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There are three very similar tower blocks grouped together in Poplar - the EleKtron (sic) Tower, The Proton Tower and the Neutron Tower. The EleKtron (sic) Tower is the smallest of the three but I am positive this shot is of the Proton Tower...
Protonic Blue is the best color on the BMW i8 in my opinion
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Registered in northeast London, on SORN and without an MOT since 2020.
Last time I was in the area, this was surrounded by weeds! The weeds are gone but this remains.
Supplieed by Lambourne Autos.
The Severe Geomagnetic Storm of 11 November produced bright red aurora (induced by electrons) and much rarer yellow-green aurora (caused by protons). Protons are over 1800 time heavier than electrons and result in very brief duration interactions with gases the upper atmosphere. These events can only occur at G4 or G5 level intensities.
(L727 BPM)
Lovely car to see. Didn't know about it until a month ago and finally snapped it off the driveway. Looked in fabulous condition if a little bit dirty. Interestingly is now SORNed and is a two owner car
The famed racetrack and the sailing rocks. On a cool clear night in march 2021, I was lucky to be the only one on the playa at night. I had a fun time walking around shooting different comps. Most of the rocks move north-south direction, so even though I wanted the milky way arch on the rocks, that wouldn't happen. So I ended up with this shot. This was taken very close to twilight as it was early in the milky way season.
For me, this composition exemplifies the symbiotic relationship between research and nature that is Fermilab.
The Proton Pagoda (left) was the operations center for fixed-target beamline experiments that occurred downstream to the right. The yellow spiral staircase in its base was designed to represent the double helix strand of the DNA molecule.
The Proton Pagoda as viewed from Road C. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), Batavia, IL.
Here is a one from the Mothers day Aurora display a few months back
A fairly rare proton arc was visible during this display, which was great to see reaching up into the sky ...
Single image -- 16mm - f4 - 10 seconds - iso 10,000
Well, after seeing this one on the road a few times in December and then getting a dashcam grab on New Year's eve it surprised me by turning up for sale outside my favourite local budget car lot. In fact a lot of my local spots seem to come from or end up here...
Anyway, it appears to have a tiny mileage of just under 32k at its last MOT in May '17. Not a bad MOT history, although looks like it received a lot of welding to pass last year.
Quite a display of accessory driving lamps...
Sat outside the local Citroen dealer, this Proton advertising their Scrappage scheme has a lower mileage than a good number of the cars sat on their retail forecourt - it had only done 16,700 miles at its last test in August!
A very early ‘poverty spec’ Persona Compact. This one looks to have been loved by its long term owner, including a nine year stint of being parked up, until it was recommissioned in 2014. This has no doubt aided its survival! Despite Protons initial success in the UK, later models like these never quite took off compared to what Kia and Hyundai were offering. This is evident in their low survival rates nowadays. Of the entry level 1996 GLi model this is 1 of 7 left both taxed and on SORN. Quite sad really seeing as they were very capable cars. For the record, only the very first GLi models got black bumpers making this an even more significant survivor.
Mileage in between MOTs - 186 Miles
Mileage at last MOT - 35,995 Miles
Last Ownership Change - 6th March 2000
N963 JUG
✓ SORN
✗ MOT
Expired: 2 February 2019
Spotted in Kensal Rise, according to the DVLA its only done 49k miles, looked in good shape too, these are scarce cars nowadays
Rekaan dalaman Proton Inspira yang moden. Gambar ini dikeluarkan oleh Move Auto yang diambil semasa Pandu Uji.
Gambar rekaan luaran kereta Proton Inspira yang dilancarkan pada 10 November 2010. Gambar diambil daripada blog berita automatif Paultan.org.
These were never very common in the UK and it's quite a while since I recall seeing one. 41,000 miles at the last MOT and appeared to be in excellent condition.
Car: Proton Jumbuck GL.
Year of manufacture: 2006.
Date of first registration in the UK: 27th December 2006.
Place of registration: Cardiff.
Date of last MOT: 19th October 2021.
Mileage at last MOT: 59,875.
Date of last V5 issued: 10th December 2014.
Date taken: 16th February 2022.
Album: Carspotting 2022
Celebrating the switch on of the Large Hadron Collider.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
I cannot vaguely claim any understanding of particle physics but really do have great admiration for those scientists and engineers who hitchhike around the galaxy, trying to discover the answer to life, the universe and everything. For what little it is worth and with a total lack of scientific evidence, my own hunch is that as scientists find and research ever smaller particles, the most ironic discovery may well be that our own gigantic universe is not unique....that at least one other universe also exists.
(Image created using Imaginova's Starry Night Enthusiast 6)
Pilote : Andersson Pergunnar
Copilote : Axelsson Emil
Rallye Monte Carlo
Col de la Fayolle
Ardèche
France
IMG_3575
The ‘GE’ is no doubt the rarest spec of Proton MPi, both then and now. It was the base spec of the range, but many people went for the higher spec GL and GLS due to them still being so affordable, yet better equipped. Usual Red paint fade aside, this example looked to be in good condition, particularly for an inner London car. Oh, and yes, that is my note under the wiper!
Mileage in between MOTs - 1,099 Miles
Mileage at last MOT - 89,643 Miles
Last Ownership Change - 20th January 1997
L491 EUD
✓ Taxed
Tax due: 1 November 2021
✓ MOT
Expires: 21 October 2021
It occurred to me (after I gave it away) that I never actually took a decent picture of my proton pack. So here it is. You can find instruction for this in BrickJournal issue 29.
RA-42434 - Yakovlev YAK-42M - PROTON
at Frankfurt Rhein/Main Airport (FRA)
c/n 4520424305017 - built in 1993 for Orel Avia -
final operator was YAK Service -
w/o 9/7/11 in Volga river near Yaroslavl Airport (UUDL)
destroyed when it crashed about 1 km from the runway of Yaroslavl Airport (IAR), Russia. Forty-three people were killed and two survived. The surviving passenger died on September 12 of his injuries.
The airplane carried members of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl KHL ice hockey team for a match in Minsk.
scanned from Kodachrome-slide
This would have been local to where I was living at the time it was new. Great to see those dealer plates still in place. Cars like this and the one in the previous picture epitomise the FoU for me.
Many people hope to catch a glimpse of these reddish-green swirls of colour floating in the polar skies. Few are as lucky as ESA astronaut Tim Peake, who captured this dazzling display of the aurora Australis from the International Space Station during his mission in 2016.
This stunning display of light splashed across the sky is a product of severe solar wind lashing against Earth’s protective magnetic shield.
But beauty often comes at a price, and the cost of the aurora, popularly known as the Northern or Southern Lights depending on the hemisphere, is constant surveillance of the Sun.
The giver of light and heat and a key enabler of life on our planet, our Sun is also a volatile ball of hot gas 1.3 million times larger than Earth. Though 4.6 billion years old, the Sun keeps on churning, emitting constant streams of electrons, protons and atomic particles, into space.
On its particularly active days, the Sun can throw out a Coronal Mass Ejection or CME, an outburst of colossal clouds of solar plasma that, if colossal enough, could have serious consequences for life on Earth. One such ejection produced a geomagnetic storm powerful enough to cause a nine-hour outage of electricity in Canada in 1989.
Changing conditions in space due to solar activity is known as space weather and some days it ‘rains’ electrons and protons. Geomagnetic storms can affect the vital systems on which our modern societies depend, such as satellites, communication networks or power grids.
So what is ESA doing about space weather?
We cannot control our Sun, but timely alerts – like those to be enabled by ESA’s future Lagrange solar warning mission – will allow civil authorities and commercial actors to take protective measures, helping minimise economic losses and avoid a disaster that could affect all of us. Advance warning of an oncoming solar storm would give operators of satellites, power grids and telecommunication systems time to take protective measures, sometimes as simple as turning off the devices.
Watching the Sun from a unique position in space, the Lagrange satellite will allow monitoring of the potentially hazardous sunspots and high-speed solar wind streams before they come into view from Earth, and detect solar events and their propagation toward our planet with higher accuracy than is possible today.
If you are lucky enough to glimpse the aurora, though beautiful and harmless, remember that they are the product of the cohabitation with an active star that can do real damage to daily life.
Credits: ESA/NASA
I thought this was a Gen 2. Presumably they retained the Persona name for the saloon. Although it does say Gen 2 on the bootlid!
Vehicle make
PROTON
Date of first registration
01 August 1995
Year of manufacture
1995
Cylinder capacity (cc)
1299cc
This is a 12 shot panorama covering ~180 degrees that I took during the geomagnetic storm on June 22nd. This was facing east over the ocean with the aurora on the left, the Milky Way on the right and a Proton Arc in the middle.
Finally got a photo of this one after seeing it elsewhere a couple of years ago.
MoT expired and now on SORN. It'd done just under 79k miles at its last MoT in 2021.
I can just about make out the tag on the plate for Pageant Garage, I think in Beccles. No immediate trace of them now.
Car: Proton Jumbuck GLS 1.5.
Date of first registration: 21st December 2006.
Registration region: Norwich.
Latest recorded mileage: 74,253 (MOT 27th November 2020).
Last V5 issued: 2nd April 2020.
Date taken: 6th October 2020.
Album: Carspotting 2021
This is the first of these I've seen in quite a while, numbers really seem to have thinned out in the last three years or so.
This was taken during a quick look around Cambridge, which seemed quite promising for old cars initially, with a couple of good sightings while driving into the centre (F-reg Micra, early Jag XJ-S Convertible, Honda Concerto), but didn't fully deliver when I was on foot unfortunately!
"The Proton Pack is an Unlicensed Nuclear Accelerator Backpack that consists of raw nuclear energy and Protons. The Proton Pack is mounted onto an Army issue A.L.I.C.E. Pack Frame with adjustable shoulder and kidney straps and belt, the Proton Pack consists of two parts: The Nuclear Accelerator Backpack (Proton Pack, Positron Collider, Cyclotron.) and Particle Thrower (Proton Gun, Ion Wand, Ion Cannon, Neutrona Wand.). Once you turn the Proton Pack on, you can also switch on the Particle Thrower. The Accelerator accelerates the Protons from the Cyclotron on the pack into the Particle Thrower, and you get an extremely powerful but destructive particle stream that consists of Protons and raw nuclear energy. This is capable of entangling a ghost against its will (An excellent way to think of the particle stream would be as a lasso for ghosts.)."