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By my calculations, the depth of this field is thirty nine inches exactly, and I am a scientist!
We're Here and our fields are deep.
Tripod-mounted and remote-triggered while also holding the prop and focusing manually for the second day in a row *Gasp*.
Long exposure with Olympus 35RC & Pan-F in D76 1:1
Using Ilford's published reciprocity calculations (Tc = Tmp) total exposure was 90 seconds.
A crop of IMGP3793. If my calculations are correct the central hexagon is approx. 165 microns across (0.165mm). I'm always amazed by the incredible structure of these crystals.
Camera: Pentax K-m
Lens: Sigma Lens 70-300 + Kenko 2X
Exposure Time: 0.002 sec (1/640)
Aperture: f/11.2 (Calculated)
Focal Length: 600mm (35mm equivalent: 900mm)
ISO: 500
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program: Manual
Exposure Mode: Manual
Metering Mode: Center-weighted average
White Balance: Auto
Software: K-m Ver 1.00
Aperture Calculation While using tele-converter
Aperture Diameter = Focal length/ Aperture=300/5.6=53.6mm
Focal length with 2X tele = 300 x 2 = 600mm
Aperture = Focal length / Aperture Diameter = 600/53.6 = 11.2 ie: f 11.2
A staircase can oddly spark passion and thought in geometry, design calculations, math equations, and architectural design.
Each time I venture out, that calculation of safety. Ensuring everyone's protected, and that I'm not bringing anything back home with me.
All those concerns washed away, after a few minutes of shooting with Jada. I've got a fantastic subject in front of me, it's all about finding my way towards a good time, towards good shots.
So we joke, talk anime, we slowly make our way down the embankment (her boots weren't really made for that angle of walking), we position ourselves just so, getting the light right.
Shooting, for me, for so long, was a way to alleviate boredom. To chase away ennui. Now it's a way to...well, okay, still the same, but Also! Also it's a way to ignore the pandemic for a bit. I'm chasing escapism far more than I'm (deep sigh) chasing light.
Stock Shot | Gran Turismo Sport
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Just done some more calculations and well the news isn’t good. Because after doing a test with unproven technology. I have doomed the whole universe.
The supermoon making an appearance over the Old Lynchburg City Cemetery. The day before I made calculations deciding the best place to shoot, I think all the planning paid off.
One evening last year, close to the end of Lockdown 1, a group of boozy statisticians from the University of Redruth came to a startling conclusion after an all day cultural visit to Skinner's Brewery. They'd made all of the careful calculations that numerate folk do, reviewing an unspecified moment in time as their starting point and projecting the ensuing trend forward. They were sure they'd got it right when they announced to the waiting world that by the year 2030, half of the population of Cornwall would be celebrity chefs.
Ok, so I may have made some of that up - well ok, all of it in fact. There isn't a University in Redruth for starters. They have got a Cash Converters and an Aldi though - it all happens around here. I think I've read too many of Brian Pedlar's stories in truth, although it wouldn't surprise me if half of us were displaying Michelin Stars and AA Rosettes outside our front doors down here in a few years from now. They're everywhere - one of them appears to have taken over an entire town and the local Council have had to change the name of the place by deed poll.
Almost two years ago some family member bought Ali forty pounds worth of vouchers for one of these celebrated establishments and we still haven't got around to using them. In fact we need to do so before they expire in a couple of months from now, but even though we have the opportunity to enjoy free food on the back of the deal, we still can't get over the prices we've seen in the online menu. Recently we visited for the very first time another cult food outlet not a million miles away from Truro. I won't name it - but suffice to say it's a hut and it's hidden (that may have given it away to you if you're local). We joined a queue so long that my friend Sheona and her daughter were also unexpectedly in it, to pay nine pounds each for what was effectively posh thick soup. It was pleasant enough, but we agreed we'd take a packed lunch next time we visited the area. By the time we'd walked around the point to the next cove I was hungry again.
You're probably thinking to yourself "what a pair of tightwads....." It's true, but I really do struggle to deal with frightening assaults on the credit card when three nights earlier we'd had an enormous takeaway roast from Smokey Joe's in exchange for for exactly the same price and didn't need to eat again until our visit to the hut that was hidden somewhere on the following Tuesday. There are people who recoil in horror at our affection for the truck stop across the road from home that is always full of locals, but we love it there. Dave was delighted with the place when he made his first visit there in December, fully in the knowledge that his wife was eleven miles away at home. He had the roast as well.
What's all that got to do with this picture? Well that's back to Sheona and her little Jack Russell, called Little Russ. She takes him to Watergate Bay for walkies, so she's renamed the place - although she hasn't sorted out the deed poll arrangements yet. I've only been there once, two years ago when we'd received the gift of a gourmet tasting menu at the establishment of another celebrity chef. I don't usually do this - nor do you I'm sure - but every dish was carefully photographed and sent to everyone we knew via Whatsapp. It was rather good. Although I really can't remember what we had. I can remember my pint of lager cost more than it does in the Plume of Feathers though.
Personally I think Ali cooks better than any of them. The paneer salad wrap I had for lunch on Sunday was amazing. Maybe I should have photographed that and posted it here instead of this not especially good image. I quite like looking at it though, because you can almost see all the way home from here. At least I think that's St Agnes Beacon in the hinterland behind the silhouettes of the Atlantic and Headland Hotels in Newquay. Everyone goes to Newquay you know. Even we'll have to if we're going to use that voucher before a certain celebrity chef gets to keep his money without supplying any food in exchange for it.
Happy hump day folks. There's a bank holiday weekend coming up and I'm hoping to finally catch up with what you've all been up to.
Do you realise that the symbol used to represent pi….you know, that horrible 3.141….thing you had to learn about at school in maths for calculating the circumference or area of a circle….., originated in North Wales?
The first calculation of pi was made by Archimedes of Syracuse (287–212 BC), one of the greatest mathematicians of the ancient world, but it was a much less famous man called William Jones who introduced that symbol ‘π’ which until then was just a Greek letter.
William Jones was born sometime around 1675 on the island Anglesey in the parish of Llanfihangel Tre’r Beirdd, about four miles west of the town which is now Benllech. He had a humble up-bringing and was raised on a small farmstead by his parents Siôn Siôr (John George Jones) and Elizabeth Rowland. However his talent for mathematics quickly became apparent when he attended a charity school at Llanfechell. It was to be his only formal education. His aptitude for the subject ensured that he would not follow in the family footsteps. A local squire and landlord of the distinguished Bulkeley family, heard of his skill and took him under their patronage. They arranged for him to work in a merchant’s counting house in London.
It was only the first of many journeys. Between 1695 and 1702 he served in the Royal Navy, sailing to the West Indies during which time he taught mathematics on board a man-of-war, en-route learning about navigation. He was present at the battle of Vigo in October 1702 when the English successfully captured the Spanish treasure fleet as it was returning to the port in north-west Spain under French escort. Ignoring the obvious riches of silver to be had, he went in search of other booty according to an 1807 memoir by Baron Teignmouth, ‘... literary treasures were the sole plunder that he coveted.’
On his return he published A New Compendium of the Whole Art of Navigation which he dedicated to a benefactor John Harris, a writer, scientist and Anglican priest who had taken him under his wing. Back in the capital, his voyages over, he became a mathematics teacher in coffee houses and as a private tutor to the son of the future Earl of Macclesfield. He also became tutor to Philip Yorke, later 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), who became Lord Chancellor and provided an invaluable source of introductions for his tutor.
In those circles, Isaac Newton had already mentioned to the Admiralty the benefit of sending mathematicians to sea. So inevitably it was only a matter of time before Jones came to the attention of Newton after reading “Jones’s Synopsis”, in which the younger man explained Newton’s methods for calculus as well as other mathematical innovations. It was in this book that Jones first used the Greek symbol ‘π’ to denote the pi. More significantly he used it as a constant number - 3.141...
Before Jones, approximations such as 22/7 and 355/113 had also been used to express the ratio. Explaining its use, he wrote: ‘... the exact proportion between the diameter and the circumference can never be expressed in numbers...’. Hence, a symbol was required to represent an ideal that can be approached but never reached. For this Jones recognised that only a pure platonic symbol would suffice.
In 1708 Jones was able to acquire an extensive library and archive, which contained several of Newton’s letters and papers written in the 1670s. The following year he applied for the mastership of Christ’s Hospital Mathematical School, despite references from Newton and Edmund Halley (the astronomer who calculated the orbit of the comet, now named after him) but he was turned down. Jones went back into private teaching but thanks to the papers he had acquired he was able to help his old mentor Newton resolving a dispute with German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz, over which of the men first invented calculus.
In 1712 Jones joined the committee set up by the Royal Society to determine which of them invented calculus. He was now firmly in the mathematical establishment.
He married twice, firstly the widow of his counting-house employer, whose property he inherited on her death.He remarried in 1731, to Mary, the 22-year-old daughter (30 years his junior) of cabinet-maker George Nix, with whom he had three children.
And therein lies the story of ‘π’ and it’s origins in North Wales. My photo is actually of part of some derelict structure of the Penmaenmawr quarry, the quarry that has removed the top one third of this granite mountain. But I thought it looked like ‘π’ standing high above the North Wales Expressway.
Other lens with far from perfect rendering. I can't help it, I like it much more. Sovjet Zenit, based on a Zeiss calculation.
G'day! My last assignment for this semester! ♥ Earthen Mood is the name of the room, concept is nature with elegance, embracing our complexion with the world. x Later tonight I'll be submitting some Second Life images! xox
Jean-Louis Pons (1761-1831) was a French astronomer, who went on to become the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time. In today's world, comets are routinely found when they are far out in space, beyond the ability of being picked up by human eyes, but are caught using robotic cameras attached to large telescopes either here on Earth or from satellites out in space.
In contrast, Pons made most of his discoveries using telescopes and lenses of his own design; his "Grand Chercheur" ("Great Seeker") was an instrument with a large aperture and short focal length, similar to telescopes that our modern-day amateurs would refer to as a "comet seeker." Pons is noted today for visually discovering 37 comets (still a record) from 1801 to 1827.
One of those discoveries came on July 12, 1812. When first sighted, Pons described it as "a shapeless object with no apparent tail," but over the next month, the comet became bright enough to be dimly visible to the naked eye. On Aug. 15 that year, it reached its peak brightness at fourth magnitude (Magnitude indicates an object's degree of brightness. The lower the figure of magnitude, the brighter the object.) The new comet also possessed a split tail measuring approximately three degrees.
Orbital calculations suggested that comet Pons was periodic, taking somewhere between 65 and 75 years to circle the sun.
On Sept. 2, 1883, British-born American comet observer William R. Brooks (1844-1921) accidently found it. Like Pons, Brooks was a prolific discoverer of comets. In fact, his total of 27 visual discoveries is second only to Pons. Not until the first orbital calculations of Brooks' discovery was made, was it realized that this comet and the comet found by Pons of 1812 were one of the same. So, this comet now bears the surnames of both observers.
With an orbital period of roughly 71 years, comet Pons-Brooks is considered to be a "Halley-type" comet, that is, a comet with an orbital period between 20 and 200 years, often appearing only once or twice within one's lifetime. Other comets with a similar orbital period include 13P/Olbers, 23P/Brosen-Metcalf and the most famous of all, 1P/Halley. Because it was the twelfth comet to have a definitive orbital period calculated, it is cataloged today as 12P/Pons-Brooks.
Deciding which photo to post is a complex series of calculations and decisions.
I spend several hours purifying my body, anointing myself with oils and lotions, purifying my spirit through rigorous meditation. I enter a period of complete silence for up to thirteen seconds, allowing the flow of the universe to wind its way through my consciousness.
Then I being The Great Work, sifting through my gargantuan archive, connecting with its ebb and flow, thinking, always, of The Audience.
What do you need?
What do you want?
What do you need that you do not know you need?
What do you want that you are wrong to want?
Then, and only then, once all this has been answered, do I choose a photo.
Either that, or I go, "what haven't I posted, lately? Oh, a good ol' signature O' Bedlam shot! Let's find one of those!"
And here we are. You're welcome.
... expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven". ~ Rumi
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Given time, patience and lots of caffeine, a bit calculation helps. :)
For my friends whom setting hpfc debate on fire:
and likely,
Chilk2411(Peaceful Lullabies...♫)
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/ann_nguyenphotography]
JohnNguyen0297 (busy - on/off)
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/chongkin]
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/garthimage]
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/writing]
And any friend I may miss whom is interested in this conversation. Our Flickr circle has been idle for a long time. If I'd miss your name, my apology. Please jump in. :) Thanks.
"If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour ... you're gonna see some serious shit."
(Dr. Emmett Brown)
('DeLorean DMC-12' (1:24) by WELLY Die Casting Factory Limited)
Because it isn't flat. Should have been, as per my calculations.
From 2 pentagons.
My real crocus is facing a snowstorm today.
During the era of the Galactic Republic, many starfighters were too small to safely contain a hyperdrive and required a hyperdrive ring to travel through hyperspace. The 0-KY1 starfighter or O-Wing was the first attempt at building a starfighter capable of hyperspace travel by incorporating a hyperdrive ring into its design. It featured a slanted, more aerodynamic design than traditional hyperdrive rings with a cockpit on the lower half and two turrets on the upper wing. It accommodated space for one pilot as well as one astromech droid to assist with hyperspace jump calculations. The Republic hoped to gain an edge in the Clone Wars by using it for surprise attacks where the fighters could drop out of hyperspace and engage the enemy immediately without the need of having to disconnect from a hyperdrive ring first. Unfortunately, due to its impractical shape, the concept was soon abandoned.
My entry for the Alphabet Fighter category in the Eurobricks May the 4th contest.
A bit of a mis-calculation with regard to the rising of the sun as I thought it would be high enough for this location. Sadly I was in no position to move location which would of meant heading towards home, so made the most of it! Blue livery, No 60026 'Helvellyn' passes St Helens Junction Station on 6E09 07:20 Liverpool Biomass Terminal to Drax Aes biomass. 5th October 2024.
Copyright: 8A Rail. www.8arail.uk
Merry Christmas to you all !
I invite each of you to connect to the child in you. Getting back to the nativ spirit without profit, calculation, economy, or anything related to the so called "civilzed" world.
Just you and the elements.
Enjoy !
This buck had a family going and when I went back a couple of times I didn't see him with his family. I conclude it was shot and killed.This is his last photo by my calculations.
“Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.” - Charles Baudelaire
Macro Monday project – 05/11/15
"5 (five)”
Chinon CP-7m
smc PENTAX-M 1:1.7 50mm
AGFA APX 100
No lightmeter used. I made calculations before.. The calculated exposure with reciprocity failure of the agfa apx100 at two days before fullmoon was 8min@f/2
After seeing [https://www.flickr.com/photos/pieter-post-lego] his G12, I inspired me to improve the Baureihe 56.20. I completely redid the calculations for the proportions, making it more accurate to approximately 1/45 scale. This meant changing the distance between the drivers and making her slightly taller. This gave me more room to improve the boiler and details above the drivers. Some inspiration was taken from FLBRICKS recent WIP photos. The PU L-motor is now located inside the boiler, making it possible to look through the locomotive beneath the boiler. Personally, I like the details to be slightly oversized, we're working with Lego after all! Finally, I redesigned the tender, making it smoother and slightly larger, for easier access to the battery box.
Although she can no longer go through R40 curves, I think the MOC is a lot nicer to display. I still might change some things, but that's for the future. It was hard to not take too much inspiration from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/pieter-post-lego] G12 which is a masterpiece. Especially since the G8.2 and G12 are very similar IRL. But I still tried to still keep it my own build.
I'll take some nicer, more detailed photos soon!
Let me know what you think!
Due to differences in the calculation of fiscal horsepower, the cars were given different names.
the 7CV became the Light Twelve
the 11CV became the Light Fifteen or in long wheelbase version the Big Fifteen
and the 15CV became the Six Cylinder or Big Six.
(citroenet.org.uk)
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A calculation of the gravitational binding energy of the planet Jupiter from Poisson's equation.
Just to prove to myself I can still do this stuff 44 years on...
Il primo giorno di primavera? Quest’anno non sarà il 21 marzo ma il 20 marzo. Nessuna sorpresa: è stato così anche nel 2016 e nel 2017 e in futuro la data si sposterà ancora in avanti.
Il momento esatto dell’equinozio
Secondo i calcoli degli scienziati basati sulla rotazione terrestre il momento esatto in cui comincia la primavera quest’anno arriva alle 17:15 di martedì 20 marzo. E’ il momento dell’equinozio, cioè quando notte e giorno, o meglio la durata del periodo di luce e quello di buio, sono identici. Da quel momento il periodo di luce comincia ad allungarsi rispetto a quello di buio (succede l’inverso a partire dall’equinozio d’autunno).
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Io ho sempre visto la violetta spontanea profumatissima in coincidenza con aria di primavera.
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la viola mammola (Viola odorata) spontanea nei boschi. nei prati, lungo le siepi; ha foglie ovali, a forma di cuore, con margini dentati, lungo picciolo e stipole ovali; i fiori sono di color violaceo o bianchi, molto profumati, hanno un lungo peduncolo e fioriscono all'inizio della primavera; essa viene coltivata in numerose varietà, sia a scopo ornamentale, sia per estrarne un olio essenziale utilizzato in profumeria.
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The first day of spring? This year it will not be March 21st but March 20th. No surprise: this was also the case in 2016 and 2017 and in the future the date will still move forward.
The exact moment of the equinox
According to the calculations of scientists based on the rotation of the earth the exact moment in which spring begins this year arrives at 5:15 pm on Tuesday 20 March. It is the moment of the equinox, that is when night and day, or rather the duration of the period of light and that of darkness, are identical. From that moment the period of light begins to lengthen compared to that of darkness (the inverse happens starting from the autumn equinox).
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I have always seen the spontaneous scented violet to coincide with spring air.
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the violet mammola (Viola odorata) spontaneous in the woods. in the meadows, along the hedges; has oval leaves, heart-shaped, with toothed margins, long petiole and oval stipules; the flowers are purple or white, very fragrant, have a long stalk and bloom at the beginning of spring; it is cultivated in many varieties, both for ornamental purposes and for extracting an essential oil used in perfumery.
I was a physics and mathematics double major, but I never assume I know more than anyone else. But I sure know what I am doing, and how to check and recheck my work before publishing my work.
So when someone asks me to check the calculations because my math is wrong, this is the face I get. And then I gladly and politely show them real-time, in front of all the people they called me out in front of, how the math is correct, they just don't like the result. They are not the same thing.
Theme: Working Conditions
Year Sixteen Of My 365 Project
By estimating the length of their trails in this image (around 8cm) and taking account of the exposure (1/110 th second) it works out at approximately 8.8 metres/second
Ilford delta 100, reduced pinhole size but still over exposed. focus is slightly better but light leaks over ride calculations. think I'll mess with this and have fun anyway
Trujillo is a city, with a population of 20,780 (2020 calculation), and a municipality on the northern Caribbean coast of the Honduran department of Colón, of which the city is the capital.
The municipality had a population of about 30,000 (2003). The city is located on a bluff overlooking the Bay of Trujillo. Behind the city rise two prominent mountains, Mount Capiro and Mount Calentura. Three Garifuna fishing villages—Santa Fe, San Antonio, and Guadelupe—are located along the beach.
Trujillo has received plenty of attention as the potential site of a proposed Honduran charter city project, according to an idea originally advocated by American economist Paul Romer. Often referred to as a Hong Kong in Honduras and advocated by among others the Trujillo-born Honduran president Porfirio Lobo Sosa, the project has also been met with skepticism and controversy, especially due to its supposed disregard for the local Garifuna culture.
Christopher Columbus landed in Trujillo on August 14, 1502, during his fourth and final voyage to the Americas. Columbus named the place "Punta de Caxinas". It was the first time he touched the Central American mainland. He noticed that the water in this part of the Caribbean was very deep and therefore called the area Golfo de Honduras, i.e., The Gulf of the Depths.
The history of the modern town begins in 1524, shortly after the conquest of the Aztec Empire in an expedition led by Hernán Cortés. Cortés sent Cristóbal de Olid to find a Spanish outpost in the region, and he established a town named Triunfo de la Cruz in the vicinity. When Olid began using the town as his base for establishing his own realm in Central America, Cortés sent Francisco de las Casas to remove him. Las Casas lost most of his fleet in a storm, but he was nevertheless able to defeat Olid and restore the region to Cortés. Upon assuming control, Las Casas decided to relocate the town to its present location, because the natural harbor was larger. At the same time, Triunfo de la Cruz was renamed Trujillo. His deputy, Juan López de Aguirre was charged with establishing the new town, but he sailed off, leaving another deputy, named Medina, to find the town. In the coming years Trujillo became more important as a shipment point for gold and silver mined in the interior of the country. Because of its sparse population, the city also became a frequent target of pirates.
Under Spanish rule Trujillo became the capital of Honduras, but because of its vulnerability the capital was changed to the inland town of Comayagua. The fortress, Fortaleza de Santa Bárbara (El Castillo), which sits on the bluff overlooking the bay, was built by the Spanish around 1550. Nevertheless, it was inadequate to really defend Trujillo from pirates—the largest gathering of pirates in history took place in the vicinity in 1683—or rival colonial powers: the Dutch, French, and English. The town was destroyed several times between 1633 and 1797, and during the eighteenth century, the Spanish all but abandoned Trujillo because it was deemed indefensible,
When Honduras obtained its independence from Spain in 1821, Trujillo lost its status of capital city permanently first to Comayagua, which lost it to Tegucigalpa in 1880. From this same period onwards, Trujillo began to prosper again.
In 1860, the mercenary William Walker, who had seized control of neighboring Nicaragua, was caught and executed in Trujillo by orders of Florencio Xatruch. His tomb is a local tourist attraction.
American author O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) spent about a year living in Honduras, primarily in Trujillo. He later wrote a number of short stories that took place in "Coralio" in the fictional Central American country of "Anchuria", based on the real town of Trujillo. Most of these stories appear in his book Of Cabbages and Kings.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trujillo,_Honduras
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Numbers, letters, lets look at the blueprints. Puzzles, messages, lets look at the plan. Encrypted, decrypted, encoded information, the cipher of the decipher of the text. Predicted, restricted, classified information, the data of the metadata of the context. What are the algorithms, the sequences, the calculations of the code of the Beast Mode? What is the linguistics of the morphology of the syntax of the semantics of the schematics?
The coming apocalypse, the four horsemen of the apocalypse. The prince of darkness, the Mark of the Beast. Mystery Babylon, Babylon the Great. The battle of Armageddon, the second coming of Christ.
Psalm 75:8 “In the hand of the LORD is a cup full of foaming wine mixed with spices; he pours it out, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to its very dregs.”
They control the information. They control the information flow. They collect the information. They run the data through computer models and simulations. Data is the future. Those who control the data will control the future. In fact, you could say: Those who control the data will know the future. The more AI advances, the more it can predict the future. That’s why those at the top think: if we can predict the future, we can control the future. Well, that’s what they think. In reality, they can’t see their own future demise. They can’t beat God. They can fight against Him, but in the end they will lose.
Technology speeds up time. Not that time itself speeds up, but that more can be accomplished in the same amount of time. “But you, Daniel, keep this prophecy a secret; seal up the book until the time of the end, when many will rush here and there, and knowledge will increase.” Technology has allowed us to “rush” here and there. Technology has caused knowledge to increase. The coming technology will change the current landscape forever. “The end will come like a flood.” As time speeds up more and more, these crazy technological ideas/goals will come in quickly and take many by surprise. The globalists have this goal in mind: to usher us into the Fourth Industrial Revolution. What does this mean for humanity? It means transhumanism: 666 the Mark of the Beast.
Isaiah 26:20-21 “Come, my people (bride), enter your chambers (wedding chamber), and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves (in the Lord) for a little while (7 years) until (God’s wrath/Tribulation) the fury has passed by. For behold, the LORD is coming (second coming of Christ)out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it, and will no more cover its slain.”
The previous residents of our room had left their mark with some mathematical calculations. Composed a great view with the sunlight at 7.30 AM.
Blue-hearted Daisy!
Think about it: most Daisies you know of whatever color have a yellow or orange 'heart'. Felicia heterophylla, True-Blue Daisy is one of the few exceptions. It was first described under the name Agathaea celestis - Heavenly Excellence - by Alexandre Henri Gabriel de Cassini (1781-1832) in 1817. True-Blue went by a number of other Latin names for a century and a half until Jan Grau in 1973 sorted out the entire genus Felicia.
I suppose it's fitting to call it 'heavenly' for more than only an aesthetic reason. In 1751 the great French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (1713-1762) had traveled to the Cape of Good Hope to study the southern heavens. He spent literally all his nights - together with only his little dog Gris-Gris - cataloguing stars; in the end some 10,000 of them, and he named new southern constellations (some 14) as we still call them today. Besides doing his calculations during the day he also e.g. at Mamre, the former Groene Kloof - I quote the English translation of his notes for 8 to 10 August 1751 - 'amused myself shooting some birds and collecting some local flowers'. These flowers and others too he sent back to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. Cassini later described our Heavenly Blue in 1817 on the basis of that 'packet of dried plants sent from the Cape (by Lacaille, RP) a long time ago.'
Lacaille seems to have been something of a loner and he hated public adulation. Tiny Syritta pipiens, Thick-thighed Hoverfly, is a loner, too. But it's not sticking its tongue out at you but rather for pollinic sustenance stolen from the blue pistil of Felicia.