Michael Li » Photos http://www.michael-li.com Progressively Designing My Life Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:00:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Breathtaking Crystals of Naica Mine http://www.michael-li.com/breathtaking-crystals-of-naica-mine/2010/02/16/ http://www.michael-li.com/breathtaking-crystals-of-naica-mine/2010/02/16/#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:06:57 +0000 Michael Li http://www.michael-li.com/?p=1360 These images from Discovery.com of the Naica Mine crystals are so amazing I had to post about it. The images of these giant crystals are unreal and the magnitude of them almost gives you a feeling of insignificance.

Nestling up to a cauldron of pressurized, molten rock is almost never a good idea. But in Mexico’s Naica mine, the payoff is worth the risk.

About 900 feet below the surface, there is a chamber filled with gypsum. It’s the same stuff that goes in the drywall in your house, only in Naica it spent half a million years parboiling in a chamber filled with magma-heated water.

Suddenly miners showed up and started pumping the mineral-rich broth out to get at valuable silver and lead deposits nearby. The result is a cavern filled with crystals 36 feet long and weighing in at up to 55 tons, easily the largest in the world…

See the complete story at Discovery.com – The Mega Crystals of Naica Mine: Big Pics.

]]> http://www.michael-li.com/breathtaking-crystals-of-naica-mine/2010/02/16/feed/ 0 My SEMA 2009 Recap with Pics http://www.michael-li.com/my-sema-2009-recap-with-pics/2009/12/20/ http://www.michael-li.com/my-sema-2009-recap-with-pics/2009/12/20/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:58:47 +0000 Michael Li http://www.michael-li.com/?p=1039 This post is a little bit late but I finally got around to it. SEMA was an amazing experience. The SEMA show was HUGE. It was a little overwhelming how big the show was, but fortunately we entered the Convention Center right in the car care section. That worked out well because we got see a lot of our vendors without searching too hard through the massive show. To sum it up SEMA is anything and everything that has to deal with cars.

After seeing some of our vendors we wandered a bit and did a ton of walking through the rest of the show. That’s pretty much it, I’ll let the pictures do the talking now.

SEMA Show 2009 Las Vegas Convention Center

SEMA 2009 Las Vegas Convention Center.

Major US War art depicted on car

Amazing piece of art depicting major US wars in a timeline.

Giant Wheel

Giant wheel that’s got to be 24 inch plus in my opinion.

Import Model

Check out the car model.

West Coast Custom Car

All blue car in the West Coast Customs area.

Mad Mike

Remember Mad Mike from Pimp My Ride.

2010 4 Door Porsche Panamera

The new 4 door Porsche Panamera in all black.

For more pictures check out my Flickr section.

In closing SEMA was one heck of an experience. Good times, maybe I’ll be back next year.

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