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Introduced November 1998, this is Canon's 35mm film technology at its most advanced. I did a writeup on my blog where I talk about the camera -- but the tl;dr is that it's great, but too easy.
Happy 4/20… to the moon!
Fifty years ago, at 7:23pm PST, Apollo 16 touched down on the moon. To celebrate this occasion, I will share one of my treasured artifacts from the mission — the moon rock manifest used by Duke and Young to tally the weight of the samples gathered over three days on the lunar surface and three Rover rides around town (EVA 1-3). The page is smudged with lunar dust from their gloves as they weighed each precious rock and bags of regolith dust on a pound-scale adjusted for 1/6 gravity.
They had a target total weight budget, which they exceeded, and they had to get permission from mission control to retain the Apollo-record-setting-haul of 213 lbs. They also had a load balancing challenge of where to place each sample collection bag across four locations, with weight limits on each. so as to not shift the center of gravity of the lunar module ascent stage for launch (see the COLLECTION BAG STOWAGE exercise at the center of the page; each number there is the bag number, with the weight of each bag noted above; it all adds up within the limits, barely). Essential arithmetic for the mission!
The reverse side of the checklist, below, entitled “CABIN PREP.-EVA 1,” was used to prepare for the first Moon walk. LM Pilot Duke made sure that everything needed to sustain life was checked off before stepping out of the Lunar Module to explore the Moon, including Buddy Secondary Life Support Systems (BSLSS), cameras, film, rock collection bags, sun compass, maps, and checklists, as well as the very first roll of duct tape brought to the lunar surface! I’ll add details on that in the comments below.
There are 16 checkmarks and other notations written by Moonwalker Duke while on the Moon’s surface. The dark stains on both sides of the checklist are particles of lunar dust.
I started my space collecting with a focus on Apollo 16, and this rock manifest is quite rare (only 3 exist). In the comments below, I’ll include the NASA transcript from the Lunar Module to Mission Control as they processed each of the three moon rock hauls. I was trying to find video of the unloading process but have not found it for Apollo 16 yet.
Each rock has detailed analysis. For example, here is the writeup on the first 14-lb rock, and an overview of the Apollo 16 collection.
An image of this page is also on the NASA server. And the opinion of The opinion of SpaceRelics: “During the past seven years, I have been privileged to catalog and appraise tens of thousands of flown and unflown American space artifacts from virtually every mission. However, in all that time, this particular artifact has stood out in my mind as potentially one of the most significant. This item represents one of the most important original source documents of the space program, and indeed the entire pantheon of human exploration.”
An artifact from the Future Ventures’ 🚀 Space Collection.
A 16 x 10 x 10 shadowbox underwater scene.
Here's the blog writeup on the making of it: srolfe.com/2013/05/15/mermer/
It looks like most photos submitted to Flickr are taken by mobile phones. What is most surprising is that the image quality is sufficient for this to happen.
Because of recent advances in the state of the art of micro-miniature camera technology, two of the charts are identical, after adjusting for the time axis scale difference.
All these charts need changes to be useful. I discuss these changes at the end of this writeup.
I found all this surprising until I realized that most of the time, for casual photography, I use my iPhone 6 Plus. I no longer carry a Kodak, Fuji, or a Canon camera in a trouser pocket in addition to the iPhone in my shirt pocket as I did just a few years ago. I still carry a camera with a zoom lens when I want to take portraits at night or indoors. And when I want to take long distance photos of specific people or of specific objects at a distance.
The image quality of the iPhone 6 Plus is surprisingly good. The main limitations for me are:
1. Lack of a viewfinder makes it difficult to see what I am shooting in bright sunlight. The same limitation applies to most current point and shoot cameras.
2. The zoom range is quite limited at the long and short ranges,
3. I haven't figured out how to set the shutter speed as a priority, and to consistently control the ISO setting.
I also find it interesting that the most popular current cameras of Flickr members are Apple's iPhones 5, 5s, 6 and 6 Plus and Samsung's Galaxy 5S camera phones. I have tried all of these, and thy are all quite good.
A Sony Xperia camera phone image is shown at the top. However, it doesn't make it to the charts.
A Canon and a Nikon DSLR are shown at the top, but they do not show up in the charts.
These charts are no longer useful for Flickr's P&S and DSLR camera users. We clearly need some changes in flickr's presentation charts. I suggest the following changes:
1. We need a separate category for camera phones.
2. We need separate Point and Shoot camera and DSLR camera charts,
excluding camera phones.
3. Each chart should show the most popular models within their own category, and their relative ranking amongst themselves.
Fifty years ago, today, Houston instructed Apollo 13 how to cobble together a connection between the square CO2 scrubbers in the Command Module ECU to work with the round discs in the Lunar Module lifeboat which was drawn into heroic use beyond its original breathing oxygen budget (designed for a lunar landing of two people, not a round trip to Earth with three). This was one of the finest moments for duct tape... when failure was not an option.
This large artifact in the Future Ventures space museum is an original Apollo Block 2 flight version of the entire Environmental Control Unit (ECU) in the original shipping frame. It is very rare; I have never seen another in private hands. The Airesearch CO2 Cannister holder on the right has date stamps: May 26, 1967 and and Jan 5, 1968 and April 24, 1968 with NASA contract NAS-9-150 stamped on the metal tag. It's a complex beast performing numerous functions including: air cooling and heating; humidity control; ventilation to suits and cabin; air filtration and critically to Apollo 13, CO2 and odor removal. Here is the NASA writeup on it, and diagrams and close up photos below.
And the Apollo 13 drama as portrayed in the movie was a bit distorted. Astronaut Ken Mattingly (original Apollo 13 flight crew) in The Greatest Space Hack Ever: “The beauty in this whole thing was, these guys were so prepared for even the most implausible things. They knew no one had ever simulated exactly what happened, but they had simulated the kind of stress that could be applied to the system and the people in it. They knew what their options were and had some ideas already in place about where to go. In the movie, they played it like nobody ever thought of this. They dumped a bunch of junk on the table and said, ‘Can you figure it out?’ That was the only way the movie could convey how we got there. In reality, there was total familiarity with the hardware.”
Quote: Jewish Proverb
I still vividly remember how I pestered my dad for my first computer when I was just 13, bluffing that all my classmates have one. It was just a mindless desire. He finally bought me one with his savings and left to the town where he was working; the rest of us were in the city; he used to visit us once in a week.
After buying it, I just played a couple of games and didn't know what to do with it. I wept in my mother's arms heavily, blaming myself that I have wasted dad's hard earned money for nothing. She just brushed my hair and said, "It's ok, you will learn gradually, even in this playing will you learn some computer; nothing goes wasted. If you have this sense of seriousness that you shouldn't waste dad's money, then you will make good use of it".
This day I'm a game programmer, often called a geek with exuberant interest in computers; all this is only because of her courageous words.
Thank you அம்மா! Wish you a very happy birthday, dear mom :)
P.S.: I sneaked this candid photo when my nephew (her grandson) Skanda was playing with my mom ;)
My personal favourite photo with my iPhone is the seagulls hovering over the boat on the way to Miyajima. Two year old snap at Miyajima, just completed a small writeup here. japantourist.jp/view/autumn-at-kiyomizudera-temple
Long-tailed tits feeding chicks at Millers wood.
More photos and writeup on my blog at www.johnstantonphotography.co.uk/long-tailed-tits-feeding...
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A baby, on my son's finger. We have many more of these.
Species post up soon, I promise, with bonus pictures of some animals. Until then, I made a really stupid cartoony post to tide you over.
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I have a different/better shot of our resident black widow that I'll add in the morning. I've been trying to only use decent shots for this series, but my memory card sucks, and I'm tired. So you get my view from one of my trips to the garage several months ago. An egg sac hatched and the spiderlings parachuted onto the light fixture. They were scurrying down to my head on new web when I took this. (If you can believe it, this was a totally separate occasion from my previous encounter of this type.) Sadly, these beauties were, um, evicted. I do have limits. For example, I only hatched and raised ONE of the black widow egg sacs. See? Totally normal limits.
Seriously, you should see it big. Every speck and blob you think might be a spider, is. And then some.
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Moonlit Pyramid Rock Panorama
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I visited Pyramid Rock at Phillip Island in the hopes of capturing an Aurora following a recent solar flare. Sadly it did not eventuate so instead I spent the night having a play around with a large panorama. This image is two combined panorama's of about 15 and 21 images which were taken with a Sony A7R 4, Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 (@ 28mm), 15 seconds, f/2.8 & ISO 1600. Image was stitched using Autopano Giga, and was edited in Lightroom CC and Photoshop. The image was really just a test to see how using a motion controller (PINE II) and motorized heads worked. Sadly there are a few errors around the horizon but otherwise it was a great experience and was a very nice environment to spend the night at, listening to the nearby possums and penguins. I have a full writeup at Moonlit Panorama • Travis Hale (Photography and Science)
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While in Tokyo last year, I retraced the steps I took during my first vacation there, almost 20 years ago. I tried to recreate some of the photos I took to see how things had changed.
I made a full writeup in this blog post, which will also include more photos than I'll be posting here on Flickr.
去年、東京にいる間に、ほぼ20年前の初めて東京へ行った旅行の行った道を戻りました。景色はどうやて変わったのかと思いました。それで、昔に撮った写真と比べるために、出来るだけ同じように現代版を撮りました。
もっと詳しくは このブログの投稿をご覧になってください。
I'm really in love with the Vignette app for Android, but I always have trouble keeping up with the number of filters and effects that it enables, so I made myself a cheat sheet.
(See my quick blog writeup for more information, including the complete list of effects.)
A few months after posting, this is the most-viewed thing I've ever posted to flickr. Huh. I'm glad so many people find it useful!
Oh man, where do I start.
This car is modded very lightly Andrew has KW coilovers, a Vorsteiner CF lip, CSL wheels and a few other goodies. I still remember the first time I saw one of these things cruising down the street, I was in the 4th grade and I asked my parents why they bought a Lexus instead of a 3 series/M3. They told me the M3 wasn't practical because it only came in a two door and it was over priced. BLASPHEMY! e46 M3's are awesome. That being said the e46 M3 is one of my favorite cars to date. I can appreciate other M3 models, (e30, e36, e9x, f30) but, from a completely subjective perspective, I think the e46 has the most beautiful lines. BMW has done an extraordinary job with all their cars, especially their well known M power series. They have an almost perfect balance of speed and class.
I hope to some day be driving an M3 as a weekend car and keep my e90 as a daily driver.
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Probably the most interesting feature of this store is its yogurt counter. No, not frozen yogurt, just regular greek yogurt. Yes, it's weird. Here's a writeup about the company, which is apparently kind of a big deal locally (though I had only barely heard of it before this... I'm not exactly a foodie, and I try to stay several blocks away from Pike Place Market, especially during the summer :) ).
Richard sent me these very cool techniques along with a great writeup on his blog. Details are now on Swooshable: #1 and #2.
May 18, 2021: This morning, I worked on another Pep Ventosa image. Various website writeups of the Pep Ventosa Technique recommend starting with a simple subject - a tree. So this morning, I found this tree with new green growth at Stagecoach Inn Park in Newbury Park. I took a series of images covering 180 degrees of the tree, keeping the trunk in the exact location. I used eleven of the images to make this version.
Richard sent me these very cool techniques along with a great writeup on his blog. Details are now on Swooshable: #1 and #2.
Builder's plate. Who knew this locomotive is in the Register of Historical Places??? Maumelle Ordnance Works Locomotive #1 , mascarading as Augusta Railroad #7 at the Fort smith Trolley Museum. A truely unique critter for sure as it is powered by a Hercules gasoline engine that will turn 1800 rpm and is coupled to the wheels through a 4 speed gear box to the counter shafts that turn the drivers through drive rods. I had no idea I was photoing such a significant piece of history. Attached is the writeup from Wiki, I recommend reading it for some fascinating information.
(@ Artica dreams, SIM: MetaLES )
a larger size of the picture can be found here
(well...this is muuch longer than i expected :O. originally this started, because when Santa Margie was so generous to me before Christmas, Exile had a hair sale and i saw the hair Shuri wears in this picture and thought "Hey supergirlhair!! What to do with it ? " solution : a trashy super heroine of course (trashy backgroundstory included ;D). Didn't have time for this writeup until today~(^-^)~ )
"They call me Snowstar, but my name is Ice. "
Ice's story:
Her mission on this remote little planet called earth is to find and rescue others of her kind, who stranded here.
She came from Xyr, a planet at the other side of this universe. A planet, inhabited by living soulful ice. The long-living people of this planet are peaceful and kind by nature. They communicate through telepathy and live from the sunlight they refract and reflect with their crystalline bodies.
For Aeons they experienced peace and idyll, but the life as they knew it was forever changed by the Meteorites. Nobody knew where they came from, but suddenly they were there, on a direct course towards Xyr.
The only chance they had to avoid their planet's complete destruction, was to combine the telekinetic powers of all able citizens of Xyr and try to deflect the traveling Meteorites. They succeeded. The course was altered just enough, that the traveling meteorites only graced the Atmosphere of Xyr.
But instead half of them hit it's twin planet Ryx. The population there was nearly wiped out and the unusual force of the Meteorites dragged millions of Xyrians with them to die in the fires on Ryx or to be lost in the unknown depths of space.
All that happened years before our Heroine was born. In her time Ryx was already abandoned and all remaining Ryxians relocated to Xyr and the shooting-star-force was already established. Able Citizens of Xyr with powers far beyond the average, could apply and take on the honorable and dangerous mission to travel space and find the Xyrians and Ryxians the Meteorites took with them, so that, if possible, lost Xyrians and Ryxians could be send back and reunite with the community of their people.
But that was only the official part of the Mission. Although it was still unclear where the meteorites had come from, it was certain that it had been no accident, but the evil plan of an unknown foe. A truth unbeknownst to anyone but those, who successfully passed the tests and training to become a shooting star to seek salvation for their people and the true nature of their foe.
To join the shooting-star-force to go on this unsure mission, although it was against her very nature to leave the save haven of the telepathic continuum of her people, was Ice's deepest desire ever since her grandmother had first told her the story of that special force called shooting stars, how her whole family had been taken away by the meteorites, when she was still bearing the light of her precious daughter Ice, Ice's mother (the Xyrian language has around 10000 words for ice, of which around 900 are common names).
How the twin-world Ryx died and how that taught new emotions to the Ice-people, how it had taught them the meaning of the words grieve and rage and hate and Vengeance.
how the words murder and crime and punishment were invented, when a few Ryxians, blind with grieve and rage had killed many many innocent Xyrian, as they blamed all of Xyr for their tragic fate. They had been banned from the solar system as consequence of their deeds.
Ice's centuries long journey brought her to many planets. Only on a few of them, were even signs that ice-souls had stranded there, but they just had vanished without trace or clue why and where to, or their long travel in the tail of the meteorites had weakened them too severely, the environment of the planet they landed on was too harsh or the inhabitants of the planets murdered them, because they thought they were a threat.
They melted, they vanished, they perished, none lived.
Then, one day, a sudden energy-storm forced her out of her intended route and into a remote solar system, she hadn't planed to visit, but as soon as she entered it, she sensed the distinct energy signature of the meteorites and followed it to a blue planet dominated by a young barbaric species of consumers(= a type of species who needs to consume the lives of others to maintain their own). They called themselves humans among several other names, in several other languages.
Seeking help from the so called "community" or "Leaders" of a species as primitive and barbaric as humans, was out of question, but without help she would (due to the energetic and physical nature of this planet) not be able to stay active, for more than a few days, before she would have to either leave the atmosphere of earth or be forced to enter preservative sleep, from which she would not be able to wake up on her own accord until she would either be provided with the necessary energy environment or her body would slowly become weaker and she would die eventually.
Yet again Coincidence was her greatest ally. Right before Ice had to leave, she found Elena on a snowy day, stuck and dying in a snowdrift. She made a contract with the human , entered her body with her own soul, healed it and put her own body to sleep, save inside of a preservation-capsule.
From then on the human, Elena Irwen , helped her to search for lost souls and everything seemed to finally work out, but the peace only held for a little while. Ice didn't know yet at that time, that;
Elena was more special, than she herself knew and she was not the only one.
Humans may be barbaric and stupid, but that doesn't mean they can't be dangerous.
The shooting-star forces were not the only ones who searched for the lost souls of Xyr and Ryx.
Banned doesn't necessarily mean gone and the flame of rage burned hotter than ever in some of the Ryxians and in one especially .
A fierce battle awaited and it involved more and cost more, than anyone could ever have anticipated...anyone...but the great evil (picture-link coming soon) who started it of course.
to be continued
PS.: thanks a lot for reading ;D, this is the second version of the picture, because I like this better, edited with pixlr.com/o-matic/ )
I stand corrected on the physical explanation of the sunset angel. The key term here is "cloud shadowing"; Google with this, and you will find the best writeups on the phenomenon, including Phil Plait's excellent blog posting on Slate. When the sun is behind a cloud, a shadow is cast, but the irregularities of a cloud contour allows for random beams of light to poke through. These beams are essentially parallel, but from far away, they look like they are radiating from the sun. That is just perspective at work. We will see an angel on the opposite horizon when the clould is close by at about the same level as us with plenty of blue sky around the cloud as it blocks the sun. Then the beams shoot past us and appear to converge on a vanishing point on the opposite horizon. This is of course fainter than the rays seen when facing the sun. Anyway, a sunset angel should be rare; the necessary conditions probably occur only a couple times in a decade. It requires a high place like Haleakala along with a higher altitude cloud like cumulonimbus in just the right place and of the right size and shape and air filled for many miles with water droplets or volcanic aerosols to make beams visible. This is still much more likely than a camera obscura event. See actual CLOUD blocking sun
Vehicle mode of Delorean Time Machine
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Strobist: Elinchrom Quadra HS Head in a large octa, boomed overhead, f/5.6. 2 silver reflectors on side, one on the floor. Elinchrom ELC Pro HD 500 in the ELinchrom "Bishop's Hat" background reflector, seasoned to taste.
Skyport triggering.
PP in LR/PS.
Writeup on kidona.com.
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Sasha is a beautiful cat "with her own viewpoints and opinions. She can be quite friendly and enjoys chin scratches -- on her own terms, of course!. She's active and would love her own human companion to share playtime with." (says the shelter writeup.) As of about 6 November 2015, she was at Purrington's... not sure if she went back to the shelter but she was adopted on 27 November 2015, when thanks to "black (cat) friday" all adoption fees for all cats and kittens were covered by Best Friends and Zappos.com!
This photo shows the Sherwood main shelter adoption area from inside one of the free-roam rooms. You can see a cat-quarium and the wall of cages that goes around the central care area.
Pointblank from G1 Transformers cartoon series, turns into a futuristic speedster. Transformation doesn't require reassembly of parts.
I am taking inspiration from both his original toy version from the 80s and also some design cues from his cartoon/comic version.
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Strobist: Elinchrom Quadra HS Head in a large octa, boomed overhead, f/4. 2 silver reflectors on side, one on the floor. Skyport triggering.
PP in LR/PS.
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Vehicle mode of Delorean Time Machine
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I built this for the Jaeger vs. Kaiju building challenge over on Brick Mecha Division. Here's the lore writeup I made for it there:
The next generation of technology in the fight against the Kaiju, EUXO was designed to mirror a human's anatomy without using any organic material. The result is an incredibly complex synthetic organism that - by linking with the pilot's brain - functions as their surrogate body. This allows for reaction times and awareness unheard of in previous generation Jaegers.
For standard armaments, EUXO carries a medium-range AP rifle for piercing Kajiu hide and an "Ahlspiess" Anti-Kaiju spear. The Ahlspiess is designed to be stabbed into the enemy beast, whereupon its two prongs forcefully open and it emits a large energy blast to the Kaiju's internals.
The EUXO can also utilize optional Type-B equipment. This functions as extra armor and includes a number of stabilizers for extra maneuverability during air drops.
So yeah, obvious Evangelion inspiration here. I originally just wanted to add some optional shoulder parts containing ammo/missiles but that eventually grew into a full armor set. Note that the waist armor also includes extra braces for the hip joints so the whole thing doesn't topple under the added weight.
Pointblank from G1 Transformers cartoon series, turns into a futuristic speedster. Transformation doesn't require reassembly of parts.
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Not super happy about the lighting on this one, but I'm tired. Better version tomorrow, maybe.
Taken at the Gilbert Riparian Preserve.
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I stopped by the Camera Company today with a simple question, which is really no matter to this stranger story. Alas, I waited for a few minutes as they were assisting a man with 35mm film. I couldn't help but notice the beautiful camera and lens combination in his hand, and knew that at that instant I wanted to take his photograph. We all chatted for a brief moment on the benefit to the Nikon system being so interchangeable between digital and 35mm. After brief conversation he left, and I was able to ask my question; but I still wanted to capture the man with the magnificent camera!
As luck may have it, I did my usual up and down walk of State Street and when I reached the 100 Block we ran into one another again. This time I was able to make a little more conversation with him, introducing myself as Chris and he informed me that his name was Brent. Quickly learning the ins and outs of his photographic style, he told, me that he prefers film over digital. Though he did admit that shooting so much digital sometimes creates a false reality, as often he finds himself looking at the back of his 35mm SLR to review images. I explained to him my project of shooting the strangers of Madison, and asked if I could include him in the project. As most photographers do, he agreed and posed nicely for me against the glass windows on Overture Center for the Arts. Quickly adjusting my settings, I fired a few frames off; but he told me that I should take a photo of him with his camera to his eye. As often enough that is how his subjects see him, while I tried that I like this more classic pose.
I learned through our conversation that Brent recently made his first ebay purchase, in fact it was a mint Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens. While he didn't specify what version, I've owned a number of Nikkor 50mm an always had good luck with them. He acknowledged that he was a bit leery of the offer as it was being auctioned from Japan (home to Nikon at that) but four quick days later he had his new lens. He stated that it looked as good as new and came in the original box and everything, I hope that we cross paths again someday so I can take a look at the lens. Today he was shooting with a 135mm f2 AI-S lens, a tack sharp of a telephoto (1981-2005).
In parting I gave him a link to my Flickr page, so that he could sort out finding his photograph and story included for the 100 strangers project. He did inform me that I should consider a name change as "local paparazzi" could bring up all sorts of bad results. I assured him that I have a large following, and thus upon searching Google the first result is a link to my photostream. All the more reason to get business cards made out, but that's another step for another day!
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I originally built my previous LEGO Technique as an assembly to deal with the gavel. Then things got crazy. See my writeup at www.dagsbricks.com/2013/11/lego-techniques-bring-down-gav...
And with this Han, this is 53 custom Star Wars Friends in 53 weeks in 2015, completing the Custom Star Wars Friends project. This brings me to over 100 custom Friends in 19 months (including every day in July 2014) and it’s time to finally take a break. A full writeup about my process and the project will be on JustJon.Net next week. And I’ll get to some more of these sporadically in 2016 along with some other projects I have in the pipeline, including my second book.
Crosshair from G1 Transformers Cartoon Series transforms into a futuristic buggy.
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I built this for the Jaeger vs. Kaiju building challenge over on Brick Mecha Division. Here's the lore writeup I made for it there:
The next generation of technology in the fight against the Kaiju, EUXO was designed to mirror a human's anatomy without using any organic material. The result is an incredibly complex synthetic organism that - by linking with the pilot's brain - functions as their surrogate body. This allows for reaction times and awareness unheard of in previous generation Jaegers.
For standard armaments, EUXO carries a medium-range AP rifle for piercing Kajiu hide and an "Ahlspiess" Anti-Kaiju spear. The Ahlspiess is designed to be stabbed into the enemy beast, whereupon its two prongs forcefully open and it emits a large energy blast to the Kaiju's internals.
The EUXO can also utilize optional Type-B equipment. This functions as extra armor and includes a number of stabilizers for extra maneuverability during air drops.
So yeah, obvious Evangelion inspiration here. I originally just wanted to add some optional shoulder parts containing ammo/missiles but that eventually grew into a full armor set. Note that the waist armor also includes extra braces for the hip joints so the whole thing doesn't topple under the added weight.
Vehicle mode of Delorean Time Machine
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