Watch out for Maxwell’s Demon!
Source: google.co.uk via David J on Pinterest
Via thisisnotsustainable:
“Airplane Graveyard”
The caption is misleading. In fact, this is an aerial photograph of The Pima Air Museum in Tucson, Arizona. It is a wonderful place to visit! There are seven decades of commercial/ passenger planes, and a few non-combat military aircraft on display.
This IS sustainable
These decommissioned, out of service aircraft are not #junk, nor #scrapsteel as thisisnotsustainable tagged the image. Ironically, they are the very opposite! By the kindness of private donations and people who love air transport and design, The Pima Air Museum has been open to be public, as an educational science museum for children and adults for 40 years.
The museum is well maintained. There are tours for different levels of knowledge. Many of the planes’ interiors, engines and turbines are on display. There is a section of the museum that is indoors, where the more detailed, newer exhibits are kept.
Boneyard not graveyard
If the planes were turned into scrap metal, that would be lamentable. The outdoor section of The Pima Air Museum is referred to by locals as “The Boneyard”. Other than that, the similarities between thisisnotsustainable’s description, of an “Airplane Graveyard”, couldn’t be further from the truth.
Even elderly planes have placards describing the spec’s of each, their historical context in time and location (some were manufactured and used in other countries besides the United States). The museum is a great destination for a field trip. Get some exercise, walking in the clean, dry desert air on the south-east outskirts of Tucson, and learn about science and history, if you’re so inclined.
A visit, a map and a review
I viisted The Pima Air Museum several times. I was even inspired to write a review of it for Google Places, formerly Google Maps, which I don’t do too often!
I wish there were more organizations like this one, that re-purposed older technology for educational and recreational purposes, at minimal cost.
“SpringerImages is a collection of scientific images that spans the scientific, technical and medical fields, including high-quality clinical images. The collection – currently over 5 million images – gathers photos, graphs, histograms, figures, and tables…
The SpringerImages interface enables users to search faster, more broadly and more accurately, through captions, keywords, context and more, even jumping from the image to the source article. Users can create personalized image “sets,” and can easily export images for use in their own presentations or lectures.”
Sounds great, right? I couldn’t quite get it work the way I wanted. I suspect that registration would be helpful.
This is the key part to be aware of:
“Anyone can create an account and search the free and Open Access images indexed by SpringerImages.”
untitled on Flickr.
This is what happens when good photographers take pictures of industrial scenes.
I love industrial photography. I really like this picture.
I learned something today. People with a good eye, skill with cameras, in a word, artists, can
- do fashion photography of women AND
- photos of HVAC in the wild.
They make both look great.
ANI GIF: Yoshi Sodeoka
If you haven’t checked it out already, and you like GIF art, check out the latest online ANI GIF exhibition featuring the talents of Yoshi Sodeoka called ‘13 Compositions’
Fact
fax machine will not receive documents but will print perfectly folded paper aeroplane of any type u whisper
— Max Lavergne (@maxlavergne) April 16, 2013
More virtual becomes reality
its the year 2021. you download designer drug for your 3d printer off the bit torrent network. you go to get the drugs out of the printer but instead of drugs it printed a cop. Youre under arrest
Fax wouldn’t betray you like that.
(via null-reference)
