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These lead sheets weigh 0,82 KG. According to Einstein's formula (energy is equivalent to mass times the speed of light squared) this lump of lead which fits in the palm of my hand contains the energy released by combustion of approximately 2,15 billion liters of petrol. Inversely, the combustion of petrol uses up only a minuscule fraction of the energy total stored in it. Edited in Luminar.
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Dying is easy it's living that scares me to death, ooh, yeah
I could be so content hearing the sound of your breath, ooh, yeah
Cold is the colour of crystal the snowlight
That falls from the heavenly skies
Catch me and let me dive under
For I want to swim in the pools of your eyes
Billions and billions of stars. Well, maybe closer to 100 stick-on foil stars. They have been sitting in my desk drawer for many many years, but they now have an opportunity to shine. This idea came to me immediately upon reading the Stars theme for the week. I tried a few different POV, lighting, and background schemes and came up with a set of four photos that I like. Did I pick the STAR for Macro Mondays? HMM
🙏 Honestly, you could offer me 500 Million Dollar 💵 for my dream, and I wouldn't sell it for a billion. Money is money, once you've understood how it works, you can always make it back by creating value for others. With a billion dollars you could buy anything in the world, EXCEPT for loyal friends, a partner you love and a dream from the bottom of your heart & soul 🔥💯🐬isn't much left to spend money on, is there? 💯💯💎💴💵💶
“I love the freedom of my wings. I love the empty space above the ground. I rejoice in my freedom. Freedom is my religion. Peace is my God. Love is my worship.”
― Banani Ray, World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird
This image, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the colorful "last hurrah" of a star like our sun. The star is ending its life by casting off its outer layers of gas, which formed a cocoon around the star's remaining core. Ultraviolet light from the dying star makes the material glow. The burned-out star, called a white dwarf, is the white dot in the center. Our sun will eventually burn out and shroud itself with stellar debris, but not for another 5 billion years.
Our Milky Way Galaxy is littered with these stellar relics, called planetary nebulae. The objects have nothing to do with planets. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century astronomers called them the name because through small telescopes they resembled the disks of the distant planets Uranus and Neptune. The planetary nebula in this image is called NGC 2440. The white dwarf at the center of NGC 2440 is one of the hottest known, with a surface temperature of more than 360,000 degrees Fahrenheit (200,000 degrees Celsius). The nebula's chaotic structure suggests that the star shed its mass episodically. During each outburst, the star expelled material in a different direction. This can be seen in the two bowtie-shaped lobes. The nebula also is rich in clouds of dust, some of which form long, dark streaks pointing away from the star. NGC 2440 lies about 4,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Puppis.
The material expelled by the star glows with different colors depending on its composition, its density and how close it is to the hot central star. Blue samples helium; blue-green oxygen, and red nitrogen and hydrogen.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and K. Noll (STScI), Acknowledgment: The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
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One Billion Rising is a „must” event for me to attend each year in SL. This year, however, RL kept me so very busy on 14th February that all I could do was to wander around in the already abandoned sims almost a day later, trying to take as many pictures of the amazing artwork and the gardens as I could.
Milky Way at Mount Saint Helens last night. I'm not sure which is more abundant, the stars in the night sky or the daisies in the foreground!
It seems I'm not alone at being alone.
I hope that someone gets my ..
Message in a bottle.
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Since I started drumming in 1982, his playing style was my fascination. Stewart Copeland of "The Police" with his innumerable talents to interpret his music.
This picture should be an expression of his influence and a small "thank you Stu, my idol".
Song: Billion Dollar Bitch by Yung Baby Tate
Video by: Me
DISCLAIMER: I hereby declare that I do not own the rights to this music/song. All rights belong to the owner. No Copyright Infringement Intended.
Buntzen Lake, B.C.
This is a 3.5 min. exposure during a thunderstorm. The white effect on the lake is from billions of raindrops falling over the 3.5 min. exposure. I calculated about 189 billion hit the lake during this exposure. Luckily, I brought an umbrella to cover my gear!
10 stop ND filter, ND grad and sky blue for the sky, polarizer. All filters are Lee. Zero post-processing.
Trivia - an episode of Smallville was shot here. I took my daughter here when she was obsessed with Smallville, and she went for a swim in the lake. Then a few days ago, I remembered how beautiful the lake was, and what a nice photo opp it could be.
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We went to Treasure Island at night to capture the new eastern span of the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge. The eastern span replacement bridge was built between 2002 and 2013 to replace an old steel bridge that was deemed unsafe at earthquakes. It is the most expensive public works project in California history, with an estimated cost of $6.4 billion.
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW long exposure, and pulled the curves to pop the scene.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC5115_hd1bal1g
Billions of urban street scenes come to life everyday. I can only imagine where this man is going. To the train? Home from a red eye flight? or perhaps he is hauling photographic equipment on his way to an all day shoot.
I am always amazed at the number of stars visible in the Milky Way (est. 100 billion) and even more amazed to think that there are fewer stars in our galaxy than the size of the US deficit (over 14 trillion dollars). And even more amazing is that our politicians can't come together with solutions to this "astronomical" problem!
I decided to leave a bit early on my drive to Salmon, Idaho to work for the day. In this image the Milky Way is seen in the western sky rising above the Lemhi Mountains, taken just north of Gilmore Summit. The quarter moon had just risen behind me to give a bit of light to the valley and mountains beyond.
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One Billion Rising is a „must” event for me to attend each year in SL. This year, however, RL kept me so very busy on 14th February that all I could do was to wander around in the already abandoned sims almost a day later, trying to take as many pictures of the amazing artwork and the gardens as I could.
The powerful and inspiring artwork by Krystali Rabeni.
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The red train of the Rhaetian Railway stands out in the majestic landscapes of the canton of Graubünden. More precisely, it is the ABe 4/16 number 3127 that serves the R15 regional line between Scuol-Tarasp, in the far east of Switzerland, and Pontresina.
The train, manufactured by Stadler in 2019 in 62 units, is now an integral part of the Rhaetian Railway fleet, providing all modern comforts as well as accessibility for people with reduced mobility.
The R15 line runs along the Engadine railway, completed in 1913, and now connects Bever with Scuol-Tarasp. To date, the tracks end at Scuol-Tarasp, but throughout history there have been several projects to extend the line towards Austria and Italy.
The first extension was to Pfunds, Austria, where there would have been a connection with the Austrian railway between Landeck and Malles. Both the Austrian railway and the extension of the Rhaetian Railway were never realised due to the First World War.
The topic did not come up again until 2005, when the Val Venosta railway resumed service between Merano and Malles. Discussions then resumed on a possible extension to Malles, with an estimated cost of around CHF 1 billion. To date, the idea remains open, but it is estimated that no decision will be taken at federal level before 2029.
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Date 📅: 26.12.2024, 13:45
Place 📍: Ardez, Switzerland
Train 🚄: ABe 4/16 3127
Train Company 🏢: RhB
Line 🔢: R15 ---
Start 🚩: Scuol-Tarasp
Destination 🏁: Pontresina
©️The photo was taken and edited by Nathan Urriani. Use of the image by others is only allowed with my permission.
While I understand it is the official logo of the 100th anniversary of the formation of Canadian National Railway, and that CN tries to maintain a consistent image in their paint (despite the GT, IC, EJ&E, etc... units still roaming), this was just a little "uninspiring". Despite knowing what I was setting out to shoot in a steady rain, at 0430, and sleep deprived, I still wanted to shoot it. While they may have just painted over the noodle and website and slapped the 100th anniversary logo on there, it still isn't horrible, but you would think they could have tried a little harder.
Still I Rise
#SLOBRIRise
Don't look away....this is a photo of awareness. Abuse isn't always physical, the words hurt, they cut, they make you feel like this on the inside. This is the damage words can do. Still I rise.
"One Billion Rising is the biggest mass action to end violence against women (cisgender, transgender, and those who hold fluid identities that are subject to gender-based violence) in human history. (The reality that): 1 in 3 women across the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime. That’s ONE BILLION WOMEN AND GIRLS. Every February, we rise – in countries across the world – to show our local communities and the world what one billion looks like and shine a light on the rampant impunity and injustice that survivors most often face. We rise through dance to express joy and community and celebrate the fact that we have not been defeated by this violence. We rise to show we are determined to create a new kind of consciousness – one where violence will be resisted until it is unthinkable."
This declaration inspires survivors, as well as supporters to Rise and we invite YOU to take a stand TODAY, in the SL: One Billion Rising Campaign. We implore you to visit the OBR website, as well as the curated Pinterest, linked below to inspire your image. We understand the sensitive nature of this Campaign and the impact these images may provoke. However, in perusing of the website, we're certain you'll be empowered by the images of celebration, the marches and most of all, the courage, love as well as staggering rally of humanity against injustice.
EVERYONE is welcomed to participate as the Second Life One Billion Rising is a 24 hour, Multi Sim Event featuring live music, Poetry, dancing 2D and 3D Art exhibits. Please read over the guidelines below and RISE with us in ONE voice on Sunday, February 14th!
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a billion below zero
colder without you
you left behind such memories
I…… miss …….you……………..
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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon
The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, United States. The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide and attains a depth of over a mile (6,093 feet or 1,857 meters).
The canyon and adjacent rim are contained within Grand Canyon National Park, the Kaibab National Forest, Grand Canyon–Parashant National Monument, the Hualapai Indian Reservation, the Havasupai Indian Reservation and the Navajo Nation. The surrounding area is contained within the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument. President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent of the preservation of the Grand Canyon area and visited it on numerous occasions to hunt and enjoy the scenery.
Nearly two billion years of Earth's geological history have been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layer after layer of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted. While some aspects about the history of incision of the canyon are debated by geologists, several recent studies support the hypothesis that the Colorado River established its course through the area about 5 to 6 million years ago. Since that time, the Colorado River has driven the down-cutting of the tributaries and retreat of the cliffs, simultaneously deepening and widening the canyon.
For thousands of years, the area has been continuously inhabited by Native Americans, who built settlements within the canyon and its many caves. The Pueblo people considered the Grand Canyon a holy site, and made pilgrimages to it. The first European known to have viewed the Grand Canyon was García López de Cárdenas from Spain, who arrived in 1540.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon_National_Park
Grand Canyon National Park is a national park of the United States located in northwestern Arizona, the 15th site to have been named as a national park. The park's central feature is the Grand Canyon, a gorge of the Colorado River, which is often considered one of the Wonders of the World. The park, which covers 1,217,262 acres (1,901.972 sq mi; 4,926.08 km2) of unincorporated area in Coconino and Mohave counties, received more than 4.7 million recreational visitors in 2023. The Grand Canyon was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979. The park celebrated its 100th anniversary on February 26, 2019.
Source: www.nps.gov/grca/index.htm
Entirely within the state of Arizona, the park encompasses 278 miles (447 km) of the Colorado River and adjacent uplands. Located on the ancestral homelands of 11 present day Tribal Communities, Grand Canyon is one of the most spectacular examples of erosion anywhere in the world—a mile deep canyon unmatched in the incomparable vistas it offers visitors from both north and south rims.
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(United States) "الولايات المتحدة" "Vereinigte Staaten" "アメリカ" "米国" "美国" "미국" "Estados Unidos" "États-Unis" "ארצות הברית" "संयुक्त राज्य" "США"
(Arizona) "أريزونا" "亚利桑那州" "אריזונה" "एरिजोना" "アリゾナ州" "애리조나" "Аризона"
(Grand Canyon) "جراند كانيون" "大峡谷" "גרנד קניון" "ग्रांड कैन्यन" "グランドキャニオン" "그랜드 캐니언" "Гранд-Каньон" "Gran Cañón"
The Lonely Tree #2
Billions of shiny stars all across the the winter night sky during our recent all-night photo trip to the mountains with my friend. It was an awesome nice & clear night to shoot the starry sky, however it was -8°C all night, still we decided to stay till morning, because of the view.. (*.*)
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Fountains at The Capitol Theatre facade...
About Capitol Theatre
The old Capitol Theatre has just reopened, after a billion-dollar facelift. Along with a retail mall, the development will also include residences and a hotel.
Capitol Theatre, later known as Capitol Cinema, located at the junction of Stamford Road and North Bridge Road, is of neo-classical architecture. It was completed in 1930 and served as a theatre until the 1940s when the Shaw Organisation turned it into a cinema.
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We are just one of many billions of other galaxies that exist in the universe, but this is our galaxy and our home and it's the best one in the universe. Well...until andromeda collides with us.
Anyways, I completely forgot I had this picture. I never shared it and I meant to. I caught up in shooting something else at the time and just forgot.
Thanks to everyone who has been following me, commenting, favoriting and giving me feedback, it has really helped me a lot during my photographic journey.
It's easy to wish for riches, but there's a lot of truth in the saying "more money, more problems".
I've been struggling with the FF theme this week, I've taken many pictures of birthday candles, wrapping paper, and the like, Yesterday evening I remembered that I had this billion dollar bill in one of my old LPs (Alice Cooper's 1973 Billion Dollar Babies) - perfect, but I don't have a collection of bling (gold chains, Rolls-Royce keys) to go with it! Hence the slightly haphazard arrangement of wristwatch, passport, silver charms from a bracelet and glassware.
Photographed with the Auto-Paragon 28mm f/2.8 lens at f/4 (which is still a work in progress as far as its Nikon conversion is concerned) only the centre of the image was sharp, so I added a bit of radial blur in PP to make more of a feature of that and add a slightly dreamlike quality.
Photos Carol took of bats outside of Tucson in 2018 - Bats are one of the most iconic figures of Halloween. Feared for their thirst for blood and tendency to surprise unsuspecting hikers who disturb their slumber, bats give people the heebie jeebies. But that is not fair.
Arizona is home to 28 species of bats, more than almost any other state. Bats are the only true flying mammals and are valuable human allies. Worldwide, they are primary predators of vast numbers of insect pests, saving farmers and foresters billions of dollars annually and helping to control insect-spread human diseases. For example, large colonies of Mexican free-tailed bats eat hundreds of tons of moths each week, especially the moths that prey on cotton crops. Bats can eat up to 1,200 mosquitoes in an hour.
Although bats play key roles in keeping insect populations in balance, they are North America’s most rapidly declining land mammals. Declines are often caused by human fear and persecution, and each of us can help by learning how to live with these animals.
The Pallid bat has yellowish brown to cream colored fur on its back and white fur on its belly. What is most noticeable about this bat are its large ears. The ears are almost half as long as the total length of its head and body. Because they have such large ears they are able to detect the sound of their prey's footsteps on the ground. Also, its eyes are larger than most species of North American bats. Pallid bats are social creatures and live in groups. Their groups are called colonies. And the size of these colonies can range anywhere from 12-100 individuals. Most of these colonies have more than 20 bats. The largest recorded colony had 162 individuals.
Pallid bats weigh 0.7-1.2 oz. (20-35g). A pallid bat can eat half of its body weight in one night. Imagine people doing that! The pallid bat may live as many as 10 years in the wild.
Pallid bats are also more effective pollinators than some of the nectarivorous bats with whom they compete for cacti. By eating fruit and nectar from plants, bats carry seeds and pollen to new places. Not so scary anymore, huh? Well, there is one thing about bats that's pretty scary…it's that they are disappearing.
Bats aren't really blind—in fact, the larger species of bats can see better than humans—but in order to "see" in absolute darkness, they use echolocation, which means they emit high-pitched sounds (inaudible to the human ear) and listen as the sound waves bounce off nearby surfaces. In fact, with echolocation bats can see everything but color and detect obstacles as fine as a human hair. Pretty cool! So the next time someone calls you "blind as a bat," you can go ahead and take it as a compliment.
Pallid bats are a unique bat species because they are heterothermic, meaning they can be either poikilothermic or homoeothermic depending on the time of year.
The national economy of the Philippines is the 45th largest in the world, with an estimated 2010 gross domestic product (nominal) of $189 billion.Primary exports include semiconductors and electronic products, transport equipment, garments, copper products, petroleum products, coconut oil, and fruits.Major trading partners include China, Japan, the United States, Singapore, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Thailand, and Malaysia.Its unit of currency is the Philippine peso (₱ or PHP).
A newly industrialized country, the Philippine economy has been transitioning from one based on agriculture to one based more on services and manufacturing. Of the country's total labor force of around 38.1 million, the agricultural sector employs close to 32% but contributes to only about 13.8% of GDP. The industrial sector employs around 13.7% of the workforce and accounts for 30% of GDP. Meanwhile the 46.5% of workers involved in the services sector are responsible for 56.2% of GDP.
The unemployment rate as of July 2009 stands at around 7.6% and due to the global economic slowdown inflation as of September 2009 reads 0.70%. Gross international reserves as of February 2010 are $45.713 billion. In 2004, public debt as a percentage of GDP was estimated to be 74.2%; in 2008, 56.9%. Gross external debt has risen to $66.27 billion. The country is a net importer.
The Philippine Stock Exchange with the statue of Benigno Aquino, Jr.After World War II, the country was for a time regarded as the second wealthiest in East Asia, next only to Japan. However, by the 1960s its economic performance started being overtaken. The economy stagnated under the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos as the regime spawned economic mismanagement and political volatility. The country suffered from slow economic growth and bouts of economic recession. Only in the 1990s with a program of economic liberalization did the economy begin to recover.The Philippines has enjoyed sustained economic growth during first decade of the 21st century. However, as of 2010, the country's economy remained smaller than its neighbors in Southeast Asia such as Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia from both GDP and GDP per capita (nominal).
The 1997 Asian Financial Crisis affected the economy, resulting in a lingering decline of the value of the peso and falls in the stock market. But the extent it was affected initially was not as severe as that of some of its Asian neighbors. This was largely due to the fiscal conservatism of the government, partly as a result of decades of monitoring and fiscal supervision from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in comparison to the massive spending of its neighbors on the rapid acceleration of economic growth. There have been signs of progress since. In 2004, the economy experienced 6.4% GDP growth and 7.1% in 2007, its fastest pace of growth in three decades. Yet average annual GDP growth per capita for the period 1966–2007 still stands at 1.45% in comparison to an average of 5.96% for the East Asia and the Pacific region as a whole and the daily income for 45% of the population of the Philippines remains less than $2.
Other incongruities and challenges exist. The economy is heavily reliant on remittances which surpass foreign direct investment as a source of foreign currency. Regional development is uneven with Luzon—Metro Manila in particular—gaining most of the new economic growth at the expense of the other regions,although the government has taken steps to distribute economic growth by promoting investment in other areas of the country. Despite constraints, service industries such as tourism and business process outsourcing have been identified as areas with some of the best opportunities for growth for the country.Goldman Sachs includes the country in its list of the "Next Eleven" economies.But China and India have emerged as major economic competitors.
The Philippines is a member of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Asian Development Bank which is headquartered in Mandaluyong City, the Colombo Plan, and the G-77 among other groups and institutions