From the site I got it from, "This photograph shows the amounts of butter, milk, bacon, lard, sugar, cheese, tea and jam received by two people per week in Britain."
I think it’s one of those early color photographs. Basically, a photographer would take three photographs, each with a different color filter. Those photographs were black-and-white, where the value corresponded to the saturation of one of the filter’s colors. They were then projected onto a final image using collotype printing with a different dye for each black-and-white photograph. This process can give you all sorts of colors by mixing three primary colors of dyes, but it’s tricky to make photographs align perfectly. As you can see, there are stripes of cyan, green, and red on the contour of those people, as well as some blur, and that’s because it’s hard to stand still between photographs, or a wind could make your clothes move a little, etc.
Hello? Oh good, good, how are you? Yeah I’m just talking to you FROM MY CAR! Yeah I’m just on the side of the road right now on my car phone that’s connected to my car. Sorry, you can probably hear the traffic because I’m literally just standing on the sidewalk right now talking to you on the phone in my car. Oh goodness yes, a small fortune! But it’s worth it for all the business I do.
Reminds me of when I sold all those magazine subscriptions so I could win an IR messaging device, enabling me to send short text messages to other people with the same device from all the way across the room. What a revolution.
This was a US dirigible. By 1926, the dangers were known and the US had already transitioned from Hydrogen to Helium. This one was built in Germany, flown to the US, then immediately had its gas changed from H to He several years before this incident occurred.
Amundsen, the one that succeded in the race to the South Pole lived by a great motto: You only need good luck if you didn’t plan properly. He was a true adventurer with a sharp mind, shame he disappeared on a rescue mission.
That’s amazing! I’m sure there’s loads of family stories?! Fun fact, I work at an archive and recently researched Amundsen’s North Pole expedition and the flying boat he used, very impressive story despite them failing to reach the pole!
Many expeditions to the “Unknown” ended gruesomely because they didn’t know and were not prepared; While going to these places today one has a very good chance to survive. I can only assume it will be the same with space explorations (once we’ll get there). The first trips will have extremely poor surviving rates but later you might as well go there with your class field trip.
Orbital fatalities so far are just Soyuz 1, Soyuz 11, STS-51-L, and STS-107. We are still a bit early, but Space exploration has been surprisingly safe so far.
It’s been gradually ramping up with things like the Inspiration4 and Axiom missions, but still relatively slow. Yuri Gagarin’s historic flight is further from today than the Wright Brothers’ flight is from Yuri Gagarin’s flight.
Oh absolutely! And I’m honestly super excited for it even if Ill be an old man by the time it happens. However, we still have quite a few major technology gaps before it will really ramp up. I’d expect it will continue to warm for the next 15-20 years before it really even begins.
He cerlainly is! But in this case the fact that you’re cis is not really relevant, it’s more the fact that you’re heterosexual, which is not the same :)
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