May 2023:Quickfire A to Z of anything/everything

[NewcastleFalcon]

Would have to be X-ray. X-box, X-files/X Men

Neil

[myglaren]

Eggs- Terminate!

[myglaren]

eXacta

[myglaren]

aXolotl

[myglaren]

XueFei Yang

[myglaren]

Parapano H Xenitia

[mickthemaverick]

Hard to believe we have got to this time without one of these:

Bftw

[myglaren]

Hard to believe we have got to this time without one of these:

Indeed!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Eggs- Terminate!

Co-incidental the Dalek pops up today Steve
Didn't take a pic today on out tour, but this person has still got their Tardis and Dalek, although the Volvo was nowhere in sight this afternoon.



Neil

[bobins]

^^^^^^^^^^
That's a "Helical xenon flashtube being fired" according to Wikipedia.

What's that you say ?????? "Oh please, tell us more about Xenon flashtubes"
Oh, OK then, here you go........

'A flashtube (flashlamp) is an electric arc lamp designed to produce extremely intense, incoherent, full-spectrum white light for a very short time. A flashtube is a glass tube with an electrode at each end and is filled with a gas that, when triggered, ionizes and conducts a high-voltage pulse to make light.
The lamp comprises a hermetically sealed glass tube, which is filled with a noble gas, usually xenon, and electrodes to carry electrical current to the gas. Additionally, a high voltage power source is necessary to energize the gas as a trigger event. A charged capacitor is usually used to supply energy for the flash, so as to allow very speedy delivery of very high electrical current when the lamp is triggered.
As the duration of the flash that is emitted by a xenon flashtube can be accurately controlled, and due to the high intensity of the light, xenon flashtubes are commonly used as photographic strobe lights. Xenon flashtubes are also used in very high-speed or "stop-motion" photography, which was pioneered by Harold Edgerton in the 1930s. Because they can generate bright, attention-getting flashes with a relatively small, continuous input of electrical power, they are also used in aircraft warning lights, emergency vehicle lighting, fire alarm notification appliances (horn strobes), aircraft anticollision beacons, and other similar applications.

In dentistry it is used in "light box" devices to light-activate the hardening of various restorative and auxiliary light-curing resins (for example: Megaflash mini, Uni XS and other devices).

In the 1969 book The Andromeda Strain and the 1971 motion picture, specialized exposure to a xenon flash apparatus was used to burn off the outer epithelial layers of human skin as an antiseptic measure to eliminate all possible bacterial access for persons working in an extreme, ultraclean environment. (The book used the term 'ultraflash'; the movie identified the apparatus as a 'xenon flash'.) '
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashtube

So now you know.

[myglaren]

Xenomorph

[CitroJim]

And for Y day, an old favourite motorcycle...

The Yamaha YR5 350

National Motorcycle Museum picture

I first rode on one of those in 1975... Terrifying on the pillion! A bit of a widow-maker...

[mickthemaverick]

Y day brings back memories of a joke I wanted to setup when SWMBO had her Toyota Aygo. It amused me that had I been able to get one of these, both cars would have fitted on the drive leaving us in an eternal debate as to who was going to drive. As we went out the door she would have raised her eyebrows and looked at me saying "Aygo?" to which I would have replied "No, ........"

BFTW

Ironically, having made known my needs to my friends, I was offered one about 6 weeks after she sold the Aygo!!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Y-DAY

Only two to go for the May 2023 A to Z of Anything/Everything.

I'll kick of my Y-day contributions with the Yellowhammer and some moving pictures and a bit of audio. May well see one today, camera in hand but 99 times out of a 100 will not be close enough for a detailed snapshot, and they are flighty ( on purpose of course) and off they flit before the shutter can be clicked.



As a matter of trivia although Alabama is nicknamed the Yellowhammer State it is not the familiar little finch it is named after but the Northern Flicker (a woodpecker) aka the Yellowhammer.

Neil

[Paul-R]

Convert from English to Yoda speak here. https://funtranslations.com/yoda