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Month: September 2013

Bristol Bay, Alaska

September 28, 2013May 4, 2014 PatrickLeave a comment

Bristol Bay, AlaskaIt’s a stunningly beautiful place.

Bristol Bay, Alaska 2Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA has been untouched and untainted by human activity.

Bristol Bay, Alaska 3This wilderness was to be the site of a huge copper and gold mine, but the company is now pulling out of the venture, for the time being.

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Spiny Boki Mekot Rat, new species

September 25, 2013 PatrickLeave a comment

Spiny Boki Mekot RatThis is the third new mammal species to be discovered this year. The Spiny Boki Melot Rat, with spiky hair on its a back, and a white point at the end of its tail was found in the forests of Halmahera in the Molucas, Indonesia.

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Solar System, number 1,000

September 22, 2013 PatrickLeave a comment

Solar SystemThis is one of the better graphics I have seen of the Solar System (except all the planets are in a 2D alignment).

BTW 1,000 is not the number of the Solar System, it is the number of posts that I have now written on this blog.

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Fakarava sunset

September 19, 2013 PatrickLeave a comment

Fakarava sunsetIt’s perhaps not one of the best-known island in Polynesia, but Fakarava certainly enjoys one stunning sunset.

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Death Valley, California sunset

September 16, 2013 PatrickLeave a comment

Death Valley, CaliforniaIt looks a rather intriguing and beguiling place, but Death Valley, California is one of the hottest and most inhospitable regions on the planet.

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Red Red Square

September 13, 2013 PatrickLeave a comment

Red SquareRed Square in the heart of Moscow, Russia is not really red, except when it is illuminated by some very bright red fireworks, which also turn St Basil’s Cathedral into a blaze of scarlet.

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Virgin Galactic

September 10, 2013 PatrickLeave a comment

Virgin galacticThe airline is known as Virgin Atlantic, and the spaceline is known as Virgin Galactic. If you want to have a ride on the galactic spaceship this is the rocket power you will have behind you.

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Wavy building

September 7, 2013 Patrick1 Comment

Frank GehryThis wavy building in New York City is no trick of the special effects artist. Designed by the world famous architect, Frank Gehry, it certainly stands out among all the straight-sided apartment blocks found everywhere else.

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Noctilucent cloud and aurora bonus

September 4, 2013September 4, 2013 PatrickLeave a comment

Noctilucent cloud and auroraNoctilucent cloud as the name suggests is a bright cloud at night-time. When an aurora backdrop is added to the scene, as happened recently in Scotland, the effect is stunning.

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Vela

September 1, 2013 PatrickLeave a comment

VelaThe constellation Vela is more than 3,000 light years away. What we see now is actually ancient history.

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