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[DennisN]

I get the impression @DennisN's one doesn't have liquid? I've not seen one of those before.

That's correct. It's only sand.

 

[DennisN]

Over the past weekend I visited a model-train show in a nearby city

@jtbell seems to be into train related things, so here are some photos on that theme :

A model train set inside Copenhagen Central Station:

A shot from inside Copenhagen Central Station in the day:

The backside of Copenhagen Central Station at night:

(The clock (showing 1:50 at the time) has been there for as long as I can remember, and it seems to be some kind of a Nixie tube style clock)

A shot taken from the floor inside the station while I was waiting for my train:
(the flags on display are the flags of Denmark and Ukraine)

A panoramic view of the rail yard which is located below ground level:

 

[BillTre]

 

[BillTre]

 

[jtbell]

A shot from inside Copenhagen Central Station in the day:

These are my only two pictures from that station on my 1978 trip:

We had just arrived on an overnight train from Oslo, and were about to board the daylight train to Holland, on our way to London.

The latter train used a ferry between Rødby (Denmark) and Puttgarden (Germany).

The last train ran via this ferry in 2019. Eventually trains will use the Fehmarn Belt fixed link which is under construction.

In the meantime all rail connections between Germany and Denmark travel the long way around, via Jutland and Funen. This was the route that we used on the outbound part of our trip, from London to Finland. We had to use a ferry on this route also, which has since been replaced by the Great Belt fixed link.

 

[Rive]

Took a nap in the shadow

 

[berkeman]

The last train ran via this ferry in 2019.

All those train cars fit in that little biddy ferry?

 

[fresh_42]

 

[jtbell]

All those train cars fit in that little biddy ferry?

A Google search turned up a site that lists the Theodor Heuss as having three tracks. If you look carefully you can see the end of a car off to the right just inside the hatch.

 

[Borg]

A Google search turned up a site that lists the Theodor Heuss as having three tracks. If you look carefully you can see the end of a car off to the right just inside the hatch.

Must be a difficult process getting that to work. I guess the operators were 'trained' well.

 

[DennisN]

The second train used a ferry between Rødby (Denmark) and Puttgarden (Germany).

Oh, I've travelled many times on that ferry!
I think it's the most common route for Swedes who want to travel to Germany and beyond in Europe (without travelling by airplane).

And on the Vogelfluglinie which you linked to lies also the German city Lübeck which I've recently thought about revisiting. I've been there when I was very young, but I have no memory of it. Lübeck is an old Hanseatic city with many old buildings, so I think it would be very fun to go there and take a lot of photos .

 

[jtbell]

All those train cars fit in that little biddy ferry?

A Google search turned up a site that lists the Theodor Heuss as having three tracks. If you look carefully you can see the end of a car off to the right just inside the hatch.

And here's a picture of the entrance to a train ferry between Sicily and mainland Italy, showing a single track branching out to four tracks inside the ferry:

Source: List of train ferries

 

[morrobay]

 

[pinball1970]

Not to start any conspiracy theory but is it me or does this look like the Death Star is completed?

Or the next Independence day film, "Alien Apocalypse."

 

[pinball1970]

Met a friend today in Manchester and this was outside the pub.

 

[gmax137]

Met a friend today in Manchester and this was outside the pub.

Took me awhile to figure out what I was looking at there.

 

[fresh_42]

Took me awhile to figure out what I was looking at there.

I assume it is the equivalent to

 

[Arjan82]

Took me awhile to figure out what I was looking at there.

Please enlighten me :)

 

[gmax137]

My first impression was a large number of red-mylar wrapped holiday hams.

 

[DennisN]

I was editing some old photos taken with smartphone.

Here is the medieval tower Kärnan in Helsingborg, Sweden.
It was built in the 1310s, and at that time Helsingborg belonged to Denmark.

Kärnan is a medieval tower in Helsingborg, Scania, in southern Sweden. It is the only part remaining of a larger Danish fortress which, along with the fortress Kronborg on the opposite bank of the Øresund, controlled the entranceway between the Kattegat and the Øresund and further south the Baltic Sea.

A shot taken from the road leading up to the tower:

The tower:

The entrance to the tower:

And a view of the surroundings, taken from the top of the stairs:

 

[gmax137]

A shot taken from the road leading up to the tower:

I like this one!

 

[berkeman]

So I've seen this advertisement at the CNN news website a few times now. It just seems really bizzare to me, since it is advertising a practice exam for entering the US military...

Spoiler

Unless her right arm is disabled, she is supposed to be saluting with her right arm.

 

[fresh_42]

So I've seen this advertisement at the CNN news website a few times now. It just seems really bizzare to me, since it is advertising a practice exam for entering the US military...

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Spoiler

Unless her right arm is disabled, she is supposed to be saluting with her right arm.

Isn't the flag in the background mirrored, too? You cannot rotate it so that the stars are in the upper left corner.

 

[BillTre]

Isn't the flag in the background mirrored, too? You cannot rotate it so that the stars are in the upper left corner.

Flip it over (topologically speaking).
That would be like mirroring it.

 

[berkeman]

Isn't the flag in the background mirrored, too? You cannot rotate it so that the stars are in the upper left corner.

Good question about the mirroring, but the flag can't help. As Bill says, you just look at it from the other side.

Unless there is a preferred orientation for displaying US flags. I'm off to Google...

 

[berkeman]

Hmm, nope, that looks like the preferred orientation:

https://www.defense.gov/News/Featur...92936/dos-and-donts-for-displaying-old-glory/

 

[Ibix]

advertising a practice exam for entering the US military...

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Spoiler

Unless her right arm is disabled, she is supposed to be saluting with her right arm.

Congratulations, you've got 1 mark so far...

 

[berkeman]

Congratulations, you've got 1 mark so far...

LOL. Of course I took the practice test for fun the first time I saw the ad, and aced the test. Guess what I saw in my FaceBook feed for the next month...

 

[fresh_42]

LOL. Of course I took the practice test for fun the first time I saw the ad, and aced the test. Guess what I saw in my FaceBook feed for the next month...

 

[Swamp Thing]

A couple of rather halloweeny but oddly adorable thunder eggs...

https://www.geologypage.com/2016/10/thunderegg.html

 

[phinds]

That second one is obviously Casper the Friendly Ghost's retarded uncle

 

[collinsmark]

she is supposed to be saluting with her right arm.

It's a mirror image.

WHY IS THE FLAG BACKWARDS ON MILITARY UNIFORMS?

https://mybaseguide.com/backwards-flag

Back in the days of the Civil War, flag bearers were common military positions within the greater infantry and cavalry units. As the flag bearers stormed into battle, the American flag would sway behind them with the momentum, making it look like the flag was backwards as it flew.Okay, so what? Why is the flag backwards on a military uniform?When the star field is first and foremost, it looks like the flag itself is storming into battle, much like our brave service men and women. If the flag were not mirrored on the Y axis, the star field would be on the left, making it look like the flag was retreating from battle instead of facing it head-on. This backwards American flag is called the Assaulting Forward.

 

[morrobay]

Sea bass and vegetables at the seafood market

 

[DennisN]

Here's a lovely clownfish resting in a sea anemone (I think, @BillTre would probably know if it's correct ),
shot today at the local aquarium:

(shot with Sony A7R + Commlite EF-NEX adapter + Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II in a very, very dark
environment, so I pumped up the ISO to 2000. Other settings: f/3.5, 1/100 s exposure.)

 

[nsaspook]

When Samantha smiles.