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Excellent set! Thanks :)
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Nice one as always. Many thanks.
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http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/344289245_b1c41d3fb8_o.jpg
is not a robot.. there's a Blob of green alien inside.. the shell is just it's transport machine...
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Not just Japan.The cylons of Battlestar Galactica fall into the robot+girl catagory.
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picky picky picky. Why can't people just enjoy these images for what they are? a robotic shell is still a robot of sorts. How do you know it doesn't have a seperate A.I of it's own?
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I'm sorry that the name of Earle Bergey, who was responsible for those iconic robot attacks girl images was left off the list. He more than any other pulp artist, for establishing this genre.
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No recent US girl and robot iconography? I beg to differ: just look at stuff by the artist Coop (coopstuff.com)
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Wow, truly an amazing trip down memory lane!
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disappointing
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HOT!!!
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"Lost In Space" sitcom showed some of this aesthetic, with a twist of paedofilia. Do you remembre the robot and penny dialogues?
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The most recent robot + girl example I can think of was in the Transformers cartoon between a girl and a plane.
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Also, a Dalek is not a robot, either.
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The last of the "home intrusion" shots shows a tanker that has plowed through 3 buildings. This was taken in New Zealand, and it should be noted that the occupant of the last house was home at the time and narrowly avoided injury when the milk truck crashed into his lounge. (He was protected by the recliner he was sitting in.)
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Many years ago, my cousin was driving through Kansas one winter and spun out onto the grassy median. A crazy ride, but the car stopped upright with occupants unharmed. A pause, and then a Pepsi truck fell on her car.
Pictures were taken so that they could move the truck (and she could get at her cat and birds, all of which turned out unharmed. Her French horn was not so fortunate. The pictures are very interesting, since the only thing not crushed was the driver's seat. (Alas, they have been swallowed in the backlog of my mother's online journal and I can't locate them at this time.)
My mother captions the pictures as "Taking the Pepsi Challenge."
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interesting stories... thanks
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I was looking at that German truck with the tube; The tube is the truck's own load which came from behind through the cab because of some abrupt braking.
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the tanker through the ice is the drivers fault,it is a petro haul truck and the driver was told the ice was to thin for the weight he was hauling.he decided to go anyway and was charged,this was a truck from alberta canada
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The ice road tanker incident occured crossing the Mackensie River at Fort Providence. It was early in the season before the ice thickened and the road was restricted to 4000kg. The driver missed or ignored the limit sign but still managed to drive his 40,000(?) kg truck several hundred meters before sinking. From the NWT DOT website. 2001?
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Good info guys, I updated the post.
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The first "Drowned" photo appears to be Interstate 10 somewhere in Houston Tx, in 2001 a tropical storm flooded much of the city, leaving underpasses such as the one shown with as much as 20 feet of water in them.
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Love the site.
Put these coordinates into Google Maps, and you can see the machines in the satellite view.
latitude: 55.26821191135916
longitude: 38.81821632385254
I have too much time on my hands.
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Wow! Those old machines make my welder's heart go pitty-pat! I make "found" metal art and those babies would keep me busy for a whole lotta years. Looks like the Russian countryside is pretty, doesn't it?
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Forests in Central Russia have much in common with old English forests, quiet small rivers, practically pristine lakes and rolling hills. Not bad, but there are some creepy places, ghost villages and weird strangers. Be prepared for lots of surprises.
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These are really spectacular photos! I spent a summer touring Russia with an orchestra, and I saw a great number of hulking Soviet relics dotting the countryside.
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These photos are fantastic! This old machines are fearful and marvellous!
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Some of the machines appear to have offices attached to the side of them. Would'nt it be cool to be be in an office atached to a giant turning machine.
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I can barely look at some of those pix - some ppl have no fear of heights!!
Great collection!
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As this post about dangerous roads has evolved into a Norway fjords article, I feel the need to share this cute video from YouTube on BASE jumping - ladybanana will be able to see some more people with no fear at all!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAWrt1dwbSY
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THIRD!
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Thanks for the link to my "When Sermons Go Awry" page! You're right. Traffic rockets!
Good thing I got my site back up and running last night!
Rich.
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Passo Stelvio is often used in Giro d'Italia - it's incredible, people actually race there on bikes.. Where a normal man would have problems getting there by car ;)
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Maybe the first post of a new serie "The Most Beautiful Road of the World" ?
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Wowie! What breathtaking shots! I don't have a fear of heights, but a couple of those pictures made me gasp out loud! I would really like to know how those bicyclists manage those drops! wild
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Amazing photos, once again. I have to visit some of these places, truly breathtaking.
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The road between Villard Notre Dame and Villard Reymond in the French Alps west of Grenoble and south of Vizille is the scariest road I have ever driven, period, and I have driven some very scary mountain roads (to say nothing of driving over a bridge in Costa Rica that we had to help repair in order to get over it).
Just getting up to Villard Notre Dame was hair-raising, with a poorly-maintained, dark, rock-strewn tunnel. The death road itself hadn't been maintained in years, and there was at least one place where I know our right-side tires were not 100% on the roadway, and there was at least--at least!--at thousand-foot sheer drop to our right. But we couldn't back up, couldn't turn around, could only press forward hoping that the road would not get any narrower because of rockslides & all. Had there been, we would have had to hire some kind of heavy-duty helicopter to airlift our car to a safe place. Or abandon it forever.
The moral is, if you arrive at a road with gated entrance, and there's a sign there stating "if you take this road, your auto insurance is not applicable," you should really, truly take a different route, no matter how much you hate the thought of back-tracking.
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mofembot:
Thank you for the great comment... I will definitely investigate and include in following issues. Cheers.
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The boulder wedged into the cliffs with two people standing on it is Kjerag Bolten not Pulpit Rock (Preikestolen.
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Wow that Lysebotn Hairpin sequence gives me o very mixed feeling indeed...
After diving my motorcycle down from the visitors center, the "normal" curve in between two hairpins suprised me and I crashed quite hard.
I suppose a angel was on my shoulder: after kicking back the bent parts of my bike I was able to drive on, down trough the underground hairpin.... wow.
Jan Los - NL
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Check the road on Saba - NA
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Great collection of roads there. An odd one I'd like to add is the Nürburgring Nordschleife. It's a racetrack that's open to the paying public. Anyone willing to risk his (in rare cases also her) life can book laps and do so with his own ride. It is dubbed the green hell because it goes on for 20 kilometers through wooded hills, often including rain or fog. It is said that there is one fatality per week. Most of these would me motorcyclists.
There is the scary story of a biker that had an accident throwing him and his machine into the woods. Although not killed in the crash, he died there because nobody noticed the accident.
Although it's not a road for transportation I think it's worth a mention.
There are also some pretty scary roads in morocco crossing the atlas mountains. These include dangerous traffic as well.
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oweh, this is an interesting tip - will see if it fits in next part. Thank you!
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here's the Russian biker video
http://www.azfreeride.com/?q=node/276
Crazy!
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I don't agree to much on the pics of the roads in the Swiss mountains.
I used them many times, they are not bad to drive at all. They are maintained very accurately and there are teams ready to fix every part ruined by some rock slide or other phenomena.
Driving in cities is far more dangerous.
I just realize now that I've never seen a post about dangerous city traffic or something.
When I have time I should make a post about amazing traffic situations in Milan.
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The photos of the Grimsel Pass brought back memories of hiking this road back in the 1970s, oddly nobody was willing to stop and offer me a ride!
Croatia’s mountain roads are great fun for sports car drivers but for shear driving fun it would be hard to beat the road across northern Albania’s mountains to the Kosovo border. About 150km of constant curves, hairpins and hills with small villages including one called Puke! The road is paved but there are rough breaks. Some curves have guard rails but a low stone wall or nothing at all is more common.
As a plain bad road I would nominate the main road through Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. 200km of badly corrugated gravel which is hellish to drive on at any reasonable speed. Either you drive at 20 km/h and take all day or at over 80 km/h, skim from rut to rut, and hope you don’t need to avoid an antelope or on-coming bus.
Finally: I haven’t seen South Africa’s Sani Pass Road mentioned yet. Not as long as the Friendship Highway but narrower and more difficult than the Gates of Hell section below Nyalam just north of the Nepal border.
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Thank you Colin M for the great info - we'll try to cover these!
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To add to Ares' post on Norway, here's some wingsuit basejumping where they buzz the road
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n37ZvBQz_64
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If you want to se the stunning scenery of Norway,remember that Norway has found the cause of all evil and the cause of all traffic accidents to be speed. If you think London has many cameras, go to Norway. Not only have they got radar traps, but the calculate your mean speed between all the cameras you pass - and fines are the highest in the world. There are NO 4-lane motorways in Norway.
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The first project looks very much like the studenthousing for the technical university in Delft, the Netherlands.
http://www.duwo.nl/eCache/ENG/1/764.html
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Those Reversible Destiny units don't look handicap accessible by any means. what an interesting concept, though.
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I don't think it started in 1970. I saw a modular housing development in Montreal in 1967, called Habitat. Google "habitat 67 montreal" and click on images.
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thanks Alan,
I updated the post
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These are the good looking ones. There are some shipping container ones that are elegant as well. This link is a rather grim reality:
http://www.photomichaelwolf.com/100x100/
100 10' x 10' apartments in Hong Kong.
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I see nothing grim about the pics in the michaelwolf link. Humble--yes. Spartan--absolutely. But grim--only to the eyes of a spoiled westerner who associate the size of one's living space with his/her self-worth. Many of the rooms featured there are probably cleaner and more orderly than your apartment noh?
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My father made a pedestal for a sundial by taking several natural rocks and stacking them to find a way that they would balnce before cementing them in place. He said there was no reason to have gravity working against him.
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Good day.
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Thank you Sergei
I think we've covered these in our
first post :)
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Bill Dan, rock balancing artist:
http://billdan.blogspot.com/
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Wow, its very great.
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If we look carefully at the bottle with two cardboard rings balanced on it, about halfway down, there's a small nail supporting the right side of the bottle. It's not as much of a balancing demonstration as first meets the eye.
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The gas powered pogo stick was actualy manufactured, at least in limited numbers. I've seen one.
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It was called "The Hop Rod". Here's the website, with video, even.
http://www.thehoprod.com/
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I have an inventor dad, Then married an inventor husband (w/patent & pat pend) and sons... It is like being on one of those pogo sticks all the time!!! Great stuff! I was laughing out loud all alone- Is that normal? Jan C.
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Brilliant, I especially loved the “inflatable floating furniture”. It MUST be made!!
www.loveinventions.com
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mystery #2 :
any vehicle carrying explosives is not allowed past this sign.
I have seen this one several times in France, mostly in small villages.
The pink flier is from a Something Awful thread. It was awesome.
Yes, it's true it's a french sign saying vehicles with explosives (oil, gaz) can't go this way.
The one in Amsterdam is actually not that weird. The left arrow pointing to the right is for the tram, the right one pointing to the left is for cars.
mystery #2, british version.
http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/signs04.htm
Mystery #3 is from a MegaTokyo webcomic coffee mug (Kimiko's Lap Pour Blend):
http://www.megagear.com/PhotoGallery.asp?ProductCode=MT+08%2D1004
Mystery #1: Don't leave a child unattended in a car I guess. But normally there is no baby in the photo and it only means watch out for car theft or breaking in.
Mystery #2: Hazardous materials cannot be transported beyond this point, there are several different types of this sign, according to which materials aren't allowed. There is a list of materials described for all signs.
That “Mysterious Russian sign (possibly fake)” is clearly CGI, based on an old cartoon called “Hedgehog in the fog” (“Ёжик в тумане”).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog_in_the_Fog
http://hedgehoginmist.narod.ru/photoalbum.html
The sign "prohibition of carrying an explosive cargo" is not for French only. This one is also in Russian Traffic Rules.
mystery #2:
this road sign exist in all european countries. It is usually only used in areas where transport of "real" explosives (like tnt, dynamite or gun powder) is common, f.ex. near a ammo factory or a coal mine. They may also be used at tunnel entrances and large bridges.
Thanks, all
I updated the post.
Sadly, the one with the precision screwdriver set is also a Something Awful photoshop. I know, because I made it. :/
Still, this was a fun article.
Bill, thank you, I updated the credits. However my blogger version does not allow me to see your profile. Can you please email me with your name for more credit info.
The first one is someone's attempt to copy writer Spike Milligan's gravestone, which say "I told you I was ill" in Gaelic. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/3742443.stm
I went to the World Science Fiction Convention (WorldCon) in 2002. The convention center had posted several flyers up on various doors saying "THIS IS NOT A DOOR." Put a sign like that up and you get all sorts of editorial comments...
This is a jar.
This is not a wall. (On the wall.)
It is a notice.
It is Cezanne.
(and very existential): This is not a sign.
What's so strange about the sign with a frog? It just means watch out for frogs. Typically temporary signs placed in their mating season. It's meant to protect the frogs crossing the street (recognizable by squashing sound when driving).
The sign forbidding taking a dump or pissing is in Estonia, Tallinn near the central trainstation "Balti Jaam"
Mystery sign #1 "Caution: Michael Jackson's in town"
Mysterious Russian sign (possibly fake)
Migrating Lemmings crossing, maybe?
The "Mysterious Russian sign (possibly fake)" is actually NOT fake! It's a picture of a hedgehog crossing the road. It is to warn drivers that there may be hedgehogs in the road and to attempt to avoid them.
that "mysterious russian sign" - the hedgehog is from a cartoon, where the hedgehog wonders around a foggy hillside, and falls into a stream. so the setting where the sign is - it's perfect :)
Re: "seen in Israeli bus"
I agree the sign would be more appropriate in Israeli bus, but it is a really good street-art sticker from Prague subway (it was still in one of the trains a few weeks ago).
the "french car sign" is also used for cars using liquid gas fuel cause they are classified as higly explosive
So "mysterious hedgehog" is realy from "Hedgehog in a fog" short stop-mtion russian animation.
About the frog sign, it's in Czech republic where on a certain road frogs strted mass crossing the road on certain month.
The massive direction sign near the beginning points the way to many sites which hosted the modern Olympics - Montreal, Helsinki, St.Louis, etc. These sites can be distinguished by the year appearing before the city's name. Wonder where it is.
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