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Beautiful Autumn pictures!
“Nature is ancient
But surprises us all”by @Björk
I do not know the author to this amazing pictures, for they are not mine!
TIBETE – train travel
From what I saw, this documentary was made in 2011.
TIBETE – train ride …. with the best technology in the world
As I do love to travel and Tibete it’s one the spots I really want to go, when I saw this PowerPoint I had to share it! The Author is Eddy Cheong. Thank you!
From Beijing to Lhasa

Tribute to railway builders
CHALLENGES
Since the founding of the Republic of China by Dr. Sun Yat-sol in 1911, it has been a dream of that country to have a national railway system connecting all its provinces.
Tibet became the last province to be linked, as there were major obstacles.

How to build a railway line in these mountains to reach China’s most remote province, Tibet? Like, if about 85% of the railroad will have to stay in the “forbidden zone”, also known as “Zona da Morte” (Death Zone) because of bad weather:
air, severe and unpredictable weather, ferocious storms and high UV radiation.
Average annual temperature is below zero degrees, reaching negative 45º C; average elevation of the railroad: 4,115 m above sea level; highest point: 5,100 meters.

Seventeen oxygen-producing stations were built along the railway line to “feed” the tunnel.
5,180 meters of high mountains to climb, valleys 12 km wide, hundreds of kilometers of ice and mud that could never support trains!
How can a tunnel be opened through the rock, in a climate of minus 40 degrees and with serious oxygen difficulty?




High investments were made in the project.
Routes were selected to prevent the railway from passing through major wildlife habitats.
Chiru, whose wool is known as ‘shahtoosh’, or ‘wool queen’, for sale for up to $10,000 each, despite legal protection, is threatened with extinction.
Wool is smuggled from Tibet, mainly to Kashmir, where shawls and scarves are made.
Although Chiru is protected in China, it is still legal to weave shahtoosh in India.
In all trains, toilets, waste water tanks and waste treatment facilities were installed to protect the environment along the route.










Oxygen masks are also available in your bedrooms, as well as along the corridors and in the trains’ bathrooms.



This has the least impact on the area, but it is also the most expensive.
Qingshuihe Bridge is the longest bridge in the world built on icy ground.






















Tibet’s economy has never been self-sufficient to give its people meaningful life. The Central Government of China has invested more than $4 billion to build this rail system – the most expensive in the world.




Copyright reserved:
E. Cheong
New Huaren Federation
16 February 2011
Two statues are just one at 7 pm
Tbilisi is the capital of Georgia, close to Russia and Turkey.
There are two statues that, at 7pm every night, become a unique statue.
One of the greatest engineering wonders …
Rare historical photographs





































Based on the amazing PowerPoint: https://slideplayer.com.br/slide/8959365/
“Tethys Sea”
“In the middle of the Algarve (near Loulé), a rock salt mine makes a trip to the depths of the Earth to visit the “Sea of Tethys” …

The site that is both a wonder of nature and human technique. It is a rock salt mine.

The adventure begins on the surface and requires proper care and safety equipment.

The journey into the mine begins at the “cage,” a tower-mounted elevator that was built on top of one of the mine’s access pits.
Then, to the depths of the Earth, it takes four minutes.
Four minutes of darkness, only broken by the beams of the mining lanterns.
When the elevator finally stops, we are 230 meters deep.
This is a descent made almost daily by Alexandre Andrade, technical director of the mine, who is perennial in ensuring that there is no safer and milder place.
The conditions are very stable inside this salt mine: the temperature remains at 23 degrees and the humidity is scarce.

But this is not just any mine, it is a unique geological monument that tells us the story of this place on Earth over the last 230 million years.
It is a place where you work hard and hard, with the passion of selfless miners.
But it is also a unique place in the country, where the history of the planet is engraved in the rocks.
It is therefore a must-visit place for all those interested in science.

When the hike begins, surprises lurk around every corner. Or rather, in each gallery.
Because everything here is rock salt: the floor, the walls, the ceiling.
Pink, compact and hard salt.
The other surprise is the size of the open corridors in the rock, which is over four meters high and about ten meters wide.
And since rock salt mining began here, nearly 40 kilometers of galleries have opened.
In front of the mine, where everything happens, the safety of the miners and the facility comes first.
The use of civilian explosives has been banned and, on the exploration front, salt dismantling is done by a brushcutter, which makes mining work very safe.
Until a few decades ago, all this salt went to the chemical industry that used it as a raw material for chlorine production.
Currently, its use is quite different.
The salt extracted from this mine is used for road safety, promoting the thawing of roads and animal feed as an additive to rations.

But in this immensity of galleries, there is room for other activities.
CUF knows that a mine like this is not only of interest to the industry.
It can – and should – be open to the community, which is why, each year, the Loulé rock salt mine is part of the “National Summer Geology Program” promoted by “Ciência Viva”.
Visitors are always welcomed by the technical director of the mine, who is keen to share his knowledge, satisfying the eager knowledge of the curious.
It is over a long journey of three hours that visitors learn that this saline dome was formed over a period of 230 to 150 million years.
And that, before that, this whole area was sea.
The continent was much further back, and there was a string of coastal lagoons set in a shallow embryonic sea – the Tethys Sea.

With the Earth’s natural movements, the whole landscape changed and this sea gave rise to the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
And the salt has been trapped under newer rock layers of limestone and sandstone.
Explanations aside, these miners’ daily lives are filled with salt extraction.
That is their mission.
Their life.

The salt, once disassembled and collected by the brushcutter, goes by truck for sieving and grinding.
It is the only transformation this raw material undergoes here.
The final granulation will depend on the intended purpose.
Only then is it loaded and sent to the surface.
Every year in this mine there is the capacity to extract up to one hundred thousand tons of salt.
At present this is not the value reached.
But at this rate, this saline dome beneath the city of Loulé still has salt for the next three thousand years of industrial exploration …”

(This was an email that I received from a friend and I just translated it. I tried to find the original source, but with no luck. So, if you own the rights to this amazing article, make sure everyone knows it. Best regards, ZT)
Blind Dancer – Dance
Note that the dancer is INVISUAL!
Les bancs publics…
Images taken from a PowerPoint “Les bancs publics…” that I received by email. I do not know who is the author of this wonderful compilation. And I do not own the rights to this beautiful pictures.