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So this time I tried to follow the NCS rules perfectly (I TRIED to) unlike I did it on my last speeder.
Since this is the result of experementing with turbine and wing designs for my NCS Gunship, you might see elements of the middle section in the finished version.
This is also my first MOCs using only old dark gray.
With a hand full of unprinted minifig vests I got the idea to use them for some kind of micro spaceship.
That was probably two years ago. A few month ago I made some pictures after shooting an other MOC and today I finally uploaded them.
I hope to get something more special done for the next Thursday.
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I'm stampolina and I love to take photos of stamps. Thanks for visiting this pages on flickr.
I'm neither a typical collector of stamps, nor a stamp dealer. I'm only a stamp photograph. I'm fascinated of the fine close-up structures which are hidden in this small stamp-pictures. Please don't ask of the worth of these stamps - the most ones have a worth of a few cents or still less.
By the way, I wanna say thank you to all flickr users who have sent me stamps! Great! Thank you! Someone sent me 3 or 5 stamps, another one sent me more than 20 stamps in a letter. It's everytime a great surprise for me and I'm everytime happy to get letters with stamps inside from you!
thx, stampolina
For the case you wanna send also stamps - it is possible. (...I'm pretty sure you'll see these stamps on this photostream on flickr :) thx!
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A series of AI-generated pictures of a futuristic spacecraft interior in different art styles.
To be continued.
Pictures made with Midjourney.
I'm always happy to accept invites to groups as long as I can see the content. If I see "this group is not available to you", my photos won't be made available to that group. Thanks for your understanding.
The mummified remains of an aphid, that has recently been vacated by an adult parasitic wasp that has used it's host as it developed. The final actof it's development is to cut an escape hatch in the abdomen of the aphid before heading off to begin the process of creating the next generation of space travellers.
In its second asteroid encounter, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft obtained a close look at a uniquely shaped fragment of an asteroid that formed about 150 million years ago. The spacecraft has begun returning images that were collected as it flew approximately 600 miles (960 km) from the asteroid Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025.
The asteroid was previously observed to have large brightness variations over a 10-day period, so some of Lucy team members’ expectations were confirmed when the first images showed what appeared to be an elongated contact binary (an object formed when two smaller bodies collide). However, the team was surprised by the odd shape of the narrow neck connecting the two lobes, which looks like two nested ice cream cones.
In this image is the asteroid Donaldjohanson as seen by the Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (L’LORRI). This is one of the most detailed images returned by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft during its flyby.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL
#nasa #msfc #marshallspaceflightcenter #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #Goddard #GSFC #lucypacecraft #asteroids #Donaldjohanson
Built for the Brikwars Hundred-Piece Hullabaloo contest.
The Space Repair Garage manufactures a custom, one-man utility spacecraft that can perform several roles, including light tugboat work, installation and salvage, and more, if equipped with the appropriate tools.
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti took these images from the International Space Station during her six-month mission. The Progress cargo ship and Soyuz crew spacecraft reflect sunlight as our star sets behind Earth.
Traveling at 28 800 km/h, astronauts can enjoy sunset and sunrise 16 times a day as they circle our planet in the Space Station.
Samantha commented on the pictures: “Before the orbital night embraces our outpost in space this cold metallic light shines on the Space Station” and “Have I mentioned how I love it when the Space Station is cuddled by this orange embrace?”
The colours appear as sunlight slices through the atmosphere. Light with shorter wavelengths is scattered by oxygen in the air first and appears blue. If sunlight hits the atmosphere at a low angle, it travels further through the air and more blue light is filtered out, creating the redder hue.
A sunset happens quickly in orbit – these two images were taken just two minutes apart before the Sun disappeared, returning just 45 minutes later.
Follow Samantha and her Futura mission via samanthacristoforetti.esa.int
Credit: ESA/NASA
Digital painting. I just painted a few lines and I decided to continue painting until get the shape. I ve never painted something like this before, and is my first conceptual art about spaceships.
Lego spacecraft landing on the base walkway for propulsion energy refueling ATANA studio Anthony SÉJOURNÉ
A cover version of Dave Roberts recent creations.
Can not do justice to the bold color selection he is known for but I wanted to do a roughly Blacktronized version and the other with colors I had on hand.
NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft completed its 1.2 billion-mile (2 billion-kilometer) journey to arrive at the asteroid Bennu Monday. The spacecraft executed a maneuver that transitioned it from flying toward Bennu to operating around the asteroid.
Now, at about 11.8 miles (19 kilometers) from Bennu’s Sun-facing surface, OSIRIS-REx will begin a preliminary survey of the asteroid. The spacecraft will commence flyovers of Bennu’s north pole, equatorial region, and south pole, getting as close as nearly 4 miles (7 kilometers) above Bennu during each flyover.
The primary science goals of this survey are to refine estimates of Bennu’s mass and spin rate, and to generate a more precise model of its shape. The data will help determine potential sites for later sample collection.
This image of Bennu was taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a distance of around 50 miles (80 km).
Image credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
The Gigafalcon is launched into orbit in a never-before-tried side-mounted configuration. A large external tank provides extra fuel to the aerospike engine, and large boosters give it some extra kick.
Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan (left) and scientist-astronaut Harrison H. "Jack" Schmitt are photographed by the third crew man aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft during the final lunar landing mission in NASA's Apollo program. Astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot, took this picture. Cernan was the mission commander. Schmitt served as the lunar module pilot.
Credit: NASA
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Date: December 17, 1972
#TBT Petit flashback sur le départ du Soyouz MS-18 il y a déjà 10 jours. À bord, Oleg raccompagne Klim et Yulia sur Terre. J'ai vu depuis quelques photos de leur arrivée, ils avaient l'air heureux d'être de retour (même si OK ils n’étaient partis que quelques jours : un petit business trip, pas une expédition). Pour nous ce sera sans doute un peu différent, et la réadaptation (physique, sociale) demandera du travail. Ça tombe bien, travailler, c’est ce que je fais de mieux 😁 Ce timelapse est accéléré 12 fois, et si vous regardez bien, vous verrez parfois l’image bouger un peu : je n’étais pas le seul à filmer et les collègues ont dû se cogner dans mon appareil fixé sur un bras rigide
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Soyuz MS-18 departing two weekends ago already. Oleg left with Yulia and Klim and I see pictures of them back looking happy and healthy back on Earth. they were only in space for a few days though, a business trip, more than an expedition, for us and Oleg it will be a bit different the physical and social readapting to Earth will require some work. This is a timelapse so it moves 12 times faster than in reality. I wasn’t the only one to film in the Cupola, and where the image shakes a bit is when one of my crewmates bumped the tripod! 😂
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet/M. Cowan
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Aujourd’hui c’est un grand jour à bord de l’ISS : un peu comme un matin de Noël, on est tous très excités par l’arrivée du cargo NG-16. Il a fallu bien plus qu’un traineau pour nous apporter le Cygnus le plus lourd jamais envoyé vers l’ISS ! Lancé par une fusée Antarès, il transporte plus de 3 700 kg de ravitaillement et d’expériences scientifiques. Il nous poursuit depuis 2 jours, durant lesquels on s’est occupé de préparer sa capture et son arrivée. Megan et moi l’avons attrapé à l’aide d’un bras robotique de 17 m de long, piloté depuis une station avec vue panoramique sur la Terre… parfois mêmes les films de science-fiction n’ont pas un scénario aussi ambitieux ! On est toujours tellement concentrés que parfois j’ai besoin de faire un pas en arrière pour me rappeler à quel point ce qu’on fait ici sort de l’ordinaire, et combien d’efforts et de gens talentueux ça mobilise 👏
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Today was a great day on the International Space Station: just like Christmas, we are excited to open our latest delivery 🎅 It took more than Santa’s reindeer to get the heaviest ever Cygnus cargo ship up here though. Launched atop atop a two-stage Antares rocket, and carrying more than 3,700 kg of cargo, this spacecraft spent two days chasing down our orbital outpost before Megan and I brought it in using a 17-m robotic arm piloted from a panoramic window overlooking Earth. Even science fiction film scenarios are not that bold sometimes!!! I often have to take a step back to realise just how unbelievable what we do up here is, and how much effort and talent so many brilliant colleagues put in for days like today to happen 👏
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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The Ark is a mile-long spacecraft on a 100-year mission to colonise a distant planet. The rotating centrifuge provides artificial gravity to support a biome representing all the world’s ecosystems.
The model has approx. 10,000 LEGO elements supported on a custom steel frame and uses LED lights and Power Functions motors to turn the centrifuge. The biome models were built by Rogue Bantha and Inthert; and the circuitry for the reactor lights was provided by Rick Fornalski. Officially a SHIP at 116 studs high and about 110 studs long, as well a MASSIVE investment in parts and time; the project took over a year to design and build. Look back through the album to see some of the stages in constructing this monster.
Because the Corona Virus cancelled most LEGO shows this year the Ark has yet to be seen by a wide audience. Hence, I’ll be presenting an AFOL MOC Talk as part of Brickcon on the 4th October at 8am PDT / 4pm BST where I’ll show the model in detail and switch the motors on to spin the centrifuge; as well as talking about a few other recent builds. Go to brickcon.org to buy tickets. Hopefully in 2021 the Ark will set sail to select LEGO shows in the UK.
Votre livraison quotidienne d'aurore australe est arrivée !
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An Aurora a day... keeps the boredom away? 😉😀
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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The Ultra light Personal Spacecraft is a short range vehicle normally used for ground to space transportation. Also known as a "Guppy" they are also often modified with low energy blasters and used in space races and other vehicular sports.
My goal with this was to try and design the smallest spaceship I could that didn't have unrealistic caps around the cockpit. I went through a lot of concepts, but I landed on this design after by brother came up with a clever way to use the hood pieces for the thrusters. I ended up going more the route of a space sports car in the design, and I like the way it turned out.
I have a bunch of MOCs I have made over the years, and since Taylor and I are now posting all of our pictures under the same profile, I thought it would be good to upload them now that I have some decent pictures.
~Brandon
The Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with Expedition 48-49 crewmembers Kate Rubins of NASA, Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) onboard, Thursday, July 7, 2016 , Kazakh time (July 6 Eastern time), Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Rubins, Ivanishin, and Onishi will spend approximately four months on the orbital complex, returning to Earth in October. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Designed to function as a long-range communications and surveillance vessel, the Anansi's exhaustive sensor apparatus allow it to provide invaluable telemetry for coordinating ship movements across uncharted or contested territories.
Been bouncing WIPs around for a while now. Figured I should just knuckle down and push something out.
The Orion spacecraft with integrated European Service Module sit atop the Space Launch System, imaged at sunrise at historic Launchpad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA on 27 August.
The Flight Readiness Review has deemed the trio GO for launch, marking the dawn of a new era in space exploration.
The first in a series of missions that will return humans to the Moon, including taking the first European, Artemis I is scheduled for launch no earlier than Monday 29 August, at 14:33 CEST.
This mission will put NASA’s Orion spacecraft and ESA’s European Service Module to the test during a journey beyond the Moon and back. No crew will be on board Orion this time, and the spacecraft will be controlled by teams on Earth.
The crew module, however, won’t be empty. Two mannequins, named Helga and Zohar, will occupy the passenger seats. Their female-shaped plastic bodies are filled with over 5600 sensors each to measure the radiation load during their trip around the Moon. The specially trained woolly astronaut, Shaun the Sheep, has also been assigned a seat.
The spacecraft will enter lunar orbit using the Moon’s gravity to gain speed and propel itself almost half a million km from Earth – farther than any human-rated spacecraft has ever travelled.
The second Artemis mission will see four astronauts travel around the Moon on a flyby voyage around our natural satellite.
Mission duration depends on the launch date and even time. It will last between 20 to 40 days, depending on how many orbits of the Moon mission designers decide to make.
This flexibility in mission length is necessary to allow the mission to end as intended with a splashdown during daylight hours in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of California, USA.
Two more dates are available if a launch on 29 August is not possible. The Artemis Moon mission can also be launched on 2 September and 5 September. Check all the possible launch options on ESA’s Orion blog.
Orion is the only spacecraft capable of human spaceflight outside Earth orbit and high-speed reentry from the vicinity of the Moon. More than just a crew module, Orion includes the European Service Module (ESM), the powerhouse that fuels and propels Orion.
ESM provides for all astronauts’ basic needs, such as water, oxygen, nitrogen, temperature control, power and propulsion. Much like a train engine pulls passenger carriages and supplies power, the European Service Module will take the Orion capsule to its destination and back.
Watch launch coverage on ESA Web TV starting at 12:30 CEST here. Follow @esaspaceflight for updates and live Twitter coverage.
Credits: ESA-S. Corvaja
Soooo here are the couple tricks behind this non-purist build. Obviously some of you were curious about the chamfered 2x4 medium azure tiles.
I invested in an Ultimaker II 3D Printer last year. I quickly tried out the limitations for printing Lego bricks. It turns out tiles work quite well. When studs are involved however it is no longer good enough for the serious trade that is SHIPbuilding!
I recently discovered a PLA filament (which is the material used by the printer) with a color very very close to Lego's Medium Azure used for Maersk sets.
It was obvious i had to use it. Custom designed and 3D printed bricks are circled in red.
I also printed a few with a gray filament that is slightly darker than Light Bluish Gray.
In the end the variety and number of MegaBloks; circled in yellow, used is very limited.
And the 2x2 and 2x4 tiles are just almost identical to Lego. The real 'rule breaking' brick is the 2x1 'half-tile' with holes that allows to smooth out the top studs of selected bricks. I'm a bit ashamed of that one but the result is so great that it's worth the guilttrip!
If anyone is interested I will make the printable 3D models available on a specific platform.
I always wanted to highlight the structure of the ship: built in 2 main sections connected by 2 hull pannels (circled blue) and 2 lateral switchs (circled green). This ship can be dismantled in the 2 sections that are both under 90cm, for easier transport to exhibitions.
Happy CHEATtember everyone ;)
OSIRIS-REx will travel to a near-Earth asteroid, called Bennu, and bring at least a 2.1-ounce sample back to Earth for study. The mission will help scientists investigate how planets formed and how life began, as well as improve our understanding of asteroids that could impact Earth.
OSIRIS-REx is scheduled for launch in late 2016. As planned, the spacecraft will reach its asteroid target in 2018 and return a sample to Earth in 2023. OSIRIS-REx is shorthand for the Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security -- Regolith Explorer.
Learn more: www.nasa.gov/osiris-rex
After photographing Point Atkinson Lighthouse on Sunday evening, I decided to stay out and do a little bit of star photography, despite the moon being quite bright.
I subscribe to NASA's 'Spot the Station' service, which sends me an e-mail whenever a particularly bright pass of the International Space Station is scheduled to occur over Vancouver. These occur shortly after sunset or before sunrise, when the station is still lit by the sun, but the sky is dark. This pass was also very high overhead, reaching 81 degrees, so this seemed like a good opportunity to grab a photo. (Incidentally, this seems to be one of the few NASA services that the US government shutdown has not affected!)
The ISS passes from west to east, so I wanted a location with a clear view to the west. For this shot I headed to a new location, a small piece of easily-accessible coastline between Horseshoe Bay and Lions Bay. I've yet to find a centralised directory of these, so I spend rather more time than I should on Google Street View, looking for evidence of these tiny, yet almost always well-maintained, coastal access points, and marking them for future visits.
I don't usually head to new locations for the first time when it's dark, as it's hard to get an idea of good compositions, but even after getting back to the car from Lighthouse Park and driving to this location, there was still some light on the horizon, so I headed down the steep steps to the coast.
As the last of the sunset light was still strongly visible in the sky, I also decided that this might be an opportunity to try a new technique, where a post-sunset or twilight shot is blended with a night sky shot, to give the sunset colours and light on the horizon, combined with the stars of the night sky. Of course, never one to make my life easy, I decided to jump straight in the deep end and do this as a panoramic shot.
Accordingly, this shot consists of a number of different photos at different times, blended together. I started off with a 5-photo post-sunset panorama, which gives the glow on the horizon, the reflections on the water, and the clear definition of the distant hills, taken at about 7:20pm. I then captured a 90 second bulb exposure of the International Space Station streaking across the sky, at 7:51pm. Then, at 8:30pm when it was truly dark, I captured another 5-photo panorama of the night sky, to capture the stars, and finally, after scrambling over the extremely slippery rocks, I took a shot that included me, lit by moonlight, looking in approximately the right direction.
Of course, in between these shots I was unable to move the tripod, so I spent most of the intervening time wishing I'd brought a warmer jacket!
After this, it was merely(!) a case of stitching and aligning all the panoramas and individual shots so they lined up perfectly, and then using masking and the lighten blending mode to blend the shots together into this final image.
A bounty of geological features, including the newly named Manley impact crater, are visible in this image of Mercury taken by the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission on 19 June 2023 as the spacecraft sped by for its third of three gravity assist manoeuvres at the planet.
The image was taken at 19:56 UTC (21:56 CEST) by the Mercury Transfer Module’s monitoring camera 3, when the spacecraft was just over 4000 km from the planet’s surface. Closest approach took place at 19:34 UT (21:34 CEST) on the night side of the planet at about 236 km altitude.
The back of the Mercury Planetary Orbiter’s high-gain antenna and part of the spacecraft’s body is also visible in front of Mercury in this image.
The image provides one of the widest views of the globe of Mercury seen during this flyby. It captures a wider view of the features seen in the closer image, such as the Beagle Rupes scarp and Manley Crater. It also includes the straight scarp Challenger Rupes, to the east of Beagle Rupes, that BepiColombo imaged during flyby 2. The image showcases the heavily cratered, ancient surface of the planet, with brighter streaks known as ‘rays’ emanating from younger craters.
The 258 km-wide Raditladi basin is visible between BepiColombo’s high-gain antenna and the top of the image. This is a relatively young basin, and so Mercury scientists continue to debate whether the smooth material on its floor is formed from rock directly melted by the impact or by later volcanic eruptions separated in geological time from the impact. Data collected by BepiColombo when it is in orbit around Mercury will be essential to solve this mystery.
The cameras provide black-and-white snapshots in 1024 x 1024 pixel resolution.
The image has been lightly processed to bring out the surface details of the planet.
Some imaging artefacts such as horizontal striping are also visible. In this view, north is to the upper left corner.
The gravity assist manoeuvre was the third at Mercury and the sixth of nine flybys overall. During its seven-year cruise to the smallest and innermost planet of the Solar System, BepiColombo makes one flyby at Earth, two at Venus and six at Mercury to help steer on course for Mercury orbit in 2025. The Mercury Transfer Module carries two science orbiters: ESA’s Mercury Planetary Orbiter and JAXA’s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter. They will operate from complementary orbits to study all aspects of mysterious Mercury from its core to surface processes, magnetic field and exosphere, to better understand the origin and evolution of a planet close to its parent star.
Click here for an annotated version of this image.
ESA/BepiColombo/MTM, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Well Benny has done it again, updated his rover to a "Wheelie, Wheelie, WHEELIE!" Even has a ladder on the back for the very high climb! For LEGO - FebRovery.
A small build I did just before leaving for a convention, so not completely refined, some areas could be improved...
The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft successfully launched at 10:36 a.m. EST Dec. 15, 2017, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, carrying more than 4,800 pounds of research equipment, cargo and supplies to the International Space Station.
Image credit: NASA/Tony Gray and Sandra Joseph
This spacecraft was a SHIP of 102 studs length (not including the front data probe). It was operated by the Lightning Shipping Line and featured their logo on its side. This logo was inspired by the livery of transport aircraft of the 20th century Royal Air Force.
The ship's distinctive black & yellow chequering was to warn others of its hazardous cargo. It was also to let space pirates know that the ship wasn't worth attacking, as the cargo was impossible to steal without another tanker to transfer the gas into. Unfortunately, hydrogen barge pilots were very highly paid, owing to their dangerous job. This meant that they often had incredibly expensive, epicurean pack lunches aboard. Pirates would often raid these ships, just for the pilot's sandwiches.
Gemini IX is currently displayed at Kennedy Space Center. I don't know if this it on display in 1988. I also don't know who the women is that posed in the background. :-)
Scan of a photo shot on film. Canon AE-1 was used for the photo.
A reversible submersible.
Part submarine, part spaceship, this seems like the sort of thing Seatron might have come up with if it had ever got past the prototype stage.
Sadly the pilot seat has to be taken out and reattached to flip between spaceship mode and submarine mode, but otherwise I'm pleased with the concept.
A reversible submersible.
Part submarine, part spaceship, this seems like the sort of thing Seatron might have come up with if it had ever got past the prototype stage.
Sadly the pilot seat has to be taken out and reattached to flip between spaceship mode and submarine mode, but otherwise I'm pleased with the concept.
Une nouvelle aurore australe complètement hypnotisante Je ne m'en lasserai jamais, ça va être à vous de me dire d'arrêter 😅
Another mesmerising aurora I will never tire of this sight from space, which means it's your job to say when 😅
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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NASA’s Dawn spacecraft took this image of Ceres’ south polar region on May 17, 2017. Launched on Sept. 27, 2007, Dawn was NASA’s first truly interplanetary spaceship. The mission featured extended stays at two extraterrestrial bodies: giant asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres, both in the debris-strewn main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
The spacecraft’s name was meant to present a simple view of the mission’s purpose: to provide information on the dawn of the solar system. The three principal scientific drivers for the mission were to capture the earliest moments in the origin of the solar system, determine the nature of the building blocks from which the terrestrial planets formed, and contrast the formation and evolution of two small planets that followed very different evolutionary paths.
Dawn completed the first order exploration of the inner solar system, addressed NASA’s goal of understanding the origin and evolution of the solar system, and complemented investigations of Mercury, Earth, and Mars. Dawn’s mission ended on Nov. 1, 2018, after two extended missions.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
#NASA #NASAMarshall #NASAJPL #PlanetaryMissionsProgramOffice #PMPO #DiscoveryProgram #DawnSpacecraft #Ceres
Et voici l’amarrage, après un ballet complexe entre l’humain et la machine. Megan s’est occupée de piloter le Canadarm 2 et je l’ai secondée en surveillant les systèmes du Cygnus durant la phase d’approche.
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And the docking. A complex choreography between human and machine. As Megan grappled Cygnus with Canadarm2, I acted as co-pilot – monitoring Cygnus's systems throughout its approach.
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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