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PLANE TICKET!! … oh wait.
Spring pictures thread 2025
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Looks like he's down south, I'm up north in Beijing. If you do come to BJ, I'm down for a meet up and whatever you want to do, but I also realize your time is limited on a work trip and it may not happen. Either way, enjoy your time here.
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I would absolutely try to meet up , but i wont have much time up North.
I'm migrating towards Beijing this week. I'll be there for 2 days, then fly back to Shanghai. Even my free days are generally planned as they want to be accommodating, and they dont to take No for an answer. This weekend in the Bund was the first time I was truly on my own with nothing planned.
I was previously in Shanghai, Suzhou, Taizhou, Hangzhou. Leaving today for Nanjing.
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Jardin des Plants is a botanical garden . See all the signs with the different plants. A regular park is a parc.
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Thanks belgoobian joe8
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You’re welcome
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Nantes is pronounced nonce.
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Been going out to the swampier offshoots of the river looking for gators. They made their way up to my neck of the woods about 20 years ago and despite what the wildlife experts claimed would happen they didn't die off the following winter. I'm gonna find one and post a pic soon enough.
Space and Rocket Center! Huntsville had 16,437 people during the 1950 census around the time NASA started moving in, grew to 72,365 people in 1960 when the space race really started rolling along, 159,789 people in 1990 when I was just a wee Beef, and 215,006 as of the 2020 census. I probably would have grown up in Pennsylvania like everyone else in my family if it weren't for NASA. Thanks a lot, NASA.
Full scale replica of a Saturn V rocket outside, an engine, and an actual, formerly functional Saturn V rocket inside one of the buildings. I didn't feel like paying for admission so it's a shit picture. Sorry not sorry.
A restored A-12 Oxcart, this one actually flew CIA missions back in the 1960's. While nearly identical to the Air Force's SR-71 Blackbird, the Oxcart was lighter and had a greater top speed and ceiling, but not as much range.
And last is the memorial for Miss Baker. She was a squirrel monkey and the first animal the US sent to space that actually made it home alive. She was brought to live at the museum in 1971 and worked in public outreach until her death in 1984. Essentially the town's mascot, locals still place bananas at her grave to honor her for her contributions to human spaceflight.
If you're a space race and cold war history junkie like myself I would highly recommend reading about Operation Paperclip if you haven't. Really fascinating stuff, and frankly, a bit dark. The TL;DR is that the US military "secured" Nazi rocket scientists at the end of WWII and brought them to, you guessed it... Huntsville, Alabama to live and work. That's pretty much how NASA got started. Weird shit. Half the stuff in this town was named after Wernher Von Braun and as brilliant a scientist as he was... Well, he was a high-ranking member of the SS too. Yikes!
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Space and Rocket Center! Huntsville had 16,437 people during the 1950 census around the time NASA started moving in, grew to 72,365 people in 1960 when the space race really started rolling along, 159,789 people in 1990 when I was just a wee Beef, and 215,006 as of the 2020 census. I probably would have grown up in Pennsylvania like everyone else in my family if it weren't for NASA. Thanks a lot, NASA.
Full scale replica of a Saturn V rocket outside, an engine, and an actual, formerly functional Saturn V rocket inside one of the buildings. I didn't feel like paying for admission so it's a shit picture. Sorry not sorry.
A restored A-12 Oxcart, this one actually flew CIA missions back in the 1960's. While nearly identical to the Air Force's SR-71 Blackbird, the Oxcart was lighter and had a greater top speed and ceiling, but not as much range.
And last is the memorial for Miss Baker. She was a squirrel monkey and the first animal the US sent to space that actually made it home alive. She was brought to live at the museum in 1971 and worked in public outreach until her death in 1984. Essentially the town's mascot, locals still place bananas at her grave to honor her for her contributions to human spaceflight.
If you're a space race and cold war history junkie like myself I would highly recommend reading about Operation Paperclip if you haven't. Really fascinating stuff, and frankly, a bit dark. The TL;DR is that the US military "secured" Nazi rocket scientists at the end of WWII and brought them to, you guessed it... Huntsville, Alabama to live and work. That's pretty much how NASA got started. Weird shit. Half the stuff in this town was named after Wernher Von Braun and as brilliant a scientist as he was... Well, he was a high-ranking member of the SS too. Yikes!
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Had a great week focusing on animals.
My first time watching a duck get raped. But then her husband came and fought off the rapist. What a spectacle. If you can understand what is happening in this picture, kudos:
Was at the Temple of Heaven and saw this Heihachi-lookin' mofo:
Visited a wetland park. Grey heron and nests:
Not sure what kind of goose this is:
Wasn't easy getting a clear close-up of a peacock. Maybe first time seeing a wild peacock?
One more for Heihachi:
My first time watching a duck get raped. But then her husband came and fought off the rapist. What a spectacle. If you can understand what is happening in this picture, kudos:
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Was at the Temple of Heaven and saw this Heihachi-lookin' mofo:
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Visited a wetland park. Grey heron and nests:
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Not sure what kind of goose this is:
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Wasn't easy getting a clear close-up of a peacock. Maybe first time seeing a wild peacock?
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One more for Heihachi:
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Neighborhood flowers in bloom, and a beautiful day to walk the dogs. Spring has sprung out my way!
*no pics, because it was a madhouse-took my daughter to the Philadelphia Zoo yesterday. First time I can remember of all the Zoo lots and parking garages being full. All of them. Had to park at my sister-in-laws house to get in. 84• in March…hella lit.
*no pics, because it was a madhouse-took my daughter to the Philadelphia Zoo yesterday. First time I can remember of all the Zoo lots and parking garages being full. All of them. Had to park at my sister-in-laws house to get in. 84• in March…hella lit.
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My, we’ve come a long way!!…. Not really though.
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I just wanna know what kind of sick fuck thought a corrugated iron koala riding a pink tricycle was something worth making.
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While you were crying with your dick in your hand at the supposed End of neo-geo.com/forums, I was checking out the beauty of nature! Yeah!
This is a field of a flower native to China right next to where I work, the purple is striking in real life:
This is actually a great secret not many people know about, because it's technically not supposed to be open to the public - a former prince's mansion which is now used as a publishing house, and the guard even cussed me out ("Do you fucking live here?" Fuck you, guy) but I have big balls so I went in and enjoyed the crabapple blossoms surrounding the stone lion in front of the mansion:
The next three are pictures at a temple that gets a limited amount of visitors during the flower season, I was able to get the very last ticket of the day at 6:30AM. Can you see the dragon ball?
Another crabapple blossoms at the temple, with a Soho building looming in the background:
Dragon stele:
This is a field of a flower native to China right next to where I work, the purple is striking in real life:
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This is actually a great secret not many people know about, because it's technically not supposed to be open to the public - a former prince's mansion which is now used as a publishing house, and the guard even cussed me out ("Do you fucking live here?" Fuck you, guy) but I have big balls so I went in and enjoyed the crabapple blossoms surrounding the stone lion in front of the mansion:
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The next three are pictures at a temple that gets a limited amount of visitors during the flower season, I was able to get the very last ticket of the day at 6:30AM. Can you see the dragon ball?
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Another crabapple blossoms at the temple, with a Soho building looming in the background:
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Dragon stele:
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Those pictures made my allergies go into hyperspace
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I dig this. Natural coloring. No overly-saturated "hey look at me" post processing bs.