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The changing light effects here

 

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[BillTre]

 

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

 

[BillTre]

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

Quote - "Obi Wan Kenobi: That's no moon…it's a space station. Han: It's too big to be a space station. Luke: I have a very bad feeling about this."

 

[Swamp Thing]

Here's a very cool piece I bought in a secondhand shop.
I don't know what these things are called, but it is a frame with seven different types of sand separated by glass panes inside the frame. And when you move the frame around you get different configurations of the sand types in the compartments.

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On the back of the frame there is this info which shows the origin of the different sand types:

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And "U.A.E." must obviously mean "United Arab Emirates".

Could you make a video of the sand re-distributing?

 

[DennisN]

Could you make a video of the sand re-distributing?

Yes, I can try. But I have to think a bit about it. The sand redistribution goes very quickly.
Also, the piece is a bit heavy (it has 7 or 8 glass panes).

 

[Ibix]

The versions of these things that I've seen are filled with liquid, or often not quite filled with liquid so there are air bubbles, so the redistribution process is quite slow and pretty. Searching for "sand frame" on YouTube turns up quite a few videos.

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

 

[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:

 

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[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

 

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[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: