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Like a Candle in the Wind

Like a Candle in the Wind by jurvetson.
Rumpelstiltskin on the beach 

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Miguel Servellón  Pro User  says:

Hola, soy el administrador de un grupo llamado Tu Foto Preferida / Your Preferred Picture y nos encantaría agregar esto al grupo.
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photofriendly  Pro User  says:

Pretty insane wind speed.
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hhsc/Greg (Greg Adams)  Pro User  says:

Very cool!
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AGrinberg  Pro User  says:

Kind of like a rocket engine attached to the earth.
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!MimosaMicheMichelle! says:

Ms Rumpelstiltskin has beautiful hair here! How did she get out of her tower?
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nhr says:

I must confess annoyance with those irresponsible people who plant what is, in effect, a rocket engine into the ground, and thus induce a perturbation in Earth’s natural rotational movement, which may butterfly-ly lead to the necessity of introducing jarring leap seconds in what should be a smoothly running time continuum ;-)
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jurvetson  Pro User  says:

heh... Experiments are underway in China...

When the Three Gorges Dam filled with 10 trillion gallons of water, it induced a wobble in the Earth’s rotation and a change in the length of the day.
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Tomi Tapio  Pro User  says:

Yay, it's a rare shot! Love the temporal streaks.
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!MimosaMicheMichelle! says:

What about firework competitions (as we have each summer in Montréal and all over the world), demolitions, implosions, explosions for ground excavations, war bombings etc? This here is harmless fun.
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nhr says:

> When the Three Gorges Dam filled with 10 trillion gallons
> of water, it induced a wobble in the Earth’s rotation and
> a change in the length of the day.


Cool. I suggest we use that huge dam to shift masses of water around and wobble Earth away from the trajectory of civilization-destroying asteroids that might come our way :-)
Big earthquakes, which also induce wobbling, are unfortunately too unpredictable and uncontrollable to be used for asteroid avoidance...


> What about firework competitions (as we have each summer in
> Montréal and all over the world), demolitions, implosions,
> explosions for ground excavations, war bombings etc?


Such explosive events last but a fraction of a second. Jet candles, OTOH, can burn for tens of seconds, which must mean that the time-energy integral of said candles’ kinetic effect on Earth must be an order of magnitude larger ;-)
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avlxyz  Pro User  says:

nice one :)
just as well the wind didn't change direction!
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pam southworth  Pro User  says:

Very cool indeed.
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carisius says:

Beautiful light and design!
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Whateverthing says:

That's a great shape, great trail of sparks.
1-2-3
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Luis Corrales  Pro User  says:

Very nice.
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Seen in the group"I Saw The Light! (Post 1, Comment ANY 2)" (?)
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Rustalico  Pro User  says:

Great one!

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tdub303  Pro User  says:

cool


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pg73 says:

Brilliant shot, well done
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Kirstenv  Pro User  says:

"2nd place Winner Flickr's Weekly Theme Contest: Wind". Please post it to the pool.

Congrats!
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