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The city where I live has always had to contend with freeze/thaw cycles. They are fairly insane now. like more off the charts. This winter was fairly odd for its extremes. Now with spring the potholes are appearing. Some of them are axle-breaking. Some of them are ankle-breaking.
Aft starboard view of a Thunderbird super-heavy shuttle docked with the aft side armor paneling. These nearly corvette shuttles are too large to utilize the hangar. Note that a fuel transfer valve is also visible under the upper armor plating. This allows starbases or tankers to transfer fuel away from the mining ship.
Name: S.S. Bessemer
Registration Number: KCC-1894 (Kolter Construction Contract Number 1,894)
Affiliation: Kolter Mining, Refining, and Fuel.
Class Name: Bessemer class
Type: Deep Space Mining Operations Flagship
Commissioned: Circa late 2500’s, post recent major conflict
Specifications:
Length: 1,844 meters (184.4 studs, 58.1 inches, 4.83 feet, 147.5 cm model)
Width: 503 meters (50.3 studs, 15.8 inches, 40.2 cm model)
Height: 484 meters, 398 meters without dorsal comms array, (48.4 studs, 15.2 inches, 38.7 cm model)
Crew: 2,950 standard complement + capacity for crew families, as well as smaller guest quarters for up to 2,000 additional personnel to be moved to/from mining operations.
Armament: 1 super-heavy coaxial particle beam cannon, (primarily for asteroid mining, but also more than capable of defensive action,) 4 dual-mounted heavy particle cannon turrets, 8 dual-mounted medium particle cannon turrets, 2 coaxial fore medium particle cannons, 80 quad-mounted 80mm anti-fighter flak railgun turrets.
Defensive systems:
Hull: Super-heavy steel alloy hull with carbon nanotube/buckypaper composite layers as spall lining.
Armor plating: steel, titanium alloy, tungsten, ceramic, and carbon nanotube composite armor layers against asteroids/other space debris, kinetic weapons, kinetic spalling, particle, laser, and plasma fire. Thick composite armor provides excellent survivability, but with very high mass. Some battleships are less armored than this ship.
Bulkheads: Extensive titanium bulkhead support network.
Structural integrity field: High power system designed for significant cargo mass placing stress on the frame, or to withstand asteroid impacts to the hull.
Shielding: Internally housed high power adaptive particle field repulsing shielding system capable of surviving significant punishment. Some older battleships have less robust shielding.
Powerplant: 1 primary matter-antimatter reactor with extensive fuel reserves, 2 secondary fusion reactors with extensive fuel reserves. Multiple massive power capacitors. Extensive heatinks.
Propulsion: 1 massive primary fusion engine for sub-lightspeed travel, 1 internal FTL core capable of moderate FTL speed, long range travel, and 32 large reaction control thrusters for slow but dependable below light speed maneuvering.
Computer systems: Single supercomputer core with onboard Virtual Intelligence system.
Comms and Sensors: Local and FTL comms arrays. Radar, LIDAR, infrared, multi-spectral, and additional other local area sensors systems, along with extensive FTL sensors.
Additional Systems: High power artificial singularity for both artificial gravity generation and inertial dampening, allowing for 1G gravity even when hauling an entire cargo hold full of heavy-metal. 6 massive blast furnaces for refining metal ore, an enormous central cargo hold system, 4 fuel refining tanks, 4 massive fuel storage tanks, and an internal rail system for moving ore and personnel.
Embarked Craft: 2 Thunderbird class super-heavy cargo/personnel shuttles, 2 Hurricane class heavy cargo/personnel shuttles, 20 heavy mining drones, 24 medium mining drones, 2 gunships of variable class, 2 heavy fighter/bombers of variable class, potential for multiple additional light shuttles and fighters.
Background: After seeing both the devastation to outlying areas of space caused by the recent Great War, and the corruption within the Federal Defense Navy (working title) Admiralty, Captain David Courtland retired honorably from military service and went to helm his family’s generations old mining company, Kolter Mining, Refining, and Fuel; one of the largest mining companies in United Earth Federation space. (Working title.)
He wanted to take the company, already a reputable and successful business, in a new direction. That direction was the disputed, war-torn, no-man’s-waste-land of space known as The Divide, (working title) situated between the major powers of the galaxy. Life in The Divide was desperate, with little hope for the many people stranded in the ruins, poverty, and crime infested land. None of the major powers could intervene without starting another territorial war, and as such, pirates, gangs, and unscrupulous mega-corporations ruled supreme.
Courtland wanted to make a difference to this sorrowful place, and with trillions of credits and a Fortunes 1,000 company at his control, he had the means to at least begin; although even he lacked the ability to single-handedly remedy the myriad of woes The Divide faced.
David’s plan was simple, to move significant mining operations to The Divide, thus:
1: Creating new, safe, well-paying, good jobs for both an area and an industry that seldom offered such things.
2: Allowing for the placement of company security forces to deter pirate activity around major settlements.
3: Providing tax-free revenue to fund new schools, hospitals, food, water, shetler, and other charitable activities in The Divide.
But to do it, he required a new kind of mining vessel, as well as additional security forces. Thus he contacted Nelson Heavy Industries, who in turn partnered with AxonTech Interstellar Systems for some components, to place an order for a line of custom massive deep space mining operation flagships with enhanced combat capabilities and capable of operating in the remotest reaches of space for months or even years at a time. And so the Bessemer class was born.
The Bessemer class is unlike any mining vessel ever produced before it. Certainly significantly larger mining ships existed, but these were typically little more than unarmed, slow moving things with small engines; closer to a semi-mobile starbase than a combination frontier battleship/mining vessel. But Courtland required something unique. Something that could move faster, survive more punishment, and something that had teeth; not a fragile, barely moving thing that would only sit in safe areas of space. Courtland needed a mighty sheepdog in a world of sheep and wolves.
Bessemer class vessels are 1,844 meters long, and possess more armor, firepower, and shielding than many pre Great War battleship designs. Almost any pirate or local gang would be terrified of the sight of over a mile of steel and particle cannons; clad in Kolter white, green, and yellow.
But the Bessemer, and others of her class, are not merely warships masquerading as civilian craft. They are heavy mining machines that live up to their name; a steel producing process that revolutionized the industry of Earth some seven hundred years earlier. The Bessemer and her sister ships are capable of blasting metal-rich asteroids to bits with their coaxial mining particle beam cannon, and then having swarms of automated mining drones devour any valuable deposits within before unloading the materials into the Bessemer’s ore hold for the internal rail system to run any raw ore through her six corvette sized forges, and then having the refined metal shunted to her cavernous lower hold, while any waste material from the refining process is vented directly into space.
Ships of this class are outfitted with a sizable hangar, advanced sensor suite, extensive internal cargo bays, and large cargo pod clamps that allow it to act in the capacity of miner, defensive ship, operations command center, and even freighter and personnel carrier should usual shipping to outlying mining sites be disrupted.
But capable as they are, these are not the spartan mining vessels with unlivable working conditions that some shady companies have been known to operate. These space-faring cities of steel feature robust safety systems, spacious and comfortable crew quarters, multiple restaurants, multiple mess-halls, multiple shops for clothing, food, electronics, and other items, an arcade, multiple gyms with weights, various weight and cardio machines, martial arts areas, gymnastics equipment, along with a walking track, a small bowling alley, an olympic sized swimming pool, a multi-sport stadium, a greenhouse, hydroponics bays, a small stage/concert area, several computer labs, a library, a small movie theater, crew lounges and break areas, a salon/spa, a bar/club, chapels, classroom/daycare areas, office areas, as well as repair stations, enough dry and frozen storage to keep everyone fed for extended missions, advanced workshops, astrotography, laboratories, guest bunk-rooms, and a starbase grade medical center.
Not everyone is happy about Kolter Mining’s efforts, however. While Courtland founded the Kolter Foundation to aid those in need, he also lobbied for what came to be known as the Kolter Bill to be passed. Mining employees out in the colonies loved the added protections this afforded them. But the executives of Kolter’s rival mining companies operating out of Earth’s colony worlds quickly found themselves facing laws that favored the profits of Kolter and their already developed safety systems and excellent treatment of employees. What’s more, the Federal Defense Navy Admiralty have been continually frustrated that rather than helping to line their pockets as part of the military industrial complex, Courtland has been working tirelessly to reveal their corruption and hidden support of crime in outlying areas of space.
What’s more, there are even rumors that Courtland is now working with, and possibly even helping to fund, a mercenary vigilante unit out in The Divide known as the Phoenix Command Group, founded by Jonathan Scarlett, another former Federal Defense Navy Captain who ran afoul of the Admiralty.
The wealthy and corrupt among the Admiralty, military industrial complex, crime syndicates, and corrupt businesses running shady operations out in The Divide are deeply troubled by these rumors. But those who are now citizens of no nation, and who have known nothing but hopelessness and need for years, have a slight spark of hope rising like a Phoenix.
IRL info: This digital SHIP was made in Bricklink’s Studio software from September 11th to September 30th, 2021. I did not originally plan to participate in SHIPtember, but I couldn’t resist. It is 184 studs (58.1 inches) long, 50 studs wide, and 48 studs high. It is comprised of 23,470 pieces, which I believe makes it my highest piece-count SHIP to date, and means that the model itself has a mass of 973.502 ounces, or 60.843 pounds, or 27.597 kilograms, which most likely makes it my heaviest SHIP as well as my most piece intensive. (I really need to learn to build a little more hollow.) Note that it uses all real pieces/colors that are available for sale on Bricklink. (Albeit at a price that makes attempting to build it in physical bricks highly impractical.) It is 100% connected, and should be at least somewhat stable in real life. I would want to reinforce the fore-end with more Technic, and switch out the longest Lego Technic axle holding the engine for an aftermarket stainless steel version. I cannot guarantee that various sections built out from the main SNOT and Technic frame would be totally stable without slight redesign of a few bits. It would also require a hefty display stand of some kind.
The current pictures are WIP to show the completed status of the build itself. Better renders done by importing the Studio build into Mecabricks, replacing any pieces that fail to load or change position, and then exporting to Blender for higher quality rendering, and finally hopefully doing some cool backgrounds with GIMP, will hopefully follow before whatever October picture deadline is decided on. Please do not use these early pictures in the poster if time remains, as I hope to provide better ones. Thank you for reading this lengthy description. Have a cookie.
If this ship had a theme song, this magnificent piece by Clamavi De Profundis would be it: youtu.be/Xm96Cqu4Ils
A tighter crop from the original (as suggested by "Synapped"). Taken during early afternoon. Lighting was from a north window to the left which spread soft illumination on the scene. Black foam board for the background and another black foam board to right to minimize unwanted bounce fill from a nearby wall. Vignette added using www.picnik.com via Flickr. Once the shot was made, my wife and I enjoyed devouring the props.
Oil.
They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong.
-Incubus Dreams by Laurell K. Hamilton
Saturday Self Challenge: tanden
Het gebit van één van de leeuwen in de Kungsträdgården (Koningstuin) in Stockholm.
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Saturday Self Challenge: teeth
The teeth of one of the lions at the Kungsträdgården (King's Garden) in Stockholm.
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A retake of a picture I shot a while ago... this time I'm the model and the photographer, not just the eye behind the camera...
This dessert was made by Quang at Devour Dessert Bar at 96 Prospect Road, Prospect, South Australia.
Strobist Info : Shoot through umbrella above left, softbox at the same level as dessert left, white reflector right. YN460 II in umbrella, YN560 in softbox, triggered by YN CTR-301P.
Shutter Speed - 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture - f/9.0
Lens - Tamron 28-75mm f2.8 at 40mm
sorry about the shitty stitching job. i had a really hard time getting a decent pic of this due to the lighting situation in the place. we spend about 3 and a half hours trying to stitch these pics together with my slow ass computer. and it still looks like crap
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There seems to be 3 different species of pines in the plantation. Scots, an Oriental type, and a 3rd unknown! Around 80% of the Scots have had their buds eaten. Think it's a small rodent, as also found these little droppings amongst the needles below the buds (see in comments). Of the other 2 species, the Oriental had a few nibbled buds, but very little, and the unknown species appeared to be untouched! I would imagine that this would severely impede this year's growth on the Scots?? Anyone have an idea about the culprits? There must be a lot of them, as a huge amount of trees in quite a large area are affected!
As an aside, I also found it interesting that usually, I find most ladybirds nestled amongst the Scots buds, but there were more in the surrounding heather and on some of the Oriental pines, where I normally see very few. I guess this is down to the pine bud munchers disturbing the overwintering ladybirds, who've then sought other places to shelter!
Shawbury Heath - Shropshire
Still life photography of worn-out frying pans.
de•vour (d`-vour)
1) To eat up greedily.
2) To destroy, consume, or waste.
3) To take in eagerly.
4) To prey upon voraciously.
Run, desire, run
This sexual being
Run him like a blade
To and through the heart,
No conscience
One motive:
Cater to the hollow
Screaming feed me here
Fill me up again
Temporarily pacify this hungering
So grow,
Libido throw
Dominoes of indiscretions down
Falling all around in cycles,
In circles
Constantly consuming,
Conquer and devour.
'Cause its time to bring the fire down
Bridle all this indiscretion
Long enough to edify
And permanently fill this hollow
Screaming feed me here
Fill me up again
Temporarily pacifying
Feed me here
Fill me up again
Temporarily pacifying.
- "The Hollow" by A Perfect Circle
So this is the beginning of my new photo project. I've been planning and prepping for it since before my 365 ended, and it's finally coming to fruition. I'm excited.
The series will be photo interpretations of each song on the Mer de Noms album by A Perfect Circle. Mer de Noms refers to a sea of names, and each song is about a different character or characters.
"The Hollow" is a song about sexual desire, and I chose to interpret it as a predator seeking to fulfill his desire.
In the photo:
Matthew Guthrie
Dana Kelley
Joey helped with the creative side to it, and on location he made sure these two were taken care of. He kept giving them jackets because it was RAINING when we did this. They were both fantastic. And Dana really was running around in bare feet the whole time. She's a rockstar. Well, she's also a local singer, so she really is a rockstar. :)
Please enjoy the song and lyrics while taking a look at the photo. And feel free to leave some constructive criticism! I'm looking to learn here, so I would appreciate it.
Thanks, everyone!
Still life photography of worn-out frying pans.
de•vour (d`-vour)
1) To eat up greedily.
2) To destroy, consume, or waste.
3) To take in eagerly.
4) To prey upon voraciously.
It's serviceberry season and the birds, especially the robins, are eating them as fast as they can. We have a bumper crop this year. One year a family of cedar waxwings cleaned out all the berries in less than an hour. The serviceberry is a native plant in Missouri, a great tree for birds. Box turtles love them too.
There are a lot of seed poops in the garden...
i did this fan-art for a fellow website i belong too
this one took a while but i am pretty damn happy about it!
paint, marker and digital barcodes on cardboard
Devouring Hate.
Dannedd Ffwrneisi berffeithrwydd dadleuon ymhelaethu melltithio wedi'i rannu silio cysgodion,
méprisant indéterminée terrifié solitude immortel martelant douleurs haine colères,
cantibus aer cogetur in interitum sitiens inedia rotarum fumus inhabilia montis contemnendum,
محذرا من الإصابات غضب النيران حامل لقب المحبة عويل حروب الإبادة في,
Abdecken Paläste schaudernd Schrecken Rache verletzt Unschuld Glückseligkeit,
τιμωρία αμόνια καρδιές συμπυκνωμένες ουσίες επιθυμίες σκληρά δολοφονίες καύση αρμοδιότητες θανάτους,
накопления искушения поймали слёзы математические глубины закапывали фундаментов рев,
chauffeured simplicities beoefend hardvochtigheid tusschen toovenaressen verboden heksen ketens,
tremor lasciva afluência rostos débeis dispersantes pecadores censurou bocas terremoto,
проклињање Профанације неодољиво смрдљиви ђавола малигнитета одмотавања монструозне пустош беса је,
סמיילינג טענות טיף אויסדרוקן שורש סאַקסעסיוו וואָלופּטואָוסנעסס אַביססעס שעה,
の有罪同情有毒裏切り赦さ大衆のおかげで非難.
Steve.D.Hammond.
Hand pulled, 3 layer print. edition of 6.
Size: 28x36cm (printed surface), 38x48cm (paper size). Hand signed and numbered.
Satan sits in the corner as a composite beast in chains with a fish-like head receiving lost souls through its wide open maw, whilst below his torso bears a second monstrous face, a frequent feature of medieval devils suggesting the seat of their intelligence being misplaced for their lower appetites. His right hand bears a trident-like sceptre.
Detail of the lower half of the west window depicting the Last Judgement. The Last Judgement is Fairford's most celebrated window for its dramatic composition and graphic depiction of the horrors of hell in the lower half. The window sadly suffered badly during the great storm of 1703 with the upper half depicting Christ in Judgement and the surrounding company of saints and angels the most seriously affected part.
The lower half depicts Archangel Michael at the centre with the elect entering Heaven to the left and the damned being condemned to Hell on the right. This depiction of Hell is renowned for its exotic demons dragging their victims to the red glow of hellfire, culminating in the monstrous soul-devouring figure of Satan seated in the bottom right hand corner.
St Mary's at Fairford is justly famous, not only as a most beautiful building architecturally but for the survival of its complete set of late medieval stained glass, a unique survival in an English parish church. No other church has resisted the waves of iconoclasm unleashed by the Reformation and the English Civil War like Fairford has, and as a result we can experience a pre-Reformation iconographic scheme in glass in its entirety. At most churches one is lucky to find mere fragments of the original glazing and even one complete window is an exceptional survival, thus a full set of 28 of them here in a more or less intact state makes Fairford church uniquely precious.
The exterior already promises great things, this is a handsome late 15th century building entirely rebuilt in Perpendicular style and dedicated in 1497. The benefactor was lord of the manor John Tame, a wealthy wool merchant whose son Edmund later continued the family's legacy in donating the glass. The central tower is adorned with much carving including strange figures guarding the corners and a rather archaic looking relief of Christ on the western side. The nave is crowned by a fine clerestorey whilst the aisles below form a gallery of large windows that seem to embrace the entire building without structural interruption aside from the south porch and the chancel projecting at the east end. All around are pinnacles, battlements and gargoyles, the effect is very rich and imposing for a village church.
One enters through the fan-vaulted porch and is initially met by subdued lighting within that takes a moment to adjust to but can immediately appreciate the elegant arcades and the rich glowing colours of the windows. The interior is spacious but the view east is interrupted by the tower whose panelled walls and arches frame only a glimpse of the chancel beyond. The glass was inserted between 1500-1517 and shows marked Renaissance influence, being the work of Flemish glaziers (based in Southwark) under the direction of the King's glazier Barnard Flower. The quality is thus of the highest available and suggests the Tame family had connections at court to secure such glaziers.
Entering the nave one is immediately confronted with the largest and most famous window in the church, the west window with its glorious Last Judgement, best known for its lurid depiction of the horrors of Hell with exotic demons dragging the damned to their doom. Sadly the three windows in the west wall suffered serious storm damage in 1703 and the Last Judgement suffered further during an 1860 restoration that copied rather than restored the glass in its upper half. The nave clerestories contain an intriguing scheme further emphasising the battle of Good versus Evil with a gallery of saintly figures on the south side balanced by a 'rogue's gallery' of persecutors of the faith on the darker north side, above which are fabulous demonic figures leering from the traceries.
The aisle windows form further arrays of figures in canopies with the Evangelists and prophets on the north side and the Apostles and Doctors of the Church on the south. The more narrative windows are mainly located in the eastern half of the church, starting in the north chapel with an Old Testament themed window followed by more on the life of Mary and infancy of Christ. The subject matter is usually confined to one light or a pair of them, so multiple scenes can be portrayed within a single window. The scheme continues in the east window of the chancel with its scenes of the Passion of Christ in the lower register culminating in his crucifixion above, while a smaller window to the south shows his entombment and the harrowing of Hell. The cycle continues in the south chapel where the east window shows scenes of Christ's resurrection and transfiguration whilst two further windows relate further incidents culminating in Pentecost. The final window in the sequence however is of course the Last Judgement at the west end.
The glass has been greatly valued and protected over the centuries from the ravages of history, being removed for protection during the Civil War and World War II. The windows underwent a complete conservation between 1988-2010 by the Barley Studio of York which bravely restored legibility to the windows by sensitive releading and recreating missing pieces with new work (previously these had been filled with plain glass which drew the eye and disturbed the balance of light). The most dramatic intervention was the re-ordering of the westernmost windows of the nave aisles which had been partially filled with jumbled fragments following the storm damage of 1703 but have now been returned to something closer to their original state.
It is important here not to neglect the church's other features since the glass dominates its reputation so much. The chancel also retains its original late medieval woodwork with a fine set of delicate screens dividing it from the chapels either side along with a lovely set of stalls with carved misericords. The tomb of the founder John Tame and his wife can be seen on the north side of the sanctuary with their brasses atop a tomb chest. Throughout the church a fine series of carved angel corbels supports the old oak roofs.
Fairford church is a national treasure and shouldn't be missed by anyone with a love of stained glass and medieval art. It is normally kept open for visitors and deserves more of them.
Elephants are destructive! For the elephant, feeding is ongoing whether day or night. We watched this one almost completely devour the nearby bush on its own1
Embrace the sun
... so I won't see its light
Cover It's light
... so I could hide this pain
Take away this pain
... so I could breath again