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The Human Cost of Climate Change
Displacement and Hope
The devastating impact of climate change is vividly illustrated by the aftermath of the 2025 Feni floods. The image captures residents navigating through floodwaters that have submerged entire communities, forcing families to wade through muddy, waist-deep water under threatening skies. The relentless rise in sea levels and unpredictable monsoon patterns have turned once-fertile lands into waterlogged wastelands, displacing countless families and disrupting lives. As climate-induced disasters become more frequent and severe, the human toll continues to mount—highlighting the urgent need for sustainable solutions to protect vulnerable populations from future catastrophes.
Separation. Displacement. Asunder.
A boundary. A union. A contradiction.
Diremptio is incongruity and antithesis, in agreement; two planes in the same space separated by form, shape, color, depth, meaning; each a stilled moment in its own time joined in common boundary by a contrary moment, like fingerprints on a window, unique, separate, together.
An ongoing series.
Kii Battleship
Class overview
Operators: Imperial Japanese Navy
Preceded by: Ise class
Succeeded by: Iburi Class
Planned: 8
Completed: 8
General characteristics
Type: Fast battleship
Displacement: 51,500 tons (normal)
Length: 250.4 m
Beam: 34.8 m
Draft: 9.8 m
Installed power: 170,000 shp
Propulsion: 4 shafts
4 × geared steam turbines
Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Armament:
4 × twin 460 mm (18.1 in) guns;
12 155mm guns in four triple turrets;
4 double 127 mm AA guns;
102 47mm guns in 34 triple turrets;
Armor:
Waterline belt: 400 mm
Deck: 180 mm (5 in)
This is the second battleship class used by Japan during the “Alternate World” Second Russo-Japanese war, the Kii Battleship, in 1947.
And now a “little” of What if Story:
In 1919, shortly after the end of the First World War, the Americans invited the World Powers of the time to a conference in Boston to stop the “Battleships Race” in existence at the time between the US and the empires of Japan and the United Kingdom (in the real world, this appended in Washington in 1921). The US had an ambitious plan of building 50 battleships on the next 10 years; so costly that would make the United States almost bankrupt. Therefore, the Americans decided to reduce their battleship fleet to only 15 battleships and stop all new ships under construction. Therefore, the Colorado Battleships were sunk as targets, together with many other older battleships. However, things were even worst for Japan; after the conference, Japan was only allowed to have 8 ships-of-line and one of them needed to be converted into a training vessel. The two almost complete battleships of the Nagato class were cancelled and their hulls used for target practice and numerous testings. The Amagi battlecruisers, the Tosa and Kii battleships, which were just starting to be built, were immediately cancelled. With only 7 operational battleships, Japan virtually lost any chance of ever winning a war against the US.
Therefore, attempts were made to transform the US into a new ally, especially after Britain refused to continue the defensive treaty with Japan after 1921. To achieve this, Japan supported all interests of the United States on the Pacific region, while Japan could advance and expand to China. This was only possible because the dangerous and charismatic Mao Tze Tung achieved power in China in 1926, transforming China into a huge and dangerous enemy for both Japan and the US. American and British relations also became bitter, after the Americans demanded the payment of every guns, ammo and food sent to England during the war, with very high Taxes…
With this, Japan could effectively expand into China… but things got a little different in 1928. In 1928, the Kzarin of Russia decided to revenge the Romanov family and above all else, the loss of the First Russo-Japanese war. To achieve this, she started a huge naval program (52 battleships and battlecruisers, 10 huge aircraft carriers, almost 80 cruisers and 400 other ships!). Amongst other things, the Kzarin wanted to conquer both China and Japan (and maybe prepare a massive invasion of the United States in 1950)…
With such a large fleet, Japan was simply doomed. Since Russia wasn’t at the Boston Conference (and since the Kzarin did everything she wanted), Russia was free to start its huge naval program. First, the Russians decided to build their new ships with the help of the British, which supported Russia, starting with 16 battleships of the Sevastopol class, armed with nine 406mm (16,0”) guns, 28knots of speed and 320mm of armour, faster and better protected than any battleship in the world at the time (only Hood, Renown and Repulse were faster).
If Japan wanted to survive, new ships needed to be built as a response immediately; but how? At the time, the Japanese industry represented just 3% of the world Industrial Power while Russia (after the so called Russian Miracle) represented 31% (4% more than the US). It was just a matter of time before the 50 Russian battleships were completed and ready to destroy Japan. So if quantity wasn’t the solution, quality was.
Japan therefore decided to build their new battleships with more armour, speed and guns than any other nation in the world. Since the United States were at the time crossing the crash of the Wall Street in 1929, Japan was free to start the construction of the new ships.
Still, during that period, the Japanese never stopped developing and testing new things, for example the construction of a series of aircraft carriers for training and extensive tests on the hulls of the two Nagatos to develop new techniques to improve the defence of their battleships. Much was also learn with the help of many American designers who started working for Japan during the Wall Street chaos.
The Japanese therefore started the construction of a powerful class of 8 new battleships, based on the cancelled No. 13 design, which was extremely secret at the time. They called to this new ship class, the “Kii”s. The 8 old battleships and battlecruisers of the Japanese navy were slowly removed from service since they were considered by now obsolete; every time a Kii was completed, one old ship was removed. New tests were performed on those old ships and the new lessons learn were applied to the next battleship class, the “Iburi”s and some improvements were also performed on the “Kii”s.
Heavily armoured to survive 406mm shells and heavy weight torpedoes, the “Kii”s were designed to fight various enemy ships at the same time. The main belt of armor along the side of the vessel was 400mm (16 in) thick, with additional bulkheads 305mm (12.0 in) thick beyond the main-belt. Furthermore, the top hull shape was very advanced, the peculiar sideways curving effectively maximizing armor protection and structural rigidity while optimizing weight, a techninc recently developed in Japan. Armor plates in both the main belt and main turrets were made of Vickers Hardened, which was a face-hardened steel armor. Deck armour—180 millimetres thick—was composed of a nickel-chromium-molybdenum alloy.
The ship was also heavily protected against Torpedoes; special bulges and a great number of counter flooding devices were installed. In total, the vessels of the kii class contained 970 watertight compartments to help control flooding. The most recent battleship completed by the United States at the time, the USS West Virginia (BB-48) had only maximum armour of 457mm (turret face) and 343mm on belt armor while the typical Russian battleship of time had a maximum belt armor of 320mm.
The primary armament of the Kii class was eight 45-caliber 460mm (18,1”) guns in four twin-gun turrets, two each fore and aft of the superstructure, firing a 1,550-kilogram (3,420 lb) shell at a muzzle velocity of 800 meters per second (2,600 ft/s). These huge guns, the largest in the world at the time, were kept in secret and special covers were put on the front of the barrels to deceive every body about their true size. The Russians only discovered the size of those guns during the Second battle of Tsushima, when 18,1” started to pierce the Russian battleships. The secondary battery consisted of 12 155mm guns mounted in triple turrets on the sides of the ship. The ships' anti-aircraft defenses consisted of eight 127mm guns mounted in 4 double turrets.
In addition, the “Kii”s carried 24 47mm automatic anti-aircraft guns, primarily mounted amidships. When refitted in 1944 for the naval engagements against Russia, the number of 47 mm anti-aircraft guns was increased to 102.
To direct and control the main and secondary artillery against the enemy ships initially the ships had a very old and ineffective system with very high shell dispersion. The Americans therefore provided an advanced targeting radar to Japan in 1942 together with the latest (for the time at least) analogic targeting computers, providing unparallel precision for the Japanese warships at the time.
With the recent appearance of the Aircraft Carrier and the British Battlecruiser Hood (armed with eight 380mm guns and 30knots of maximum speed), the new Japanese battleship needed to be faster than the preceding class. To achieve this, 170 000 horsepower was provided through four huge steam turbines. Although all Japanese aircraft carriers were still faster, the Kiis were at the time the fastest battleships in the world, achieving 30,5knots during trials fully armed. That feature was also kept in secret until 1937, everybody thinking that they were only capable of achieving 25 knots.
Operational Story:
Once the new ships became operational during the 30´s, they were heavily used on naval games, trainings and occasionally strikes against the Communist China. A number of times these ships travelled to Pearl Harbor and even to the San Diego Naval Base, to perform courtesy visits. The American admirals became great friends of their Japanese equivalents, because Japan was in every way the shield of the United States on the Pacific against Russia and China.
When war was declared by Russia, all 8 “Kii”s were operational and ready to defend the nation. They formed two separate naval squadrons; each one with four “Kii” battleships (eight 460mm guns each), four “Nishi” Heavy Cruisers (fifteen 254mm guns each ship), 1 “Iwate” Aviation heavy cruiser (nine 254mm guns each ship), 4 “Osasa” Light cruisers (fifteen 155mm guns each ship), 2 Aso Anti-aircraft cruiser and 10/14 destroyers, therefore a very powerful battery of 32 460mm guns, 60 254mm guns, 108 155mm guns and around 300 torpedo tubes, plus reloads.
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Displacement: 1255 t (less than half of Yamato's main turret weight)
Length: 205 ft (39 studs)
Beam: 38.5 ft (7 studs)
Crew: 85+
Armament: 1x 3 inch 50mm naval gun; 2x 40mm bofors; 2x 20mm Oerlikon
~800 pieces
Took some time off from working on the Enterprise and managed to piece this little fun tug boat together. Despite the ship being much smaller than all my previous projects, she is considered big for tug boats at her launch. These ships were designed to go on extented ocean journeys to support fleet actions. The class was originally named Navajo but later renamed due to the loss of her lead ship (USS Navajo AT-64). A total of 28 Cherokee-class were built, and served the US Navy (and later the Coast Guard) from 1940 to 1994.
Had 'Digital Photo Magazine' this morning - (May 2016 issue #207) - and having a spare hour or so, I followed one of their techniques using some of their free 'Displacement Maps' . So using images I took myself, (and not their samples), I came up with the above ...
Separation. Displacement. Asunder.
A boundary. A union. A contradiction.
Diremption is incongruity and antithesis in agreement; two planes in the same space separated by form, shape, color, depth, meaning; each a stilled moment in its own time joined in common boundary by a contrary moment, like fingerprints on a window, unique, separate, together.
An ongoing series
Lets just say that big Bruno can displace a fair amount of water during a dock jump.
I never knew just how much until I say this one from the GoPro he was wearing on his back. Ah, the things we have the time to enjoy during summer vacation.
There was a great international concern when it was decided to build a large dam which would flood the valley in which were some treasures of antiquity, among them the temples of Abu Simbel.
In 1959 UNESCO promoted an international campaign of donations at the request of the authorities of Egypt and the Sudan in order to promote the salvation of the monuments of Nubia. Copies and photographs of all monuments were made, archaeological research was accelerated in places that would disappear and some monuments were moved from their original location, as was the case of both Abu Simbel temples, which were dismantled and rebuilt between 1963 and 1968.
When the Aswan dam was completed in 1970, many Nubian villages were submerged under the waters of the retention lake, which was given the name Lake Nasser. This operation cost a total of $ 40 million and consisted of the removal, stone by stone, of each monument, transferring the monuments to an artificial mountain 61 meters above the original position, and about 200 meters further away from the bank of the Nasser.
The Egyptian government offered a share of finds and even dismantled temples to some international museums.
The sanctuary of Pedesi and Pithor of Dandur was rebuilt in New York (United States);
The colossal head of Aquenáton, found in Karnak, is in the Louvre Museum (France);
The Temple of Debod was rebuilt in Madrid (Spain);
Two stelae and scrolls of unpaired papyri are in the Berlin Museum;
A wooden sarcophagus is housed in the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana.
Conversion 2D>3D of a photo by George Rodger 1979
CROSSVIEW
To view 3D pics cross your eyes focusing between at the pictures until both images overlap one another in the middle.
Per vedere le foto in 3D incrociare (strabuzzare) gli occhi fino a che le due immagini si sovrappongono formandone una sola centrale.
Separation. Displacement. Asunder.
A boundary. A union. A contradiction.
Diremption is incongruity and antithesis in agreement; two planes in the same space separated by form, shape, color, depth, meaning; each a stilled moment in its own time joined in common boundary by a contrary moment, like fingerprints on a window, unique, separate, together.
An ongoing series
On set of 'Viva Las Vegas' - 1964
The red stripes on Ann's C100's legshields aren't just aesthetic... The left one is covering up the chrome 'Honda 50' badge for 'product displacement' purposes.
Displacement: 2200 t
Length: 127 m
Beam: 32 m
Draft: 4 m
Propulsion: 2x gas turbines, 4x waterjets, retractable bow-mounted thruster
Speed: 55 knots (101 km/h)
Complement: 75
Armament: 1x surface-to-surface missile launcher
1x 57 mm Naval Cannon
4× .50-cal guns (2 aft, 2 forward)
2x 30mm chain guns
2x CIWS
Aircraft carried: 1x Medium Sized or 2x Small helicopters
2x Myotis Solar Electric UAVs
Separation. Displacement. Asunder.
A boundary. A union. A contradiction.
Diremptio is incongruity and antithesis, in agreement; two planes in the same space separated by form, shape, color, depth, meaning; each a stilled moment in its own time joined in common boundary by a contrary moment, like fingerprints on a window, unique, separate, together.
An ongoing series.
Date Taken: November 23, 2015
Basic Details:
Owner: ES Transport
Fleet Number: 47064
Classification: Air-Conditioned Provincial Operation Bus
Seating Configuration: 2x2 Seats
Seating Capacity: 49 Passengers
Body:
Coachbuilder: Zhengzhou Yutong Bus Co., Ltd.
Body Model: Yutong ZK6119HA
Chassis:
Chassis Model: Yutong ZK6119CRA
Layout: Rear-Longitudinally-Mounted Engine Rear-Wheel Drive
Suspension: Air-Suspension
Engine:
Engine Model: Yuchai YC6L310-20 (L32YA)
Cylinder Displacement: 8.4 Liters
Cylinder Configuration: Straight-6
Engine Aspiration: Turbocharged & Intercooled
Max. Power Output: 310 hp @ 2,200 rpm
Peak Torque Output: 1,150 N.m @ 1,200 - 1,600 rpm
Transmission:
Type: Manual Transmission
Gears: 6-Speed Forward, 1-Speed Reverse
* Some parts of the specifications may be subjected for verification and may be changed without prior notice...
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Revisited the natural history museum to warp, this time the zoom effect with some hdr touching.
Let the love for physics/fiction keep growing =]
F-stop: f/22
Exp time: 1s
Exp: -5
ISO:100
18mm to 55mm movement
Hit "L" for best view
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This 1967 Ford Fairlane 500 with a 289 cubic inch displacement was a high revving chariot with 271 horsepower. No where near being compared to the muscle cars of that time frame but served me admirably on many a journey. Here I am 48 years ago as a 21 year old kid letting the Ford cool down after a hot summer train chase up route 17 in Southfields NY. I have the radiator cap open trying to give whatever relief I can for the abused 289 as I read the latest issue of Railroad Magazine. Maybe that "Marshmallow" shirt that I am wearing might be a collectors item by this time. The "Marshmallow" was a very popular "meeting place" in New City NY in the early 1970's. The Ford served me well until two years later she was replaced by a 1976 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme with a 350 four barrel. I believe this photo credit goes to my cousin Chipper Kent. And one more thing, not lying, I ran out of gas on a first date with my future wife Marie in this car, and it was not planned. Howard Kent Jr. 07-19-1974.
One of Union Pacific's crusty AC4400CWs from the coal pool was in charge of CP 281 on Sunday morning. Thanks to a stagnant economy and an anti-coal administration, the trickle-down result is less coal assignments for the old GE burners.
Heading east for the C&M Subdivision via A5, the soon-to-be westbound rack train was passing under the iconic Milwaukee Road signal bridge, aided by another stick of butter and a pair of the home road's geeps.