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La Marzocco Linea is a high-end commercial espresso machine that is often used in cafes and restaurants.
Well known as an industry workhorse and capable of producing outstanding coffee for many years.
Civitavecchia, Latium, Italy
Age-related memory loss.
The brain is capable of producing new brain cells at any age, so significant memory loss is not an inevitable result of aging. But just as it is with muscle strength, you have to use it or lose it. Your lifestyle, habits, and daily activities have a huge impact on the health of your brain. Whatever your age, there are many ways you can improve your cognitive skills, prevent memory loss, and protect your grey matter.
Furthermore, many mental abilities are largely unaffected by normal aging, such as:
Your ability to do the things you’ve always done and continue to do often
The wisdom and knowledge you’ve acquired from life experience
Your innate common sense and your ability to form reasonable arguments and judgments.
www.helpguide.org/articles/alzheimers-dementia-aging/age-...
Some days I know how he feels.
For whom those who have not seen this display.
No need to comment
Taken hand held using Nikkor 200-500 mm lens, at Kumana National Park, Sri Lanka.
The male, or peacock, is predominantly blue with a fan-like crest of spatula-tipped wire-like feathers and is best known for the long train made up of elongated upper-tail covert feathers which bear colourful eyespots. These stiff feathers are raised into a fan and quivered in a display during courtship. Despite the length and size of these covert feathers, peacocks are still capable of flight
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My newest FigSpit, the Bolt!
A super energized Soviet soldier, capable of running at near the speed of light and producing electromagnetic/electric bolts.
Backstory: Maxim (Max) Turgenev was a Russian maintenance man for the Soviet Union's greatest weapon: An electromagnetic super generator - capable of reversing entire mountains to simple electrons.
On a cold and stormy winter night in 1957, Max was called in to start up the generator, as the circuits had blown thanks to a lightning strike. Donning a special suit to protect himself from the dangerous electric currents, Max stepped into the generator. Thunder crackled overhead as he carefully repaired wires. Suddenly, in a blinding flash of blue, the wires turned to flames as energy from a lightning bolt surged through the generator. Max was hurled into the air as the electromagnetic fields switched on and converged; with Max in the center. The air sizzled as the very oxygen in the room disintegrated. And just as soon as it began, it stopped. The scorched corpse of Maxim Turgenev slumped to the floor with a thud.
Two days later, in the deserted ward of a secretive Russian military compound, and against the very rules of science, Max wakes up from a coma. He screams in agony, as every particle in his body vibrates at near the speed of light. Energy crackles at his fingertips and through every nerve in his body. The Bolt is born.
Hope you liked this FigSpit!
I spent way more time n this backstory than I should have.
Stay healthy.
So, we finally got to a computer that was capable of running the Spore Creature Creator. We've only used the free trial edition at this point, but, as expected, Sophia and Enzo created a series of interesting creatures. See some of them in this set. My personal favorites are Whale, Human and Pickle (my name for that one).
Balloon is my favorite of all – in no small part because The Red Balloon was one of my favorite films while growing up and is still in my top ten. I haven't seen this one yet though.
Spore Creature Creator is now highly recommended by us and we are all looking forward to playing the game Spore (more here) when it is released in September. By then we will have upgraded our operating system and should have no problem.
SURAMADU BRIDGE
Modern suspension bridge capable of carrying the vehicle using two towers replacing the principal. The cable bridge hanging need tethered firmly on both sides of the bridge, since most of the load on the bridge will be borne by the tension in these main cables. As the course is connected to the main cable using other network cables strung straightened. Bridges like this only suitable for long distances, or do not allow founded pole holder for swift and dangerous currents. Bridges like this is always a nice sight. This bridge is not suitable for use by rail because it will sag caused by the weight of the train.
View from Kilbroney towards Rostrevor, Northern Ireland. Deciduous conifers (Larch) also capable of autumn colour!
Elephants are capable of human-like emotions such as feeling loss, grieving and even crying. They remember and mourn their loved ones, even many years after their death. When the "Elephant Whisperer" Lawrence Anthony died, a herd of elephants arrived at his house to mourn him.
Me and a few other ARC troopers of the 253rd have been ordered to take a little detour back to Kamino before our next mission. Command has ordered us to pass on our knowledge and train the next batch of ARC troopers, that will one day fight beside, if not replace us. I am happy to assist in training. I remember how I was in such a ARC promotion program and thus know what these recruits might be capable of one day. I’ll try my best to teach them well.
- Sergeant Sakana
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Par of my entry for the recruitment challenge of the 253rd Elite Legion. If you have what it takes to become an ARC trooper, build a 16x16 studs vignette, featuring your custom clone sig-fig and tag -TTROOPER-to apply for the group.
This post is for everyone who thinks my beloved boy Bogart isn't capable of being anything but sweet.
[SOOC, f/2.8, ISO 200, shutter speed 1/500, +1 EV]
05.07.2009 // Day 129
It seems I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is the very essence of dreams...
-- Joseph Conrad (The Heart of Darkness)
I don't think I'm capable of communicating exactly how pleased I am with this photo. It pretty much came out perfectly first time, without me really knowing what I was doing. Also, it's one of the first photos I've taken since reaching a higher understanding of my camera, so I'm extra-extra chuffed!
Inspiration came in the form of Libby reading too many stories about Scandinavian Myths and researching the 'old ways', as well as wanting to revisit whatever had prompted me to take this photo.
Explored!
Winter is capable of some wonderful icy magic, but there is none I love more than hoarfrost.
Photographing it, of course, generally involves bundling up like an Eskimo and suffering frozen fingers and numb toes, but that's a small price to pay. =)
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Important to know: Iguanas are capable of severely injuring people, other animals and themselves when their body language signals are not recognized. Most iguanas clearly sign that trouble is ahead. They nod their head and wave their dewlap side to side.
The dewlap is a fold of loose skin hanging from the neck or throat of an animal, like cattle. Iguanas use their dewlap to communicate. First, an extended dewlap can simply be a greeting. An extended dewlap is often used to say hello to another creature during mating and most generally as a territorial sign. Second, it can be a form of protection. A threatened iguana may extend its dewlap to intimidate a predator into thinking it is much larger than it is. Third, an extended dewlap may be a sign that the iguana is trying to adjust its temperature. An extended dewlap on an iguana that's basking in the sun is quite normal. It may be catching more sun to warm up or catching a breeze to cool off. So it's important to see "the big picture" when reading Iguana body language.
Parts of an iguana... www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=Up3IVbC...
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
"The Tomahawk II medium lift helicopter provides the Joe team with a highly capable and dynamic workhorse, suitable for transport, assault, rescue, and other tasks. It is crewed by a pilot, a copilot/gunner, typically two side gunners, and optionally a loadmaster; and can carry over a dozen troops into battle. Two side doors and a rear ramp offer quick loading and offloading of supplies or personnel. Defensive weaponry comprises a 20mm multibarrel cannon in a chin turret, two side-mounted 7.62mm machine guns, six bombs, and a pair of air to air or anti radiation missiles."
I never had a Tomahawk as a kid, and I always regretted not buying one when I had a chance. In addition to being an awesome vehicle all around, it would have come in handy so many times when I was playing with my Joes and they needed to insert or extract a patrol behind enemy lines. Maybe I over romanticize the things I never had, but rate the Tomahawk as one of the best G.I.Joe vehicles ever.
www.yojoe.com/vehicles/86/tomahawk/
The Tomahawk was an essential piece of Joe hardware that I have wanted to build for a long time. But like the Cobra Anaconda chopper, which I tackled last year, I had avoided it til because of its overall complexity and specifically because I wasn't sure how to design the cockpit. I finally came up with a cockpit solution I was happy enough with this fall, and got underway properly in December.
The rotors are motorized, which was challenging and fun, as always!
As for other details, the rotors fold, so as to take up as little space as possible, and the wheels all have suspension. There is a rear ramp, side doors, and side gunner hatches. There is a winch that runs through a trapdoor in the bottom of the helicopter, and an interior red light.
Day 62 / 365
"Climb"
Life is a climb all of us are capable of reaching the top but only few have the courage to climb one.
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A Mute Swan shows why this introduced species is able to successfully compete with the native Trumpeter Swan.
In the Humber Bay area of Toronto, (European) Mute Swans are increasing common, while Trumpeter Swans are less frequently seen. So I was delighted to come across a flock of 15 to 20 Trumpeter Swans in a sheltered lagoon in Humber Bay Park East.
By the early 20th century, Trumpeter Swans, which are native to North America, had almost been wiped out. Careful reintroductions by wildlife agencies and the Trumpeter Swan Society gradually restored the North American wild population to over 46,000 birds by 2010.
The heaviest living bird native to North America. It is one of the heaviest living birds or animals capable of flight, and, in terms of average mass, the heaviest flying bird in the world.
In Southern Ontario, the Trumpeter Swan competes for habitat with the aggressive, introduced Mute Swan.
I saw this at play, as a single Mute Swan swam into the area where the flock of Trumpeters Swans were feeding, and proceeded to chase the other birds.
Dans l’histoire des technologies, il n’y a jamais eu un tel fossé entre ce qu’un logiciel est capable de produire et nos capacités cognitives de comprendre comment ça marche ...
Les autorités devraient s’emparer de l’IA, avec le monde académique, pour la mettre au service du bien public !
En effet, nous devons nous mettre à l’évidence … les capacités des réseaux neuronaux, comme ChatGPT, sont époustouflantes et échappent à notre compréhension !
Personne ne s’attendait à ce que l’IA évolue autant !
Ses concepteurs sont tellement bluffés qu’ils ont avancé cette équation : plus de puissance, plus de paramètres, plus de mots !
On va l’amener encore plus loin dans cette course effrénée à la complexification, parce que la complexification va donner encore plus d’intelligence … et dès lors, nous la comprendrons de moins en moins !!!
Je pense cependant qu’il y a une manière très positive de faire de l’IA mais l’explication tangible pour y arriver n’est pas encore vraiment au programme 🤔
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In the history of technology, there has never been such a gap between what software is capable of producing and our cognitive abilities to understand how it works ...
The authorities should take advantage of AI, with the academic world, to put it at the service of the public good !
Indeed, we must face the facts… the capabilities of neural networks, like ChatGPT, are breathtaking and beyond our comprehension !
No one expected AI to evolve this much !
Its designers are so amazed that they came up with this equation: more power, more parameters, more words !
We will take it even further in this frantic race towards complexity, because complexity will give even more intelligence... and from then on, we will understand it less and less !!!
However, I think that there is a very positive way of doing AI but the tangible explanation to achieve it is not really on the agenda yet 🤔
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If physically capable, this feat is beyond worth it. From the entrance there's a fifty meter curved walkway to a platform of steep wooden stairs, then the most narrow and longest tunnel, before reaching this wooden ramp along the Grand Gallery. After one more small entrance you're in the King's chamber and able to witness 4,500 year old ancient Egyptian history.
This crafty lady is now a fully winged adut capable of flight!
She was photographed in the "Rose Garden" where she was waiting for an insect to grab.
The A-10 Thunderbolt II is one of my favourite planes. It´s a very capable and powerful aircraft designed to destroy enemy tanks with missiles and a powerful 30mm Gatling gun.
But if you know me, you know that I like to "improve" already proven designs into something unique.
This time, I decided to build a WW2 style "Warthog", with two inline propeller engines on the wings, a dorsal defensive turret, a single barrel cannon under the nose (probably 50mm or maybe heavier) and only 5 or 6 hard-points for external bombs under the wings.
The model features retractable landing gear, movable flaps and a rotating dorsal turret.
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we would literally astound ourselves :-)
Thomas Edison
autumn higan cherry, 'Autumnalis', sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
Armillaria mellea, commonly known as honey fungus, is a basidiomycete fungus in the genus Armillaria. It is a plant pathogen and part of a cryptic species complex of closely related and morphologically similar species. It causes Armillaria root rot in many plant species and produces mushrooms around the base of trees it has infected. The symptoms of infection appear in the crowns of infected trees as discoloured foliage, reduced growth, dieback of the branches and death. The mushrooms are edible but some people may be intolerant to them. This species is capable of producing light via bioluminescence in its mycelium.
Armillaria mellea is widely distributed in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The fruit body or mushroom, commonly known as stump mushroom, stumpie, honey mushroom, pipinky or pinky, grows typically on hardwoods but may be found around and on other living and dead wood or in open areas.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Physalacriaceae
Genus: Armillaria
Species: A. mellea
Binomial name
Armillaria mellea (Vahl) P.Kumm. (1871)
Synonyms
Agaricus melleus Vahl (1790)
Agaricus sulphureus Weinm.
Armillaria mellea var. glabra Gillet (1874)
Armillaria mellea var. maxima Barla (1887)
Armillaria mellea var. minor Barla (1887)
Armillaria mellea var. sulphurea (Weinm.) Fr. (1879)
Armillariella mellea (Vahl) P.Karst. (1881)
Clitocybe mellea (Vahl) Ricken (1915)
Lepiota mellea (Vahl) J.E.Lange (1915)
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« Ensuite il me laisse seule, capable de réussir. » (C.K.)
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“It is not the will which is lacking; it is strength. One would have to be a terrible man to do such a thing as lift a cart like that on his back. I have never known but one man capable of doing what you ask. He was a convict.”
“Ah!”
“In the galleys at Toulon.”
Once, during his time in the galleys, Jean Valjean lifts a terrible load to save a dying man. There was one man there who remembered it. Then, after a few more years, Valjean is freed. He had served 19 years.
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You perceive I am going slower than most others ;) . Hopefully I will speed up soon, but I do want to maybe build some other things during breaks. Anyhow, hope you like it!
'You know nothing about the sort of love of which I am capable. Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own; in pain or sickness it would still be dear.
Your mind is my treasure and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still.
If you raged my arms should confine you. If you flew at me wildly, I should only receive you in an embrace.'
Jane Eyre
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The Ermine (Short-tailed Weasel) is a small but fierce predator. Weighing in at only 2.9-4.1oz (and 9-12 inches in length), they are capable of taking down much larger prey like rabbits. Ermine are solitary creatures except for breeding season which is late-spring to early-summer. What is interesting is that development of the embryos does not begin until the following spring. After mating, the fertilized egg remains in limbo through a process known as delayed implementation. All development ceases for 8-9 months. After this time, the fertilized egg is implanted into the uterus wall, and development occurs during the last 28 days. After a total gestation period of 280 days, the young are born. Litter sizes range from 4 - 15, with 6 being the average litter size.
Red Cloud (1822-1909) was a leader of the Oglala Lakota from 1865 to 1909. He was one of the most capable Native American opponents whom the United States Army faced in the western territories.
Red Cloud was the most photographed American Indian of the nineteenth century. There are 128 known photographs picturing Red Cloud. He was first photographed in 1872 in Washington D.C. by Mathew Brady, just before meeting with President Grant. He was also among the Indians photographed by Edward S. Curtis.
In 1909, Red Cloud died on Pine Ridge Reservation. At 87 years old, he outlived nearly all the other major Lakota leaders of the Indian Wars. He was buried there in a cemetery that now bears his name. In old age, he is quoted as having said, "They made us many promises, more than I can remember. But they kept but one – They promised to take our land ... and they took it."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Cloud
Chief Flying Hawk regarded Red Cloud as the Native Americans' George Washington. He fought beside Crazy Horse in Red Cloud's War. He believed Red Cloud was one of the wisest Native American leaders.
A Royal Air Force Typhoon of 1(F) Squadron (top) and a French Air Force Mirage 2000N practice their formation flying skills during Exercise Capable Eagle.
The exercise was the latest in a series designed to further improve the interoperability and effectiveness of Anglo-French military co-operation.
As well as Typhoons of 1(F) Sqn the exercise included Mirage 2000N aircraft of the Escadron de Chasse 2/4 "La Fayette".
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A newborn hippo is a surprisingly capable aquatic baby, born on land or in water, able to swim and nurse underwater immediately, with mothers fiercely protective, guiding them to the surface for air and keeping them safe from predators, although they remain dependent on milk for months and often ride on their mother's back. These "river horses" start on grass around three weeks but nurse for about a year, learning to navigate their watery world under their mom's watchful eye.
Key Facts About Newborn Hippos
Birth & Early Life: Born in water or on land, they can swim within minutes, guided by their mothers to breathe.
Underwater Nursing: They instinctively learn to suckle underwater by closing nostrils/ears and wrapping their tongue around the teat.
Mother's Protection: Mothers are incredibly protective, shielding calves from crocs, lions, and even aggressive male hippos.
Diet: They nurse for about a year, starting grass at 3 weeks, but milk is crucial for much longer.
Weight: Newborns weigh 55-120 lbs (25-55 kg) and can be surprisingly small for their species.
Behavior: Calves often rest by climbing onto their mother's back. R_49068
"You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares."
(c) We Are All Astronauts - Doves
Boulder Beach & Otter Cliffs - Redux
Acadia National Park, Maine
I posted another version of this shot recently but I'm not happy with it anymore, so I started from scratch and re-processed it. Originally I pushed the image heavily towards blue to take out a lot of the green airglow color out of the sky, but this time I chose to feature a more natural colored sky. I still punched it up a bit for contrast, but the green glow in the sky is real, it is from airglow, a natural phenomenon that occurs high up in the atmosphere as molecular particles emit light when they react to scattered radiation from the sun and various other chemical interactions. The sky doesn't look like this to your eye at night but the camera is capable of seeing much more light during a long exposure, so the actual colors of the sky come out in the photographs. Airglow is much more visible (to the camera) in places where the sky is very dark without light pollution, and Acadia is a great place for that!
This is a blend of 5 main images, but technically 9 exposures. The sky is made up of 5 exposures at ISO 6400 f/2.8 for 10 seconds each, which are then stacked with Starry Landscape Stacker (available for Mac only, but you can do this in Photoshop) to achieve pinpoint stars and lower noise than a single ISO 3200 shot for 25 seconds would have yielded. The foreground is from 4 other exposures, 3 at ISO 3200 f/2.8 for 5 minutes each, and 1 at ISO 1600 f/2.8 for 10 minutes. The foreground exposures are taken at different focus distances so that I can get the entire scene in focus after blending them together. Doing it with multiple exposures instead of a single exposure at f/8 or f/11 means the exposures take less time and and I can re-take one more easily if there was a mistake, and I can capture water movement in a different way. All shots were at 14mm, using my Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8 lens on my Nikon D800E.
You can read much more about my process in my tutorial "Introduction to Landscape Astrophotography" on the Luminous Landscape website: www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/night_sky___astrophotog...
Starry Landscape Stacker is available in the Mac App Store.
#OtterCliffs #BoulderBeach #Acadia #Maine #Milkyway #night #stars #astrophotography
I have awoken early after losing the battle for bed space with my tiny cat Dexter, trudged downstairs, hopped in and out of the shower, made a lovely early morning coffee (the first one is the best!) and plonked myself down in front of my keyboard to write to you, yes YOU!, about what influences me to create the images I do the way I do.
Since I was first capable of reading I had my nose in a book. I was a massive fan of Enid Blytons Famous Five stories and read and reread those books countless times. I joined my local library and quickly discovered the aisle marked fantasy/fairy tales/myths. Among the dusty tomes were tales of greek gods, dark bavarian forests, hidden glens filled with pixies, castles overflowing with princesses and wizards lurking in great towers. Tales of great heroes sallying forth into danger to save the day, brothers and sisters defeating evil witches, mortals victorious against the gods. tales that sparked an imagination that has influenced my life ever since.
I guess you could describe me as a proto-nerd, a child of the seventies that carved the way for the modern nerd to thrive now in a world where superhero movies are the norm, you can swing a plastic tube of light around making swooshing noises and not get a smack on the back of the head, a tv show like the Big Bang Theory can become so wildly popular as so many of the modern youth can relate to what they see on the screen. Sci fi and fantasy is the new cool and its down to the battered, bullied but defiant pioneers of these genres who stuck by the medium in spite of everything that was thrown at them.
And those influences even now flow through my creative mind when it comes to my woodland photography. What I see through my eyes when I head into a woodland is stories.Heroes and villains, witches, wizards, pixies and fairies. Elves walk beside me, the forest animals talk to me and the creatures of dark magic observe me from a distance, plotting my downfall. My tripod is my sword, my camera is my shield, my waterproofs my armour. My brain, released from the shackles of everyday drudgery of life and bills and depression, comes alive with the magical tales I can seek out among the silent giants of the woodland, tales whispered to me through the gentle breezes that animate the boughs and caress the leaves. I am always looking for the heroes, the central characters to the stories I want to create in my imagery. Mighty heroes like the King himself, Bruce, lord and King over all in his wood.
I think a healthy dose of imagination is a massive benefit to any creative process, photography included. For me this is just as much an art form as writing, painting or sculpting. Capturing the scene is your synopsis, editing is your brushstrokes, printing is the baking of the clay or ceramics. Photography IS art and as such a little piece of who you are, your essence should be in everything you produce. I was talking to a client on Sunday during a workshop and I was explaining to them how it doesnt matter that two photographers can be stood side by side looking at the exact same composition, take a virtually identical scene on their cameras but will end up with two very different looking images. That is because the two photographers have very different stories, influences and inspirations which when they are added into the creative process produce a very different final product. The beauty of the human mind is that every single one of the 8 billion plus of them on this planet are all unique, each a different story, with heroes and villains of other tales guiding their own imaginations.
I often get comments on my images saying how they evoke a feeling of a fantasy setting in the viewer. Or that someone could imagine elves hiding among the trees. Or simply the image looks like something out of a fairytale. This always makes me happy as that is my inluences they are seeing, in essence a little bit of me they are spotting in those tiny boxes of captured light on their phones.
Anyway, time for me to end this tale and get ready for the return to the drudgery of normal life, but always knowing I can return to the worlds in my mind whenever I like.
Toodles!
Cape buffalo at Nakuru. The African Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is a large African bovine. . Owing to its unpredictable nature which makes it highly dangerous to humans.African buffalo have few predators and are capable of defending themselves against (and killing) lions... Lions do kill and eat buffalo regularly, but it typically takes multiple lions to bring down a single adult buffalo.
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Lyle, Washington is located in the eastern Columbia Gorge, directly across from Rowena Crest. The Columbia River is fairly wide there, and it takes one hell of a lens to do this. I used one hell of a camera too. It's an Eastman Kodak Commercial 8x10 view camera that is capable of a yard of bellows extension.
I have had some trouble with the film. I'm not sure why it was happening, but this film, and a pack of HP5 had some diffuse lines of higher density running through it. I have to clean them up in Photoshop. They are about 3/4" wide, and there is sometimes smaller lines. You can see them in the water at the bottom, and in the sky at the top. I cleaned them up as best as I could. I keep the film in the freezer until I am ready to load it, but I am wondering if something happened in the freezer. I am going to try some different film from the freezer soon, but what is concerning is that I have about 5 boxes of Efke film, which is no longer available, in the freezer. If all of the film that was in the freezer at about the same time period was ruined like this, that would really suck.
Camera: Eastman Kodak Commercial view camera
Lens: 760mm SK Grimes
Film: Ilford Ortho+ developed in Kodak HC-110
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Have you ever considered yourself capable of manipulating gravity? When you grip an object, you are doing just that.
Gravity is constantly exerting its force on objects, most notably by keeping everything weighed down. But when you lift a cup to your mouth, you are playing against gravity.
Despite gravity being a force of nature, living with it does not come naturally to humans; we learn how to work with gravity in infancy when we pick up objects and learn to adjust our grip to its weight and gravitational force.
How our brains learn this process is at the core of the Grip experiment, being performed in this image by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst on the International Space Station on his current Horizons mission.
In the weightless environment of the Station astronauts are like infants learning to adjust to the world in which they find themselves.
In microgravity, objects have no weight, which is an important indicator to our brain of how much grip force to apply to an object when moving it up or down. Furthermore, the inner ear no longer tells us which way is up. Naturally, our brains are a little thrown off and our coordination is disturbed. Researchers from the Institute of Neuroscience in Brussels are studying how long it takes our brains to adjust to this dynamic.
How does the experiment work? Alexander performs a series of movements while gripping a purpose-built sensor that measures grip-forces, moisture and acceleration, and more to assess how the body adapts to situations in which there is no up or down.
Alexander will carry out three sessions of the experiment during his mission. As with most experiments flown on the Space Station, the data will be compared to preflight and postflight sessions.
The Grip experiment has flown on 20 parabolic flight campaigns. Results indicate that short-term exposure to microgravity induces subtle changes in how the forces used in gripping an object are coordinated. Our brains anticipate the effects of gravity even when it is not there. On the Space Station, researchers can now observe the long-term effects. The experiment was first commissioned by ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet during his mission in 2016.
These experiments are designed to help us better understand human physiology and disease diagnosis on Earth. They are also helpful to engineers designing prosthetic limbs on Earth and will be used to help design robot-human interfaces so astronauts can command robots on other planets, allowing us to further explore our Solar System.
Learn more about Grip in this video produced by Principle Investigator Jean-Louis Thonnard and his team.
Follow Alexander during his Horizons mission via alexandergerst.esa.int and his blog.
Credits: ESA/NASA
Giant Hogweed is an invasive non-native plant species that grows abundantly along river corridors, steams and beyond. The species can reach a substantial height within in a single growing season, with individuals found on average to be two to five metres in height.
Seeds germinate from March onwards, with the plant quickly establishing a taproot. It takes three to four years to reach maturity, and in the final year produces the main stem and a large flower head. A typical flower head is capable of producing 20 000 seeds, however up to 50 000 have been recorded for a single plant. Giant Hogweed can be found flowering from June to August, with seeds being released from late August each year.
The Ryning Palace (Ryningska palatset), was begun by the capable Erik Ryning in the 1640s to the design of Simon de la Vallée. As the architect died within only a year, however, large parts of the palace were not completed until 1770, many years after the death of the original proprietor and in an apparently different style than the older parts. The new proprietor Gottfried Sackenhielm used part of his palace to run a tavern and a brothel, frequently visited by many notable men of the era, including the still popular troubadour Carl Michael Bellman. Following the death of Sackenhielm, the property was taken over by Johan Bergstrahl, who, except giving parts of the block their present names, raised the activities in the buildings to an unprecedented level, introducing social clubs, newspapers and café's. Today the building is occupied by the Supreme Court and the Labour Court.
A child genius, capable of creating incredible inventions and deadly weapons from nearly any household item. He sold his inventions, and created a company called Gizmo Inc. He turned to villainy by joining the Fearsome Five, solely as a means for expanding his business.
I tried to base him on his design from Titans: Burning Rage. I used the jetpack build from the new Batcave, because it looks way more like some sort of weapon than just a jetpack (plus I didn't have the time to build anything new 😅)
southern European relative of the wart-biter bush cricket. Unlike the latter, it is capable of flight. Dordogne, France.
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Delta 9er is a space fighter from the Antares Base. It features rotable and extendable engines. You may join it to the cargo bay and will thus form the Galaxy Dropship capable of holding smaller space fighters.
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Time for some more Nam builds.
In 1960, the United States Army issued Technical Specification 153 for a Light Observation Helicopter (LOH) capable of fulfilling various roles: personnel transport, escort and attack missions, casualty evacuation and observation.
The aircraft entered service in 1966, arriving in the Vietnam War thereafter. The pilots dubbed the new helicopter Loach, a word created by pronunciation of the acronym of the program that spawned the aircraft, LOH (light observation helicopter).
The OH-6 set 23 world records for helicopters in 1966 for speed, endurance and time to climb.
Do people even read descs anymore? Anyways I thought I'd make a Cayuse as it's a much lesser done heli and that's what I prefer. Tail was tricky to get how I wanted as it's a very different shaping than many others but I'm happy with what I came up with and its very adaptable. This isn't just my "Little Bird" made dark green, it's a total new build and design concept in every area compared to my other helicopters. On the rotor area I managed to get another use out of a wrench lol..love those things! Used hands to give the blades a yellow tip and it works well especially keeping the blade thin as possible and extending its length that bit more which was needed. This started as a table scrap when I was bored and decided I wanted to try out some tech to see if I could get the legs area much better then id previousky done as i was never happy using the robot arms as the curve was just wrong and using other straight parts looked ok but meant the helicopter needed additional support just to sit, that wasn't what I wanted but I also didn't want the helicopter to sit very high compared to a fig when standing next to it as despite knowing figs are out of scale themselves I still think it's Important to try keep builds small as possible while still being fig compatible. I got what I wanted in the end and at the same the found a way to have a windshield added without needing the use of a traditional hinge plate which sometimes isn't made in some colours or is very expensive even in colours like tan. So I worked around all that so it didn't matter. Internally more work went on then I thought to get this shaped but still strong. Hope you enjoy the build.
This being made in dark green made it an extra tough build as certain parts just don't cone in that colour at the moment. That was the extra challenge I set myself.
Dora I guess you were asking if the A7Riii is BIF capable??
Most important for this camera is the 'cropability', this bird was distant enough that cropping with the a9 would not have pleased me for detail. Even this shot can only be pixel peeped but so much. Regardless I realy like Ibis and rarely get one in flight.