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© Mark Watson.
Taken with a make highspeed kit and a panasonic FZ50.
DONT TRY THIS AT HOME BECAUSE OF THE DANGEROUS MERCURY that is contained inside of the bulbs.
shot with a .22 airgun pellet.
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The tempered glass door suddenly exploded in the office. Amazingly it kept cracking for hours after that. This is a detail of the glass.
05/03 - Schack (Dinamarca)
12/03 - Felício Marmitex
19/03 - Goos / Kurc
26/03 - Lucas Santtana
DJ residente: Dago
Neu Club
Rua Dona Germaine Burchard, 421 - Água Branca
poster por Silvia Rodrigues www.flickr.com/photos/silvix/
Last year during a trip up to San Francisco we stopped up at Cambria a fun little tourist town.
I picked up a package of rubber lizards.
I have a ridiculous amount of unused targets around the garage. I'd estimate the volume at about four cubic meters of stuff.
And shooting these lizards won't help at all because they heal up ready for another try...
No .gif uploads because Picasion isn't working any more.
Cheers.
(crack surface)
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A mineral is a naturally-occurring, solid, inorganic, crystalline substance having a fairly definite chemical composition and having fairly definite physical properties. At its simplest, a mineral is a naturally-occurring solid chemical. Currently, there are over 5600 named and described minerals - about 200 of them are common and about 20 of them are very common. Mineral classification is based on anion chemistry. Major categories of minerals are: elements, sulfides, oxides, halides, carbonates, sulfates, phosphates, and silicates.
The silicates are the most abundant and chemically complex group of minerals. All silicates have silica as the basis for their chemistry. "Silica" refers to SiO2 chemistry. The fundamental molecular unit of silica is one small silicon atom surrounded by four large oxygen atoms in the shape of a triangular pyramid - this is the silica tetrahedron - SiO4. Each oxygen atom is shared by two silicon atoms, so only half of the four oxygens "belong" to each silicon. The resulting formula for silica is thus SiO2, not SiO4.
The simplest & most abundant silicate mineral in the Earth's crust is quartz (SiO2). All other silicates have silica + impurities. Many silicates have a significant percentage of aluminum (the aluminosilicates).
Quartz (silicon dioxide/silica - SiO2) is the most common mineral in the Earth's crust. It is composed of the two most abundant elements in the crust - oxygen and silicon. It has a glassy, nonmetallic luster, is commonly clearish to whitish to grayish in color, has a white streak, is quite hard (H≡7), forms hexagonal crystals, has no cleavage, and has conchoidal fracture. Quartz can be any color: clear, white, gray, black, brown, pink, red, purple, blue, green, orange, etc.
Seen here is the interior of a geode. Geodes are small to large, subspherical to irregularly-shaped, crystal-lined cavities in rocks. They form when water enters a void in a host rock and precipitates crystals. The most common geode-lining mineral is quartz. The glassy light-gray material in this sample is macrocrystalline quartz. The milky white material is apparently kaolinite, a clay mineral.
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Geode info. from the Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago, Illinois, USA):
"Geodes are hollow, subspherical bodies, ranging from an inch or two to a foot or more in diameter. Most geodes occur in limestones, rarely in shales. They have an outer chalcedonic silica layer which is separated from the enclosing limestone matrix by a thin clay film. The inner surface of the chalcedonic layer is usually lined with inward projecting quartz crystals, though in many geodes drusy coatings of calcite and dolomite occur commonly. Of less common occurrence, are crystals of magnetite, pyrite, sphalerite, and a few other such minor and rarer constituents.
The mode of origin of geodes in sedimentary rocks is but imperfectly understood. That geodes originate in an initial cavity, such as the unfilled space within a fossil, is well recognized, but whether such a cavity is a necessary prerequisite is open to question; geodes may originate in cavities formed by solution.
Many geodes show evidence of expansion, apparently resulting from pressure. A notable example of this singular phenomenon of expansion of the growing geodes is the "exploding bomb" structure.
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Photo gallery of quartz:
The coaches are great - here is one of them getting the swimmers all excited before the event by inflating his swimcap. It got about twice this size before exploding and Kaya thought it was great!
I saw the most amazing cloud I have seen in a long time. Is was so wispy and the cloud literally looked like it had exploded all over the sky.
Bought around 4-00pm today. I was getting the bags out of the car when....Bang. I was lucky that it was still in the carrier bag and went pop there. My car interior now smells like a brewery. KEEP THEM COOL.
The Underwater Project.
Documenting life below the surface.
© Mark Tipple / The Underwater Project
Some more smashing stuff from last night. I'm in the middle of renovating a building next to a pub which - A, enables me to make a mess without upsetting anyone and B, gives me a near endless supply of bottles to smash.
Shooting stuff with an air rifle is pretty hard to get timing right. (just as well for the endless supply of bottles)
This is a bottle of Kopparberg getting shot although I think it looks like its exploding.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr speaks February 6, 1968 at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church after an anti-Vietnam War demonstration at Arlington Cemetery..
“We as a nation are suffering from a poverty of spirit that stands in glaring contrast to all our material abundance.”
“Our involvement in this cruel and senseless war is the tragic expression of our spiritual lag.”
King spoke directly to those who said he should stick to civil rights and not be concerned about other issues, such as the Vietnam War.
“It is wonderful for you to want to integrate lunch counters and schools, but it is absurd not to be concerned about the survival of a world in which to integrate.”
King had earlier led a march by 2,000 clerics to Arlington Cemetery where the group was prohibited from holding a demonstration on the grounds. However the group entered the grounds and held a silent prayer vigil.
King opened the service with the words, “In this period of absolute silence, let us pray.”
After six minutes of silence broken only by the changing of the honor guard above them, Rabbi Abraham Hescehl spoke the words, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani,” translated as “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?”
These words are the opening to Psalm 22 and are purported to be some of the last words uttered by Jesus on the cross.
Rev. James P. Shannon, a Roman Catholic bishop, then spoke the final prayer, “Let us go in peace. Amen.”
The antiwar action was part of a two-day religious mobilization against the war in Vietnam that involved lobbying on Capitol Hill and services at Lincoln Temple and the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church.
It was a busy weekend for King where he also announced support for a welfare rights march on Mother’s Day in the city and laid out early plans for escalating civil disobedience around the issue of economic justice.
The latter became the Poor People’s Campaign that was conducted after King was assassinated in April.
King said his demands would be “jobs and income” around the theme of guaranteed jobs and a minimum income for every person in the U.S.
He said it would be an “almost desperate plea” for the nation to respond to nonviolence before the summer threat of more riots.
King laid the blame at Congress’ doorstep saying prophetically that they were the “chief culprit if nothing is done for the poor and violence again explodes in the big cities.”
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Photo by Bernie Boston. The image is courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.
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