Helios Is Ours II

There are many, many more (almost countless) out there. The sun’s closest stellar neighbors are three stars in the Alpha Centauri system. The two main stars are Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B, which form a binary pair. They are an average of 4.3 light-years from Earth. The third star is Proxima Centauri. It… Continue reading Helios Is Ours II

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Protection & Detection

In the video, it says Bitdefender in the upper left corner and it looks like a real-time global monitoring system of Internet traffic identifying threats. CNN

On The Wall

In a small framed collection of earth minerals sourced in Arizona and dating from 1970 – hanging on the wall of my living room you will find it. The notorious isotope named; Uranium 238 (natural uranium). If ever it (the little rock) would traverse the Ocean again it would probably cause serious problems for anybody… Continue reading On The Wall

Vertical Deeparture

At the bottom of the Mariana Trench near Guam. In 1960, the Bathyscaphe Trieste descended to the bottom of the Mariana Trench near Guam, at 10,911 m (35,797 ft; 6.780 mi), the deepest known spot in any ocean. If Mount Everest (8,848 metres) were submerged there, its peak would be more than a mile beneath… Continue reading Vertical Deeparture

My Machines Are VI + I

The collection is growing slowly but steadily… now they´re seven of them, but one of them will not boot correctly or in an orderly fashion. Hence, six + one. A non-bootable machine is a malfunctioning machine and therefore not a machine in the true sense of the word. If you are not functional then you… Continue reading My Machines Are VI + I

Tokyo Cathedral 0

This is one but there is another in Tokyo above ground. The Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel (MAOUDC), a 6.3 km long system of tunnels and towering cylindrical chambers that protect North Tokyo from flooding. Picture: BBC

Colors Of Salt II

Sinkholes in the Dead Sea. They’re rapidly increasing in number due to accelerated evaporation. Nestled between Israel and the Palestinian territories to the west, and Jordan to the east, the Dead Sea is famous for is extreme salinity (34 percent salt, almost 10 times as salty as the ocean), and for having the lowest elevation… Continue reading Colors Of Salt II

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Winds & Waves

A storm of the coast of Orkney an archipelago in Scotland. Orkney is an archipelago off the northeastern coast of Scotland. The islands encompass Neolithic sites, tall sandstone cliffs and seal colonies. Picture: BBC

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