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I couldn't live here.
who's asking you to?
oh, I was just trying to anticipate your next question.
yeah? so what's my next one after that?
am I hungry?
right! and what's your answer?
I'm starved.
good. let's eat.
well that was easy.
hey, it's not rocket science, you know.
The “Catapult” is an Esthian Heavy Long-range multiple rocket launcher. The system is (like the previous “Ballista” system) designed to destroy personnel, armored, and soft-skinned targets in concentration areas, artillery batteries and command posts. Each rocket weights 1250kg and has a maximum range of 230km (although a new version with 400km is currently being designed).
All rockets are fitted with GPS/INS guidance system, which uses low lowering rate to extend the range. Multiple missiles can be aimed at different targets.
Each vehicle is also equipped with a short range “Fasta” MANPAD for defense against low flying helicopters and UCAVs.
The “Catapult” and the “Ballista” now form the Rocket Artillery battalions of the Esthian Imperial Army. The system is based on the Russian SM-30 Smerch.
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A heavy haul flat car designed to ship Thiokol rocket boosters dwells in Union Pacific's North Yard in Salt Lake City on June 7, 1992.
Sculptor Donald Harcourt De Lue (1897-1988) heeded a six-month deadline to complete a full-size—43 feet (13 m) tall—plaster model of this "Rocket Thrower" sculpture in 1963 so that it could be cast in bronze for the 1964 New York World's Fair. It remains where it was installed for that fair: in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NYC, USA. I took this photo on November 10, 2024.
Lampoldshausen is a very small town in Baden-Württemberg. In the surrounding woods is the testing grounds of for propulsion system for the Ariane rockets of the European space agency. Must be quite a sight when the tests happen. But of course then the forest is closed off.
Nearly 40 years later, a "Rocket" returns to it's one-time launching pad. This is Chicago's LaSalle Street Station, the eastern terminus for the Rock Island Railroad, where the famous "Rocket" streamliners began their journeys west. But much has changed in this time. The Rock Island went out of business in the 1980s, the original LaSalle Street headhouse was torn down about the same time, and the "Rockets" are all but a distant memory.
Enter 2017: In partnership with Metra, the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society put together four "Joliet Rocket" excursions an homage to the once "Mighty Fine Line." Featuring vintage equipment and their own famous Nickel Plate 4-8-4 #765 for power, passengers were treated to a recreation of a 1940's era train ride from Joliet to Chicago and back over the former Rock Island mainline. Passengers also got to experience a fine lunch or dinner at the station, as well as a photo runby (originally scheduled to take place at Tinley Park) of the giant steam beast. This would be the first time since the 1960s that a steam locomotive would again grace the platforms of LaSalle Street Station and sound of a steam whistle would echo off the Canyons of Chicago. This trip was so popular that it would return for a second year in 2018.
Seen here is the second run of the Joliet Rocket on Saturday, June 17th. Heat and humidity forced many passengers to return back to the air conditioning in the train after finishing their dinner & drinks. But those of us who rode in the Iowa Pacific full-dome car wanted to linger as long as we could outside, because the AC conked out on the car during the morning run, effectively turning it into a giant sauna.
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Lampoldshausen is a very small town in Baden-Württemberg. In the surrounding woods is the testing grounds of for propulsion system for the Ariane rockets of the European space agency. Must be quite a sight when the tests happen. But of course then the forest is closed off.
One more E unit for now. Here is Rock Island 652 crossing the Santa Fe at Joliet. Within a year 652 would be repainted into the popular star nose bicentennial but on Labor Day 1975 it was in it's attractive red and yellow doing it's normal job of hauling a couple or Illinois residents across the state. I think this would be the Peoria Rocket. The Rock Island opted not to join Amtrak in 1971 thinking that the cost to join would be less than continuing to operate the 2 Rockets that were left of it's once extensive network. This was taken on my first non family overnight railfan trip. 4 of us twenty somethings spent 4 days circling Lake Michigan with a pickup camper and some tents. 3 somewhat serious photographers and one somewhat serious beer can collector. It made for an interesting trip.
2009 Challenge, Day 282: ROCKET at: www.photochallenge.org
My ROCKET is the Chrysler bldg. that looks like a ROCKET!! Either this or copying somebody else's work. But when I asked few of my friends what they thought they all agreed that Chrysler bldg. looked like a ROCKET even the antenna on the top.
So short of better creativity here is my rocket!!! Hope you like and agree!!!
Thanks for stopping by and commenting!!
Stephenson's rocket on display at the National Railway museum . Blink and you will miss it as not on prominent display. Tucked away in its own alcove
the ones that look straight from Hansel and Gretel belong to Blisi (Fuji Baku Tbilisi). So is the ganja satellite with the pink pill on top. The technologically-challenged ones are by yours truly. Please notice the band-aid.
Wonder what happened to the poor babies after the storm on Sunday.
Swapped heads with the space marines and commandeered the rocket packs from the SW rebels battle packs. Another reason to get the Collectible Minifigure Series for being able to create various custom minifigures to your own liking/tastes.
White-fronted Bee-eater Merops bullockoides
This is a species of bee-eater widely distributed in sub-equatorial Africa. They have a distinctive white forehead, a square tail and a bright red patch on their throat. They nest in small colonies, digging holes in cliffs or earthen banks but can usually be seen in low trees waiting for passing insects from which they hunt either by making quick hawking flights or gliding down before hovering briefly to catch insects.
[Ref: Wikipedia]
The background to this image is the bank of the river where the nesting holes of this colony were situated. The colony were hunting insects.
This image was captured on the Chobe River, near Kasane, northern Botswana, Southern Africa.
©2014 Duncan Blackburn
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One of my favorite nine photos posted in 2023 ...
Before I post my “top nine for 2023” photo this year, I wanted to post my favorite nine posts from 2023 and see the difference. I just couldn’t narrow it down to six this year. One bear pic was a video, and two photos were featured therefore shown twice. I hope you enjoy the photos!
Here they are……
Backstory:
One of the photographs I covet getting in Cades Cove, Tennessee, is a deer, especially a buck, jumping the fence.
Timing and position are crucial to getting the shot. Usually, the deer are predictable, and I can tell when they are getting ready to jump. Sometimes, they cheat and go under the barbed wire.
I never really thought about the mannerism of the jump. I’m just trying to photograph it.
This buck drops his right shoulder and puts his right leg tight to his body. He then stretches his body up, up, up. Right before he jumps, he uses his powerful back legs to rocket through the air allowing him to hurdle the wire.
I am tickled I got the shot.
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Rocket lift with screens and sound for a journey directly to Wonderland on the sixth floor of Myer Westfield Sydney.
Myer Store, Sydney, Australia (Wednesday 22 Feb 2017)
From 3 squares of paper (2 for the windows)
Another very clever and wonderful design by my dear, dear friend Yara.
The diagram is sooo beautiful!! Handmade by very talented hands. I’d love to draw like her!! :D
Muitíssimo obrigado, querida amiga!! :)
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Diagram: in Origami USA Convention book 2017