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This is a rare Patagonian crater agate. Vivid red jasper against hazy black chalcedony, they're
quite rare with these only being found in the Chubut Province of Patagonia, Argentina.
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This is the Taam Ja' Blue Hole, located in Chetumal Bay in the Yucatan Peninsula,
Mexico just north of Belize. It is the deepest blue hole discovered thus far but no on
knows how deep. Wiki simply states that it's 'over' 420 meters [1,380 ft] deep but
probes have been sent down to 426 meters and they still haven't found the bottom.
Here's a great article on it from Dive Magazine
Fre: "I dived the one in Belize."
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This is Mimas, a moon of Saturn, aka the Death Star moon for obvious reason. Having a mean
diameter of 396.4 km [246.3 mi], Mimas is the smallest astronomical body known to be
roughly rounded in shape due to its own gravity. Wiki Page
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This is the Shadowless Church in in Chengdu, China.
Excellent article and several pictures at Design World News.
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Here's a nice overhead shot of San Francisco, facing East, looking right down on Golden
Gate Park. We're a little over an hour north of SF so we're pretty familiar with the
territory. At the top of the photo is the Bay Bridge heading over to Oakland.
The spot I've got an arrow pointing at is Kezar Stadium, original home for the Oakland
Raiders and San Francisco 49ers back in 1960. The Raiders only used it briefly but
the 49ers went on to use it till 1970.
I saw Lee Michaels, The Tubes and Led Zeppelin
there in 1973. I was 16 and rode the bus down and back by myself. How many
parents would let they're teens do that these days? Different times, indeed.
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But, alas, the reign is over. In 2017, no family members were willing to take over the business.
Keiunkan's general manager, Kenjiro Kawano, was selected as the new president. Because
Kawano was unrelated to the owner he was unable to inherit Yushima, the holding company.
Ownership of Keiunkan was transferred to a new holding company, Nishiyama Onsen
Keiunkan Limited, and Yushima was dissolved. Wiki Page
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Brayden: "I remember this when I was studying up on ships. Ain't that somethin?"
Res: "The size of ships has always amazed me. When I lived in Japan a friend &
I would go down to the USN docks in Yokosuka with lawn chairs & snacks, and
watch them for hours. Vietnam was still happening and the US port would also
get our allies ships coming in for a break from war."
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This was a data disc for a Bryant 4000 Disc Drive built in the early 60's. There's an
IPhone resting against it for scale. The disc had a capacity of around 8 megs and
was used with a series of discs inside a rather large machine as shown on the right.
Here's a wiki excerpt from The History of Hard Drives:
"In 1961, Bryant Computer Products introduced its 4000 series disk drives.
These massive units stood 52 inches (1.3 m) tall, 70 inches (1.8 m) long, and
70 inches (1.8 m) wide, and had up to 26 platters, each 39 inches (0.99 m) in
diameter, rotating at up to 1,200 rpm. Access times were from 50 to 205
milliseconds (ms). The drive's total capacity, depending on the number
of platters installed, was up to 205,377,600 bytes (205 MB)."
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