The top pic there.
That’s you crushing it at the gym.
Author Archives: Chompsky
Sun/Flowers
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Not paintings, but the dreamy, otherworldly flower photography of Sunnyvale, California-based Xuebing Du – surreally lit at full bloom but only by the natural light of the sun.
Shucks
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Behold: what looks like a cosmic oyster filled with pearls but is, in fact, the star cluster NGC 602. To wit:
Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies 5 million year young star cluster NGC 602. […] Fantastic ridges and swept back shapes strongly suggest that energetic radiation and shock waves from NGC 602‘s massive young stars have eroded the dusty material and triggered a progression of star formation moving away from the cluster’s center. At the estimated distance of the Small Magellanic Cloud, the featured picture spans about 200 light-years, but a tantalizing assortment of background galaxies are also visible in this sharp multi-colored view. The background galaxies are hundreds of millions of light-years or more beyond NGC 602.
(Image: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) – ESA/Hubble Collaboration)
Hot Wheels
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Behold: the Automobili Estrema Fulminea – an electric hypercar currently in development and due for release (in a limited run of 61 vehicles) in 2023.
The Fulminea’s pioneering hybrid battery setup combines ultra-capacitors and solid-state cells in four electric motors to generate 2,040bhp, 0-100km/h in 2 seconds and a terrifying 0-320km/h in 10 seconds.
Estrema claims the car will power up to 80% in 15 minutes and go for 520km between charges.
Level Tree
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Friday last. Merrion Road, Dublin 4.
(Pic: Oisín Kane)
Rob Cross tweetz:
My restored and colourised May 1960 photograph by James O’Dea featuring a man pushing a steam locomotive round a railway turntable at Kilfree Junction in County Sligo.
Hot Wheels
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Behold: the 1949 Willys Jeep Wagon Camper – a period conversion of the prototype three-speed, inline four powered workhorse with a Camp’otel collapsible tent, ladder, dual water tanks and storage unit mounted on the roof, complete with the original folding tables and cookware that likely came with the Camp’otel unit.
Restored at some point in its lifetime with metallic green paint and a green vinyl interior, the camper has a mere 58,000km on the clock and goes to auction this month in Gardenia California (if you’re passing) for between $40,000 and $50,000 (about €33,000 to €41,000).