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This galaxy shows substantial dust backlit by stars and shows signs of intense star formation.
For this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope turned its powerful eye toward an emission-line galaxy called NGC 3749.
When astronomers explore the contents and constituent parts of a galaxy somewhere in the universe, they use various techniques and tools. One of these is to spread out the incoming light from that galaxy into a spectrum and explore its properties. This is done in much the same way as a glass prism spreads white light into its constituent wavelengths to create a rainbow. By hunting for specific signs of emission from various elements within a galaxy’s spectrum of light — so-called emission lines — or, conversely, the signs of absorption from other elements — so-called absorption lines — astronomers can start to deduce what might be happening within.
If a galaxy’s spectrum shows many absorption lines and few emission lines, this suggests that its star-forming material has been depleted and that its stars are mainly old, while the opposite suggests it might be bursting with star formation and energetic stellar newborns. This technique, known as spectroscopy, can tell us about a galaxy’s type and composition, the density and temperature of any emitting gas, the star formation rate, or how massive the galaxy’s central black hole might be.
While not all galaxies display strong emission lines, NGC 3749 does. It lies over 135 million light-years away and is moderately luminous. The galaxy has been used as a “control” in studies of especially active and luminous galaxies — those with centers known as active galactic nuclei, which emit copious amounts of intense radiation. In comparison to these active cousins, NGC 3749 is classified as inactive, and has no known signs of nuclear activity.
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Rosario et al.
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EP20 is equipped by the 3 power bogies produced by the NEVZ itself and presumably developed on the base of the FLEXX Power 140 RU locomotive bogie designed by Bombardie.
The bogie suspension system is consisted of coil primary suspension with a one-sided, wear-free wheelset guidance, and flexicoil secondary suspension (the support of the carbody on the bogie) realised by wear free secondary coil springs equipeed with anti-hunting and anti-rocking dampers; according to flexicoil principle the bogie on the coils can be freely deflected into vertical and horizontal directions. Tractive forces from bogie to locomotive are transferred via traction rods connected to a low lying connection at the bogie pivot centre. Mechanical braking is realized by the wheel mounted disc brakes. Electric braking is either up to 4.5MW rheostatic braking via roof mounted resistors, or up to 7.2MW regenerative braking.
The EP20 (ЭП20) is a type of 6 axle Bo'Bo'Bo' dual-system electric passenger locomotive being built from 2011 y for Russian Railways by the Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant (as a part of the Transmashholding), the main electric locomotive developer and producer in Soviet Union and Russia. EP20 was designed to replace of failed EP10 project by TRTrans, a joint venture between Transmashholding and Alstom by French, Belgian, and Russia based engineers to 2008 y. It is able to haul 24 coaches at 160 km/h or 17 coaches at 200 km/h and operate both on the DC and AC electrified tracks (3kV DC or 25 kV 50 Hz AC). Possibly for a first time for Russian locomotives, the cab design includes special progressive deformation steel cage for impact absorption. Due to extremal quantity of foreign components and thier high price a year production is not so big and now built 77 from 200 of ordered.
Some specifications:
Loco weight -135 t
Power output: continuous - 6600 kW /hourly - 7200 kW,
Tractive effort: 350 kN (0-74 km/h) 115 kN at 200 km/h
Motors: Bogie suspended six pole 1.2 MW (1,600 hp) asynchronous DTA-1200A with six IGBT traction converters
Transmission: Bogie mounted traction motors, via gear to hollow shaft drive, with flexible couplings
Loco brake:Rheostatic 4500 kW (DC)/ 3200 kW (AC), regenerative 6000 kW, electropneumatic wheel disc.
(information from Wiki)
Explored #493! Thanks guys!
No HDR, just a long exposure at night. Straight out of the camera other than a white balance adjustment.
Canon 17-40L USM @ 17mm, 20 sec exposure
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A real live Australian Water Dragon (Physignathus lesueurii) basking at dusk on a city park red mood light, presumably to either get a nice warm glow to look hot and/or to stay warm. :) I especially like the back leg stretch and the skin's rich absorption of red colour from the light. The dragon also looks very happy with its achievements and position and made no attempt to move when I carefully approached to photograph. The really cool thing was the light changed colour every so often and so did the dragon's colour. By way of example, please see the photo below.
Thanks for stopping by. Appreciate your comments. :)
Hot Water Dragon_MG_8422 2014-03-31
"Buddhist account of consciousness provides a new way of looking into contemplation, where absorption into meditation does not only bring in changes in the neural level but in the very personality of the individual, turning him into a good human being....."
The Yonghe Temple, also known as the Yonghe Lamasery, or popularly as the Lama Temple, is a temple and monastery of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism located on 12 Yonghegong Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, China. The building and artwork of the temple is a combination of Han Chinese and Tibetan styles, established in 1694.
This is for Stars N' Heroes' Super-Villain Contest.
Left-Right:
BIllard Wrecker: Brawn
Powers: Super-Strength and Durability
Weaknesses: Cybernetic implants have been used to make him stronger, however they keep destroying his brain leaving him to have the mind of a 3 year old.
Backstory: The Wrecker triplets were all going to fail in life. They're parents were crack-addicted alcoholics.
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William Wrecker: Brainpower
Powers: Super-Intelligent cyborg.
Weaknesses: No durability or Strength whatsoever.
Backstory: William Wrecker was the only smart one in his whole family. He tried his best to get a good job and resume, instead he decided crime was easier. he and his brothers went to get cybernetic implants and William became the Super-Villain, Brainpower.
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Duke Wrecker: Suckapunch
Powers: Super-Strength, Durability, and Power Absorption
Weaknesses: Slow on speed and relies on brute force.
Backstory: Superhero geek that never had much in life. He soon got Cybernetic implants that messed with his brain causing him to become a crazed murder.
Any stop to Venice would not be complete without visiting the colorful streets of the island of Burano. After doing so many jigsaw puzzles of pictures from here, it was a thrill to see it with my own two eyes.
Diergaarde Blijdorp (Zoo)
June 2012
The Netherlands
Urban life in the Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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I will remove them...
We have been covered by 15.5 inches (39 cm) of dense, heavy, wet snow. I was surprised to see the inner layers had a bit of turquoise glow. We don't see this very often, our snow is typically loose and grainy.
Blue-green colors in the 'shadows' of snow is caused by the absorption of both red and yellow light, leaving light at the blue and green end of the visible light spectrum. This doesn't usually happen in 'loose' snow, but happens more often in ice and icebergs. This snow is particularly dense.
A better explanation here.
Juni 2021
Karl weiß sich schon früh in Szene zu setzen, ist immer um Aufmerksamkeit bemüht und schaut selbstverliebt in die Kamera. Er wird später mal ein namhafter Aerosolforscher werden! - Karl knows how to put himself in the limelight at an early age, is always looking for attention and looking at the camera with self-absorption. He will later become a renowned aerosol researcher!
Dial and meters do point the way... This is a Triplett 3256 tunable absorption-type frequency meter from 1951.
Walker Lake is a natural lake, in the Great Basin in western Nevada in the United States. It is 11 mi (17 km) long and 5 mi (8 km) wide, in northwestern Mineral County along the east side of the Wassuk Range, about 75 mi (120 km) southeast of Reno. The lake is fed from the north by the Walker River and has no natural outlet except absorption and evaporation.
The colourful but obscure area in the Cepheus Milky Way that contains the Lion Nebula (at bottom), a region emitting both red Hydrogen-alpha light and cyan Oxygen III light. It is a nebula that only recently became popular as an astrophoto target, perhaps because of its new nickname and from the use of narrowband filters to bring it out. It is not in the popular Messier, NGC or IC catalogues but is officially labeled as Sharpless 2-132. Meanwhile at top, the brightest nebula is the even more obscure Sharpless 2-135, alongside a very faint band of nebulosity that might not have a catalogue number — I couldn't find one!
The nebulosity at top is a deeper red than the Lion Nebula, as the top area of sky contains more dark dust absorbing and reddening the nebulosity and also decreasing the star density and yellowing the sky compared to the richer, brighter and bluer region at bottom to the south around the Lion.
There is a very small (like a fuzzy red star) planetary nebula just right of centre called the Little Ring Nebula, or M2-51, from the Minkowski catalogue. Another tiny planetary in the extreme lower left corner is Abell 79. The field of view here is 5° by 3.3°, with north up.
The star at upper left is the famous variable and double star Delta Cephei. The yellow star at right is Zeta Cephei.
This is a stack of 48 sub-frames taken over two nights, all with the SharpStar 94mm EDPH refractor at f/4.4 and the Canon Ra camera:
- A stack of 16 x 8-minute exposures with a "clear" filter, an Astronomik UV/IR cut filter at ISO 800
- A stack of 16 x 12-minute exposures through an IDAS NB1 dual-narrowband filter at ISO 1600
- A stack of 16 x 16-minute exposures through an IDAS NBX dual ultra-narrowband filter at ISO 1600. This set was shot on night #2 as there was not enough time to shoot it on the same night at the other sets.
The clear filter set contributes the sky background and natural star colours. The NB1 filter set contributes most of the red H-alpha component, while the "extreme" NBX filter contributes mostly the cyan OIII emission which the Lion Nebula has in abundance, somewhat unusually for an emission nebula.
All stacked, aligned, merged and masked in Photoshop 2021. Luminosity masks with Lumenzia helped bring out the faint nebulosity.
Taken from home. Autoguided with the MGEN3 autoguider applying a dithering move between each exposure average out thermal noise when aligning and stacking. No LENR or dark frames were employed on this frosty night! At one point late on night 2 the little guidescope frosted over as the guide star was lost. Hair dryer to the rescue!
The comet was drifting fast toward east in Libra.
It was low in the west at the date, and stars showed obvious spectral spread due to atmospheric dispersion. Blue and green went higher, and red went lower. Blue got weaker due to atmospheric differential light absorption, and bluish ion tail got far fainter than expected. North is up, and east is to the left.
Earth distance: 0.349 AU
Sun distance: 0.792 AU
equipment: Guan Sheng Optical Ritchey–Chrétien telescope RC-CF 10" f8, TS Extension for The Baffle Tube, TS 2.5" field flattener, and Canon EOS R-SP4II, modified by Seo-san on ZWO AM5 Equatorial Mount, autoguided at a star nearby with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, ZWO ASI 174MM-mini, and PHD2 Guiding with comet tracking on
exposure: 3 times x 60 seconds and 5 x 15 seconds at ISO 6,400 and f/8
The exposure started at 09:34:20 UTC October 9, 2025.
This frame was cropped 1,715 x 1,069 pixels of the original 6,720 x 4,780 pixels, comparable to a frame taken with a telescope of focal length about 7,800mm.
Site: 1,450m above sea level at lat. 35 55 53 North and long. 138 27 31 East in Hirasawa Pass 平沢峠 near Yatsugatake. The site has wide and beautiful western aspect. Ambient temperature was around 9 degrees Celsius or 48 degrees Fahrenheit. Wind was mild. Atmospheric turbulence was bad, and guide error RMS was around 2.3 near the horizon. Sky was not so dark, SQML around 19.90.
Delta 400.
A black and white film simulation using DxO Film Pack software.
Delta 400 uses the "core-shell crystal" tabular technology known as T-grain which is different from a conventional-grain film in the way that the film’s silver content is distributed. T-grain films have flat crystals whereas conventional-grain films (Tri-X, HP5,) have round crystals. The flatness of the crystal allows better light absorption. Theoretically, a T-grain film should provide sharper images when compared to a conventional-grain film. The Delta 400 can be used between 200 and 3200 ISO. It's one of the more flexible films for a wide range of uses in analogue photography.
My back hurts when I think of this picture... While walking down this dip in the forest around Tarn Hows, I accidentally stepped on a wet root. My shoes had no grip on it and so I tumbled big time. In the moment of falling, I was like "Damn... the camera.... Damn²... the Zeiss!" and raised my arm. Camera and lens didn't touch the ground, my body did... with no absorption. Must have been a sight for the gods...
Did you ever destroy some equipment this way? ;)
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Exposure 0.05 sec (1/20)
Aperture f/7.1
Focal Length 35 mm
ISO Speed 200
The Hague
March 2012
The Netherlands
Urban life in the Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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The mysterious planet Cyano orbits deep inside the alt process belt. It consists entirely of ferric ammonium citrate. Absorption of UV radiation by its atmosphere of gaseous potassium ferricyanide results in an enormous electron migration in the planetary crystalline lattice thereby generating a super massive magnetosphere.
f/3.5 for 2.65e13 nanoseconds
Made in-camera on Cot 320 coated with traditional cyanotype sensitizer.
Profile
Name: Dr. Lawrence Adam Sullivan, PhD
Hero's name: Atomfuse
Age: Early to mid-40’s
Bio: An expert university professor, psychologist, nuclear physicist and lecturer, Dr. Sullivan was a famous man at campus and on TV. He was also the mentor of Adrian Kane and Megan Hinds during their university days, (who they considered him like an uncle and a father figure). At some point in his mid 30s, he had a secret career as a superhero, operating for more than a decade or two, (around 12 years approximately). However he had lung cancer and one of his hands contacted gangrenes, resulting him giving up superpowers for good. His suit was nearly destroyed in his last battle, forcing him to crawl to the nearest hospital (he managed to change clothes in a few minutes. Weeks later when the cancer reached his hand, he was miraculously cured of it, but as a side effect and consequence, half of his affected arm had to be chopped off.
The powerless doctor had to accommodate his death, and took a “leave of absence”, leaving his niece to be in charge and replace him, which the both agreed. One day, he stumbled across a “compass”, which he believed were extraterrestrials, but was left by a dying superhero instead. Lawrence managed to rewire, encode and reprogram the man’s mind into the “compass”. His mind was connected to it, linking both knowledge and history together, lots of things were shown to each other.
As a result, Lawrence decided to spring back into action after 2 years of temporary retirement, and rebuilt his own suit from spare, custom parts. Part of his powers also came back, but not every one of it. Despite keeping the compass, Lawrence figured it was some sort of high tech tool that housed amounts of stuff, and the hero popped up to him in hologram. His words inspired Lawrence to make something more better, giving him courage. But realising his former students were in danger and having big duties, he decided to help them—-and the world.
Powers and abilities: Currently possesses
ESP, high intelligence, telepathic resistance, environment adaptation, atomic manipulation and absorption, generate plasma, alter his molecular structure, control matter, atomic vision, breath, consumption and etc. He is also resistant to nuclear energy and cannot be split, but can reform if need. Absorption of too much energy will not harm him. Despite losing a lot of powers, he has skills in engineering, psychology, survival, knowledge history, philosophy, science, medicine as well as other physical skills. Lawrence is good at observing people, can give great speeches (i.e pep talk), has levels of humour that makes him like a comedian. He does possess some skill in fighting and firearms.
Weaknesses: His fear of cancer returning anytime, his niece, has a need to protect the compass as if he owes it, willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good. Inability to fly and has no access to his lost powers.
Equipment: Only his arms, hand, legs and feet have armour (plus some awesome green socks, it’s his favourite colour), his right arm is robotic and covered by his suit, the torso is mainly a jacket with some protective clothing. Owns some guns, especially a energy one, the “compass”, a jetpack that he developed years ago, reinvented with functions as a backpack and has fuel that never runs out.
Personality: Observant, humorous, calm, independent, persuasive, reflective, somewhat complex.
The center of the pool is sterile due to the extreme temperature. Without any organisms, this area has the deep intrinsic blue colour of water, as the result of water’s absorption of red wavelengths of visible light. The edges of the pool consists of bands of different colours and each band in the “microbial rainbow” represents a mini-ecosystem.
Several pigmented bacteria grow in the microbial mats at different ranges of temperature. In these thermal gradients, or distinct zones of microbial communities adapted to a specific temperature, microbes produce bright colours such as green (chlorophylls) and red (carotenoids). Depending on the amount of sunlight, the temperature of the water changes throughout the year, and may favor one kind of microbe over another. In the summer, the photosynthetic microbes in the mats produce dark red and orange pigments as a form of protection from the intense sunlight. During the winter, the mats appear dark green due to the domination of green photosynthetic pigments.
I could enjoy processing of old data taken just before COVID-19 era.
Hydrogen-alpha 656.3nm red and Oxygen-III 500.7nm greenish blue were dominant here. Bluish reflection of gas was faint but wide, which is usually invisible in imaging with narrow-bad pass filters.
Those colors were not homogeneous due to overlapping dust and gas. Strong hydrogen-alpha red area tends to change into striking color near genuine Red, when it is overlapped by relatively dense brownish dust and gas due to stronger absorption of shorter wavelength light by dust and gas. I love all of those colors.
Here is a frame taken at the same site in Hawaii January 2012:
www.flickr.com/photos/hiroc/7648303232
equipment: Takahashi FSQ-130ED, F3 Reducer 0.6x, and Canon EOS R-sp4II, modified by Seo-san on Takahashi EM-200 Temma 2 Jr, autoguided at a star nearby with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, Starlight Xpress Superstar Autoguider, GPUSB, and PHD2 Guiding
exposure: 3 times x 30 minutes, 4 x 15 min, 4 x 4 min, and 4 x 1 minute at ISO 1,600 and f/3.0
site: 11,000 feet or 3,280m above sea level at lat. 19 32 31 North and long. 155 34 00 West near Mauna Loa Observatory in The Big Island Hawaii
Let’s talk about colour. Snowflakes are not flat, they have volume. That volume allows for air pockets to be trapped in the ice. Given the right thickness of the “bubble” and/or the right thickness of the ice on either side of it, something magical can happen.
Before I continue my rambles, however: the second edition of my macro photography book is out. The publisher just restocked their North American supply, which can be ordered direct: www.routledge.com/Macro-Photography-The-Universe-at-Our-F... - they gave me a special code for 20% off if ordered direct: 25SMA4
Snowflakes don’t possess colour the way we normally see colour: absorption and reflection. A red car is red because it absorbs all colours except red. A snowflake, however, behaves more like a soap bubble, a spot of oil on the ground, or the wings of the Madagascan Sunset Moth, among others. Here we’re talking about “thin film interference”. The colours are created from light interfering with itself inside the crystal through multiple air/ice boundaries, and thickness matters.
There’s fancy calculators and physics for this ( www.sciencecalculators.org/optics/thin-films/ ) but the basics are pretty easy to understand. The speed of light isn’t constant, it changes based on what it is traveling through. Fastest in a vacuum, slower in air, slower further in ice. When light enters ice, it slows down and the trajectory changes. However, not all light enters the ice – a good portion is reflected off the surface. This reflected light never slows down. That’s our baseline.
The light that enters the ice? Some of it will reflect off the inner boundary – where the air pocket is. This light will then travel back up through the ice, and into the air once more. However, it is now “out of sync” with the light that never entered the ice. It was moving slower for a very brief period of time. What happens when the ice is so thin that the resulting beams of light are within a wavelength of each-other? While being out of sync? They interfere with one another, both constructively and destructively.
This means that “white” light (all the colours) will be transformed. How thick the ice is will determine the resulting colours that you see (there’s a chart here that references colours and thickness: soapbubble.fandom.com/wiki/Color_and_Film_Thickness ). Just like any waves (sound, water, light), some interference will cancel things out (destructive), and some will amplify (constructive). This is where the colour in snowflakes come from; the light is shaped by the snowflake itself.
I’ve seen thin film interference everywhere from a cup of Turkish coffee to the meniscus formed around the lid of fountain pen ink. Ever see “Newton’s Rings?” - It’s everywhere if you’re paying attention. Not all snowflakes have the right balance of features to produce it, but when it shows up to the party, it’s always the first thing you notice.
Taken with their father's permission, a brother and sister are absorbed with their play in the city park...
with eyes like glass you look out through a veil of self-absorption. I do that thing where I teeter forward, almost falling, just. And I stop myself from falling into you with an honest laugh. But you look back at me and don't see a thing. The faint incline of the side of your mouth is the most emotionless line across your face, and all the rest read pity.
Stop it. You complain and you rattle when nothing is painful but everything hurts; you're okay.
view on black
District 789, Beijing
July 2012
China
Urban life
Canon 550D
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The Flexity Outlook is the latest model in the rolling stock of the Toronto streetcar system owned by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). Based on the Flexity Outlook vehicles used in several European cities, the new streetcars were first ordered in 2009 and are built by Bombardier Transportation in Thunder Bay and Kingston, Ontario, Canada, with specific modifications for Toronto, such as unidirectional operation and the ability to operate on the unique broad Toronto gauge (4 ft 10 7⁄8 in / 1,495 mm).
As of January 13, 2020, the Flexity Outlook streetcars can be found on all TTC streetcar routes with the exception of 503 Kingston Road, 505 Dundas and 508 Lake Shore routes, where streetcars have been replaced by buses due to a shortage of available streetcars or the need to detour owing to construction projects. The Flexity Outlook streetcars are the replacements for the Canadian Light Rail Vehicle (CLRV) and its articulated counterpart, the Articulated Light Rail Vehicle (ALRV).[4][5] As of 2019, the Flexity Outlook vehicles are stored at Leslie Barns and Roncesvalles Carhouse.
The Flexity Outlook is the first modern low-floor and wheelchair accessible streetcar used in the city. With a length of over 30 metres (98 ft), they are also the largest streetcars in the system. They have four sliding doors, air conditioning systems, seating for up to 70 passengers, and interior bicycle racks.[6][7] The new streetcars include two on-board fare and transfer vending machines (FTVMs) along with ticket validators, Presto readers and introduced the use of proof-of-payment (POP) system.
Toronto's future light rail lines (such as the Line 5 Eglinton, to open in 2021) will use the Flexity Freedom light rail vehicle, which—like the Flexity Outlook—is also a low-floor wheelchair accessible vehicle. The two models are not compatible for several reasons, including track gauge.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexity_Outlook_(Toronto_streetcar)
Central Steam Plant
The University of Toronto has a 100-year history with centralized steam delivery. Steam generated by four massive boilers fueled by natural gas (originally fueled by coal) is delivered to many buildings across campus for heating spaces and making hot water. Waste heat produced by a jet turbine cogeneration unit installed in 1993, is also used to heat boilers and produce steam. And, during summer, steam is used by absorption chillers in the Medical Sciences Building for refrigeration. Source: www.fs.utoronto.ca/archivednews/steam-plant-tours/
There is an intriguing surface unit in parts of the ancient Martian highlands that may consist of chloride salts (like NaCl, or table salt) which precipitated out of shallow lakes as in desert regions of Earth.
It has unusual thermal properties and distinctive morphologies, but lacks spectral absorption bands. All of these characteristics and the geologic settings are consistent with salt deposits. These deposits are often associated with clay minerals that do have distinctive absorption bands.
Image cutout is less than 1 km (under 1 mi) across and the spacecraft altitude was 266 km (165 mi). For full observation details including images with scale bars, visit the source link.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
LEVELS OF ABSORPTION, 2004 by LAURA MAYOTTE
36”w x 20 1/2”h x 16”d
Handmade flax paper, handspun and dyed linen yarn, indigo dye.
Artist’s Statement
Levels of Absorption holds many meanings for me. Literal meanings, such as the actual absorption of the indigo dye on the pages and watermarks, and abstract meanings, such as (being a book form) how much knowledge we absorb over a lifetime, the fact that we never make use of our entire brain, that there is always room for more knowledge, learning and growth, and that also the tree-like shape adds to this idea of growth over time. All the sewing reflects the pathways of the brain and how we think; how everything is connected, how odd things can remind us of seemingly unrelated things, but they are all there and accessible. This sewing is also rather electricity-like in appearance, and metaphorically, referring to how fast our thoughts can be, our natural reflexes or responses to stimuli, and how knowledge gained over time can be instantly accessed once learned.
Messier 45, the Pleiades - open cluster with reflection nebulae.
I really like widefield astro-images that show a lot of background dust clouds and nebulosity.
Im keen to attempt this with a relatively portable set-up using my StarAdventurer mount.
I had taken 179 x 1 minute subexposures and could see some dust and nebulosity but it wasnt that impressive - then I found a utility in PixInsight called Background Enhance that was very powerful and really brought up the faint dust clouds.
The Pleiades are a collect of young, bright stars that are passing through a dust field causing preferential reflection of blue light in our direction with absorption of red wavelengths by the dust. The linear stuctures in the nebulosity are thought to be the effect of the stars' magnetic fields lining up the dust particles.
The faint "clouds" around the nebula are called "cirrus".
Light pollution was measured at 20.1 magnitude/arcsecond2 which is really good for my suburban garden site.
This was taken with:
Sigma 135mm f/1.8 at f/2.5 @ ISO400
Canon 80D astro modified with IDAS LPS clip-in filter.
Star Adventurer mount
Guiding with ZWO mini-scope and ASIair raspberry pie controller.
Polar alignment with Polemaster.
I managed a RMS error of 4 arcseconds with the ASIair which is fine as native image scale here is 5 arcsec/pixel.
"The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images.
Is sign language the real language of Paradise?"
-Hugo Ball
textures by Florabella, thanks!
back from a short vacation in Maui...
missed you all, happy bokeh wednesday-
i'm off to catch up with your wonderful photostreams!
♥
Imbeciles Agape Madness A Philosopher's Book.
Opfattende udelelige korrespondenter kontrollerede principper fragmentariske kongelige idealer danner,
Canlyniad tywyll llafur hymgorffori cynnil ymddygiad tawel rhyfeddod crynu pigo eneidiau craff synhwyrau,
,Wzbudzone emocje wzniosłość sprawiedliwość wzbudzały cechy, które manifestują brudne tajemnice mający mieszanie świń
Incontrôlable interne contraire des êtres méchante pensée turpitude conditions d'absorption dégradé yeux émancipés,
Synkende kommandoer urenset grimhet ignorerte intellektjon som opererer bestemte deler idioter,
Müde instabile Vereinigung unveränderliche Argumentation akzeptiert symbolische Mythen packende Regeln vermischt Hindernisse,
Καταδικάζοντας τους νόμους περί φιλανθρωπίας ουσιών αναθέτοντας περιστασιακές συνταγές ιδιοτυπίας διαδοχικές έρευνες,
morum corruptelas doctrinae culmen virtutum memoria ritus discedere turpe dubia proditio,
怒りの哀悼の気持ちの悩み逆境に苦しむ嫌悪感.
Steve.D.Hammond.
The Solar-Powered Interstellar Drone for Extraterrestrial Research (S.P.I.D.E.R.) is finally completed at the 'Moonbase Celebration 50'.
With onboard intelligence, a formidable assortment of tools, and unlimited renewable power, this endlessly useful companion is sometimes referred to as 'GRAMPS' - Giant Robotic Assistant & Mobile Power Station (especially by arachnophobic astronauts).
Future missions will be accompanied by these units, to aid in planetoid habitability investigation and geo/bio research. Manipulator arms, coupled with highly advanced sensors allow this drone to examine samples, move debris, haul equipment, and even carry out rescue operations for astronauts in danger.
Fully capable of traversing uneven terrain, and repelling into crevaces with it's winch, this robotic research assistant can go just about anywhere on atmospheric and non-atmospheric terrestrial landscapes.
Prepare to give Space exploration a leg-up (or six!) and take your celestial crew to a whole new level of awesome adventure with a giant (robot) S.P.I.D.E.R. on board!
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This MOC has been a journey, developing a seamless transition through System and CCBS/Bionicle elements. With adjustable Greebles to simulate actuators. Fully articulated through each leg, the model is stable, poseable, and quite dynamic (in-environment shots coming soon!).
The features include: adjustable solar arrays, whiskers, and rear hitches, poseable manipulator arms (3), legs with up to 12+ points of articulation each + working shock absorption, opening hatch to reveal central core, storage for a large assortment of space tools, and a working winch (which can support the full weight of the build).
Watch my video for a hands-on with the features: youtu.be/Q3HC0IzGPfc
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Sheffield Joint Omnibus Committee unusually combined municipal and railway ownership of buses and services.
Sheffield’s fleet and its operational routes were split into three groups, Corporation, Joint & Railway Company . Two railway companies were involved prior to the 1948 formation of British Rail and joint operations with other operators made life in the Steel City even more unusual.
Even with these complications the committee had an enviable reputation for quality. Pictured is 654BWB, a Metro-Cammell bodied Leyland Atlantean PDR1 which was new to Shefield JOC in April 1962 as No.1354, along with 8 sisters (1350-1358).
In 1973 all 9 passed to South Yorkshire PTE (this one being renumbered 224) following that undertakings absorption of the JOC.
One vehicle from the batch, 657BWB, survives today, although it now bears no resemblance to the example we see here. In 1968 it was rebodied by Park Royal following extensive fire damage and is preserved at Sandtoft.
Beyrouth, une des plus vieilles villes du monde 😮 🇱🇧 Les villes ont un aspect forcément tentaculaire depuis l’espace, mais leur développement parfois à vitesse grand V n’a rien d’une fatalité, même à l’heure du changement climatique. Les experts de la @UNFAO (oui, j’apprends beaucoup à leurs côtés à travers ma fonction d’ambassadeur :)) ont lancé l’an dernier l’initiative Villes vertes. Il s’agit d’accompagner les zones urbaines dans leur adaptation au changement climatique et faire en sorte qu’elles ne constituent pas des ogres de consommation énergétique. La solution passe sans surprise par la nature, à condition de suivre la bonne stratégie. 🌴 🌳🌴 🌳 Régulation de la température, filtrage de la pollution, absorption de CO2, augmentation de la biodiversité, apport de nourriture… En plantant les bons arbres aux bons endroits d’une ville, en prenant en compte les spécificités de la région du monde autant que celles du quartier en question, et bien sûr avec l’implication des communautés locales, on multiplie les bénéfices. 💪 #JournéeMondialeDeLaPopulation www.fao.org/green-cities-initiative/fr/
You can tell there’s steep terrain right off the coast, as the light takes sinuous roads up the mountains and hills close to Beirut. As always, life gathers close to coasts ad rivers. Cities seen from space are either grey at day or lit up at night. 55% of the world's population now live in urban areas, but there is no reason why they could not be green! Trees, plants and agriculture can co-exist in cities, on rooftops or in the streets. Often I focus my lens on nature because it is more striking, but cities should not break with the surrounding countryside. The @FAO launched the #GreenCities initiative to encourage large cities to become more sustainable and resilient, and better places to live. It’s all about turning the problem around and making it part of the solution. #WorldPopulationDay LINK
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The general term ice age or, more precisely, glacial age denotes a geological period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in an expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. There have been at least four major ice ages in the Earth's past. Outside these periods, the Earth seems to have been ice-free even in high latitudes. There is evidence that greenhouse gas levels fell at the start of ice ages and rose during the retreat of the ice sheets, but it is difficult to establish cause and effect. Greenhouse gas levels may also have been affected by other factors which have been proposed as causes of ice ages, such as the movement of continents and vulcanism. Although the last glacial period ended more than 8,000 years ago, its effects can still be felt today. For example, the moving ice carved out landscape in Canada, Greenland, northern Eurasia and Antarctica. The erratic boulders, till, drumlins, eskers, fjords, kettle lakes, moraines, cirques, horns, etc., are typical features left behind by the glaciers. The Dutch IJsselmeer lake is covered with icerocks hummocks, caused by the cold weather of the passed days. At some places even higher than 6 meter!
Photo taken of hummocks at the IJsselmeer (Markermeer) near Uitdam. On the background you can see the skyline of Almere. A hummock is a boss or rounded knoll of ice rising above the general level of an ice-field, Hummocky ice is caused by slow and unequal pressure in the main body of the packed ice, and by unequal structure and temperature at a later period. Blue ice occurs when snow falls on the ice. The blue color is actually created for the same reason that water is blue, that is, its slight absorption of red light due to an overtone of the infrared OH stretching mode of the water molecule.
Een ijstijd of glaciatie is een geologisch tijdvak waarin ijskappen voorkomen. In het Engels wordt dit een periode van ice-house genoemd, als tegenhanger van een ijskaploze periode, de greenhouse ("broeikas"). Aangezien er gletsjers liggen op bijvoorbeeld Groenland of Antarctica, leven we tegenwoordig in een ijstijd. Men neemt aan dat dit in de gehele geologische geschiedenis van de Aarde minstens vijfmaal het geval is geweest, waarvan eenmaal zelfs zo sterk dat de ijskappen van de polen vrijwel tot aan de evenaar waren opgerukt. Ook zijn er periodes dat er aanzienlijke opwarming optrad waarbij die ijskappen grotendeels waren weggesmolten. Het klimaat op Aarde wordt beïnvloed door vele factoren, zoals de intensiteit van de zonnestraling, de ligging van de continenten, de continentverplaatsingen, vulkanisme, de zeestromen, de bedekking van het land door vegetatie, het weerkaatsingsvermogen van het aardoppervlak en vele kleine andere factoren. Met behulp van klimaatmodellen wordt door wetenschappers een reconstructie van het klimaat en de klimaatveranderingen in het verleden gemaakt. Alhoewel er een zekere consensus bestaat onder wetenschappers, zijn er nog vele onzekerheden en tegenstrijdigheden in dit onderzoek.
Hierboven een foto van kruiend ijs. Zoetwatermeren kunnen spectaculair bevriezen. Grotere meren zoals het IJsselmeer (IJmeer) hierboven hebben bijna altijd wel golven, en dit werkt directe bevriezing van het wateroppervlak tegen. Eerst vormen zich kleine ijsschotsen, die naar de kust drijven onder invloed van de wind. Deze schotsen vormen zo een ijsveld op het water dat de golven dempt, en uiteindelijk vriezen alle schotsen aan elkaar vast tot een massa. Voordat dit gebeurt schuren de schotsen voortdurend langs elkaar heen en schrapen zo stukjes ijs van elkaar af; elke schots krijgt zo een witte rand. Zulk ijs is dus totaal niet geschikt om op te schaatsen. Wanneer grotere delen van het meer bevriezen beginnen de platen, die soms een paar vierkante kilometer groot zijn, langzaam tegen elkaar te bewegen onder invloed van de wind en stroming. Dit heeft kruiend ijs tot gevolg: de ijsschotsen worden met kracht gebroken en op elkaar gestapeld langs de dijken langs het meer. Dit hoeft niet alleen bij dun ijs te gebeuren; soms kruit het ijs bij een dikte van meer dan 20 cm. De stapels ijs worden dan hoog, en het geluid is oorverdovend. Deze foto is genomen bij Uitdam met Almere aan de overkant van het Markermeer.
Several versions of the myth have survived from ancient sources. The classic version is by Ovid, found in book 3 of his Metamorphoses (completed 8 AD); this is the story of Narcissus and Echo. One day Narcissus was walking in the woods when Echo, an Oread (mountain nymph) saw him, fell deeply in love, and followed him. Narcissus sensed he was being followed and shouted "Who's there?". Echo repeated "Who's there?". She eventually revealed her identity and attempted to embrace him. He stepped away and told her to leave him alone. She was heartbroken and spent the rest of her life in lonely glens until nothing but an echo sound remained of her. Nemesis, the goddess of revenge, learned of this story and decided to punish Narcissus. She lured him to a pool where he saw his own reflection. He didn't realize it was only an image and fell in love with it. He eventually recognized that his love could not be reciprocated and committed suicide.
An earlier version ascribed to the poet Parthenius of Nicaea, composed around 50 BC, was recently rediscovered among the Oxyrhynchus papyri at Oxford.Like Ovid's version, it ends with Narcissus committing suicide. A version by Conon, a contemporary of Ovid, also ends in suicide (Narrations, 24). In it, a young man named Aminias fell in love with Narcissus, who had already spurned his male suitors. Narcissus also spurned him and gave him a sword. Aminias committed suicide at Narcissus's doorstep. He had prayed to the gods to give Narcissus a lesson for all the pain he provoked. Narcissus walked by a pool of water and decided to drink some. He saw his reflection, became entranced by it, and killed himself because he could not have his object of desire.[3] A century later the travel writer Pausanias recorded a novel variant of the story, in which Narcissus falls in love with his twin sister rather than himself (Guide to Greece, 9.31.7).
Influence on culture
Тhe myth of Narcissus has inspired artists for at least two thousand years, even before the Roman poet Ovid featured a version in book III of his Metamorphoses. This was followed in more recent centuries by other poets (e.g. Keats and Alfred Edward Housman) and painters (Caravaggio, Poussin, Turner, Dalí (see Metamorphosis of Narcissus), and Waterhouse).
Narcissus in literature : Narcissus by Gyula Benczúr In Stendhal's novel Le Rouge et le Noir (1830), there is a classic narcissist in the character of Mathilde. Says Prince Korasoff to Julien Sorel, the protagonist, with respect to his beloved girl:She looks at herself instead of looking at you, and so doesn't know you.During the two or three little outbursts of passion she has allowed herself in your favor, she has, by a great effort of imagination, seen in you the hero of her dreams, and not yourself as you really are.(Page 401, 1953 Penguin Edition, trans. Margaret R.B. Shaw).The myth had a decided influence on English Victorian homoerotic culture, via André Gide's study of the myth, Le Traité du Narcisse ('The Treatise of the Narcissus', 1891), and the only novel by Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist also starts with a story about Narcissus, found (we are told) by the alchemist in a book brought by someone in the caravan. The alchemist's (and Coelho's) source was very probably Hesketh Pearson's The Life of Oscar Wilde (1946) in which this story is recorded (Penguin edition, p. 217) as one of Wilde's inspired inventions. This version of the Narcissus story is based on Wilde's "The Disciple" from his "Poems in Prose (Wilde) ".Author and poet Rainer Maria Rilke visits the character and symbolism of Narcissus in several of his poems.Seamus Heaney references Narcissus in his poem "Personal Helicon" from his first collection "Death of a Naturalist":
"To stare, big-eyed Narcissus, into some spring
Is beneath all adult dignity."In Rick Riordan's Heroes of Olympus series, Narcissus appears as a minor antagonist in the third book The Mark of Athena.In the fantasy series Harry Potter, Narcissa Malfoy, a minor antagonist, is named for Narcissus.William Faulkner's character "Narcissa" in Sanctuary, sister of Horace Benbow, was also named after Narcissus. Throughout the novel, she allows the arrogant, pompous pressures of high-class society to overrule the unconditional love that she should have for her brother.Hermann Hesse's character "Narcissus" in "Narcissus and Goldmund" shares several of mythical Narcissus' traits, although his narcissism is based on his intellect rather than his physical beauty.A. E. Housman refers to the 'Greek Lad', Narcissus, in his poem Look not in my Eyes from A Shropshire Lad set to music by several English composers including George Butterworth. At the end of the poem stands a jonquil, a variety of daffodil, Narcissus Jonquilla, which like Narcissus looks sadly down into the water.Herman Melville references the myth of Narcissus in his novel Moby-Dick, in which Ishmael explains the myth as "the key to it all," referring to the greater theme of finding the essence of Truth through the physical world.On Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen's A Fada Oriana, the eponymous protagonist is punished with mortality for abandoning her duties in order to stare at herself in the surface of a river.
Narcissus on film
In the TV series Boardwalk Empire, a Dr. Narcisse (Valentin Narcisse) is introduced as a condescending intellectual.
Scottish-Canadian animator Norman McLaren finished his career with a short film named Narcissus, re-telling the Greek legend through ballet.Narcissus appears in the Disney adaptation of Hercules. In the film, he is portrayed as an Olympian god with purple skin.In the film Bab'Aziz, directed by Nacer Khemir, a Narcissus like character was portrayed by an ancient prince who sat by a pond for days after days and looked at the reflection of his own soul. He was referred to as 'The prince who contemplated his soul'.Pink Narcissus is an artistic film by James Bidgood about the fantasies of a hustler.The escape craft Ripley boards in the 1979 Ridley Scott film Alien is called the Narcissus.In the 2011 film Seeing Heaven, Narcissus is depicted in a painting - the character of the film also replicates the myth of Narcissus gazing at his own reflection. The film delves deeply into the main character (Paul) and the theme is loosely based on the myth of Narcissus, as all who look at Paul are transfixed by his beauty - just as all those who gazed upon Narcissus were transifixed with his beauty.
In music
National Medal Of Arts recipient Morten Lauridsen wrote a choral work entitled "Dirait-on" based on the poem by Rainer Maria Rilke."Supper's Ready" by Genesis (ca. 1972), a near-23-minute epic song laden with religious and mythological imagery, refers to the myth of Narcissus as follows: A young figure sits still by the pool / He's been stamped "Human Bacon" by some butchery tool / (He is you) / Social Security took care of this lad. / We watch in reverence, as Narcissus is turned to a flower. / A flower?. The movement is titled "How Dare I Be So Beautiful?".American rock band Tool made a subtle reference in their song "Reflection" from their third studio album Lateralus. Not only is the whole song a metaphor of the myth, but it also makes an explicit reference: And as I pull my head out I am without one doubt/ Don't want to be down here feeding my narcissism/ I must crucify the ego before it's far too late/ I pray the light lifts me out. The song combines elements of self-analysis and finding the right path, versus self-infatuation and absorption.Progressive metal band Threshold referenced the myth with an 11-minute epic titled "Narcissus", the closing track on their album Hypothetical. Greek metal band Septic Flesh recorded a song about Narcissus (called "Narcissus") on their album Communion."Narcissus in a Red Dress" by The Like was released on The Like EP and their album Release Me. The Canadian band Hedley has written a song about Narcissus (called "Narcissist"). One line goes He falls in love with his reflection in the glass / He can't resist who's staring back.Composer Nikolai Tcherepnin wrote his ballet "Narcisse et Echo, Op. 40 in 1911 for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and was danced by Nijinski. Uruguayan band El Cuarteto de Nos wrote the song "Me Amo" (I Love Myself) in which the chorus sings "como Narciso soy" (I am like Narcissus). In 2010, Swedish electronic artist pacific! released "Narcissus" an album and ballet staged in Gothenburg.[7] In 1994, composer Mark Applebaum composed Narcissus: Strata/Panacea for marimba solo. This work comprised one movement of the larger Janus Cycle, for mixed instrumentation.[8] In 1987, Thea Musgrave was commissioned by a consortium of four flutists for a solo work. She composed Narcissus for flute and digital delay.
In 1898 Havelock Ellis, an English sexologist, used the term "narcissus-like" in reference to excessive masturbation, whereby the person becomes his or her own sex object.In 1899, Paul Näche was the first person to use the term "narcissism" in a study of sexual perversions.
Otto Rank, in 1911, published the first psychoanalytical paper specifically concerned with narcissism, linking it to vanity and self-admiration.Sigmund Freud only published one paper exclusively devoted to narcissism in 1914, called "On Narcissism: An Introduction".One of the personality disorders is called narcissistic personality disorder.In Marilyn Manson's song Deep Six, One of the lines mentions his name, along with the Greek god Zeus.
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Narcissus was once walking by a lake or river and decided to drink some water; he saw his reflection in the water and was surprised by the beauty he saw; he became entranced by the reflection of himself.The myth of Narcissus is one of the most known Greek Myths, due to its uniqueness and moral tale; Narcissus, was the son of River God Cephisus and nymph Lyriope. He was known for his beauty and he was loved by God Apollo due to his extraordinary physique.The myth of Narcissus comes in two different versions, the Greek and the Greco-Roman version, as both Conon the Greek and Ovid, the Roman poet, wrote the story of Narcissus, enhancing it with different elements.According to Conon, Aminias, a young man fell in love with Narcissus, who had already spurned his male suitors. Aminias was also spurned by Narcissus who gave the unfortunate young man a sword. Aminias killed himself at Narcissus’ doorstep praying to the Gods to give Narcissus a lesson for all the pain he had provoked.Narcissus was once walking by a lake or river and decided to drink some water; he saw his reflection in the water and was surprised by the beauty he saw; he became entranced by the reflection of himself. He could not obtain the object of his desire though, and he died at the banks of the river or lake from his sorrow.The myth presented by Ovid the poet is slightly altered. According to this myth, Narcissus’ parents were worried because of the extraordinary beauty of the child and asked prophet Teiresias what to do, regarding their son’s futureTeiresias told them that the boy would grow old only if “he didn’t get to know himself”. When Narcissus was sixteen he was walking in the woods and Nymph Echo saw him and felt madly in love with him. She started following him and Narcissus asked “who’s there”, feeling someone after him.Echo responded “who’s there” and that went on for some time until Echo decided to show herself. She tried to embrace the boy who stepped away from Echo, telling her to leave him alone. Echo was left heartbroken and spent the rest of her life in glens; until nothing but an echo sound remained of her.Nemesis, though, the Goddess of Revenge, heard the story and decided to punish Narcissus. From this point the stories are similar; Narcissus sees himself in the pond and he is amazed by the beauty of the reflection. Once he figured out that his love could not be addressed, he killed himself.
Woods are protected by flood.
Bridge # 150 on the Leeds Liverpool canal, near to Foulridge. So named because Foulridge had a flourishing cottage industry of felt hat making from the 17th century.
The term "mad as a hatter" comes from the use of mercury in the production of felt hats in the 18th and 19th centuries, where absorption of mercury through the skin can cause neurological disorders.
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slices of gammon drizzled with marmalade next to aubergine, onion, sweetcorn and peas blended in pineapple and ginger sauce and a serving of pear sauce
aubergine cooked in sunflower and extra virgin olive oil 15% by sainsbury's, seasoned with salt and flavoured with lime
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aubergine nutrition facts www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/ingredient-focus-aubergines
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tips to decrease oil absorption when cooking aubergine
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to decrease aubergine oil absorption i'll try this method of cooking aubergine next time no salt required (suggested in *the kitchn.com)
... Soak the eggplant in milk ( i'll use oat milk)
Soaking slices or cubes off eggplant in milk for one to two hours fills the porous structure studded with air pockets with milk, leaving no room for oil to be absorbed ...
ps i'm not recommending any of these cookery adventures. they suit my personal taste. photographing to encourage myself to eat more healthily ...
i've created a new group www.flickr.com/groups/cooking_is_my_hobby/ to gather ideas and encourage myself to continue with healthy eating by learning from others if you're interested in cooking, sometimes or a lot, or enjoy the cooking of others, you're always welcome ...
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.... Thus prolonged infancy shapes human desires in two contradictory directions: on the one hand, on the subjective side, toward omnipotent indulgence in pleasure freed from the limitations of reality; on the other hand, on the objective side, toward powerless dependence on other people. The two tendencies come into conflict because the early experience of freedom and absorption in pleasure must succumb to the recognition of the reality-principle, in a capitulation enforced by parental authority under the threat of loss of parental love ...
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Alter Ego: Despair
Name: Aileen Hammer
Allegiance: Villain
Powers:
* Can generate and absorb high amounts of energy and expel it through powerful energy beams from her eyes and hands.
* Enhanced strength, durability and stamina
* Flight
* Mild Healing factor
Weapons: None
Key Weakness: Excessive absorption of foreign energy drains her own life source and can result in her losing consciousness.
Origin:
Aileen was a sleeper agent for T.O.X.I.N. who infiltrated the "traitor" soldiers which fled the corporation and became heroes when the first ever Meta's were created. Her and her husband would go by the hero aliases, Powerhouse and E-Beam and fight alongside the first ever hero team which had members like Red Star and Gladiator. Only to later deceive them and kill those on the team after revealing their true intentions, but Red Star and Gladiator did not know of this and later disappear due to their own personal altercations. Aileen and her husband then retired as heroes after suffering the teams tragedy of being killed by a "mystery villain" then be ordered to create the ultimate weapon. Soon later they would conceive a child who they hoped would grow to become T.O.X.I.N.'s own weapon of mass destruction by having both super strength from the father and energy powers from the mother. When the child grew up believing the parents where heroes the child eventually became a hero too using their abilities going by a superhero name. Although when the parents revealed their true plans it did not bode well and the hero would be forced to battle their own parents, killing the father in the process. The mother would then hate her child from then on and become the all absence of hope, total despair and make it her duty to kill the hero.