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Nice pictures! Cool site, too.
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I was going to say that #12 was from Star Wars until I saw the answer key. Guess I need to get out (of the galaxy) more
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I only can answer one picture, WTC!
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Nice pictures!
But the only one I can surely guess is wrong: the 14 is not Notre-dame in Paris, but the Orléans cathedral (on this I'm less sure). Notre-dame has not the cylindrical top as in your picture.
I hope I have helped you
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My friend thought this was real. Wow
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It is real. I do it all the time.
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Yeah, it's so hard to master too!
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I'm getting pretty good with a minivan.
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what, you've never seen anyone do it before?
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thats so awesome. I do it with a Smart Car Everynow and then.
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This is definitely fake; too bad though :) It would be impossible to turn the car 180° in the air wouldn't it?
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Yo Man im ready, bazinoz1
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SPECTACULAR
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Weird. At first sight it seems like an over-sized catamaran. But it also looks military in nature, so I don't understand why they'd need to make it so wide and tall. The cabin, where the pilot sits, is actually pretty small, so the payload of this ship couldn't be too big. I wonder what the heck it's used for.
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This thing either looks seriously awesome, or like a joke.
I'm torn, but it IS interesting.
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The payload box is about the right size for the SEALs small submarine. The height of the catamaran is enough to cruise over a nuclear powered submarine then lower the payload down onto the deck.
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Very interesting, Mr. Bond.
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an extra pair of legs, airfoil in shape, and the dang thing could fly as well
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NEAT!! I want one!
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Perhaps it's really an arthropod parasite of the Krupps giant earth-moving machine.
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If I was out boating and that thing came out of the fog i would think we had been invaded by aliens. That has to be the wildest thing I have ever seen. What a lucky catch. Would love to learn more about the craft.
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Seems to me such a design would be used as small-high-density goods transport for the military. Such a design would allow easy attachment to submarines aand small ships, and, given that this is a prototype, a larger version would have the room to load even larger goods on even larger vessels.
Perhaps it is a sea-crane? Such an idea might be useful, for submarines can only easily reload their larger missiles at ports. Having the ability to do this out of sight of any ground-based surviellance would certainly be handy.
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Look at this cool trimaran, operating as car/passenger ferry between the canary islands. Build in aluminum and specially coated, rather fast and efficient. see http://www.austal.com/go/news-and-images/photo-galleries?DELID=6955E09C%2DA0CC%2D3C8C%2DD9FD2E4C71CE8F0E
http://www.ship-technology.com/projects/benchijigua/
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I think it's key is the flexible legs that react to waves so the craft can simply glide on top of the water rather than pushing its way through. No other crafts have that ability to adapt and so must move through and sometimes against the waves. In other words, this innovation can probably allow for added speed (due to reduce friction) and more mileage on a single tank of gas.
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"and his bow tie is really a camera..."
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It's a pitty your interesting article doesn't include Mikroma, a really nice piece of mechanic. See here, for example. The Mikroma II: http://www.subclub.org/shop/mikromii.htm
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Thank you - good tip there
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Great...now I've got another place to add to the thousands of places I want to visit.
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I do not need to go around the world to see amazing thing, just by read your blog, watching your picture, I can see all of them,
thank you for the picture..!
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Totally cool.
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like christmas lights...
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what's Japanese for "honey, did you leave the lights on?"
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My brain just wrote an entire screenplay around these pictures.
It doesn't have a happy ending.
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Where's the coinslot?
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Wow, with so many light, I think the truck need huge electryicity power backup!
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WOW! i dont know anything about cars but I LOVE THIS!
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Just saw these on g4, the guy said it took 10 years and 135,000 dollars to make the van on top.
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Hmmm. Futuristic leather helmet isn't flying helmet, but a Russian tankers headgear. The wedge shaped padding on top kept them from wounding their gourd on solid interior surfaces.
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Someone should call ACS on this woman!
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what a cute animal.. very small, at least they wont bite!
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moths are animals technically.
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Doesn't look "that" bad. Any highway looks complicated from above.
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They look pretty from above :)
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most are NOT that bad, and actually work if the signage is right.
that moscow situation tho, is REALLY screwed up. i bet a lot of drivers take the "short cut." no doubt, it is an illegal left turn.
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Hmm... That seems a little complicated, they should do it the same way as in India:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9OoitJcNrA
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I don't know about you, but that's just about the scariest, most disturbing thing I've ever seen...
I will never ever again complain about botched roundabouts.....
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Aside from the difficulties these pose the driver, compare the amount of land used for these intersections compared to the land that is developed with buildings or left green. Infrastructure for private vehicles takes up a massive amount of space.
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I knew about this one but forgot the name. It's in England:
http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm
I've never done it myself but it's almost worth a trip !
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FYI dutchdropper
I have to frequent Swindon on a regular basis and one of my offices is on the other side of the magic roundabout. At first I was daunted about the task of tackling such a monstrosity, but I quickly realised it really works as it has a series of contraflow movements that keep the traffic moving and always give you an opportunity to circumnavigate around it. You can also go loads of different routes through it which boggles the mind sometimes.
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Too bad it"s a fake! The last image, the one with "imagebank" in the bottom-right corner, is so obvious for a number or reasons - floating roads with no supports, inconsistent shadown, and for god"s sake, cut-and-rotate 35 degrees-and-paste! The world IS a fkd place, but geez, don"t believe everything you see.
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Nice view. Looks very tangled and complicated from above.
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That one is fake...the interchange has been cut out and pasted over itself at a different angle. Note the lack of shadows and roads going over buildings (which is real in some parts but not in that photo).
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LOL..
I interested with the last picture, the cartoon,
and I want to say if all of these idiot would just take the bus, so there will no confusing intersections..
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好强的立交桥,呵呵.....彻底崩溃中....
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Hence the reason why I avoid larger cities. I'm perfectly fine in my small town ;)
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I've found the russian intersection in Google Maps - it is not so compact, but still the image looks convincing.
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These are the pyramids of our civilization. Those borne in the decades ahead will have something relatively permanent to remember their Fore Fathers and Moms. Perhaps they will understand how hard it is to let go of a steering wheel. A century from today, agriculture may be one of the few reasons people have to go outside.
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For those who didn't beleive the Moscow one:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Moscow&ie=UTF8&ll=55.773351,37.551548&spn=0.005998,0.019956&t=h&z=16&om=0
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And because I post like an idiot:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?
f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Moscow&ie=UTF8
&ll=55.773351,37.551548&spn=
0.005998,0.019956&t=h&z=16&om=0
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Image number 6 is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravelly_Hill_Interchange
Well done those engineers!
Many a time I have intended to go south on the M6 only to find myself entering Birmingham instead.
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Its too bad that most of those images were just Mix-masters, or at least that is the name I learned for them, basically a system of exits and on-ramps for a road with a lot of traffic flow. I've seen ones about those size in Texas, quite impressive in person, but perfectly comprehensible as long ,as apexalex said, the signs are posted correctly.
Not to say that there aren't some insane intersections that are actual intersections as I think of them (where roads converge around a stop light. There is one that i loath trying to navigate. Its a five point intersection that cuts across a major highway that leads to a residential area on one side, and an even more confusing system of entrances and exits to a shopping center, which is also focused around its own stop light, on the other. There are absolutely no directional signs, lines, or lights and about six ways you could end up going against the flow of traffic, and about three points that you might very well get into an accident. You just have a pick a direction, and pray.
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easy, this is hard http://hacjenda24.com.pl/?p=93
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I get the sudden urge for a cup of good coffee.
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Great post. I wonder, did these people actually get confused while building roads like this? Great pics and a post well done. Which reminds me, I like most of the pics I see here. Nice work!!
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Oh my word, I didn't know if I should roll on the floor laughing or shake my head in disgust. Those are definitely engineering MARVELS but they're so confusing and ridiculously useless. Who the heck came up with that? There must have been far simpler ways of doing it – or, at least, rather put a turn off somewhere else. I can't believe those roads even stay solid in the air like that – it looks like they'll fall at any moment!
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I would take these "Spaghetti Highways of the West" over the confusing 1 way streets and insane drivers that Boston offers any day
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I live within 10 minutes walk from this crossing in Moscow.
In fact, this red line is a result of some routing software developed when the construction of a major Moscow road, the Third Circle, was over.
Though rhere is no left turn indeed, one can drive straight (well, slightly to the left) to the 1st Khoroshevsky Lane, turn back (allowed across almost all the lane) and make a right turn to this very Khoroshevskoye Shosse/Highway at green light.
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They don't look as scary as traffic circles.
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the junction in moscow.. you could just have turn left, but you have to go round and round and round like that.. i'm so amazed haha.
i hate intersections, though. once you take the wrong way it'd take like hours to go back to the way you should've taken.
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The common name for the one in Atlanta is Spaghetti Junction
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As I was reading, I was waiting for Highway 6 to appear. You didn't let me down. :)
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I think a doctor did a better job on a triple bypass than these road engineers. Perhaps they were on something whilst drawing up the plans.
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All those places will became a paradise after you visit India and try to drive with people, pigs, monkeys, cows crossing the roads...
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The one in New Zealand has been photoshopped to include about 3 or 4 overpasses... it's not bad at all in real life and shouldn't be in this collection.
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Good place for a motorbike ride.
I have been to the one in Taiwan. That is a really beautiful place. I remember there was some water falling from the mountain and into one of the tunnels. The views from the mountains were amazing, and there was this temple on top of a cliff. Like Mastercard would say "Priceless"
Pretty awesome.
The one in Vicenza, Italy is indeed only an hiking trail. No "small italian car"
never ever drove on that. The road for trucks carring supplies for the guesthouse runs on the other side of the mountains, on the former austrian side of the Alps...
A guy from Vicenza
When I was 15 years old, I travelled on the Taroko Gorge road, on a flat-bed truck, on top of a load of cargo, at about 3:00 am on the night of a full moon. I was both enthralled and petrified. There also used to be some unbelievably scary hiking trails around there -- rickety suspension bridges over impossibly deep gorges, bamboo ladders, etc...
Th eone from China is very beautiful.
Thanks for making this available for people like me :) I would have never known...
I loved the road that the villagers carved out of the mountain - wow!
Makes me want to drop the drudgery I do for a living and get out there...
Definitely seen the Vincenza one. It would be impossible to drive on.
Well I'll you what, that was worth
a read and a look. Nice work.
after seeing this road i think the one going to the Amalfi coast is not all that bad , still hair raising don't know if i want to repeat the experience.
do you came to south america lately in peru o bolivia
The bolivian one is getting more and more famous every year, it has now featured in more than 5 tv programes, from Canada, to US, Uk, to NZ ... we guide mountain bike rides down it regularly, and actually its not that dangerous, but it certainly is spectacular. For more information check us out on www.gravitybolivia.com, I've personally guided more than 500 bike trips down the road!
A travel brochure for masochists.
"10 most dangerous roads in the world":
All I have to say is, I've got 10 more things I have to do in life before I die!
Very nice, i like it !
Try the roads around Huaraz and in particular between Huaraz and Trujillo in nothern Peru. Anything from 3,000-4,500m up and carved through rocks. Awesome but terrifying.
Add Israel to that. More specifically Jerusalem. More specifically going through the Arab neighborhoods. Talk about suicidal. No traffic laws, no respect for other road users, and the occasional rock throwing. But that doesn't keep me from getting my fix every morning.
just take some small french roads, and it'll do just the same...
no kidding, it's very impressive
In the United States i drove a scary mountain road in 1998. It lead up to a town called Little Detroit in Oregon.
The road was a single lane and you had to meet bigger vehicles at the turnoffs in order to pass by them. It wasn't as bad as most of these since it was mostly paved and was only 20-25 miles long. But the entire way was one side mountain, other side you plummet 400-500 feet with just enough room in the one lane for two compacts to squeeze by.
When we got to the top, my fellow travelers went their separate ways and I had to drive back down alone the next day. it was only at the end that i noticed i had been driving my econoline on a temp spare tire. Not very smart.
thank's God I live in a country that having big - big - big highway roads..!!
i agree with alessandro. the Pasubio road was built ( built? sorry for my terrible english) during the first world war. and I had problem to avoid rocks with my head. ciao
The one in italy we use to call mount ozziano... I don't know if thats what its called. Theres no way cars could make it. Not even the little ones we called chinquechentos. I hiked all the way up to the "tourist shop" at the top, and was exausted as I was only 15 and just started smoking lol. Needless to say I was relieved to find the strait shot service road on the oposite side. Man it was fun throwing boulders down into the clouds and imagining people being crushed below LMAO!!
I still have a chunk of stalagtite I kicked off one of the floors up there.
~Army Brat~
Really amazing astinishing informations, without actually visiting these places u can relish the hair raising experiences of these roads
There are some tunnels like in Italy here in Slovenia. World War 1 front n'stuff.
And also World War 2 resistance tunnels...
These roads look old. They must have used old achitec estimations. These days such roads would fall apart.
I wonder if these roads are ever repaired??
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