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Thursday, October 11, 2007

Groovy Parrot Dance



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Groovy Parrot Dance

This little bird's got better sense of rhythm than you and me!


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Today's pictures & links:
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Something's not right here:


(original unknown)


"I want to go online and become an elf"



Nikon's Small World Micro-Photography Contest Winners. See here.

Frog Embryos:

(image credit: Michael Klymkowsky)


Mixed fresh links for today:

Absolutely Amazing Paramodel Street Art - [wow art]
Too Weird: Transportation in France during wartime - [pics]
Park with steampunk sculptures - [art]
Aptera: Fascinating car concept - [auto]
6 Most Terrifying Foods - [gross! article]
Hunting for Sharks on a Kayak - [extreme]
With a push of a button.... - [design]
Parkour in Action - [wow video]
A death-defying kangaroo - [video]


Imber: Salisbury Plain's Ghost Village

An interesting addition to our roster of abandoned places is very atmospheric Imber village in England, whose occupants were evicted in 1943 to provide training grounds for the military.

Scott Wylie has an extensive image gallery of bunkers, abandoned houses and other curiosities here:






(images credit: Scott Wylie)


Women of Israeli Army:
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(images credit: IsraelMilitary.net)

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  • Cool! If only we could enlarge one of these things to life size dimensions. sigh.
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  • Maybe they're merely the protrusion into our dimension of vast hyperintelligent pan-dimensional beings. ;)
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  • Ah yes but do they have any knowledge of self?
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  • "imagine if we grew one of those to human size... holy crap! it will destroy us all! these would be like indestructible. radiation, freezing, burning, we couldn't stop it! it would be the ultimate killing machine!"

    Well, I'm sure if they got that big a spear would do nicely....

    er...

    You try the spear. If it doesn't work, I'll be back here with the rocket launcher!
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  • I think we should use their genetic material to cross-breed a new strain of humanoids. These things are awesome.

    Oh, and to Anonymous: "miniscule" is an accepted alternative spelling of "minuscule"... look it up, if you don't believe me.
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  • Sorry to disappoint all those that think growing a human size one of these would be great and indestructable... If you did manage by some mystery of science to create one any larger than they are now it would probably die, restrictions in cell size, body size and organ size due to water loss, diffusion and active uptake means that surface area to volume ratios must be kept in a certain range or the poor little thing would just die :-( but if you do manage to get a big one going... dont keep it a secret! lol!
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  • The 'forest cinema' photo is of an abandoned outdoor theater, part of Moscow's All-Russia Exhibition Centre - see map: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=moscow&t=k&hl=en&ie=UTF8&om=0&ll=55.831306,37.617322&spn=0.002118,0.004699&z=18&iwloc=addr
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  • The rusty towers in the last picture are from Krakow, Poland. It's an old granite quarry: http://www.silentwall.com/QuarryI.html
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  • Thank you guys! I updated the post with new info.
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  • Not only is the instrument panel powered on, the oscilloscope on top of it is also powered on, and there is a faint line to be seen on its screen, so it's actually measuring something as well. It seems this equipment is still in use.
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  • HAARP.

    I was not aware of the Russian equivalent. Thank you.

    The concept is excellent.. blast the mind of the guidance electronics in an incoming ICBM with an extremely high microwave field. HAARP is convienently situated geographically to do so with incoming missles from North Korea. I'd think the Soviets had positioned their devices with launches from the continental U.S. in mind.

    The problem is focusing the antennas to yield the necessary energy levels [flux densities'] at the target. Our physics is just not up to it, and that is why the beautiful parabolas sit rusting. Megawatts effectively transmitted but then spread out as the energy travels to the target yields little more than a nuiance to the missles, as the rad hardening technologies have improved since these projects were begun.

    The facilities though would still be a great gift, and highly functional, to a [poor] radio astronomer.

    meaux
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