some music, less psychedelic, but yeahhh...

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by watching his pictures (yes pictures) you could guess a NPP is the coolest thing in the world.

anyway, everything you see here is very close together,

the title screen is from the NPP "Leibstadt" (Aargau), the river you see is the rhine.

it's followed by "Gösgen" in Solothurne

some shots from "Beznau" (Aargau, the "twin"),

finally some shots from "Mühleberg" (Bern) which is the oldest reactor we have (might not be the proper in chronology).

(i might feel ok about the rest, but this one should be closed, also it has only a fraction of the power Leibstadt or Gösgen offer)

what you can't see here is, the PSI (Paul Scherrer Institute) which is responsible for research and owns the only high temperature oven to get rid of some nuclear waste and which is very, very close to Gösgen. no wonder some say the canton "Aargau" is the dirtiest in switzerland)

all reactors belong to General Electrics.

the nuclear technicians of the states love(d) to visit us,

1st, here no one cares if you drink a beer or two after work, (vice versa, "everybody" has met after work for a beer, that's fine you get to a lot of "insider" information in this way).

2nd, we make a feast each revision with country music and a lot of beer (has changed a bit, nowadays less beer as back in '89, quite different today the situation, which i missed lately when i worked there, it's not the same anymore. but i also understand it was really crazy with this bunch of bewildered. from ex foreign-legion members to well educated technicians...).

Leibstadt, is "my" big boiler or immersion coil <img src="' http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//icon_e_smile.gi f"' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

i guess she misses me, that's why she bursts slowly...

she will miss for sure this guy who touched "every" part of her with his hands...

not especially for servicing, just that i have touched it at all, besides i'm convinced if you do such daily, you notice the slightes difference in heat or vibration, things of which i believe no electronic component can replace this.

about the slow burst, hmm... i never felt comfortable with upgrading it to 30% more power.

i believe it costs her a lot of live, that's also me, personally i feel it's not good.

young technicians nowadays say "oh, no problem, we have a lot of reserves", but i think "who ever has designed it, hasn't done this randomly".

it's again something i learned from my daddy, he never liked such also, you don't go and use reserves, that's not proper.

fact is, a year later the generator has quit, you can't see a direct causality to this of course, but...*

also the pressure vessel shows now more "fatigue phenomena", well if i wouldn't have suspected it...

but who asks a "construction worker" or "textile technician"?

if they have a degree as whatever...

i'm a funny man, i predicted a early wnter this year a month ago, well it starts to snow this weekend.

so, never say again "my feelings won't matter", they matter a lot <img src="' http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//wink3.gi f"' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />

"she doesn't feel well today..."

*i had a long talk with one of our electricians back then, they know WHAT has happened, but it's something that SHOULDN'T happen, it just HAS happened.

now in fact it has something to do with a generators own frequency, he would like to run on it's own, but we need the power in a given frequency foremost it has to be congruent, else you get a big power loss. you can compare this to sound, if the frequencies of the speakers are not congruent you will loose 70% of the power, perhaps more, it's when the sine of one signal erases the sine of the other (sine valley covers sine hill), theoretically output equals then to 0.

to evade this problem you feed back power from the grid to the generator to force him to output a congruent frequency, but that hurts simply said.

finally this "hurting" has reached such a high degree, that a plasma was build up in the generator, it was unrecognized until one day it has getting released and burned a wide hole in 10cm thick steel plates, melted that to it's atoms, at least nothing visible was left of this material.

long text, short meaning, i suspect it would never have happened without the upgrading.

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erm, i deleted some ideas to speaker and sound that went through my mind, shouldn't i ave deleted it?

I found this piece as a bonus track of Cyborg by Klaus Schulze. Incredible track! I expecially like the central part, that sounds like a musical equivalent of zooming a fractal. <img src="' http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//icon_e_smile.gi f"' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

(Klaus Schulze - But beautiful)

https://www.youtube....h?v=M3I8QWcTGHc

Lovely! That's the kind of thing I like to listen to when there's 12 AU to go.

Big-eyed beans from Venus - oh my oh my!

Ooooh the "Cap't! Not herd from them in ages :girlcrazy:

Here is two classic mac songs, first one just because its just soooo good and another for cruising over those lonely planets out in the big black

Ahh... the Mac in their three-guitar-attack days. They were at their bluesy best then, that's for sure. I have a 24 min version of Rattlesnake Shake by them on CD, which is just amazing - but it ain't up there on the tube anywhere that I can see. As for the Captain - I saw him live with the Magic Band in '72 - absolutely incredible stage show!

More magic from one of the members of "The Mac" before they joined the group, Christine Perfect with Chicken Shack (later Christine McVie), cool "B" side too :girlcrazy:

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Ah yes - Chicken Shack were cool!

Bach BWV 639 (Edward Artemiev version)

Famous for being in the Solaris soundtrack <img src="' http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//icon_e_smile.gi f"' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

Where I live, Artemiev's albums are almost impossible to find.

Did anyone mention this yet?

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Solaris (the 1972 version, that is) was a brilliant movie - and yes, it's very hard to find much by Artemyev.

Commander Cody plays some Commander Cody... heh.

The "Zep" return for this 1994 special

Earlier in the thread I put up the original Wing Commander intro as a tribute to Chris Roberts coming back into the space sim genre. It would be remiss of me not to the same for David and here is a beauty, a fan created vid using the original FE2.

Behold - the thread has risen again.

In tribute to Wilko Johnson, who sadly will not be around too much longer - Back in the Night.

He's from my neck of the woods, and went to my old school - and he was brilliant on stage!

Today I listened to this musician who was recommended to me as the italian Klaus Schulze.

Baffo Banfi... Funny name 🙂

That was nice Tichy! :queen:

Here is just one more song from the Led Zep 1994 special, its an awesome concert, this one is called Friends

let there be (hard) rock !

another guitar heros ? 

Quiet in here lately, eh? Changing the tone a little - Eternity Road (which is also the title of an excellent sci-fi tale).

Can - Pinch 🙂