome Monday offering.
On a rain soaked afternoon Vermont Rail System's Washington County Railroad train NPWJ (Newport to White River Junction) is southbound with two cars and two company red EMD GP38-2s, CLP 204 (blt. Oct. 1973 as SCL 528) and VTR 201 (blt. Dec. 1972 new for the VTR). The train is at about MP L69.8 on modern day WACR's Connecticut River Division Lyndonville Subdivision, the former Boston and Maine Conn River Line main which dates from 1848 when the Connecticut and Passumpsic Rivers Railroad built north from White River Junction. The misty hills in the background are across the river in Haverhill, New Hampshire. To learn much more history see the lengthy caption with this post: flic.kr/p/2q6eXDS
Newbury, Vermont
Saturday June 22, 2024