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TheMatrix Equation-balance
TheMatrix Equation-balance
02:48
@geoffc - I still hope for something more magical from frame/jig :). It reminded me of the ruins of the World Trade Center.
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uhoh
uhoh
10:45
@TheMatrixEquation-balance When I was a little kid one of my older brothers took me to the hole in the ground that was being dug for the foundation of the world trade center. astronomy.stackexchange.com/q/54211/7982 I asked him what those big pipes were and he explained that they were subways. astronomy.stackexchange.com/q/54211/7982
Years later the other older brother took me to the observation deck which was wide open during the early years - later they added a fence es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/… before dinner in China Town
And sadly during an even later trip I saw the site after the destruction while cleanup was still underway. I guess I'm old. I know the scene you are thinking of, but it also reminds me of the Burning Ship Fractal
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Q: What are "3D Burning Ship fractals"?

uhohFractal images from the Mandelbrot set are well known. Plots of the Burning Ship fractal are a bit lesser known but this answer discusses these and others. They can be viewed by iterating the following on the complex plane and recording the value of the index $n$ for the last iteration that each ...

complex-numbers dynamical-systems fractals
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Oh that first link about the hole in the ground was supposed to be en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bathtub#Description
Totally unrelated to that, asked in Astronomy SE:
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Q: Are there any colored RAW photos of the Milky Way taken from space?

RuslanWe can get RAW versions for many ISS images, like those of airglow, e.g. ISS043-E-143486. But all the photos of the Milky Way taken from ISS that I found were posted on Twitter (e.g. this, Flickr or other social networks heavily tone-mapped, it's not possible to get the RAW sources, and apparentl...

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TheMatrix Equation-balance
TheMatrix Equation-balance
12:31
@uhoh - These steel piles were designed to withstand 2 hours of a regular fire. But not a single structural engineer realized on that day that it was a suicide to send hundreds of firefighters upstairs.
 
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geoffc
geoffc
14:29
@TheMatrixEquation-balance If they can find two uses for them, that is even better!
@uhoh I was there in November 2001 and it was very somber walking down to the site, to see what could be seen. I made it to the Observation Deck in the late 90's. Yet to try the new one.... I missed the opening stair climb event though. Would like to get back in shape and do that.
TheMatrix Equation-balance
TheMatrix Equation-balance
14:42
@geoffc - When we watched the collapsing WTC, we knew instantly, it was a consequential event for the history of human civilization. I think, during Starship (Super Heavy) launch we felt something similar.
geoffc
geoffc
15:07
Your second example is so much more positive! I also felt the same on the first laniding of F9. And on the first F-Heavy success. Those two boosters coming down in synchrony was awesome.
 
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NASA Space Flight
NASA Space Flight
19:55
NASASpaceFlight.com: LandSpace tries to close the methane race in second ZhuQue-2 launch
posted on July 11, 2023 by Adrian Beil

LandSpace plans to launch its methane-based ZhuQue-2 rocket on Wednesday. According to notice to airmen,… The post LandSpace tries to close the methane race in second ZhuQue-2 launch appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.

 
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uhoh
uhoh
23:10
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even hoaxers and flat-earthers have their limits :-)
TheMatrix Equation-balance
TheMatrix Equation-balance
@uhoh - Ignorance is good for the economy. Those who believe that Earth is Flat - work harder.

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