Wow. I know old fashioned brake clean (perchloroethylene) can create phosgene gas, when exposed to heat and UV light. Very scary.
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Wow. I know old fashioned brake clean (perchloroethylene) can create phosgene gas, when exposed to heat and UV light. Very scary.
In the 70's we used "trichlor" to clean 1" tape recorder heads. I think it was Trichlorotrifluoroethylene vs. the Evil Stuff, but it got phased out as well. Many, MANY days of getting it on bare skin. Amazed I don't have cancer of everything by now...
Bob Franklin
Stop action composite of an entire launch, 2nd stage flight (jellyfish), reentry burn on horizon and noctilucent clouds afterwards. 8 minutes from launch to horizon in one image., with noctilucent clouds at 9 and 12 minutes.
5:52 am March 4th, I had been waiting for a predawn launch since '22 to get this shot. My camera has a low-light sensor so everything has a bit more detail and color than the eye can produce.
Tomorrow, Thursday, at 5:26 AM, a launch is scheduled which is analogous to this one in March, about 1 hour before sunrise, which is the best/only condition where you can see these backlit effects from Florida.
I captured this at 48 megapixels and spent 6 hours in post overlaying 50 of 88 images... I'm going to make a 48"x36" print of it hopefully the color will hold.
That is a cool photo. Looking fwd to the next one.
Also, I assume you live ESE from the launch site?
Also, I assume you live ESE from the launch site?
I'm amazed as well that You nor I don't . A couple of the young guys would occasionally wash their hands with it when real greasy jobs were done. I wonder
whatever became of them? One day for a laugh I took a new empty Tric bottle which were all labelled. Filled it with H20 discreetly. Parked it on my spray
lathe. When the guys came in after coffee break I picked it up took a big guzzle swished it around in my mouth and spit it into the exhaust fan hood. The
guys damn near shit themselves expecting me to drop dead ! You had to be there.
Not my work, Bob Franklin posted it on face book
You guys are from the safe generation, Dad and everyone else in shops in the forties and fifties used Carbon tetrachloride.I'm amazed as well that You nor I don't . A couple of the young guys would occasionally wash their hands with it when real greasy jobs were done. I wonder
whatever became of them? One day for a laugh I took a new empty Tric bottle which were all labelled. Filled it with H20 discreetly. Parked it on my spray
lathe. When the guys came in after coffee break I picked it up took a big guzzle swished it around in my mouth and spit it into the exhaust fan hood. The
guys damn near shit themselves expecting me to drop dead ! You had to be there.
German advertisement stamp for Benzinoform (carbon tetrachloride) stain remover, 1912
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tetrachloride
Dad died in his 60's, Pancreatic Cancer.
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Flight 12 images.
“It used to promise "V A C A N C Y" through the dark,
A buzzing, ruby-tinted, welcoming spark.
But time has bled the brilliant crimson dead,
And left a cold, unwritten script instead.
Now ghostly shadows stretch across the floor,
Through peeling paint and every numbered door.
The courtyard pool is filled with autumn leaves,
While wind unspools its sighs among the eaves.
The sign hangs high, a monument of rust,
Its faded glory turning into dust.
A silent monolith of yesterday,
Watching the modern world just drive away.”
The Airport Motel, Plainview Texas
A buzzing, ruby-tinted, welcoming spark.
But time has bled the brilliant crimson dead,
And left a cold, unwritten script instead.
Now ghostly shadows stretch across the floor,
Through peeling paint and every numbered door.
The courtyard pool is filled with autumn leaves,
While wind unspools its sighs among the eaves.
The sign hangs high, a monument of rust,
Its faded glory turning into dust.
A silent monolith of yesterday,
Watching the modern world just drive away.”
The Airport Motel, Plainview Texas
Love this; been to Plainview quite a few times in my former life, installing and doing an NTEP test on a new truck scale.
Unfortunately, an ode to most of the old motor hotels, esp those along Route 66.
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Unfortunately, an ode to most of the old motor hotels, esp those along Route 66.
I know, when I first came across that photo, it reminded me of the dozens of those old motor court motels I’ve spent the night at, all across the country. Back in the 60’s especially, my family used to take lots of car trips while us kids were on summer vacation. Three of us kids piled in the back seat of a ‘63 Plymouth , going to national parks and family reunions and such……and always staying in these little roadside motels. They all had the same feel about them.
Looking back on it all, it never seemed like much at the time, but it really was a pretty special time in my life.
That picture is just so magical, then your brain tries to make kind of sci-fi 'reality;' of the image, then you read an explanation of the photograph and how it was taken and you are just blown away by what you are atually looking at. Just saying' fer a friend . . .
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Couldn't be more simple and descriptive. Excellent.
