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Adam Hunt

2021-04-17 12:44:46


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After 13 days off-line diasp.org is back!


Many thanks to @David Morley for his tireless efforts getting the pod back on line!! Thank you too to all the pod members who made donations while it was down to help get things running again!

To the rest of the #fediverse #federation - it is good to be back.

For those of you who missed the story, the short version: On 5 April 2021 there was a power interruption at the server hardware provider for Diasp.org, WebNX in Ogden, Utah. The back-up generator kicked in just fine, then caught on fire. The resulting fire suppression efforts by the fire department shut everything down and also took out a swath of the servers with water damage. Yeah, good question, who fights electrical fires with water? The diasp.org server was one of the servers that was water damaged, it seems. It was going to be a long time before service was restored, perhaps weeks, months or never so our pod admin, David, moved us to a new service provider and just finished getting it up and on-line. So we are back. Miss us?

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Print from an album of 44 albumen prints by Edmund David Lyon. Perur, near the Noyyal river, is 7 kms from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu. It is famed for its Pattiswaraswami temple dedicated to Shiva. The temple is said to date originally from the Chola period and is attributed to Karikala Chola (2nd century AD), but most of it was completed in later centuries. This is one of the Tandavasthalas or Dancehalls of Shiva and has a gold-plated statue of Shiva as Nataraja, the Lord of the Dance. The British Library.

#Shiva #sculpture #Pattiswaraswami #temple #art #religion

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#OctopusDreams. (3 photos)
What Octopus Dreams Tell Us About the Evolution of Sleep
Understanding how other animals dream could help us figure out why it’s so important to the human brain, and why it may have been preserved throughout history.

Fruit flies, octopuses, birds, and humans don’t seem to have much in common. Some live on land, others are aquatic. Some fly, while others are earthbound. Some are vertebrates, others lack backbones. These creatures evolved separately and their common ancestors are far, far back in the evolutionary chain. But they may share one fundamental feature: They dream

wired.com/story/what-octopus-d…

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#Science. (2 photos)
Whitest Paint Ever Developed Could Reflect Enough Light to Slow Global Warming

[ photo description Infrared images showing how the ultrawhite paint actually has a cooling effect. The purple is ambient temperature, the black represents the cooler painted swatch. (Photo: Joseph Peoples/Purdue University) ]

mymodernmet.com/?p=387307

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#Mummies. (5 photos)
The Mystery of the Mummified Bishop and the Fetus in His Coffin
Remains hidden with this Swedish “founding father” likely belonged to his grandson, but questions linger.

(photo description The remains of Peder Winstrup, bishop of Lund in the tumultuous 17th century, mummified naturally, perhaps due in part to herbs and other plants placed beneath his body)

atlasobscura.com/articles/bish…

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#Trains. (11 photos)
11 Unforgettable Historic Train Journeys
Nostalgia awaits. All aboard!

The world of transportation is ever-evolving. Horse-drawn carriages are gone, and today’s automobiles seem to barely require the intervention of human hands. Technology moves fast enough that there’s often little time to appreciate the feats of yesteryear. Take the railroads. Countless engines and miles of track have been abandoned, junked, or forgotten about.

However, a few of these transport systems—amazing feats of engineering and craftsmanship today, as they were when they were made—still exist, as time capsules. Various steam-powered locomotives and turn-of-the-century trains still ply the tracks today, and offer riders astonishing views of nature from historic seats.

From the luxurious, such as the post–World War II train once used by Yugoslavian dictator Josip Broz Tito, to the utilitarian, such a railway that once ferried miners in and out of the Yukon goldfields, here are 11 train rides that will take you straight into the past.

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DURANGO, COLORADO
Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad. Originally designed to transport gold and silver ore from more than 4,000 mining claims, this spectacular line has run continuously since 1882)

atlasobscura.com/lists/11-unfo…

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Astronomy Picture of the Day
2021 April 17
Inside the Flame Nebula
Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, IPAC Infrared Science Archive - Processing: Amal Biju
Explanation: The Flame Nebula is a stand out in optical images of the dusty, crowded star forming regions toward Orion's belt and the easternmost belt star Alnitak, a mere 1,400 light-years away. Alnitak is the bright star at the right edge of this infrared image from the Spitzer Space Telescope. About 15 light-years across, the infrared view takes you inside the nebula's glowing gas and obscuring dust clouds though. It reveals many stars of the recently formed, embedded cluster NGC 2024 concentrated near the center. The stars of NGC 2024 range in age from 200,000 years to 1.5 million years young. In fact, data indicate that the youngest stars are concentrated near the middle of the Flame Nebula cluster. That's the opposite of the simplest models of star formation for a stellar nursery that predict star formation begins in the denser center of a molecular cloud core. The result requires a more complex model for star formation inside the Flame Nebula.

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