Visit my MERCHR shop of ClickaSnap images and products. Here is the link https://lens-for-an-eye.clickasnap.shop/
Here is what it looks like.
My email is Lens4anEye@Modalchoice.com
My ClickaSnap profile is Lens4anEye and can be seen at ClickASnap.com/Lens4anEye
ClickASnap has partnered with Merchr Hub for Print on Demand services. I added several dozen products with my photography imprinted. Please visit my site and consider a purchase during this holiday season. The link to the site is at bit.ly/Lens4anEyeShop
The PIC in Everyday Situations
Principle
of Imminent Collapse suggests that everything in our experience is on the edge of failure and all it takes is The Nudge to precipitate the cascading failure.
I first posed the Principle of Imminent Collapse in 2005 and it has manifest thousands of times worldwide ever since. It has been a specific to me several times but mostly I have avoided dire consequences by understanding it.
Once on a long business trip I had driven about 600 miles to South Carolina. I was there for two days driving and parking in numerous spots without incident. On the last day when getting ready to drive home. My brake pedal went straight to the floor. Fortunately I was only moving at about 2 mph. Only minutes before that total hydraulic failure I had had my vehicle moved to where I would load my equipment. The man who drove it had experienced not problems.
A master cylinder brake line had been corroding at a fitting unobserved for quite some time. It was at that moment the metal burst leaving me without any brakes.
This all transpired in a parking lot of a transit agency with no other vehicles immediately nearby. A few minutes later I would have been on the highway cruising on home. This catastrophic failure could have been deadly.
The repairs had to wait until the next day after having the vehicle towed to a repair shop. It took all day to get done from having to locate parts and fabricate the shape of the pipe. It turned out the shop replaced the failed section of pipe and all the others which were equally old.
When I got home I had my usual mechanic inspect every hydraulic line, the calipers, master cylinder and the ABS block. I was not going to have a repeat occurrence of an identifiable weakness.
In advance of some upcoming interstate road trips I decided my existing four tires would be replaced before I headed out. They all had good tread depth but might harbor hidden flaws which could manifest the Principle of Imminent Collapse.
Being I am the originator of the statement of the Principle of Imminent Collapse itself and am fully aware of the perils of ignoring it, I spent the morning waiting in the installation of four new tires.
I had to fight the reluctance of replacing four good looking tires. I had to resist the temptation of procrastination. I had to rationalize the fact that 95% of tire failures occur in the last 10% of its service life.
Yes, a nail or shard of glass can fail a new tire. A pothole can crack the seal at the bead. A manufacturing defect may be present. However, all of those events are beyond the control of good management of the Principle of Imminent Collapse and the Nudges which brings on the failure.
If one watches for the imminent failures they can be averted. The failure might not be stopped but horrendous outcomes can.
Similarly, the phrase “a stitch in time, saves nine” is an early wisdom and admonition to heed the PIC and its consequences.
Dear readers of the PIC:
I post my photography to both OpenSea.io/ and to ClickaSnap.com
Both platforms provide exposure for my work. If you are interested in NFTs then OpenSea.io/itsalltuna is the place to go.
 |
| The above picture is from my collection of Front Porches. Click here for the Album. |
Going to my albums and looking is like an Upvote for the image. Dwelling 5 second is a super upvote on each photo for my photography.
I seek to gain a regular following and appreciate each and every view. Tell people you know about my pictures.
The link is ClickaSnap.com/Lens4anEye. Thank you for your support.
There is a lot to be said about the ability of a computer program and the computer which can mimic human language in syntax, grammar and content. A huge question is how long will it be before we humans cannot discern the difference between AI generated content and what an author, journalist, artist, photographer can produce.
https://modalchoice.medium.com/critique-of-the-ai-revolution-4630c8289eb4
Alan Turning proposed the concept of the Turing Machine. This was a computational device which could imitate a human and not self-terminate at some point in its computational run. If a human would interact with the machine via a blind communication channel and not be able to reliably determine if they were talking to another person or the machine, then the machine passed the Turing Test. Until now no machine has been able to pass. Now with AI systems advancing on a continuous stride, it surely will not be long before one does.
 |
| One of many photos in the Collection |
So is this image of a yellow flower AI generated or is a photograph? You are the judge.
Hop on Over to My New Blog
If you like my photography and narratives Lens4anEye.com is the place for you.
Both the pictures and the prose combine to tell the story. Skip the words if you are not into the reading part.
The pictures are in easy to find albums.
My CAS Photo Collections
Remember to Like and Follow.
I can't help thinking that the fate of the Titan deep-sea submersible is an example of the Principle of Imminent Collapse. The designers chose a number of characteristics and construction innovations and build a device which would ultimately fail catastrophically. All it took was The Nudge.
The Principle of Imminent Collapse states that everything in our experience is on the verge of failure and all it takes is the Nudge to make it collapse. In so many examples this principle manifest itself in the worst ways possible. In other articles I present some famous examples.
Barring some as yet unknown vector of failure such as a torpedo, a giant squid or Neptune himself, The Titan succumbed to the pressures of the deep and in an instant crushed the interior of the vessel. The failure would have been preceded by a few moments of creaking noises then a WHOOSH. The 96 hours of oxygen and life support would ultimately be unnecessary.
Unless the mission involved a dive too deep the failure would have been unexpected yet not unpredictable. Pressure vessels have a useful life which can only be exceeded at the peril of those around it. The two kinds of pressure vessels are ones designed for internal pressure like a SCUBA tank or an acetylene welding rig. The other is the one for external pressure such as a submarine. The Beebe-Barton Bathysphere was a steel ball-shaped container which was lowered on a cable into the icy dark depths of the ocean. It set depth records with its missions. It had communications and power from the surface and was retrievable by the surface operator.
The Titan was a free dive device which had supposedly redundant system to self-rescue in the event of mission ending conditions. The one which could not be survived is the one which ended its time. All materials undergoing cyclic stresses are subject to material fatigue even when the ultimate strengths are not exceeded. Jet engines are an exercise in predicting fan blade failures before they happen and explode the engine in flight. Every aircraft which flies above the altitude where cabin pressurization is required experiences the cyclic expansion and relaxation of the fuselage. The metal will eventually crack. Those cracks will propagate until the structure fails.
This is why the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia in not rung any more. Its crack would get longer with each and eventually peal a large chunk of the bell would fall off. The contraction and expansion of the composite materials of the Titan submersible introduced regions of delamination which would only be recognized by the sensors place on the hull. They knew there was a problem that needed constant monitoring.
Hubris is one of the causes of the Principle of Imminent
Collapse manifesting early failures. They believed they had way to know when
enough was enough. The problem was the interval between first warning and
failure was way too short. If there was any earlier indications of imminent
collapse and they ignored them, they were living on borrowed time. In such
hostile environments there is very little time to decide to abort and get into
shallower water. Reports were made that some technical staff had misgivings about the integrity of the craft.
It was a case of "one time too many." It was also a case that the immediately previous mission was on the verge of the same failure and that crew got lucky. The Titan was a million dollar piece of hardware. It needed to make a minimum number of missions in order to be financially sustainable. Its last mission exceeded the parameters and failed. Unfortunately one never knows when the Principle of Imminent Collapse will determine the last mission. Only the humans can decide to call it a day and retire the equipment before the inevitable failure.
I decided to spin off my photography articles to a dedicated photography blog,
Lens4anEye is at https://lens4aneye.blogspot.com/
The photos are hosted on ClickaSnap.com and can be visited by everyone.
Look for my narratives which accompany the photos on the blogspot blog.
Photos by Robert Carlson
By Robert Carlson [Lens4anEye]
I was in Charleston to get photographs of the city and its culture. I had driven there and had Savannah, GA as my next way-point on a circuit. I checked into a motel and went out to peruse the area and decide what my subject for the next day would be.
The sign said "Circular Church" so I stopped and looked around. The establishment was quite old and included a cemetery with equally old grave markers. They were tall and thin mostly gray stone tablets with archaic spelling and skeleton figures. View the entire Album at this link.
 |
| Click Here for Larger Image |
 |
| Click Here for Larger Image |
 |
| Click Here for Larger Image |
The church yard was full of similar markers and the location quite placid. It was the architecture of the church itself which caught my eye. The round sections all clustered into one larger composition made for a unique (to my eye) view.
 |
| The Circular Church in Charleston |
I spent the afternoon of the first day there and returned the morning of the next to get a variety of exposures. Then I moved on to explore more of the famous city with the Battery and parks.
Images by Robert Carlson -- Copyright 2008-2023 -- Pictures hosted at ClickaSnap.com
Profile name: Len4anEye
The Crossings Trilogy
Internal Crossing is a book like no other. It is a Science Fiction tale which keeps changing. We all learn that the Future is an unknown and the Past is immutable. But this story proposes that the Past is indeed changing "all the time" but most of us have no realization of it. What could accomplish such a task? No spoilers here. The protagonist, Robert3 Corbin realizes he is not singular in this reality and that many versions of himself are out there "coming and going" with the changing past.
The term Internal Crossing is also stock market jargon. This is not that. At least not the same the last time I looked.
The characters in this book are multidimensional and as real as they can be. Their actions shape whether the changing past is a good thing or bad. It's time to order the eBook and find out what is happening.
In book 2, The continued story of a man who discovers there are many versions of himself entering and exiting his reality on a fluid basis. In the process of discovery he realized something is modifying the Past of a nearly continual basis.
In Book 3, Robert Corbin continues to meet versions of himself in this 3rd part of the Crossing Series. He has learned what is happening to the Past and that there are people and entities which seek to control the process. Nothing you can know is for certain any longer.
__________________________________________________________________________________
Click the covers above to go to Amazon to purchase these eBooks.
