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writingwithcolor · 6 months

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Hey folks!

It has been a while! Well, we wanted to announce some big things coming your way!

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Once the submission window is up on Nov 30, we will evaluate how our new system is going, tinker some more, and reopen once again once the construction dust clears.

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accio-victuuri · 4 months

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excerpts about yibo and his films from this article: Side notes on the selection of the 36th China Golden Rooster Awards

Abstract: The 36th China Film Golden Rooster Awards produced a total of 93 nominations and 20 awards, which to a certain extent reflected the achievements of Chinese films in this award year in terms of artistic aesthetics, genre creation, ideological expression, and technological innovation. Judging from the award results, this year's films have outstanding performance in promoting the people's nature and reflecting the characteristics of the times. More outstanding films focus on the spiritual and aesthetic needs of the current people, use delicate and plain perspectives to get close to daily life, and use vivid lenses. Language describes the texture of life, empathizes with the warmth and coldness of life with sincere emotions, and leaves a vivid imprint of the times in light and shadow, reflecting the pursuit and exploration of realist aesthetics in Chinese films.

The judges believed that "Hidden Blade" used a unique image style to create the strange and turbulent situation in Shanghai during the Republic of China, and continuously enriched the historical narrative in the conventional spy war theme; it showed the survival dilemma of people living in the turbulent era, and unveiled It captures the hardship, bravery and sacrifice of the unknown heroes on the hidden front, and the metaphor system contained in the intricate non-linear narrative is modern and literary.

"Born To Fly" focuses on the group of test pilots in the new era, puts the narrative of family and country in the growth story of the test pilots, and tells the dedication and sacrifices made by several generations of test pilots in polishing the country's important weapons through extreme tests. , expressing the feelings of the country, the nation, and the comradeship in a real and moving way, creating a group of flesh-and-blood heroic test pilots.

( On his best supporting actor nomination ) Wang Yibo played a large number of roles in the film, and his performance was harmonious and unified with the overall expression of the film. The actor's efforts in figuring out the role can be seen in the handling of details, and the handling of the two action scenes was remarkable. as a new actor, he has broad development potential.

#wang yibo #GOLDEN ROOSTER AWARDS BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR NOMINEE WYB #i will always be proud of him

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usafphantom2 · 4 months

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B-1 bomber accident in the USA. Crew ejects safely

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 05/01/2024 - 08:56in Aeronautical, Military Accidents

A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber crashed on the night of January 4, while trying to land at Ellsworth Air Base, South Dakota.

All four crew members were able to safely eject from the aircraft and survived, Ellsworth Air Base said in a statement.

The incident occurred during bad weather and sub-zero temperatures, with dense fog limiting visibility, according to local weather reports. Radio traffic from local rescuers said there was an "active fire" after an "explosion".

“An Air Force Lancer B-1B designated for Ellsworth Air Base crashed at approximately 5:50 p.m. today while trying to land at the facility,” the base said. "At the time of the accident, he was on a training mission."

The news began to circulate on social networks and local news that some kind of incident was occurring at the base, with some reports claiming that a B-1B had fallen there. The base was later closed to air traffic. The weather at the base is currently bad, with dense freezing fog present.

The air base was closed for flight operations, according to a Notice to Aviators/Air Mission Notice (NOTAM) issued shortly after the incident.

Located in Black Hills, South Dakota, Ellsworth Air Base is close to Rapid City. It is one of only two B-1 bomber bases. The 28ª Bomber Wing, which is there, operates more than 20 B-1 aircraft, according to the base. USAF has 45 B-1 jets in its inventory

A typical B-1 crew consists of two pilots and two weapons system officers, all with ejectable seats.

The aircraft was initially designed to operate as a supersonic bomber with nuclear capacity and variable sweeping wings. But the fleet has been widely used in the last two decades in the Middle East, after being converted into a purely conventional bomber. The aircraft is known to have a low mission capacity rate.

Ellsworth is scheduled to receive the first operational B-21 Raider stealth bombers, which are scheduled to fully replace the B-1.

“A council of officers will investigate the accident,” Ellsworth's statement said.

Tags: Aeronautical AccidentsMilitary AviationB-1B LancerUSAF - United States Air Force / U.S. Air Force

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xiangqiankua · 2 months

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I finally really truly registered to take the TOCFL (I had signed up for a free pilot test last year but when I went to make the deposit to confirm my slot, everything for Band B & C were already full, alas). I stopped taking formal classes a year ago, also stopped private tutoring, and had been lazily coasting along reading manga, scrolling Taiwanese social media, and occasionally listening to a podcast. Then I decided to apply for grad school.

Scared that having to read anything scholarly and of length in Chinese on a regular basis would make my brain combust, I applied to a program that apparently has enough English classes to graduate. Upon further investigation, many of the interesting ones are in Chinese. Strangely, to take classes in Chinese the department only requires a proficiency certificate equivalent to A2 level. I attached a transcript from my last language center class (around C1), but if I get accepted I figure I ought to have a TOCFL certificate, and if I don't, I'll definitely need one to apply for programs taught entirely in Chinese later.

I registered for Band B because I think I still read too slowly for Band C, plus they only play the listening passages once and I find listening to text being read in a newscaster style (vs conversational tone) extremely challenging. (I asked a teacher once what to do about this and she said listen to more Chinese news, because even the Taiwanese news tends to have a more informal tone.) The exam is in about a month, so I need a plan of action. I had already started reviewing the word list for TOCFL 4, which is 5000 words but sometimes just the same character 4 times in a row, each with a different part of speech:

It's been kind of torturous because it's in alphabetical order, on the other hand it's good because it gives me pause as to whether I would really be able to make the correct choice between 規定、規矩、規律 and 規則 on a fill-in-the-blank question. So far all the words are familiar except some unexpected ones on feudalism and sending telegrams, but familiar and intimate are two different things so if I don't know the precise definition immediately I've been looking it up, along with examples sentences. My current goal is to finish going through the word list, try all the previous exams available on the TOCFL site to practice timing myself, and also find some more ideal listening content (for now I could go back to the audio files for 當代中文5 that I never got through properly). I also want to look up the most commonly used 成語 because they aren't included on the word list but surely they'll appear on the exam. Ideally I should also try to do more relevant reading (news articles, perhaps), but we'll see how far I actually get with that. I think I also need to do this studying at the beginning of the day, being a great procrastinator.

My dream scenario is that Band B turns out to be a breeze and makes me confident enough to take Band C! (Edit- I know the reading/listening test is electronic and apparently adjusts itself to your level. Maybe whatever level one selects at registration is simply the one it starts with?) Realistically though, I read one anecdote online from a guy complaining that he passed HSK 6 and then only squeaked in at TOCFL 3. Hence my apprehension and need for a study plan for test taking. Anyone else taken TOCFL lately?

#tocfl #chinese #mandarin

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jadedbirch · 1 year

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Born To Fly:

Review, Thinky Thoughts, and Other Nonsense

This is a very good year for Wang Yibo, and by extension for me, because my son's success fills me with much joy. I admit though, I was less than thrilled to go watch a movie about test pilots for him. But love conquers all, and so I went!

Spoiler-free review

Going into this with admittedly low expectations, I must say I was very pleasantly surprised both by how engaging and entertaining the movie was and by how little propaganda there was in it, considering it's essentially a movie about glorifying the Chinese Air Force. Yes, the "enemy combatants" were unintentionally hilarious caricatures, but they were a very tiny part of the plot. The central drama was predominantly internal to Lei Yu (Yibo's character) - at the end of the day it's a film about his personal growth journey. It's also, a surprising amount, about his relationship with his "rival" pilot Deng Fang (played by a very handsome Yosh Yu) and his military daddy, Commander Zhang Ting (played by the delightfully avuncular Hu Jun). There is high drama and high stakes, tears and heart break, and a good amount of homoerotic tension between men in uniform who are forced to train in close quarters. I, for one, will not complain. If anything, the one downside was not enough shirtless scenes in the barracks.

As always, Yibo had fantastic chemistry with his male costars, and like subterranean levels of chemistry (low, very low) with the requisite female love interest (but this isn't about her - she's incredibly unimportant). The Yeekies and the Yose looked spectacular, and we got to see more epidermis than we've seen since he had to take his shirt off for The Untamed. Because he wears a tank top. We live off crumbs, my friends. It is saying a lot that he didn't get upstaged by the cool planes because the flight scenes were pretty fantastic (and also a bit nauseating). There are some stunning cinematic shots in this film and Yibo and the scenery both look great.

Thinky-thoughts

This is just going to be a random list of thoughts that don't belong in a review, but I still wanted to share.

They clearly went out of their way to make Yibo's skin look more "rugged" for this movie, but he's still a babie and also the prettiest 🥺

Spoilery! But for a movie that makes a big deal about how every life is precious, they don't seem to spend very much time and effort to ensure that they reduce loss of life for their test pilots, especially after major (and surely very expensive) mishaps? Still, I guess we have to balance out the verisimilitude with the drama.

I learned that "enemy combatants" might be assholes, but birds are the real enemy. If you know, you know.

Still pretty ticked off that Yibo flipped over in that vehicle while making this movie. Seems like maybe that's something they'd like to avoid in the future because in a country of a billion citizens, he's irreplaceable.

Other Nonsense

Okay, if you know me, you know I can't leave here without talking about the ENEMIES TO LOVERS TROPE! 🥰🥰🥰 Yes, it was a million times more gay in Top Gun, but this is China, and the dudes still manage to have more physical contact than Lei Yu had with the girl "love interest." This is all to say, I expect some hot pilot on pilot fanfics. Looking at all of you, fandom!

#wang yibo #born to fly #review #my so called meta

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r-capa · 1 year

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Sunshine (2007): Character Backstories

found on reddit.

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Capa: Physicist

Nationality: American

When Capa was seventeen, he wrote a paper which he submitted to America’s foremost scientific journals. It contributed to the understanding of dark matter, and in particular a theory for a controlled method releasing its energy. Although dark matter theory was already well advanced, Capa’s theory assisted in the formation of the principle on which the Stellar Bomb was constructed for the Icarus I mission. Capa was too young to have accompanied this first Icarus mission. But in the intervening years, Capa continued his research. By the time it was realised that the first mission had failed, and preparations for a second mission began, Capa was the world’s foremost expert on the dark matter bomb. Because Capa is the only member of the crew who is not, by history and training, an astronaut, he is an outsider. In this respect, much of the crew see him as effectively a piece of valuable equipment, which must be transported intact to the delivery point. Kaneda, however, feels differently towards Capa. He feels protective in a way which is partly paternal. He knows that it is hard for Capa being an outsider, a passenger, and goes out of his way to make Capa feel included. What Kaneda doesn’t fully realise is that Capa is by nature a loner. He is perfectly content with his own company, working in the dark interior of the Stellar Bomb. Searle does realise this—in fact, it is Capa’s self-contained quality that Searle likes. And Capa likes Searle equally. The two of them get on: they talk the same language, and have a similar sense of humour. Although they are both fundamentally loners, the relationship between them is actually the strongest bond in the crew. Capa is better than Kaneda at chess, and so he always lets Kaneda play white. Capa sometimes lets Kaneda win. Intellectually and internally, Capa is an atheist.

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Cassie: Pilot

Nationality: American

Cassie’s background is military—she entered the space program through her experience as a pilot in the US air-force. But she does not fit the stereotype of military personnel. She is non-competitive. She has no particular interest in, or attraction to, machismo. She doesn’t have an automatic deferential response to rank or duty. Cassie has a personal interest in the arts. She was the only crew member who packed books in her kit-bag as personal possessions. Both instinctively and academically, Cassie is a humanist. She likes people, she cares about people. Her sense of mankind is non-cynical and forgiving: she would believe that, in general and as a default position, people are good. Cassie is an atheist. She doesn’t believe in God because she sees no reason for God to exist. She is confident in herself. She is comfortable within her own skin. On the psychological profiles about who would cope best with the long-term deep-space mission, Cassie’s score was the highest. There were pilots in the space program who matched and exceeded her skill, but none that were seen as more suitable for the stresses and pressures of the mission. She has no primary partner, and, as with all the crew, she has no children. However, four months before the mission left Earth Orbit, Cassie became pregnant. The identity of the father was known only to her: he was never aware that Cassie was briefly carrying his child. She terminated the pregnancy after six weeks. The only member of the crew who knows this is Searle, who assisted her in hiding her blood test results from the other doctors in the space program. The termination of her pregnancy had a subtle effect on her outlook—a discreet emotional accent in her perception of life, and death. This nuance might have skewed her psychological profiling, had the most crucial psych-tests not already been carried out. She dreams continuously about the surface of the sun.

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Corazon: Biologist

Nationality: Chinese

Corazon was born in Manila, but her Chinese/Filipino parents moved to the Chinese mainland when she was a young girl. She worked in the Pan-Asian Space program, but, like Trey and Kaneda, was drafted into the U.S. program to work on the Icarus project. Corazon is a career astronaut from the Chinese space program. Her area of specialised knowledge is the cultivation of high-yield oxygen-producing plants. For the last fifteen years, Corazon has been based on the international Moon stations, where she supervised the oxygen production and recycling program. Whereas everyone else on the crew see their mission as to secure the future of mankind, Corazon sees the protection of life in broader terms. Her wish would be to protect Earth as a single biosphere, of which mankind is just one part. Corazon’s feelings for her plants and the Oxygen Garden are more intense than her feelings for any of the crew. In emotional terms, she feels the loss of more deeply. Out of all the crew, her natural ally is Mace. Although she is calmer and less hot-blooded than Mace, they are both pragmatists. They both work with their hands. And most importantly, they are not sentimental. Corazon is the only crew member who has never used the calming properties of the Earth Room. For her, the Earth Room is simply artificial, and she prefers instead to spend solitary time in her beloved Oxygen Garden. Corazon is married, but like all the crew of Icarus II, she has no children. In her final recorded message to her husband, she spoke no words. Instead she gazed at the screen for exactly one minute, then smiled, and sent the message home. When Corazon sleeps, she dreams of rice-field terraces cut into hillsides.

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Harvey: Comms Officer, Second in Command

Nationality: American

Harvey is a veteran of the U.S. space program, and is one of the few members of the Icarus II crew to have had any involvement in the Icarus I mission. As a young graduate into the Icarus project, he worked as a junior engineer on the Icarus I comms system. Harvey is a Protestant. He is married to his childhood sweetheart. They are without children. He earned his place on the Icarus II mission partly as a result of his invention of the LIGHT BOX COMMS SYSTEM. Built into his console, when he immerses himself in this oddly thick beam of light, he can cancel out the noise of background interference from radiation storms and solar flares. It is this space he retreats to, of purity of sound, to escape from the stresses and pressures of the deep-space mission. Harvey earned his rank on the Icarus II mission partly by hard work and all-round abilities. He is a fine engineer, and would be able to perform most of Mace, Trey, and Cassie’s duties at an equal level. His physical fitness and general health is extremely good. He consistently scored highest in crew fitness tests. He also scored extremely highly on psych tests, as a dependable and stable member of the crew. However, in the psych tests, he managed to disguise (and they failed to detect) his Achilles heel: which is his attachment to his wife. Simply, he misses her. He dreams of her every night. He is terrified by the idea that he will not survive the mission, and never see her again. It is this weakness that eats away inside him.

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Kaneda: Captain

Nationality: Japanese

Kaneda was born in Kyoto. He worked for many years in the Pan-Asian Space Program, with both Corazon and Trey. He was then transferred to the Icarus Project, based first in America, and then on the orbiting international space station. In both age and time spent in space flight, he is the most experienced astronaut of the crew. He was a natural choice to lead the second mission. The entire crew of Icarus II are deferential to him. No one questions his authority or judgement. Kaneda has no wife and no children. He is Buddhist. He has an unforced and pragmatic spiritualism. In his sleeping quarters, he has a small shrine. Outwardly, Kaneda is a model of calm, and he leads by example. But privately, he obsesses about fate of Icarus I. He questions and re-questions the failure of the previous mission. Kaneda feels paternalistic towards all his crew, but in particular, Capa. This is partly because Capa is the youngest, but also because Capa is the only crew member who is not a career astronaut. He knows that it is hard for Capa being an outsider, a passenger, and goes out of his way to make Capa feel included. Kaneda’s closest intellectual equal is Searle. Searle is the only member of the crew with whom he would maintain a friendship outside the context of the mission.

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Mace: Engineer

Nationality: American

Mace is in some senses a blue-collar scientist: his specialist area is Engineering. He doesn’t understand the code programming that creates the Icarus Flight Computer—because no one does. The coding behind Icarus is so immensely complex that it required other computers to generate it. But what Mace does understand is the circuitry mapping and the mechanics that run it. His family background is military. He grew up on air-bases; both parents were pilots. He has an innate belief in the chain of command, and an innate distrust of those—such as Capa—who sit outside the chain of command. His mind is practical and three-dimensional, not abstract. He has never read a book for pleasure. He would rather spend spare time doing push-ups than listening to music. He cuts his hair short because life is easier that way. He is honest. He has no vanity, but he does have pride. Mace is disgusted with himself when he finds that, over the long journey to Mercury, he has lost his focus on the mission. He is the only crew member whose vision remains unclouded in respect of this goal. He is unsentimental. He doesn’t like Capa. He has a dry sense of humour which is for his own benefit rather than anyone else’s. That is to say, he doesn’t crack a joke in order to make other people laugh. He is not a firebrand. If anything, he is the opposite. His mind is clear, and is not cluttered by the confusions of adrenaline or passion. Losing his temper with Capa is the exception; not the rule. He never remembers his own dreams. If he did, he’d find, to his surprise, that he often dreams of Cassie.

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Searle: Doctor and Psych Officer

Nationality: American

Searle is not married. Searle is the only crew member who did not have a counter-part on Icarus I. Icarus I had a doctor, but no psychiatrist. Endless theories were developed and explored for the failure of Icarus I. Searle was the primary advocate for the theory that the failure of the mission might have been for psychological reasons—the psychiatric collapse of one or all of the crew. He spent years researching the effects of deep-space travel and its effects on the mind—during which time he developed and created the Earth Room. As a consequence of his research, he argued strongly that the Med Officer on Icarus II should also be a qualified psychiatrist. It was an argument he won. Its unintended consequence was that Searle himself was chosen as the Psych Officer for the mission. His own psychological profile is of a man who is extremely emotionally stable. He is even-tempered. He has a good sense of humour. He is not given to panic or hasty decisions. However, he is also a man who is eternally separate from other people. He is detached. A watcher. Unjudgemental. Oddly unconcerned. This can make him appear (particularly to Mace) unprofessional. Searle is the only member of the crew to know that Cassie became pregnant, and aborted her child, during the final stages of the Icarus II preparation. He helped her hide this from continuous medical examinations, by using earlier samples of blood and urine tests. Searle’s motivations and his agendas are his own, and could best be described as philosophical. Ultimately, he believes only this: the larger the searchlight, the larger the circumference of the unknown. Searle does not believe in God. But he thinks that sometimes he glimpses God, hidden in the sunshine. Whether this tells himself something about God, or something about himself, is unclear to him.

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Trey: Navigator

Nationality: Chinese

Trey was born in Hong Kong. Trey has a prodigious ability with mathematics. He has can perform extremely complicated calculations in his head, and can perform the classic mathematician’s party-trick: to tell you what day of the week any given date fell on. When he was only twelve, he achieved a brief world-wide notoriety as the writer of the Hong-Kong-King-Kong computer virus, which wiped out the operational abilities of twelve percent of the planet’s computers in a single day, freezing up the systems and replacing them with a picture of a gorilla beating its chest, swiped from the 1980s Nintendo Donkey Kong game. Although he was just old enough for criminal prosecution, he was spared any kind of juvenile prison sentence because he was talent-spotted by the Pan-Asian space program. He worked in China until he was nineteen. Then, like Corazon and Kaneda, he relocated to the US to work on the Icarus project. His extreme talent for mathematics is also the cause of his mistake on the mission. He is unwilling to give the role of recalculating the changed flight trajectory to Icarus, because he is afraid to delegate such an important task to anyone, or anything, else. This decision is not born from arrogance. It is simply the safest option from his point of view—he knows the limits of his own parameters, and feels more comfortable if all variables are known to him, and under his direct control. His closest friend out of the crew is Mace. Trey is not married, has no partner, and no children. When he sleeps, he dreams of number sequences.

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#sunshine #sunshine 2007 #danny boyle #capa #cassie #trey #searle #mace #kaneda #harvey #corazon

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graymanbriefing · 1 year

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Government Oversight Brief: Vaccine Delivery via Mosquito BLUF: China developed mosquito carried vaccine delivery system; Florida, Texas, and EPA approved and has begun release of genetically modified mosquitoes. Chinese scientists have published research on a "mosquito-delivered vaccine: in the peer-reviewed journal "Nature Communications". Researchers harnessed mosquitoes to deliver re-engineered vaccines for animals by using a vector of the Chaoyang virus (CYV) vaccine to "replicate efficiently in mosquitoes and be secreted in saliva". The researchers infused the virus/vaccine in blood and allowed mosquitoes to feed from the pool of blood. They then allowed the mosquitoes to bite mice. The data shows the vaccine was successfully transferred to the mice from the mosquitoes. Researchers hope to mass produce the carrier-method to enable a global "mosquito-delivered vaccine for wildlife immunisation" however no analysis was conducted on how to avoid having a wild population of vaccine carrying mosquitoes from biting humans. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 2021 approved an inhalable COVID-19 vaccine delivered via fine mist to enable an alternative form of vaccine delivery. The CCP has also signaled approval of a mosquito-delivery vaccine system for zooatonic viruses. Separately, a genetically engineered mosquito (OX5034) was approved by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2021 and officially granted the permits for release of at least 750 million OX5034 mosquitoes in Texas and Florida. In 2022, the EPA approved an additional release of 2.4 billion modified mosquitoes in Florida. Local or state government agencies in both TX and FL also approved the pilot programs. The stated purpose of releasing modified mosquitoes into the population of the two states is to test for a...(CLASSIFIED, see full Briefing at www.graymanbriefing.com)

#News #Intel #Situational Awareness #Prepping

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1863-project · 8 months

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so the Japanese maglev is in prototype stages but what are the current fastest trains? I heard there's a super slick maglev in Shanghai

The Shanghai Maglev is an incredible machine and is currently the fastest train service in commercial operation, with a cruise speed of 268 mph. Its job is to move passengers from the airport to Longyang Road Station, from where they can transfer to other non-maglev lines to get to the city center. The Shanghai Maglev was designed as a test, sort of a proof of concept. The idea was to show this was viable and could be used to do a maglev rail network across the country.

Now I should point out that 268 mph is the cruise speed, which means that's just the fastest it operates with passengers. During testing...it went faster.

The top operational commercial speed of this train is 431 km/h (268 mph), making it the world's fastest train in regular commercial service since its opening in April 2004. During a non-commercial test run on 12 November 2003, piloted by Jonathan Texiera, a maglev train achieved a Chinese record speed of 501 km/h (311 mph).

Now if we're talking about current fastest trains all across the board...

Steam: everyone who follows me likely knows this by now, but the current speed record holder for steam traction is LNER 4468 Mallard, an A4 4-6-2 Pacific designed by Sir Nigel Gresley. Here is a link to my post on Mallard from earlier this year if you want to read more about that. I don't shut up about this locomotive ever. Mallard's record sits at 126 mph.

Electric, (Conventional) Steel-Wheeled: The TGV POS currently holds that record, with trainset 4402 setting it in April 2007 at a whopping 357.2 mph.

Diesel: A diesel-electric British Rail Class 43 set a diesel speed record in 1987 - locomotive 43102 (renumbered 43302), trailed by 43159, managed to hit 148.5 mph. There are reports a Spanish Talgo XXI hit 159 mph in 2002 and a Russian TEP80 hit 168 mph in 1993, but those haven't been verified. It's possible, though!

Electric, Maglev: As fast as that one in Shanghai is, the SCMaglev does have it beat. The L0 series currently sits atop the maglev high score boards with a manned test run that hit 375 mph in 2015.

Wikipedia does have a whole page on railway speed records if you want to learn more! I'd recommend checking it out.

#replies #I like trains

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satoshi-mochida · 22 days

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Mecha BREAK PC second closed beta test set for April 26 to 28

From Gematsu

The second wave of closed beta testing for large-scale multiplayer mech action game Mecha BREAK for PC will run from April 26 at 3:00 a.m. PT / 6:00 a.m. ET to April 28 at 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET, Seasun Games announced. Users can register here.

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About

Oozing with hi-tech style and full of fast-paced battles, Mecha BREAK puts players in the pilot seat of their own customized mechs as they dive into a clash of steel and plasma unlike any other. Players will suit up alongside a squad of three to six allies in three-versus-three or six-versus-six cooperative game modes or dive headfirst into the new 60-player Mashmak player-versus-environment-versus-player mode, which they will experience for the first time during this Closed Beta Test phase. Mecha BREAK puts players in control of expert mech pilots as they fight across the land and sky alike. These mechs are the pride and joy of any accomplished pilot, with weapons, armor pieces, chassis, and even the paint job being fully customizable. With these options, mechs can be customized to fit any playstyle and function, from fast-moving scouts to lumbering artillery batteries with dozens of options in between. While the grandiose scale and break-neck action of Mecha BREAK‘s combat is the flashy initial draw, the room for personal expression through cosmetic customization will keep players engaged for hours on end. Regardless of mech class and weapon composition, each mech can have every piece personalized and painted to fit any style.

Key Features

A Vast Arsenal of Mechs and Weapons – Discover an array of assault, melee, sniper, reconnaissance, and support mechs, each with unique playstyles. Engage in immersive aerial and ground combat, employing strategic tactics for close and long-range encounters. Unleash devastating firepower, scorch foes with precision beams, and rain missiles upon the battlefield. Prepare for adrenaline-pumping battles, lightning-fast maneuvers, and explosive firepower. Experience the essence of speed, power, and thrilling controls.

Fully Customizable Mechs – Customize your mech down to its individual parts with precision. Personalize every detail, from full-body paint jobs to unique hues for armor, internal framework, and weaponry. Choose from a variety of colors, wear levels, glosses, and metallic finishes to showcase your unique style. Enhance your mech further with patterns and decals to create a one-of-a-kind masterpiece.

No Pilot Flies Alone – Join squads of three or six, showcasing exceptional piloting skills to conquer foes and strategically coordinate victories. Take full control and turn the tides of battle in the intense 60-player player-versus-environment-versus-player Mashmak mode, facing ambushes and confronting hostile mechs from other players. Evade pulse storms, outmaneuver rivals, and seize the spoils of victory now.

Mecha BREAK will be available for PC via Steam, followed by PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series at a later date.

Watch the closed beta trailer below.

Closed Beta Trailer

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accio-victuuri · 1 year

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sharing parts of this article ( interview with liu xiaoshi ) about the character of Lei Yu and some production stories about Yibo during the shoot of Born to Fly ✈️

keeping things under the cut, very mild spoilers but just to be safe.

On the day Yibo was finished, I was filming on the spot, and other young actors went to say goodbye to him. he greeted everyone in the car, and everyone watched until his car completely disappeared.

THE CHARACTER - LEI YU

Lei Yu, played by Wang Yibo in the film, is different from the image of a soldier in many of our traditional film and television dramas. First of all, he has a good family, a good educational background and foreign language proficiency, and there are many other life path choices besides joining the army. Secondly, he seems to be a young man with a wide range of hobbies, who can surf, listen to music, understand machinery, make drawings, and put together a small building block model of his code name Shook, and is an attractive young man.

Liu Xiaoshi said that they really met a test pilot like Lei Yu during the interview——

The young test pilot finished graduate school, and his family is in the south. His father owns a factory, and his family conditions are very good. As an only child, the family gave him two choices, one is to go home to inherit his father’s career, and the other is to study abroad, but he still has the dream of being a pilot. He bought a lot of aviation magazines since he was a child, and even installed a professional flight kit in the dormitory.

Later, he really signed up to be a pilot, and his traditional-minded father was so angry that he severed the father-son relationship with him, and he had no contact with him until several years before his child was born. After many years, the father and son began to understand each other slowly. Once they finally sat down to eat together, and the news broadcast was TV, and neither of them spoke. When the weather forecast was broadcast, his father suddenly said, fly if you want, and pay attention to the weather. This sentence was also written into the lines of "The King of the Sky" by the creators.

Lei Yu has a complete growth arc

Wang Yibo said frankly that work pressure is digested by himself, and the bridge between him and the role is opened

"I'm very interested in growth themes," said director Liu Xiaoshi.

Lei Yu, the protagonist of "The King of the Sky", is not a perfect character. He has his own shortcomings. In the film, he experienced three major dangers, and formed a complete growth arc in the process.

"Lei Yu has the talent to be a pilot. He is very young, very idealistic, and his family background is good. He has been excellent since he was a child, so while he is confident, he also has a little pride.

At the beginning of the movie, he showed his excellent flying ability, so he was appreciated and invited by Team Zhang. He was originally only interested in front-line combat, but when he heard that being a test pilot had the opportunity to be the first to fly a stealth fighter, he was tempted. This temptation attracted him more than any conditions.

But after going there, he was very disappointed and unwilling to fly as a stealth fighter for the first time. There is a healthy competitive relationship between him and Deng Fang. They work hard for a common goal. They are not only the best opponents, but also the best comrades in arms. "

In the team, Lei Yu's code name is "Shu Ke". This is a well-known name in Zheng Yuanjie's fairy tales, and it is also the real code name of a certain air force unit in the past. Before the filming started, the main creator obtained the consent of Zheng Yuanjie himself. Zheng Yuanjie had served in the Air Force, and when he learned that he wanted to use this code name for the character played by Wang Yibo, Zheng Yuanjie said that this is the honor of Shu Ke, who originally belonged to the Chinese Air Force.

The director believes that the code name "Shook" can form an interesting contrast with the test pilot. Just like Lei Yu and his actor Wang Yibo, although they look cool and sunny, they are actually very shy people.

On the emotional line between Lei Yu and Shen Tianran (played by Zhou Dongyu), the director's approach is very subtle and restrained. "Many soldiers are like this. For example, if I like someone, I will bury it in my heart and express it more with actions."

STORIES ABOUT YIBO DURING FILMING

In the original release plan, "Born To Fly" may be his first big-screen debut in theaters. Wang Yibo attaches great importance to this role. "He hopes to satisfy the audience's expectations for this role in all dimensions." Looking forward to it," said the director.

According to director Liu Xiaoshi, the main creator has done a lot of experiments on Lei Yu's hairstyle and skin texture to get rid of his handsome idol aura and make him look like an ordinary soldier. His skin has been processed to be more grainy, and his hairstyle has been stripped of all personalization.

"Yibo will think clearly about every scene before the performance. Because I have to edit the film, I sleep late every day when shooting, and he has been taking notes, preparing, and analyzing the characters, often in the middle of the night. Send me a message or call me at two o'clock to discuss his understanding of the characters, and he has put forward his own ideas in almost every scene in the film."

Liu Xiaoshi is the kind of director who doesn't like to tell the actors how to act in every detail. He prefers to discover the commonalities between the characters and the actors and build a bridge between them, so as to inspire the actors to find emotional support when performing.

For example, in the scene where his parents came to visit the injured Lei Yu, Liu Xiaoshi said to Wang Yibo: You went abroad to study, dance, and act when you were young, and you must have encountered incomprehension from family and friends, and made painful choices... Wang Yibo also talking to the director, he did have a lot of pressure in study and work, but he would not tell his family, he digested it all by himself.

During the filming, when his father walked to the corner with the suitcase, Wang Yibo's tears fell from his eyes. At that moment, he was Lei Yu.

"I didn't ask him to shed tears in this scene. It was his own emotions that were there, and he would have a very real expression." Director Liu Xiaoshi recalled

In order to play the test pilot well, the actors of "King of the Sky" spent about 200 unforgettable days together from pre-training to filming.

"From the moment they joined the crew, they have been training and exercising every day, otherwise they would not be able to bear it during the shooting. Every day, real test pilots will go to the scene to guide and teach aviation theory, and aviation experts will accompany me to watch by the monitor. One time an expert came late and asked if it was a comrade from the flight test team or our team members sitting in it. I said it was an actor and Yibo was sitting in it. He said that I thought he was a real pilot, and the operation was very professional. ’ said the director.

After getting along for a long time, the main creative team and young actors of "The King of the Sky" formed a brotherly friendship.

"Our team is like comrades-in-arms, including Yibo and Brother Jun. They all get along with everyone and have a very deep relationship in life. On the day Yibo was finished, I was filming on the spot, and other young actors went to say goodbye to him. , he greeted everyone in the car, and everyone watched until his car completely disappeared.

They all get along like brothers, and there is no sense of distance between them. I think this is the premise of making a good movie. Because a very important part of this movie is about the friendship between comrades in arms. If their relationship is not so deep in reality, it will form an obstacle in performance in the movie. "

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#no surprise that everyone who got close to him in that project ended up adoring him 💕#seems to be a recurring theme cause he’s such a good boi 🥹🥹🥹🥹#wang yibo #born to fly #born to fly movie

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Clarence Kelly Johnson was very busy on December 22, 1964, two of his Blackbirds were the launched for the first time that day. The SR 71 took its first flight at Palmdale, California. Then he flew in the company jet up to Area 51 in Nevada and watched as the M-21 took off.. Kelly was determined that both of the airframes would fly before the end of the year his determination won out, and they did fly.

The MD -21 program was even more secret then the A-12 the CIA’s Blackbird.

The United States needed to know what was going on in Communist China. They denied that they were making weapons capable of mass destruction, but they were.

Taiwanese U-2 pilots flew our U-2’s over mainland China, we trained their U-2 pilots in the United States so that they could make over flights in China. we also sent that U2 pilots to classes to teach them how to speak. English communication was a problem. Four of the U2 were shot down by the Chinese, so the next step was drones.

D-21 drones were launched first from the M 21 and then later from B-52. This was called Tagboard we were looking for information. The drones were also launched and one was found in Siberia. In the early 1970s President Nixon as an attempt to make friends with the Chinese ceased the reconnaissance activities of the U-2‘s and the M 21 drones. The D-21s were used on four flights over communist China but none of these missions fully succeeded.

Two flights were successful, however the imagery could not be recovered from the D-21’s hatch. The other two operational flights ended with one being lost in a heavily defended area and the other D-21 simply disappeared after launch.

The main mission of the D-21 was to fly over China and take pictures of its nuclear weapons test facility in the remote west central of the country near Lop Nor.

The pictures were supposed to be dropped in the ocean and recovered by the Navy. During the Cold War this information was necessary for the defense of the US. The fourth and final mission of the D-21 drone took place on Mar. 20, 1971 and was undertaken by D-21 #527. Experts at the 4200th Support Squadron and at Skunk Works concluded that #527 must have malfunctioned. It was thought to have gone down near Lop Nor. This drone is on display in China at their national aviation museum. So we know that it got close.

Senior Bowl lasted from January 1968 until Jul. 15, 1971. Interestingly, after the fall of the Soviet Union, Ben Rich (then retired president of Lockheed’s Skunk Works) finally had an opportunity to tour Russia himself. While in Moscow, the KGB presented Rich with a gift of what they thought were the remains of a stealth fighter that had crashed in their territory. As it turned out, the wreckage was actually pieces and parts of the lost D-21 Drone!

Written by Linda Sheffield Miller.

@Habubrats71 via X

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beardedmrbean · 2 months

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India has unveiled four Air Force pilots who have been shortlisted to travel on the country's maiden space flight scheduled for next year.

The Gaganyaan mission aims to send three astronauts to an orbit of 400km and bring them back after three days.

India's space agency Isro has been carrying out a number of tests to prepare for the flight.

In October, a key test demonstrated that the crew could safely escape the rocket in case it malfunctioned.

After its success, Isro said a test flight would take a robot into space in 2024, before astronauts are sent into space in 2025.

At a function at the Isro centre in the southern city of Thiruvananthapuram (formerly Trivandrum) on Tuesday, the four astronaut-designates were described as "dreamers, adventurers and valiant men preparing to go into space".

The officers, chosen from the Indian Air Force, were introduced as Group Captain Prashanth Balakrishnan Nair, Group Captain Ajit Krishnan, Group Captain Angad Pratap and Wing Commander Shubhanshu Shukla.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Isro chief S Somanath pinned badges with golden wings onto their shirts and Mr Modi described them as "India's pride".

"These are not just four names or four people. They are four powers who will carry the aspirations of 1.4 billion Indians to space. I congratulate and wish them all the best," he said.

Officials said the men were selected from a pool of Air Force pilots and had undergone extensive physical and psychological tests before being shortlisted.

They have undergone rigorous training for 13 months in Russia and are now carrying on with their gruelling schedule back home. A video screened at the event showed them working out in the gym, swimming and doing yoga.

On Tuesday, Isro also showed a glimpse of Vyommitra - Sanskrit word for "space friend" - the female humanoid that will be sent into space later this year.

The Gaganyaan Mission is India's first human space flight programme for which extensive preparations are underway at various Isro centres.

Named after the Sanskrit word for craft or vehicle to the sky, the Gaganyaan project has been developed at the cost of 90bn rupees ($1bn; £897m).

If it succeeds, India will become only the fourth country to send a human into space after the Soviet Union, the US and China.

Gaganyaan has generated a lot of interest in India, although it's coming decades after Soviet Union and the US started making trips to the low Earth orbit. Both have been in space since 1961. China became the third country to reach space in October 2003 when a Chinese mission spent 21 hours and orbited Earth 14 times. And the US and China have fully operational space stations in low Earth orbit.

An Indian astronaut also went to space as early as in 1984 when Rakesh Sharma spent nearly eight days on a Russian spacecraft.

How important are India's Moon mission findings?

What has India's rover been up to on the Moon?

Last year, India made major forays into space. The country made history by becoming the first to land near the Moon's south pole in August 2023.

Just weeks later, scientists launched Aditya-L1, India's first observation mission to the Sun which is now in orbit, keeping an eye on our solar system's most important and volatile star.

India has also announced ambitious new plans for space, saying it would aim to set up a space station by 2035 and send an astronaut to the Moon by 2040.

#nunyas news

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nyoheadcannonsaph · 11 months

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Allied Forces Human Names (+ my reasons for them)

Here is my take on the human names of the Nyotalia Allied countries.

Mind you that I've not been able to do a very thorough research on on each character, but I've tried to do each one of them justice - and I also included the way their names should be written in their native languages.

Feel free to argue, debate and suggest changes, if you want to. I just tried to get some of my opinions and ideas accross.

Also, a small disclaimer: I imagine human names exist for countries only when they need to pass as regular humans, and they are used by other humans mostly. Countries call each other by their country/nation names, because they identify with them. They also use nicknames and aliases (especially when spying on each other), so it's just something that was constantly changing through the years for some of them. At least, that's my theory.

Enjoy!

America - USA - Ameriko

Amelia L. Jones

The eternal question of "Emily" or "Amelia" for Nyotalia fans must be addressed first. "Amelia" is a more English form of a Germanic name "Amalia", the root of which, "amal", translates to "unceasing, vigorous, brave". "Emily", however, is the anglicized version of the "Aemilia", from the Latin genus (family name) of "Aemilius", which is translated to "enemy". The beggining of USA as a country are those of the Anglo-Scottish and Dutch colonisers, so it would historically make more sense for Nyo!America to be called "Amelia" - but there is one more obvious reason for this name: Amelia Earhart. The famous female pilot is certainly someone young country such as Nyo!America would definitely look up to.

As for the mysterious "L." in the name, I wanted to pay homage to both how many American politicians and public figures use their middle names as sole letters in their official names, but also to a lesser known historical figure of Lucretia Mott (nee Coffin). She was a white abolitionist and women's rights activist, back in the 19th century. I thought Nyo!America, who is just as keen on freedom and heroism as her male counterpart, would like to pay homage with her name to someone like Mrs Mott.

With that said, I believe before Amelia and Lucretia, Nyo!America was given various names (especially by Nyo!England, while under her care, and later under various governments); but I would imagine that since 1940s she opted towards making Amelia her official name and it stuck with her.

China - Chugoko (?)

王春艳 --- Wang Chun-Yan

That's a country that has been using a hell lot of names in her long history - either names inspired by important women from her past like Wu or Xian, but also names that reminded her of some happy memories. Around the time of British and French colonialism knocking on her doorstep, she settled on the name Chun-Yan, written with signs "春" (chūn), meaning "spring" and "艳" (yàn), meaning "beautiful, gorgeous", but also "fascinating". It was meant a bit to be a lucky charm type of name for her, as she wished for rebirth as a fully capable country (and spring is associated with new beginnings in Chinese culture). It stood the test of time under communist revolution, as it correlated with the theme of reforms and she kept it in the current state up to this day.

Obviously there is more than just one Chinese culture and this is why I leave all her possible names and nicknames a mystery - I'm not skilled or knowledgable to make an informed opinion on that. I can only imagine it is one of the most complex characters here and her story deserves more digging into it. I just did the most modern human name option here.

As for nicknames, I can imagine some other countries (*cough* Nyo!America for once *cough*) calling Nyo!China "Mulan", as it's much easier to properly pronounce than "Chunyan", but also because of Disney movies, which fairly enough annoys Nyo!China. That's one more reason why countries prefer to use their country names over the human names.

England - UK - Igiko

Rosamund/Rose Kirkland

No, not Alice. Deal with it. Maybe it was one of her aliases for spying, but the first name Nyo!England ever used for herself was historically "Rosamund" or "Rosamond", which was popularised upon the Norman conquest. Before that, she was a young nation and called herself "Anglia", as that's what people called England at the time. After some time, she tried to differentiate herself from the French, so she began to use name Elizabeth, which the French used as "Isabelle" (and that was how Nyo!France sometimes called her). During the 19th century and the Victorian era in particular, she began using Rose as her name again, inspired by the Victorian floral code and different meanings of different flowers in it (she was quite keen on that btw).

So thus Rosamund finally became Rose, and as you probably know, white and red rose is one of the symbols of the UK as a whole (a.k.a. the Tudor rose and all that history stuff). It makes a lot of sense, when you think about that name in this context.

France - Franiko

Marion/Marie/Manon Bonnefoy

The big sister of Europe, and Nyo!Canada's motherly figure, France happened to grow up earlier than some of her neighbours and thus she adapted the name Mary, or rather Marion in medieval French, after the mother of Jesus Christ. You know, the oldest Catholic country, older than Italian siblings and so on... But since the time is changing and so changes the fashion, she adapted her name to different eras. And so during the renaissance and early baroque she used "Marie", then she swiched to "Marie Anne" or simply "Marianne" under Bourbons and then in revolution, she then used "Mariette" for some time in 19th century, and finally in the most recent times, she began using "Manon", making this a cultural phenomenon as the name got popular shortly after (and she wholeheartedly believes it's her claim to fame).

Btw, one of the theories says the name Mary, depite coming from Hebrew to European languages, is of Egyptian origin and meands something like "love" or "beloved". Quite fitting for Nyo!France, I must admit.

Russia - Kolko/Roshiko

Аня Брагинская --- Anya Braginskaya

Last, but not least, we got Russia and as we started with a young, ambitious nation, we're ending with another relatively young and also quite ambitious nation, which shows in the name. The name "Anne" or "Anna", from which Russian form "Аня" (Anya) comes, is of Hebrew origin, in the form of "Channah" (חַנָּה) meaning "favour, grace". This is a name which is technically a religious one in Russian orthodoxy, although it has been popularised to a degree most people don't even acknowledge it as such. My idea is that under tsarist times she was using "Соня" (Sonya), a Russian diminutive of "София" (Sofiya), meaning "wisdom" from Greek, as this was the name rather popular in medieval and early modern Russian elites, but after the revolution, she would differentiate herself from a typical "kulak" name and started using much more regular name like "Anya" instead.

And no, I don't think she would use "Anastasia" as her name, given how unpopular tsarist family was right after the revolution. I mean, she was likely told to change her name, so it wasn't up to her, and Sonya or Natalya were much more popular among the nobilty around the time of Peter the Great, as that is when I think she first had the need to use a human name.

#nyotalia #hetalia #nyo france #nyo england #nyo america #nyo russia #nyo china #nyo allies #human names #headcanon

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