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Naomi Amethyst 🏳️‍⚧️
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she/her - 35 - trans - poly - pan - https://amethyst.name

just a girl from NC in tech
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Another photo from my back catalog. It's the Rocketdyne F-1 Engine. #rockets #space
An incredibly detailed, close-up photograph of a colossal, historic Rocketdyne F-1 engine on display indoors at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The shot is composed from a low-angle perspective, emphasizing the engine's immense scale and industrial complexity. The massive bell-shaped nozzle dominates the left side of the frame, showing its intricate, corrugated metal structure, which is a network of hundreds of individual tubes designed for regenerative cooling. To the right, the complex plumbing and turbomachinery of the engine are visible, bathed in a mix of natural and artificial lighting that highlights its metallic textures. A set of thick, bright red pipes for the fuel (likely kerosene, or RP-1) stand out sharply against the metallic silver and bronzed tones of the surrounding components. Various smaller pipes, cables, and valves are intricately layered, with some areas showing a patina of age. A large, informative display board with text and diagrams sits on the floor in front of the engine, and a small figure of a person is visible in the background for scale, emphasizing the engine's enormous size. The F-1 engine was used on the first stage of the Saturn V rocket for the Apollo missions. The sharp focus and high dynamic range of the photography capture the engine's intricate details, while subtle post-processing likely enhanced the contrast and color saturation, particularly on the red pipes, to bring out the industrial aesthetic of this engineering marvel.
September 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Going through old photos I've taken, and found this gem. It's a Rocketdyne F-1 Injector Plate, taken at the US Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL.
A highly detailed, dramatically lit close-up of the Rocketdyne F-1 rocket engine's main injector plate. This complex, circular metal component is segmented into pie-wedge sections and features thousands of tiny, precisely machined holes arranged in concentric rings (the points where fuel and oxidizer were introduced). The plate is mounted at the base of the massive combustion chamber, whose deeply corrugated, ribbed aluminum walls radiate outwards and dominate the frame. The photograph is edited with a strong aesthetic emphasis: it is rendered in hyper-sharp detail with a high-contrast, industrial look, and is dominated by cool, sterile blue and gray tones, with the light centrally focused on the plate itself, drawing the eye into the incredible complexity of the mid-century engineering.
September 30, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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bowling was fun tonight -- shared.lanetalk.com/eec97713b165...
Screenshot from link
March 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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had a lot of fun bowling tonight, even if I did take a tumble during the last game

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bowling stats from the link
February 28, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Screenshot of linked stats
February 26, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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not my best bowling, but it's been a couple of months since i was regularly bowling
Bowling stats summary of linked web page.
February 13, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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i think #litrpg/#gamelit is probably a better top genre for me.

#AudibleStats
My 2024 #AudibleStats; a collection of titles including Zodiac, He Who Fights With Monsters, Somnia Online, World Keeper, and The Ethical Slut. Total listening time: 288 hours and 59 minutes. Top author: K.T. Hanna. Longest listening session: 7 hours 25 minutes. Top listening month: July. Top genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy.
January 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Animate! Raleigh
January 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM