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Mark and Megan have been working a lot on NASA's Celestial immunity experiment, including weekends. This is one of the reasons I like making timelapses, it compresses hours of work into a short video (also once the camera is set up we can let it be it and do said work). Together with solid support from mission control and scientists on ground, Mark and Megan have been working in the Life Sciences Glovebox in the Japanese Kibo laboratory to run this experiment. They are taking immune cells from elderly people and adults and seeing how they react to being on the International Space Station. This could offer clues to the whole ageing process in general and continues on ground-breaking research in space that is helping us understand the human body in detail. Like much human research in space it capitalises on the fact that cells seem to age faster offering a handy way for researchers to observe changes but sped up. Mark is doing the experiment in the Glovebox so the cells are contained, we do many biological or chemical experiments in gloveboxes for extra safety. youtu.be/vNS_sEfgvdI
Mark et Megan travaillent beaucoup sur l’expérience Celestial immunity dernièrement, y compris les weekends. Les timelapses ont l’avantage de compresser le temps et de montrer l’essentiel des activités en une courte vidéo (et puis je peux installer la caméra et la laisser tourner pendant que je vaque à mes occupations 🆗). Avec le soutien du centre d’opérations et des scientifiques, Megan et Mark utilisent la Life Sciences Glovebox (littéralement « la boîte à gants pour les sciences du vivant) qui se trouve dans le laboratoire :flag japon: Kibo. Grâce à cette boîte, les échantillons restent bien confiner, sans risque d’être abimés. Ils étudient des cellules immunitaires de personnes âgées et d’adultes pour voir comment elles réagissent dans la Station spatiale. L’objectif ? Étudier le vieillissement et plus généralement améliorer la compréhension du corps humain. Comme la plupart des études sur la physiologie humaine, on se sert du fait que les cellules vieillissent plus vite dans l’espace. C’est pratique, on peut observer les changements plus rapidement, comme en accélérer… un peu comme un timelapse dans la vie réelle :) youtu.be/vNS_sEfgvdI
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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Our jobs are the way we take care of the business of life, how we supply our basic needs for food, shelter and clothing, and how we acquire the jewelry, cars, computers and all the myriad icons of our fantasies and desires. And make no mistake, I’m right in there wanting these things like everyone else.
Certainly our world has become increasingly elaborate in the way we go about fulfilling our needs and desires, but all of things we do to pursue these goals still represent, essentially, the same activity as the lion hunting for food.
Pursuing these things tends to be consuming. But as we pursue meeting these basic needs and gathering the stuff we want, it does little to serve some of our other deep needs. I found that as I got older, I was less willing to ignore that our lives are finite and realized that maybe it’s worth stepping back a little and thinking about what we are really doing.
For me it suggests we ask a few simple questions. After years of even very successful jobs and careers, we need to ask ourselves, "What have I really done? - What am I proud of, what of deeper value am I accomplishing?" I believe it is very important that we look beyond the day-to-day and ask ourselves some of these bigger questions.
Just think about a true appreciation and connection with what is around you – truly feeling present in the moment you are alive in – this moment of your time. Just search 'deeper than deep' into our soul and find those Celestial Thoughts which would change the way we look at our outer world.
Taken: View of Hussaini Village & Passu while hiking back to KKH from Borit Lake, Upper Hunza, Northern Areas of Pakistan
For Closer and Detailed Look: View On Black
This image was captured back towards the beginning of January during a very cold night/morning on a hill in Wiltshire.
The image depicts the constellation of Orion above an ancient burial mound.
This was the setting sun as it set through a high layer of clouds while still above a lower layer that seem to be reaching up for it as seen from a Boeng 737 passenger window in northern Florida.
Beautiful night over the mountain of Platak, above city of Rijeka, Croatia. Photographic night in which I enjoyed.
Ligurian sea
Sestri Levante,
Italia
Sunny - Bobby Hebb ( composed this song )
;-)
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Fantasy Faire 2024
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Credits and more words:
michelehyacinth.wordpress.com/2024/04/13/celestial-blessi...
Credits only:
Gown: Ulrika in pond pack (with color changing hud) from Poet’s Heart by Nim Darkheart. Ulrika fits a wide range of bodies; I show it in Lara. Poet’s Heart will be located in the Avalon region, created by Worldbuilder and Fallen Gods creator Alia Baroque.
Fairelands Lore:
The beautiful Lunafae Blessing Stone featured in the photos was created by Fairelands Worldbuilder Sharni Azalee for her gorgeous region in the 2018 Fairelands. I do love this creation and have had it out on my parcel since 2018.
The lovely animated wings are also a Poet Heart creation…from the PH “Insecta” fatpack from the 2020 Fairelands. I show the wings only from that fatpack (which includes a dress, hat, leggings) in “Dragonfly.”
Celestial Statue: Fantasy Statue Princess Sun-Moon from Micsha Store by Anima Fredda Lemon. Included in this weekend’s Secret Sale. maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Mountains%20of%20Starlight...
Arcturus is the fourth brightest star that can be seen from Central Maryland. Its orange-glow was high in the sky this morning.
Less known is the cute little asterism that is next to it. It goes by Picot 1, Napoleon's Hat, The Celestial Inchworm, the Celestial Slinky and likely other names as well.
An asterism is nothing more than a chance alignment of stars. Being an entomologist, I would of course lean towards calling it the Celestial Inchworm.
I see the light shinin' through the rain
A thousand colors in a brighter shade
Needed to rise from the lowest place
There's a silver lining that surrounds the grey
When I get lost, will it come back around?
Things don't look up when you're goin' down
I know your arms, they are reachin' out
From somewhere beyond the clouds
Hair- No.Match- No Destiny
Head-Lelutka Sasha
Body-Maitreya
Skin-7ds Singular Sand
Dress- Cleo Designs Athena
Bodysuit-Buy me poses
Wings-Buy Me poses
The Pinnacles Desert in Nambung National Park, Western Australia.
Thanks for your assistance with this shot, Seng.
I just stopped on the side of the road coming down from Mount Hood and took this shot from Map Curve on Hwy26. The yellow glow is from the lights from the city.
this was with the D3 and the 20mm f/2.8.
The Celestial 'G' is a group of stars referred to as an asterism and is a good way of identifying several bright naked-eye stars in the vicinity of the constellation of Orion. The asterism starts with Aldebaran in Taurus before moving up to Capella in Auriga. From there it moves to Castor and Pollux in Gemini and then on to Procyon in Canis Minor. The final section starts with Sirius in Canis Major before moving on to Rigel, Bellatrix and finally Betelgeuse in Orion to form the final part of the 'G'. I used an 18-55mm lens to get this shot but with a basic wide angle converter added to make the effective focal length 8mm. Without this the asterism would not fit in the frame!