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Our first build for an event SetToBuild and I are doing at the TwitchCon Partner Party! The event will have multiple builds such as this on display, and people will be able to come by, build a minifig of themselves, and take pics of themselves within their favourite video games! More to come!
Check out a video tutorial for the school bus HERE.
Convair YB-58A "Hustler", on the disused aerial reconnaissance test range at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert of Southern California.
The B-58 was the world's first mach 2 bomber, and was capable of carrying as many as four nuclear weapons. This particular aircraft, tail-number 55-0665, was one of 11 prototypes built (hence the "Y" in the model designation).
In 1958, this specific aircraft, nicknamed "Snoopy", was selected to be the test bed for the AN/ASG-18 fire control system and the Hughes GAR-9 missile, both of which were designed for the proposed XF-108 Rapier, a long-range interceptor that never came to be. That testing however required physical modifications to Snoopy's airframe, which is why it has an extended nose and oversized nose cone, relative to other B-58s.
While the XF-108 was never built (hence the "X" designation in it's model number), the weapons systems Snoopy tested would eventually find their way onto the YF-12, the forerunner to the well-known SR-71 Blackbird.
The nuclear devices were mounted on pods on the underside of the aircraft, roughly in the area lit up in green. And while the red-glowing tail would imply an engine exhaust there, in fact that hole was covered over with a small cone of it's own, as the B-58 was powered by four wing-mounted GE J79 Turbojet Engines.
Night, full moon, green-gelled strobe and focused red-gelled X-2000 flashlight.
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PENTAX K-1 • FF Mode • 100 ISO • Irix Blackstone 15mm F2.4
Haida 150mm Filter Holder • Neutral Density glass filter ND3.6 12Ev
Topaz Labs Restyle
Long exposure: 20 sec.
Cité des Sciences & hauts fourneaux
Belval • Luxembourg
The working of the week ... in fact the working of several weeks. DRS 68016 and 68017 pass Ferriby as 6Z35 en route from Carlisle Kingmoor to Hull Docks with a train of, what is thought to be, low-level nuclear waste containers. Not something we see very often here.
Ferriby, North Humberside. 30 Oct 2020
Flat Grey and spots of rain, mainly
At the Brattleboro, VT protest to shut down the illegal, tritium spewing VT Yankee nuke plant, where 1500 peeps rallied, and 135 of us were arrested !
A quartet of Iowa Chicago and Eastern SD40-2s were roaring westward between Leaf River and Adeline on a perfect afternoon in 2008.
The towers of the nearby Byron nuclear power plant were happily spewing isotopes and other assorted radioactive treats skyward.
The Old Rusty Cadillac West of Rochelle, Illinois
This is the shot I wanted to get the last time I was there with WSCF. It worked a bit better with high-noon lighting.
The cooling towers in the background are a part of the Byron Nuclear Plant.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
West of Rochelle, Illinois
Olympus E-510 DSLR
Olympus ED 40-150mm f4-5.6 zoom
Someone messaged me, could I oblige? 6K41 on 19 October 2016, 37606 and 37259.
So I had a look. Yeah. I can oblige. There ya go. Classics by the lake at Rhyl.
Enjoy.
And if prints of it flood ebay? I know who you are...
Difficult not to saturate parts of the lower portion of this aurora, as the variation in brightness is just to great. This is something that happens quite frequently at higher latitudes, but I don't see it that often over the UK.
"There have also been many circumstances where the authorization to launch missiles have been delegated to lower-level commanders. Even though there is a two-person requirement, if one does lose control and wants to destroy the world, then the fate of the world is the hands of the other person." (Noam Chomsky interviewed in 2014 - chomsky.info/20140405/)
I post this series of photos of an anti-war protest in central London as a neutral observer (more photos will be following soon). I'm no fan of either Russian or Western imperialism and military aggression and I have every sympathy with the Ukrainians who are facing a war of aggression from their more powerful northern neighbour, part of the motive for which seems to be to rebuild the prestige and power of Russia, as a sort of new Russian empire reflecting the former hegemonic influence over Eastern Europe of the Soviet Union. All at an immense cost in lives, and also a clear and grave violation of international law. Putin's decision to escalate the nuclear standoff with the West by publicly placing his nuclear forces on high alert should be another reminder of just how dangerous he is.
However, the West should also share a significant portion of the blame for this war. The Russian invasion is far from "unprovoked" as many media commentators claim. First, we have to remember recent history and how Russia has good reason to fear NATO which was originally set up to combat the threat of the 'Russian hordes.' It is remarkable how in 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev, despite his familiarity with Germany's responsibility for having invaded Russia twice during the twentieth century (in 1914 and 1941), agreed to allow East Germany to join West Germany inside a hostile military alliance. There was however a quid pro quo, as promised by President George H. W. Bush (senior) and Secretary of State James Baker that NATO wouldn't move "another inch to the east" but that promise was soon broken as during the Clinton presidency, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary joined, and then under President George W. Bush, the NATO alliance was further extended to include Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and the Baltic States, and further still under Obama to Croatia and Albania.
This means that NATO forces are now frequently deployed right around Russia's western borders (except for Ukraine and Belarus). One can imagine, Washington's paranoia, if say in the 1960s or 1970s, Mexico and Canada had declared their intention to join the Warsaw Pact and many people may be familiar with how Cuba's desire to station Soviet missiles on its territory to deter a feared US invasion (and frequent terror attacks), almost led to a nuclear war, though fortunately Khrushchev saw wisdom and backed down in the face of JFK's terrifying brinkmanship and secretly the United States did agree to withdraw some of its older strategic nuclear missiles from Turkey.
At the same time the United States sees Ukraine as occupying a key space on the strategic chessboard, and has ensured that Ukraine has become increasingly dependent on foreign debt and Washington's goodwill, and has continued to plan for Ukraine's eventual incorporation into NATO. That would mean Ukraine, which occupies a vital strategic position on Russia's southern flank and with its border just 350 miles from Moscow, would also become a potential platform for an assault on Russia and even if no assault ever occurred, the mere fact of NATO's enhanced power, would inevitably greatly diminish any remaining influence Russia had to counterbalance US hegemony in Europe. That's why Ukraine's membership of NATO is something which no Russian leader was ever likely to accept. It is of course easy to see a possible compromise - that Ukraine should remain neutral but that in return all countries should respect its territorial integrity, although allowing some autonomy for the Russian speaking areas in Crimea and the Donbass.
Western media has downplayed the suffering of the Russian population in the Donbass region, which for years has been subjected to constant shelling from government forces, and although Ukrainian civilians have also been killed by Russian backed separatists, the UN figures clearly show that year after year, it was the Russian population which suffered a far higher level of fatalities and serious injuries, including the deaths of many children.
ukraine.un.org/sites/default/files/2022-02/Conflict-relat...
Western media also holds up Ukraine as a beacon of freedom and democracy, but while there have been some important gains for civil society in recent years, Russians have good reason to be unhappy. The Ukraine government has harassed and detained several opposition and pro-Russian journalists and in February 2017 it banned the commercial importation of books from Russia and a new education law made Ukrainian the sole language of instruction in secondary schools, which obviously discriminated against its Russian population. Fascist militias are also growing in number and corruption is endemic while the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture suspects the Ukrainian government of operating secret prisons.
However, it should be noted that the human rights record of the separatist regions of Luhansk and Donetsk have also received intense criticism from the UN OHCHR (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights) and various NGOs for suspected human rights abuses, while Russia's appalling human rights record and its increasing authoritarianism is well known.
To avoid the enormous risk of a nuclear confrontation the West has to start thinking of a way to allow Putin to climb down, without jeopardising European security or sacrificing the freedoms of the Ukrainian people and the obvious way would be to agree to recognise Ukraine as a neutral sovereign state which would remain outside NATO and with a real democratic autonomy for the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
If the West continues to funnel enormous quantities of high tech military equipment into Ukraine, without any attempt to reach a political compromise (by recognising Russia's legitimate security concerns and autonomy for the Donbass region while still guaranteeing Ukraine's sovereignty) there's a very real risk that an increasingly frustrated Putin will issue an ultimatum for the tactical use of nuclear weapons in order to regain the upper hand on the battlefield, and this will be an incredibly dangerous moment for humankind.
Took a drive out to Holland State Park in Holland, MI to capture the sunset last night.
It was a 360 degree sunset ... a nice color show developed over the lake AND looking back inland thanks to some thunderstorms that had developed over Kent and Allegan County.
This H-Bomb Blast ... er ... Thunderhead was from a storm that was sitting over the Kentwood area.
Aquel ramal que a pesar de los años y el desgaste, sigue totalmente vigente, y que hace su recorrido bordeando naturaleza. Aquella Vaporera que, con 5 coches en su espalda, recorre ese notable ramal llevandonos a lo mejor de nuestro ferrocarril, y dandonos la oportunidad de disfrutar, gozar y emocionarnos con tiempos que son bello pasado, pero que aun se mantienen vivos en la retina de quienes vieron, vibraron, y se subieron alguna vez a este verdadero espectaculo sobre rieles.
Todo lo último, gracias a DON VALDIVIANO ... Bordeando el Rio Calle Calle en sus 28 Km de recorrido entre Valdivia y Antilhue.
The Express of Calle Calle River: The "Valdiviano", wonderful tourist train led by steam locomotive built by Beyer Peacock 2-6-0, comes from the beautiful city of Valdivia, bordering the great river Calle-Calle, and in the midst of lush vegetation and ancient trees, runs 28 km to the rural town of Antilhue, in southern of Chile.
Tramo Antilhue - Pishuinco, Región de Los Rios
The huge forms of the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station near Monroe, Michigan, catch the last of the sun's rays, as viewed from 31km away across Lake Erie, at Maumee Bay State Park outside Oregon, Ohio.
So here's something that wasn't seen much but I thought was worth showing off anyway; the crate nuke that atomized the moonbase. I'm showing it because I based the design off of the hypothetical design of a suitcase nuke. Though there's nothing hypothetical about powerful compact nuclear weapons. The W54 from 1961 was like the size of a small dog and had a max yield of 20 tons of TNT, about 8 times more powerful than the Oklahoma City bombing which killed 168 people and destroyed over 300 buildings in a 16 block radius. Even better, there was a variant with a 250 ton yield.
So its raining. Its been raining. it doesn't look like its going to stop raining. So, I have been playing in my garage. I've been wanting to play with some splash photography for a while now, and finally decided to go for it. So, I created a little set up in my garage and went for it.
I am not a big coffee drinker, so I didn't have anything in my house to make cofee with other than some whole beans that I got three years ago for "props." So, once I had everything set up, I ran up to 7-Eleven to grab some cofee. Now just so you know, when you walk up to the counter with a super big gulp cup full of coffee, people will stare at you.
The set up was basically four square tiles that we already had, and a drop clothe as a backer. The splash is caused by tossing a small donut into the coffee. I got several good ones (including one where the splash is coming right at the camera), but I liked how symetric this one was. I also liked how it looks a little like a nuclear explosion.
Have a great day, and here is to not letting the rain keep us from shooting.
The second and possibly final wonder weapon for my custom zombies map. The Nuke Tube runs on element 115 ad shoots a large fireball, incinerating zombies very effectively.
Picture of an atmospheric nuclear test in French Polynesia, August 1971. Kodachrome color slide scan from an Instamatic camera.
After some research, the test took place on the 14th August, 1971, was a thermonuclear warhead codenamed Rhéa and yielded 1000 kt. It took place in Moruroa, and the picture was taken at about 60 km from ground zero.