Blimp My Ride

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#Ballooning

AUSTRALIA 🕷️
Lo que parece un paraíso invernal es, en realidad, una impresionante migración de millones de arañas emprendiendo el vuelo mediante un proceso llamado “ballooning” (vuelo arácnido).
Durante finales del verano y principios del otoño, las arañas liberan finas hebras de seda y dejan que el viento las transporte a través del paisaje.
El resultado es una capa surrealista de seda, similar a la nieve, que cubre campos y árboles — una técnica de migración inquietante pero inofensiva que la naturaleza realiza con total facilidad. hastaghs

Increíble espectáculo de la naturaleza: millones de arañas surcando el aire con su “ballooning”, cubriendo campos y árboles con finas hebras de seda que parecen nieve. ❄️🕷️

#arañas #ballooning #migracionaracnida #naturalezaasombrosa #insectosvoladores #otoño #verano #fenomenonatural #sorprendente #paisajeinvernal #curiosidades

Buttermilk Falls, Liquid State Brewing, and Ballooning over Letchworth State Park and Genesee Falls

https://islandinthenet.com/seneca-lake-buttermilk-falls-liquid-state-brewing-ballooning-letchworth-state-park/

Albuquerque: Balloonist Paradise

Albuquerque, New Mexico’s unique weather characteristics make it a popular destination for hot-air balloonists. While balloonists can control their altitude by warming or venting the air in their balloon, their horizontal travel comes at the mercy of the wind. (Just ask the erstwhile Wizard of Oz.) What makes Albuquerque special is a combination of topography, dry air, and altitude. Together, these features create the “Albuquerque box,” a circulation that gives south-flowing drainage winds below north-flowing prevailing winds.

The key to the box’s flow is a temperature inversion, where cooler, denser air is trapped near the surface and lighter, warmer air sits above. This typically occurs after a night of clear skies when much of the ground layer’s warm gets radiated away to space — something that’s easily done in high, dry altitudes.

Temperature inversions like this don’t last very long, though; by late morning, the sun’s warmth will dismantle the Albuquerque box. Still, it is a frequent enough occurrence, especially in the stable atmospheric conditions common in the autumn, that the city hosts an International Balloon Fiesta every October. (Image credit: B. Bos; via Physics Today)

#Albuquerque #ballooning #fluidDynamics #meteorology #physics #science #temperatureInversion #wind

Up, up into the blue sky, over the inn, over the island. You are free to be whoever you want here; a pirate captain, an accountant, an innkeeper. The air is warm, the zephyrs are gentle. This is your world now.

Isn’t it everything you ever wanted?

- from Borne Before the Wind, a superlative work of Our Flag Means Death fanfiction by the illustrious slantedlight for the OFMD Reverse Bang x

https://archiveofourown.org/works/67221466/chapters/173621533

#watercolour #ofmd #art #ballooning #18thcentury