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En la etner pelea por el bien y el mal, los Angeles siempre son los vencedores.... Explicación grafica.
Agradecimiento especial a Ana Karen y a Lili por su participación en la foto.
Name: Devil-fish / Teufelsrochen
Scientific / Wissenschaftlicher Name: Mobula mobular (Bonnaterre, 1788)
Family / Familie: Mobulidae
Group / Gruppe: Sharks, rays and chimaeras / Haie, Rochen und Seekatzen (?)
Class / Klasse: Fish / Fische
Size / Größe: 201-400 cm.
The name, devil-ray, is related to the fact that the cephalic lobes project forward. When unfurled, these "horns" work as giant spoons that assist in directing food towards the devil-ray's mouth.The mouth of this species is slightly ventral. The tail is short and features one spine on the base, unlike most mantas. This species also features a small dorsal fin right above the pelvic fins. Devil-rays usually swim close to the surface, searching for planktonic organisms on which it feeds upon. Though it may reach over 5 m in wingspan, these rays are completely harmless. The black-blue back contrasts sharply with a white belly, which makes this one of the most beautiful animals to observe under water. Some devil-ray populations might be at risk due to over-fishing and destruction of their natural habitat.
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Teufelsrochen
Seinen Namen hat der Teufelsrochen von den Kopflappen, die nach vorne zeigen. Entfaltet dienen diese "Hörner" als riesige Löffel, die helfen, Futter in das Maul des Teufelsrochens zu befördern. Das Maul dieser Spezies zeigt leicht Richtung Bauch. Der Schwanz ist kurz und besitzt einen Stachel an der Basis, nicht wie bei anderen Mantas. Diese Spezies hat außerdem eine kleine Rückenflosse, gleich über der Beckenflosse. Teufelsrochen schwimmen normalerweise nah unter der Oberfläche, wo sie nach Plankton, ihrer Nahrung, suchen. Obwohl sie bis zu 5 m Flügelspannweite erreichen können, sind diese Rochen total harmlos. Der schwarzblaue Rücken steht in starkem Kontrast zum weißen Bauch, was dieses Tier zu einer der schönsten Beobachtungen unter Wasser macht. Einige Teufelsrochenpopulationen sind möglicherweise wegen Überfischung und Zerstörung ihres Lebensraums gefährdet.
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April 18, 2012 marked the 70th Anniversary of the Doolittle Raid...the "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" raid led by Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle when 16 B-25 medium bombers launched from the carrier USS Hornet and attacked targets in Japan.
In a tribute to the five surviving Doolittle Raiders...and to the memory of the other 75...20 B-25's gathered at Grimes Field in Urbana, OH. On the morning of April 17, 2012; the bombers launched from Grimes in 90 second intervals for the short trip down to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and the National Museum of the Air Force.
Activities continued for the remainder of the week...including a Memorial Flight featuring a mass formation of the B-25's.
This is USMC PBJ-1J "Devil Dog" launching from Grimes Field. This image is actually screen grab from the short video I shot of "Devil Dog" taking off...it's not the best quality, but I'm trying to post at least one image of each of the planes that appeared at the Reunion.
Thanks to Ron Kaplan with the Gathering of B-25’s for the Media access that made this photo location possible!
125 foot high Devil's Slide is an unusual cliff rock formation on the side of Cinnabar Mountain, north of Yellowstone National Park. This distinctive formation was created from alternate beds of limestone, sandstone, and quartzites that have been tilted to lie nearly vertical and have eroded at different rates.
The reflective surfaces are not textures!
Mumixer had pointed me in the direction of Devil's Moon a few weeks ago but with one thing and another I only made it out there today - and fell flat on my face so to speak: I was always under the impression that reflections and reflectivity is beyond the scope of present day real time render. So, how on earth did they achieve this? And why does it create no lag whatsoever? I took a lot of screenshots, some from the exact same location at slight angle variations since I want my computer scientist colleague, Selim to take a look at these and tell me what the hell is going on here...
Beautiful SIM too btw, but quite frankly the technology had me so gobsmacked that I couldn't really take much else in. Will go back for sure.
6 hours later:
ahum... Mossy put me wise: It is an extremely clever design trick: They did the entire architecture twice, one being the perpendicular mirror image of the other and then interleaved it with those transparent textures.
jeez... am i embarrassed or what?
The Childrens Graveyard on the Island of Royale. Most of the Children died of Childhood diseases. Emilien was 27 months when he died in 1906
Taken near the topmost switchback of the Devil's Corkscrew. It took us about half an hour to climb up from the creek.
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Devils Tower phonolite porphyry, Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming. The large white crystals are plagioclase. Nickle for scale. Photograph by R.F. Hopson Copyright. © All rights reserved.
The Devils Postpile is an amazing sight. I could attempt to write a description of how this formation was created, but you'd be better off checking out this link.
For a scale, check out the size of the trees. These are huge columns of rock.
I'm the devil, or I'm wearing a scary hockey mask from Kingdom of Loathing that has horns. The Office Space reference is nice.
one-of-a-kind mask made with Sculptamold
painted with acrylics
35 (height) x 30 (width) x 13 (depth) inches
I believe the popular therory is that Devil's Tower is basically the solidified magma from an ancient volcano. The cone of the volcano has eroded away, leaving the rock to tower over the surrounding hills.
These are night bloomers, lasting just a short time in the morning. Large saucer like flowers of the purist white. It is unsure how they got their name. It could be because of the trumpet shape like Angel's Trumpet except that they point up from the ground as opposed to down from 'heaven'. Or it could be because of their poisonousness. I planted this away from any of my plants. See my time-lapse video for how they open.
datura inoxia