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Past Curator, Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium. Interests include travel, space history, observing total solar eclipses (13 attempts, 12 successes), ancient Egypt (also collector of 19th/20th-century Egypt travel ephemera).
November 28, 2024 at 9:31 AM
Been there, but fortunately at another point in time! Hopefully the berms continue to hold.
Update: drone photos from Vilhelm Gunnarsson shows that lava has reached the Blue Lagoon parking lot and has engulfed the temporary service building in the lot.
To reiterate: the lagoon itself is behind the berms and they are holding. There is no danger to life or other infrastructure currently.
To reiterate: the lagoon itself is behind the berms and they are holding. There is no danger to life or other infrastructure currently.
November 22, 2024 at 1:01 AM
Been there, but fortunately at another point in time! Hopefully the berms continue to hold.
Following on from my lunar bat post several days ago, here is an image I took from Noosa, Queensland, on 12 February 2014.
November 21, 2024 at 9:05 AM
Following on from my lunar bat post several days ago, here is an image I took from Noosa, Queensland, on 12 February 2014.
Reposted
It's 101 years since the birth of astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr (18 November 1923 - 21 July 1998) - the first American to travel into space on 5 May 1961. His was a 15-minute suborbital flight. Ten years later, he walked on the Moon as commander of the Apollo 14 mission. (NASA images.)
November 18, 2024 at 2:58 AM
It's 101 years since the birth of astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr (18 November 1923 - 21 July 1998) - the first American to travel into space on 5 May 1961. His was a 15-minute suborbital flight. Ten years later, he walked on the Moon as commander of the Apollo 14 mission. (NASA images.)
While looking back through some older lunar images, I found one I took of a bat flying in front of the Moon three days after the first Chinese spacecraft lunar landing in 2013. #Moon #MoonPhotos #astrophotography #FullMoon
November 16, 2024 at 11:13 PM
While looking back through some older lunar images, I found one I took of a bat flying in front of the Moon three days after the first Chinese spacecraft lunar landing in 2013. #Moon #MoonPhotos #astrophotography #FullMoon
Good to see that Norway's Kon-Tiki Museum has handed over to Easter Island/Chilean officials human remains taken from Easter Island by explorer Thor Heyerdahl in the 1950s. phys.org/news/2024-11...
Norway's Kon-Tiki museum returns human remains to Easter Island
Norway's Kon-Tiki Museum on Wednesday returned human remains taken from Easter Island by the explorer Thor Heyerdahl during his trans-Pacific raft expeditions in the 1950s.
phys.org
November 16, 2024 at 2:28 AM
Good to see that Norway's Kon-Tiki Museum has handed over to Easter Island/Chilean officials human remains taken from Easter Island by explorer Thor Heyerdahl in the 1950s. phys.org/news/2024-11...