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European Greater FLAMINGO - at sunset

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European Greater FLAMINGO - at sunset
Province of Malaga, Andalucia, Spain
Phoenicopterus ruber
At the Laguna de Fuente de Piedra new the town of Antequera; Largest natural lake in Andalusia & Europe s only inland breeding ground for this species
Thomas Dressler
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Flight simulation of a harrier jump-jet

Harrier aircraft flight simulation. Supercomputer image of a Harrier aircraft hovering over a runway in a virtual wind tunnel. The lines beneath the aircraft show the air flow from the aircraft's engine. The lines colours show the air's tempera- ture gradient, from red (highest), through orange, yellow, green, and blue, to purple (lowest). The Harrier is a Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) fighter aircraft which directs air from its Rolls- Royce Pegasus engine through 4 swivelling nozzles along the side of its fuselage. The nozzles point downwards for take-off, before rotating backwards to accelerate the aircraft into wing-borne flight

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Mandelbrot fractal set

NOT FOR POSTCARD USE Fractal geometry. A computer graphics image, entitled Star Factory, showing a detail from the outer edgesof the Mandelbrot Set, a group of complex numbersplotted using their real and imaginary parts ascoordinates. The colour of each point depends uponits behaviour under a series of simple, butrepeated, mathematical operations or mappings. Thepatterns are infinitely complicated, but appear torepeat themselves on whatever scale they areviewed. The study of such "chaotic" behaviour isnow used as a means of modelling real-worldprocesses.
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