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Rockton Falls Meeting of the Rivers, the Monaro

I first came to this lonely falls at the headwaters of the Genoa River in the middle of a thunderstorm. Access here is through a labyrinth of slippery forestry tracks near the locality of Rockton that could not be more foreboding.

Up here, the Genoa River once marked the border between the colonies of New South Wales and Victoria. The river rises in the mountains nearby and flows into the sea at the Victorian coastal resort of Malacoota near a second set of Genoa Falls (which sparkle in the coastal rainforests). There, in the tidal stretches, the river is a couple of hundred meters across. Water was once diverted from this more modest stream at the top of these falls to a waterwheel to cut logs and mill grain for the small Irish community. In the old days, girls from the coast would spend a full day riding up the Yuin Trace from the coast to attend a local dance.

Today these falls are seldom visited save by the locals drawn here by the summer heat and the deep cool pool.

I originally published this as a single shot shot toned for structure - here i have reprocessed this image using a much more radical structural filter to pick out and emphasis the rough granite surfaces of this part of the river. As this process introduces noise, i have softened it a little with a blur. This process looses a little fine detail and introduce artifacts into the image, but it recreated the feeling i had when i first came here.

Celebrate: Thank you. To celebrate what we all achieved on G+, i am publishing the 50 most viewed posts in this collection until shutdown. This is a reprocessed image of Genoa Falls (37th most viewed - viewed 1,906,309 times).

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MMA Beautiful Ladies League

Game 49 - Ronda Rousey vs Rachael Ostovich

Cast your vote at https://mmaprophet.com/2019/02/16/mma-beautiful-ladies-league-game-49/

Spring day

Apple Music subscribers can now gift one free month of service to friends - Apple Music recently announced it has more than 50 million paid subscribers, still behind Spotify's nearly 100 million Premium customers. Even so, Apple is doing everything it can to convince people that its music streaming service is at least just as good as Spotify's. After offering 3-month free trials to previous subscribers, 9to5mac reports Apple is now giving away more free months to those who might or might no...

Primula - Primrose

This photo is part of a new blog on wmy website:
https://anjawessels.photography/primrose/

CAMERA: Canon EOS 650D
LENS Tamron 16-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD Macro
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#photography #photo #primrose #flower #macro #Spring

"Astronomy & Astrophysics publishes the work of researchers from the University of Vienna, who have found a river of stars, a stellar stream in astronomical parlance, covering most of the southern sky. The stream is relatively nearby and contains at least 4000 stars that have been moving together in space since they formed, about 1 billion years ago. Due to its proximity to Earth, this stream is a perfect workbench on which to test the disruption of clusters, measure the gravitational field of the Milky Way, and learn about coeval extrasolar planet populations with upcoming planet-finding missions. For their search, the authors used data from the ESA Gaia satellite.

Our own host galaxy, the Milky Way, is home to star clusters of variable sizes and ages. We find many baby clusters within molecular clouds, fewer middle-age and old age clusters in the Galactic disk, and even fewer massive, old globular clusters in the halo. These clusters, regardless of their origin and age, are all subject to tidal forces along their orbits in the Galaxy. Given enough time, the Milky Way gravitational forces relentlessly pull them apart, dispersing their stars into the collection of stars we know as the Milky Way.

"Most star clusters in the Galactic disk disperse rapidly after their birth as they do not contain enough stars to create a deep gravitational potential well, or in other words, they do not have enough glue to keep them together. Even in the immediate solar neighborhood, there are, however, a few clusters with sufficient stellar mass to remain bound for several hundred million years. So, in principle, similar, large, stream-like remnants of clusters or associations should also be part of the Milky Way disk." says Stefan Meingast, lead author of the paper published in Astronomy & Astrophysics".

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One Number Away

Immersive Virtual Reality Therapy Shows Lasting Effect in Phobia Treatments For Children with ASD

Immersive virtual reality has been shown to help children with autism with nearly 45% remaining free from their fears and phobias six months after treatment.

Moonrise Over Pont Neuf Paris France - From this bridge your view includes the Louvre, Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame Cathedral, Tuileries Garden the D'Orsay Museum, the list is endless - John Brody Photography / JohnBrody.com / JohnBrodyPhotography.com


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We all love our most cherished ideas about how the world and the Universe works. Our conception of reality is often inextricably intertwined with our ideas of who we are. But to be a scientist is to be prepared to doubt all of it each and every time we put it to the test.

https://todaysintech.com/8-greatest-mistake-in-the-history-of-physics/

NASCAR Xfinity Series race results from Daytona International Speedway

Tags: #nascar #michaelannett #daytonainternationalspeedway

The Star Axis is closer to opening! We've been as close as we could get before the gates stopped us, but not yet inside to check it out. But we put a placeholder geocache there! ;)

https://aeon.co/essays/the-one-place-where-it-s-possible-to-truly-see-the-night-sky

With the full phase just a few days away, it'll be in the sky nearly all night, washing out most of the Orionids' fainter flashes.

https://9to5spot.com/the-moon-and-meteors-light-up-the-night/

5 Takeaways From Google’s Q4 2018 Earnings for #Search Marketers | Search Engine Land:

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The Latest #Google #SearchConsole Updates: What You Need to Know | Search Engine Journal:

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I wasn't the only one ready to move on: 72 percent of the 480 consumers surveyed by WalletHub in August said they wouldn't buy a new iPhone this year (47 percent of respondents were Android users and 46 percent iPhone users).

https://9to5spot.com/7-great-things-samsung-galaxy-note-9-can-do-but-iphone-cant/

The 2019 NASCAR Truck Series got off to a wild start last night

Tags: #nascar #billyrock #daytonainternationalspeedway

How Fast Is Earth Moving?

Earth moves at a fantastic rate of speed on its axis, around the sun and across the universe.

https://thetechinside.com/how-fast-is-earth-moving/

How Can A #Rocket Turn In #Space When There Is No Atmosphere? : http://sciabc.us/6DJIr #science