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![]() ![]() At my first job, the boss had several of these. I was sent out to shoot architectural photos of buildings. The lens board would tilt and compensate for the building perspective. And it made super sharp prints. Glen ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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The image is a pencil and pastel portrait titled "Woman with candle" by contemporary Russian artist Liya Gazizova, created in 2023. Liya Gazizova is known for her expressive and often symbolic artwork. The piece showcases a woman holding a lit candle, with the warm glow illuminating her face and emphasizing the interplay of light and shadow. The use of pencil and pastel creates a soft, ethereal quality, highlighting the delicate details of the woman's features and hair. The artwork has been praised for its powerful depiction of light and its evocative nature |
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![]() ![]() Big date tonight! ![]() ![]() We used a mapping program for years that when an image with no world file or placement data, it would put it at that location. Not very helpful. They finally received some input that no one is photographing the ocean off of Africa. So it would asked what coordinates you wanted to start with. Much better. ![]() In February 1971, Apollo 14 astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell collected a remarkable lunar treasure at the Fra Mauro highlands: Big Bertha. This nearly 9 kg (19.8 lb) moon rock is a breccia—a natural collage of shattered fragments welded together by ancient meteor impacts. Some of its minerals, like quartz and granite, are more typical of Earth than the Moon, sparking debates about how our worlds formed and exchanged material billions of years ago. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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I'm sure the guy that wrote/said the first thing was very smart, but anytime I read something like that, I think that's very presumptuous so think/say. Over and over and over again, we discover that what we "know" is wrong. I don't think that we should stop thinking and theorizing, but at the same time, I think that assuming that we're absolutely correct about a lot of stuff in science and the universe is folly of the highest degree.
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I doubt the veracity of this, but it's funny.
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![]() ![]() The maximum takeoff weight for most of our 747 fleet was 875,000lbs and it wasn’t often that we got right up to the limit, but sometimes we did, and frequently it was in Hong Kong or one of the major industrial cities of mainland China. This photo was taken in Hong Kong which naturally prompted the reaction “that’s a lot of rubber dog****.” The 747-400 was made to fly at these weights and didn’t really protest or wheeze its way into the sky as the classics were reputed to do at max gross. But taxiing was another matter. It was among my nightmares as a new captain (minimum radius turns and lithium battery fires being the others), and it was a delicate balancing act to begin rolling and forecast your momentum on the ground. It starts with breakaway thrust which must be limited to some number I can’t remember now. I want to say it was in the neighborhood of 20% total thrust. Probably less. But on empty ferry flights, idle thrust was enough to have the big ship pulling like a puppy on a leash. So the heavy weight taxis were dramatically different in terms of technique. The main risk was doing damage to people and objects behind you, including other airplanes. Sometimes you had to sit there at the taxi thrust limit for maybe 5-10 seconds before she would finally start to creep forward. Then it was important to manage that energy as you executed two 90° turns to get out of the Hong Kong cargo ramp. Those turns were where you would lose momentum. And the worst scenario was getting stuck mid-turn because it would take more than max-taxi thrust to get rolling again. Two items of note on the screen: first, is that below “THRUST” are dashed lines. Normally we would derate the thrust from maximum available because we didn’t need it and it saved wear and tear on the engines. But in Hong Kong, with the heat and humidity and associated performance degradation, you needed everything she had. The second thing to note is that we are taking off from 25L which points toward the city and the terrain. Hong Kong had such a complex engine failure profile for that runway that they taught it in the sim every year and it was a guaranteed event on your maneuvers validation. So the point is: of course you’re pointed at the terrain the day you’re at max gross. Mercifully, my engines never gave me any grief. But I do recall one takeoff from 25L, probably very heavy but maybe not max, where I saw something that made me blink. The FO was flying and as captain, I had the responsibility to reject the takeoff if something happened. Somewhere between 100 knots and v1, I noticed a “REV” indicator above one of my engines, which normally indicates a reverser is unlocked. Seeing that, my brain froze momentarily and tried quickly to analyze what was happening. We were still accelerating, there was no adverse yaw, no unusual noises. It must be a faulty indication. I said nothing and we continued. The REV indication remained until almost 10000’ but eventually went away. Your mind can rationalize the likelihood of an erroneous indication, but your gut won’t relax until you’re clear of the terrain. That said, max gross takeoffs will boggle the mind of inexperienced pilots. You really don’t rotate until you’re well into the second half of the runway. It’s a vastly different sight picture and very disconcerting the first couple of times you see it. For me, the most satisfying feeling was the high speed acceleration. Once she was clean and ripping along at her VNAV climb speed, she was truly in her element. A delightful and validating aeronautical experience, and one that I am so grateful to have in my logbook. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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