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How big is Starship?
The Space Shuttle required 37 trips to build the International Space Station.
Today’s first successful orbital mission just launched approximately the same cubic volume to orbit as the entire ISS in one shot.
RAAF jets. Brisbane skyscrapers. One seriously unforgettable aviation spectacle. ✈️🔥
There’s nothing quite like it anywhere in Australia right now.
#Riverfire#RAAF#Aviation#Brisbane
Buy a five-dollar plastic umbrella,
and rain sounds like plastic banging on plastic.
It makes a storm feel annoying.
A traditional Japanese umbrella — wagasa —
does the opposite.
It takes a single stalk of bamboo,
splits it into forty or fifty hair-thin ribs,
connects them with thousands of hand-tied stitches,
stretches handmade washi paper across the frame,
and coats it in natural perilla oil.
It takes months to make just one.
When you open it, forty ribs snap outward in perfect unison,
creating a geometric dome of light.
And when the sky opens up?
Water doesn't smack it.
Oiled washi paper absorbs the sharp crack of falling rain
and turns it into a soft, melodic tapping —
like fingertips dancing across a koto harp.
In the West, an umbrella is a shield to defend you from the sky.
In Japan, it is an instrument
that allows you to walk through a storm
and listen to the weather sing.
This photo was an accident.
I was nearing 70,000 feet in a U 2, fumbling with the settings on a GoPro I had mounted in the cockpit. Somewhere in the process, I pressed the shutter.
I’m glad I did.
At that altitude, the atmosphere is mostly below you. The sky overhead has gone nearly black. You’re sealed inside a full pressure suit because the world just beyond the glass can no longer support human life.
The U 2 was designed in the 1950s and is still flying. Long wings, tiny margin for error, built to spend hours in a part of the atmosphere few people ever see.
There are photographs you plan carefully.
And then there are the accidental ones that somehow bring you right back.
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Pileus cloud: nature’s crown for the most aggressive storms. Formed exclusively over intense updrafts, they flash vivid rainbow hues when sunlight meets droplets of almost the same size - beautiful atmospheric optics.
Sunrise at “The Strand” in Townsville, QLD, Australia 🇦🇺
I was there for work with a free hour to catch this gem of a morning.
Captured on Fujifilm X-M5.
Timelapse sequence created in LRTimelapse.
Colour Graded in Lightroom.
Edited in DaVinci Resolve
#sunrise#timelapse