"We have F-Zero X at home!"

*remembers playing this Shockwave game shockingly too much back then*

#Macromedia #Shockwave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CAIbdsOvYA

Cat’s Eye Halo

The Cat’s Eye Nebula is a planetary nebula located in the Draco constellation. At its center is a dying star. Seen here is the faint halo that stretches 3 light-years around the central nebula. The filaments of the halo are estimated to be 50,000 to 90,000 years old and were shed during earlier periods in the star’s evolution. Their shape is reminiscent of Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities, to my eye. (Image credit: T. Niittee; via APOD)

#astrophysics #fluidDynamics #nebula #physics #RayleighTaylorInstability #RichtmyerMeshkovInstability #science #shockwave

Interstellar Jets

This JWST image shows a couple of Herbig-Hero objects, seen in infrared. These bright objects form when jets of fast-moving energetic particles are expelled from the poles of a newborn star. Those particles hit pockets of gas and dust, forming glowing, hot shock waves like those seen here in red. The star that birthed the object is out of view to the lower-right. The bright blue light surrounded by red spirals that sits near the tip of the shock waves is actually a distant spiral galaxy that happens to be aligned with our viewpoint. (Image credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/JWST; via APOD)

#astrophysics #fluidDynamics #jets #physics #science #shockwave #stellarEvolution

Problem Solved: The 7-33 Colorado Rockies Have Fired Manager Bud Black, One Day After GM Bill Schmidt Said They Weren’t Thinking Of Firing Him https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/20874/ #Baseball #colorado #ColoradoRockies #ColoradoRockies #day #fan #GmBillSchmidt #guy #loss #ManagerBudBlack #MLB #Padres #ProblemSolved #rockie #rockies #roster #shockwave #team #thing #win

Random Old Comic: Disinformation Campaign https://www.toyboxcomix.com/2021/09/10/disinformation-campaign/ Disinformation Campaign #Horse #Megatron #Shockwave #Starscream #Transformers

Imaging a New Era of Supersonic Travel

Supersonic commercial travel was briefly possible in the twentieth century when the Concorde flew. But the window-rattling sonic boom of that aircraft made governments restrict supersonic travel over land. Now a new generation of aviation companies are revisiting the concept of supersonic commercial travel with technologies that help dampen the irritating effects of a plane’s shock waves.

One such company, Boom Supersonic, partnered with NASA to capture the above schlieren image of their experimental XB-1 aircraft in flight. The diagonal lines spreading from the nose, wings, and tail of the aircraft mark shock waves. It’s those shock waves’ interactions with people and buildings on the ground that causes problems. But the XB-1 is testing out scalable methods for producing weaker shock waves that dissipate before reaching people down below, thus reducing the biggest source of complaints about supersonic flight over land. (Image credit: Boom Supersonic/NASA; via Quartz)

#aircraft #flowVisualization #fluidDynamics #physics #schlierenPhotography #science #shockwave #supersonic #supersonicFlight

#happybirthday #frankwelker #actor #Megatron #Mirage #Blades #Chromedome #Frenzy #Groove #Mixmaster #Ratbat #Ravage #Rumble #Sharkticon #Skywarp #Sludge #Soundwave #Superion #Sweep #Trailbreaker #WreckGar #transformers #darkofthemoon #shockwave #ageofextintion #Galvatron #thelastknight #transformersprime #beasthunters #predaconrising #gobots #alien #startrek #TheSearchforSpock #voyager #nothinghuman #scoobydoo #fredjones #mortalkombat #shaokahn #curiousgeorge @trekcore

Another great take on my purple love.

J-Rayner's got quite a lot of nice G1-inspired TF work over at Deviant Art.

Artist: J-Rayner (J-Rayner.deviantart.com)

#shockwave #transformers #g1

The original Decepticon Shockwave

Look at this beautiful boy in all of his purple and grey awesomeness. Add in Corey Burton's David Warnerish voice for him and you have the Greatest Transformer ever! (And I'm standing on that hill!)

Artist: Don Figueroa (I think)

#shockwave #transformers #g1

#AllStarTrek How do the explosions on the Enterprise bridge from the 2000s look so much better than the ones on #StarTrekDiscovery? Discover kept use wide shots of the bridge with ridiculous mushroom cloud blooms in the background - it looked ridiculous!

#StarTrek #StarTrekEnterprise #Shockwave

Transformers Blokees Galaxy Version 4

Smokescreen
Snarl (Bot)
Snarl (Dino)
Ultra Magnus
Shockwave
Tarn
Nemesis Prime
Scrapper
Hook

All well done again. Magnus and Tarn are extra wide and so don't use the usual shoulder joints, but a sort of extension on that. I bought mainly for Shockwave and Snarl but would prefer light up Shining versions if they make them.

#Blokees #Transformers #Shockwave #UltraMagnus #TransformersG1 #actionfigures #toys #Tarn #Smokescreen #Dinobots

I would very much like to use this app and reddit for my toy photos. I have a good bit of followers on insta, i doubt ill get them all back. Which is fine. #shockwave #autobot #lightpiping #toyphotography #transformers

#transformers #shockwave

Tracking Tonga’s Boom

When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted in January 2022, its effects were felt — and heard — thousands of kilometers away. A new study analyzes crowdsourced data (largely from Aotearoa New Zealand) to estimate the audible impact of the eruption. The researchers found that the volume, arrival time, and nature of the rolling rumble reported by survey takers correlated well with seismic measurements. But humans provided data that monitoring equipment couldn’t. For example, reports of shaking buildings and rattling windows let researchers estimate the shock wave‘s overpressure far from the volcano. The team suggests that acting quickly to collect human impressions of rare events like this one can add valuable data that’s otherwise overlooked. (Image credit: NASA; research credit: M. Clive et al.; via Gizmodo)

#acoustics #eruption #fluidDynamics #physics #science #shockwave #volcano

Random Old Comic: Humor is Logical https://www.toyboxcomix.com/2019/04/12/humor-is-logical/ Humor is Logical #Megatron #Shockwave #Transformers https://www.facebook.com/815217756713386/posts/1231686565066501?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

🎮 Random Retro Game:

Title: Shockwave
Released: 1990-01-01
Platforms: NES
Also released on: Commodore / Amiga

#Shockwave #NES #Retrogames

#GameoftheYear1983 #ZXSpectrum #SinclairZXSpectrum #RetroGaming #MorrisMeetstheBikers #ShockWave #Angler #Quetzalcoatl

ROUND 2 Poll 53

Morris Meets the Bikers (Automata UK)
Shock Wave (Impulse Software)
Angler (Virgin Games)
Quetzalcoatl (Virgin Games)

1983 GAME OF THE YEAR
Top two games to go through to next round

#GameoftheYear1983 #ZXSpectrum #SinclairZXSpectrum #RetroGaming

#MorrisMeetstheBikers #ShockWave #Angler #Quetzalcoatl

I got #Shockwave BEFORE the #Transformers series started! A local store called "King Norman's Toys" had truckloads of imports in the 80s. I still have my grey knockoff!
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http://mechavskaiju.com/2024/12/13/shockwave-was-my-first-transformer/

A Dandelion-Like Supernova Remnant

In 1181 CE, astronomers in China and Japan recorded a new, short-lived star in the constellation Cassiopeia. After burning for nearly six months, this historic supernova disappeared from the naked eye. It was only in 2013 that an amateur astronomer identified a nebula in the vicinity of that supernova, and, in the years since, astronomers have collected evidence that identifies the object, known as Pa 30, as the remnants of that 1181 supernova. Now, astronomers have mapped the supernova remnant, revealing an unusual dandelion-like structure (shown in an artist’s conception above and below). Filaments of sulfur project outward from a dusty central region that houses the remains of the original star. Normally, a supernova destroys its original star, but this was a Type Iax supernova, a “failed” explosion that left behind a hot, inflated star that may eventually cool into a white dwarf star.

Why the supernova remnant has this strange shape remains unclear. Scientists speculate that shock waves may have helped concentrate sulfur into these clumpy filaments. The material’s velocity suggests a ballistic trajectory (meaning, essentially, that it has neither sped up nor slowed down since the original explosion). Winding the trajectory backwards pegs their origin to 1181, helping confirm that Pa 30 is, indeed, the remains of that 1181 supernova. (Image and video credit: W.M. Keck Observatory/A. Makarenko; research credit: R. Fesen et al.; via Gizmodo)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP9UCehzhnQ

#astronomy #fluidDynamics #physics #science #shockwave #supernova