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Zakaz was once a thriving hub of technological research and development, but a horrible accident caused a massive explosion which wiped out nearly the entire Skakdi race. With so many individuals dying at once, one of Karzahni's devices was overloaded, and the memory wiping process was faulty, giving all the Skakdi affected what is now know as the Mind Virus.
With this disorder, a Skakdi experiences frequent visions of their past lives, causing them to have great difficulty distinguishing them from reality. While Karzahni was able to fix the machine, the Mind Virus persists, the condition worsening with each re-incarnation.
Since Karzahni likes to "Improve" the body with each incarnation, this has led to Zakaz becoming a horrifying war-zone, where delusional Skakdi, with no way to distinguish friend and foe, endlessly kill each other, becoming more powerful and violent with each death.
Irnakk is possibly the most feared of all the afflicted Skakdi. This hulking brute is a bit more sane than most Skakdi owing to his latent element of Psionics. He uses this modicum of rational thought to be an ever more efficient killing machine. His gaze instills raw fear in all who look upon him, and he uses a simple blaster to channel his power of paralysis, after which he tears the helpless victim apart with his bare claws.
In a survey of girls 9 and 10 years old, 40% have tried to lose weight, according to an ongoing study funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (USA Today, 1996).
One author reports that at age thirteen, 53% of American girls are "unhappy with their bodies." This grows to 78% by the time girls reach seventeen (Brumberg, 1997).
It's just plain sad.
On a lighter note, I went to the bins yesterday with Lillie and her stepmom Jenny and I bought a whole bag of 80'sness. Though, that swimsuit is actually from a different thrift store. Haha.
But anyway yeah, lots of new clothes for me and the LABYRINTH SOUNDTRACK. (On vinyl of course.) Yeahyeahyeah.
Oh and yesterday I beat my record for views and got 4002 in one day, and like, 203 of both comments and favorites. Thankyouthankyouthankyou! :)
Explored #26.
I love this shot. I wish I had done more detailing on it, but it came out so smooth, and clean. And I love the way the flame effects come up in the background. A combination of the fallen angel character and some of my old tech pieces.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
---Richard Feynman
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Raving Cyclist (me) in Atlanta with Jasper Verkuijl who is from Holland riding up Box Hill in London while Jasper live-streams from Paramaribo! How cool is that!
Pan Asian troops have been inserted to observe the city of Osaka, Japan. Rumours have spread about the possibility of American Activity in this city. This is the main reason why the troops have been inserted, along with the fact that Osaka has good working relations with the Americans. The mayor of the city has been suspected of allowing American politicians into his city to speak with them. This helps proves the suggestion the politics do not stop for war, nor anything else.
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For the Purge, enjoy
Blue eyes
Baby's got blue eyes
Like a deep, blue sea
On a blue, blue day
Blue eyes
Baby's got blue eyes
When the mornin' comes
I'll be far away
And I say
Blue eyes, holdin' back the tears
Holdin' back the pain
Baby's got blue eyes
And she's alone again
Nanyang Technological University's (NTU) new learning hub, latest architectural icon and building in the campus equipped with classrooms of the future.
The building was designed by renowned English designer Thomas Heatherwick.
Press "L".
Pentax 67ii, SMC 45mm F4, Fujifilm Acros 100 developed in Kodak T-Max 1+4 5,5 min, wet-mounted drumscan.
white snowball-sized barite crystals on black manganite crystals
AE Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan Technological University, Houghton Michigan
John Biczok's set of Seaman Museum minerals
.....the quickening pace of technological change, two types of phones.
#43 Technological, 52 in 2022 challenge
The increase of population spurs technological progress and creates that anxiety which sets us against our environment as an enemy; while technology both facilitates increase of population and reinforces our arrogance, or "hubris," vis-à-vis the natural environment.
The attached diagram illustrates the interconnections. It will be noted that in this diagram each corner is clockwise, denoting that each is by itself a self-promoting (or, as the scientists say,"auto catalytic") phenomenon: the bigger the population, the faster it grows; the more technology we have, the faster the rate of new invention; and the more we believe in our "power" over an enemy environment, the more "power" we seem to have and the more spiteful the environment seems to be.
(for the diagram see: www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/ecology/sick.htm )
... The ideas which dominate our civilization at the present time date in their most virulent form from the
Industrial Revolution. They may be summarized as:
(a) It's us against the environment.
(b) It's us against other men.
(c) It's the 'individual (or the individual company, or the individual nation) that matters.
(d) We can have unilateral control over the environment and must strive for that control.
(e) We live within an infinitely expanding "frontier."
(f) Economic determinism is common sense.
(g) Technology will do it for us.
We submit that these ideas are simply proved false by the great but ultimately destructive achievements of our technology in the last 150 years. Likewise they appear to be false under modern ecological theory. The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.
Gregory Bateson, "The Roots of Ecological Crisis" (1972)..YES 1972 !!!!!
Visvesvaraya Industrial & technological Museum, Kasturba Road, Bengaluru.
The Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum, Bangalore, India, a constituent unit of the National Council of Science Museums, Ministry of Culture, Government of India, was established in memory of Bharat Ratna Sir M. Visvesvaraya. Wikipedia
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
- Aldous Huxley
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life, you were only waiting for this moment to arise
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life, you were only waiting for this moment to be free
Blackbird fly
Blackbird fly
Into the light of a dark, black night
Technological systems, similar to biological ones, change and improve over time through processes like selection, adaptation, and combination.
Scientific and Technological Advanced Research Laboratories (S.T.A.R. Labs) is a fictional scientific research facility and organization.
S.T.A.R. was founded by scientist Garrison Slate, who wanted a nationwide chain of research laboratories unconnected to the government or any business interests.
He succeeded not only on a national scale, but an international one as well: S.T.A.R. Labs currently maintains facilities in Canada, Europe, Australia, and Japan as well as in the United States, with the total number of facilities numbering between twenty and thirty at last recorded count.
S.T.A.R. Labs is one of the companies providing sponsorship to the superhero team The Conglomerate, a firm of superheroes set up by Claire Montgomery, Maxwell Lord's ex as a rival to Justice League International.
Other sponsors include, among others, American Steel, Dante Foods, Dupree Chemical, Ferris Aircraft, LexCorp, Ovel Oil, Pax Entertainment, and Stagg Enterprises.
S.T.A.R.'s Detroit location assisted in evacuation efforts of the world's coasts during an alien invasion. The same location is the workplace of Silas Stone, the father of Justice League's Cyborg.
The organization set up shop in Oregon to assist with the rookie superhero Naomi.
Star Labs has currently lost some credibility with the Justice League.
History
Discovery of the Mother Box
Scientists at S.T.A.R. Labs uncovered a Mother Box that was hidden after the invasion of Steppenwolf and his forces millennia ago. It would remain inactive for decades.
Infecting Abner Krill
At some point when Abner Krill was a child, his mother was obsessed with the notion of turning her children into superheroes. One of these children was Krill, upon whom she experimented on. Krill was infected with an inter-dimensional virus, causing glowing polka dots and lumps to form on and under his skin. Krill was the only one who survived these experiments and later went on to kill his mother.
Black Zero Event
During their final battle, Superman and General Dru-Zod flew past the S.T.A.R. Labs building. S.T.A.R. Labs was later put in charge of the scout ship, Scout Ship 0344 to analyze and research its alien properties.
Ko'erst Invasion
Some time later, a group of students visited S.T.A.R. Labs on a field trip. The Ko'erst made a sudden appearance through a wormhole, attempting to invade the planet, but they were stopped by Superman.
Victor's cybernetics
Silas Stone, the head of S.T.A.R. Labs, attempted to repair his son Victor Stone's body after an accident using a mysterious Mother Box S.T.A.R. Labs uncovered in 1982. Although initially doing nothing, the box eventually began pulsing and proceeded to repair Victor's body with cybernetics out of nothing. The footage of this was later stolen by Lex Luthor for his research on metahumans.
Discovering another universe
At some point S.T.A.R. Labs announced that they may have discovered an alternate universe. Eventually, this would cause S.T.A.R. Labs from an alternate land are able to create a portal of realities, causing the retrobots to be able to invade and attack Earth-1 during a Serena Williams tennis match.
During the attack, a heroine from said universe called Wonderous Serena would arrive on Earth-1 in an attempt to defend the population being helped by Wonder Woman. The heroines decided to infiltrate S.T.A.R. Labs in search of some similar portal technology that would allow them to travel to Wonderous Serena's universe in an attempt to detain the retrobots advance, with made them temporarily travel to an alternate version of S.T.A.R. Labs where they would manage to stop the invasion.
A partial list of some known locations of S.T.A.R. Labs facilities and their research focuses, where either is known, includes:
Central City, Missouri, home of the Flash
Chicago, Illinois, home of the second Blue Beetle
Fawcett City: specializing in extraterrestrial research
Gotham City: specializing in weaponry
Keystone City, Kansas
Metropolis (Queensland Park Borough, near Metropolis Harbor): specializing in marine biology
Metropolis (central branch, New Troy Island): catch-all facility
Star City branch specialized in dimensional travel
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Secret Identity: N/A
Publisher: DC Comics
First appearance: Superman #246 (December 1971)
Created by Len Wein (writer)
Curt Swan (artist)
I always have been passionate about exploring space, it is wonderful that our species has the technological ability to explore other worlds, away from our planet for billions of kilometers. These ships have been built to operate without support for several decades, resist all the dangers of space travel and send us detailed information of worlds that one day our species aspires to visit. Of course for a LEGO fan, like me, these are more than enough reasons to build one of these magnificent ships, in this project I introduce you to the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft.
The Cassini-Huygens is a unmanned spacecraft sent to the planet Saturn. It was launched in 1997, and it arrived to Saturn in 2004.
The Huygens probe separated from the Cassini orbiter and landed on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. This was the first landing of a spacecraft in the outer solar system (2005). Titan turned out to be a complex world, with a dense atmosphere (mostly composed of nitrogen, like our atmosphere), hills, valleys, and even lakes and rivers of methane.
Since 2004, the Cassini spacecraft has been exploring Saturn and its system of rings and moons. Among the surprising findings, it highlights that some moons of Saturn might even have the conditions to harbor life.
The finishing of the fuel necessary to correct the orbit of Cassini, forced to crash the spacecraft against the planet Saturn in September 2017.
This model of the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft was built with about 150 pcs, using a scale of 1:62. This LEGO model reproduces most of the external details of the original spacecraft, including the ability to separate the Huygens probe from the Cassini orbiter.
Hammer head crane (slide film).
In the early 1800s, technological developments allowed steam power to be used as a method of propulsion in ships, and the shipyards on the Clyde were leaders in this field. Beginning in 1812 with the construction of the steam boat Comet, the River Clyde was to become the greatest steam and iron ship building centre in the world.
When Iona II’s shipbuilders J. & G. Thomson were first established in 1851 there were six shipyards based on the Clyde. At the peak of this shipbuilding industry, at the beginning of the 20th century, there were over 200 separate yards constructing vessels from cruise liners to warships and yachts to submarines.
Famous ships built on the Clyde include:
• Clipper Cutty Sark (1869) now residing in London as a museum.
• Biggest ship in the world at the time RMS Lusitania (1906) sunk during World War 1.
• Battle cruiser HMS Hood (1918) sunk during World War 2.
• Cunard's RMS Queen Mary (1936) now a tourist attraction in America.
• Royal Yacht Britannia (1953) now a tourist attraction in Leith.
• Transatlantic Liner Queen Elizabeth II (1969) now a hotel in Dubai.
Fill your heart with love today
Don't play the game of time
Things that happened in the past
Only happened in your mind
Only in your mind
Oh, forget your mind
And you'll be free, yeah
The writing's on the wall
Free, yeah
And you can know it all if you choose
Just remember, lovers never lose
'Cause they are free of thoughts unpure
And of thoughts unkind
Gentleness clears the soul
Love cleans the mind and makes it free
Ooh, it gets dark, it gets lonely
On the other side from you
I pine a lot, I find the lot
Falls through without you
I'm coming back love, cruel Heathcliff
My one dream, my only master
Too long I roam in the night
I'm coming back to his side to put it right
I'm coming home to wuthering, wuthering
Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy
I've come home, I'm so cold
Let me in your window
Citroën 2 CV ~ Two steam horses ~ Rue du Louvre ~ Paris ~ MjYj
The Citroën 2CV (French: deux chevaux vapeur, literally "two steam horses", from the tax horsepower rating) was an economy car produced by the French automaker Citroën from 1949 to 1990.
It was technologically advanced and innovative, but with extremely utilitarian and deceptively simple Bauhaus inspired bodywork, that belied the sheer quality of its underlying engineering.
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The F4, Nikon's fourth generation and first autofocus pro-level camera system, was produced from 1988 through 1997.
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The Nikon F4, technologically speaking, is a major upgrade from the F3HP. The F4 has autofocus, motorized film advance, program and shutter priority exposure modes (in addition to aperture priority and manual), multi-segment (Matrix) exposure metering, and advanced fill-flash capabilities. Although the camera is fully electronic, it maintains the façade of mechanical camera controls. In fact, there are no external digital readouts or multi-function dials on this camera. All controls are presented as traditional knobs or switches, although they control sophisticated electronic functions, internally. Significantly, for those with a pre-existing collection of manual focus Nikon lenses, the F4 provides matrix metering, but not Program or Tv modes, with Ai manual focus lenses. It also has a built-in diopter control in the viewfinder. Finally, the F4 system has an amazingly broad system of accessories of all types.
The F4 system includes the F4s, which is the basic F4 body plus the enhanced MB-21 battery grip instead of the basic MB-20 grip. The MB-21 grip uses 6 x AA alkaline batteries compared with 4 batteries in the MB-20 and provides slightly faster motor drive. Unfortunately, the Nikon F4 was not designed to work with light-weight lithium AA batteries, which are not recommended by Nikon. When I bought my F4, it was only available in a package with the larger MB-21, which I immediately replaced with the MB-20 to cut down on weight.
The major disadvantages of the F4 compared with its predecessor F3HP are almost 50% greater weight, and increased size and decreased battery life, primarily due to the motor drive. As indicated above, the F4's program and Tv modes cannot be used with manual focus Nikkor Ai lenses (you need a Nikon FA for that). The F4 does not yet support AF-D technology. AF-D technology, which only appears on future generations of Nikon SLRs, transmits distance information from AF-D lenses and permits better flash and fill-flash performance. Still, when combined with the concurrent SB-24 or newer dedicated flash units, the Nikon F4, even without D technology, has great flash performance in its own right. Unlike the later F90x/SB-26 combination, the F4/SB-24 is smart enough to automatically switch from balanced fill flash to full TTL flash when ambient light is insufficient.
I think that I purchased one of the last F4s to come off of the production line. I was perfectly happy using my F3HP, and continued to use it as my primary camera throughout the production life of the F4, which started in 1988. Finally, the F5 came out in 1996 and I saw that it had reduced functionality with manual focus Nikkor Ai lenses compared the F4. Worse, from my point of view, the F5 is also much larger and even heavier than the F4, with its permanently attached larger grip and battery pack.
Although I still tended to pick up the F3HP instead of the F4 for travel kits to cut down on weight, I really liked using the F4 when weight was not an issue. The F4 fits great into your hands, with its built-in hand grip and non-slip rubberized finish. The camera has the four PSAM modes, single and continuous autofocus, as well as multi-segment (matrix), center-weighted (60/40), and spot exposure metering systems. Although the camera has many electronic functions, there are no hard-to-read external digital menus. All functions are controlled with the traditional knobs and switches, which makes it really easy to adjust all features by feel or by watching the comprehensive digital display in the viewfinder. The viewfinder display is illuminated by ambient light, or by switching on the viewfinder illuminator light with a switch at the base of the shutter speed dial.
If you do need to use a manual focus lens, you can still take advantage of the focus indicator when focusing manually. In fact, you really need to use the electronic rangefinder, because the standard focusing screen has no split image or microprism aid besides a matte field. Just place the central focusing brackets on your subject and focus manually until the red in-focus circle is display in the viewfinder. The F4's early generation autofocusing system is slow compared with subsequent technology, but more than sufficient for stationary or slow moving subjects.
As an advance over the F3, the F4 recognizes DX-coded film canisters. When rewinding film, you can either use power rewind to save time, or manual rewind to save battery power and minimize noise.
The F4's first generation five segment matrix metering system was a major technological advance over traditional center-weighted metering. This is basically the same early generation multi-segment metering that is used in the Nikon FA. While not as sophisticated as later generations of Nikon's matrix metering systems, the F4's five segment pattern and software works fine for typical scenarios. For extreme lighting situations, it is still recommended to switch to center-weighted or spot and set exposure compensation, as necessary.
The F4's shutter is much more advanced than the shutter in the F3. The F4 shutter speed can be manually set as fast as 1/8000 sec. or as slow as 4 seconds. Maximum flash synch speed of 1/250 sec. is much faster than 1/80 sec. on the F3. In P and A modes, the shutter operates steplessly from 30 sec. to 1/8000 sec.
I use all of the F4's modes and light-metering systems, depending on the situation. But for flash photography, it is often easiest to just turn on Program mode and matrix metering to take advantage of completely automatic matrix balanced fill-flash or standard TTL flash. For special flash situations, the F4 also allows complete manual adjustment of all parameters.
The F4 marks marks the beginning and end to Nikon's pro-level body support for both auto focus and manual focus lenses, while also providing a mechanical style control interface. The F5 scales back support for manual focus lenses, and converts to a control dial driven interface. The F6 (like modern higher-end Nikon digital SLRs) finally adds back the F4's manual focus lens support, but of course has a modern display menu interface. The traditional mechanical interfaces are great, but the F6 is a much superior film camera because its features are state of the art across the board, including, for example, Nikon's most advanced matrix metering in a film camera. As other alternatives to the F4, one could look at the F90X, the F100 or the older FA. The F90X moves to an early-generation control dial driven interface, but offers D technology support for flash, more sophisticated matrix metering, and faster autofocusing. The F100 is an upgrade of the F90X and has technology similar to the F5 in a smaller package. The amazing FA is like the traditional-style FE-2, but with the addition of complete and unique support for manual focus Ai lenses with matrix metering (similar to F4 generation) as well as all four PSAM modes!
Finally, there is now a more or less similar interface alternative in the Nikon digital SLR world. The Nikon Df finally provides modern functions, some of which are descendents of the advanced features of the F4, while also resurrecting the convenient mechanical/analog interface of its famous predecessor.
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