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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Rubik's Cubes Solving

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Solving Two Rubik's Cubes at the Same Time

Truly a champion!

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If you're interested, here's a HOW TO tutorial on how to solve Rubik's Cube, as well: Part 1 and Part 2

Today's pictures & links:
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1920 Vision of the Airliner:
The Great Air Liner of the Future as Described to the British Association

(image credit: Danny Soar)

Compare the sizes of these aircrafts:
(Google Maps captured new Airbus A380 in Toulouse Airport)
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Top 70 PC Case Mods
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Mixed fresh links for today:

Great Gothic Art - [wow art] - via
Homemade Cruise Ship - [fascinating]
Building-mounted vertical free-fall ride - [wow architecture]
Knitted fruit jackets - [cute]
Books by the Foot! - [weird]
Impressive Facelift of the Barcelona Stadium - [architecture]
10 Dreamy Tokyo MotorShow Concept Cars - [auto]
Squirrel Obstacle Course - [wow video]
What are they watching?? - [fun video]

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Just to let you know, the "tricycle concoction" is a new scooter from Piaggio. I know a place where one's for sale, and I saw one driving about once.
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Adler's pictures are real-life versions of the classic Hanna-Barbera Wacky Races cartoon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacky_Races
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Thank you, guys. I've updated it.
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What IS this thing??

It's a "HyperBike"

Powered by both arms and legs and capable of speeds of 50 mph.

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/070122_technov_nasa_bike.html
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Also see, http://www.hyperbike.info/
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The Wacky Racers cars were built for the Goodwood Festival Of Speed. Each year they build another car from the series and they all drive in a grand parade.

Info at http://www.goodwood.co.uk/fos/intro/jfos.htm
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Great stuff. I'm surprised to see a list of wacky cars without the Landmaster, though.

http://www.answers.com/topic/landmaster
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"This one is only a toy, we hope"
No it is photoshopped. Front and rear is from a real bike.
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"This one is only a toy, we hope"
the design is taken from the "tomahawk" which is a "dodge" creation.
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The Pen Guy
I love wacky cars and thanks for inluding my Mercedes Pens, its a great honor. I also started a new blog called Art Car Central which I hope will become world's most comprehensive blog about art cars, events, lists, how to and everything else related to this wonderful and unique personal expression.
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Thank you Costas,
your site links to some cool cars...
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Sadly, the Bigfoot is no longer at the Race Rock in Orlando, FL. They shut it down earlier this year, and it was sold off or something.
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Great page/site.Another cool three wheeled rig is the T-Rex from Canada, cool looking and high performance.
Great compilation of images, Thanx
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You may want to include the
"Roadog" in Part 4.
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You really also need the Moller Skycar:

http://www.moller.com/
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The Moller's car we did cover in Future Tech series
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The truck that has 'US airforce afterburner' written on it, just to let you know, is more than likely a just a monster truck... when they transport monster trucks they remove the large wheels and fit small ones and then transport them separately to be easier.
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Ok, i have a weird car's picture, how i send it?
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Send it to -
abramsv@gmail.com
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My direct boss (our CEO) has the Carver. It looks neat and is fun - but hey, 40k Euro for a "cool" joyride that isn't even that eco-friendly? Seems like a waste of sound engineering.
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Looks like this would provide some good exercise.
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That photo of mountains was taken from the climbers entrance/exit of the Aiguille du Midi, Chamonix, France. It was taken about where the lone individual is in this picture: http://content.cxnx.net/chamonix.net/3316.jpg

Anybody can stand in that spot and see this view by riding the cable car up. You'll never forget it!
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Heey¡¡¡ These is not a Pitaya, Pitaya its a fruit from Nopal.
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re: Police Oops -
This reminds me of the only traffic accident I saw while in Rome, Italy for an entire summer.

It stuck with me because if you've every witness the traffic in Rome, it seems totally chaotic, yet I almost went throughout the entire summer walking the roman streets without witnessing a single crash.

The one wreck I did see though was a police officer rear-ended a guy driving a Vespa, and even that accident wasn't that serious. The Vespa owner walked away from the collision just fine. I didn't get to see what happened to his moped though.
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Last one's probably fake - that's a London Eye gondola...
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I love the Woodland home! Very inspiring...
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the first one looks a bit like the home of Bilbo Baggins ^^
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The 'Gary, Indiana: Ghost Town - [abandoned]' link seems not to have the correct target.
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fixed! thank you.
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The `water heater' is an invention from a polish student's dorm in Krakow. I have covered this with a bit of a background some time ago here:

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Well, it seems that URLs are filtered away on DRB. So, CTRL-C CTRL-V:
,,Long live ages old, never repaired student dorms…

Actually the problem is more complex. There are quite many dorms located in old buildings that have a `cultural heritage’ status and as such may not be modified without authorisation of responsible institutions.

In principle a good regulation, as it prevents ruining rests of old architecture, but sometimes it really backfires - in this case the dorm cannot be modified to provide in-room hot water.

Renovation costs are also pretty high - it’s really controversial sometimes, as the materials used must match the style and finish of the original fittings.Sure again - it’s a god idea, but what if there’s no money for special paint orexotic type of plaster? Shall the building fall into ruin just because nobody’s ready to pay for reverting it to the truly original state, or maybe it’s good to use something cheaper, but preserving the state if not the style? ''
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"Train car, converted into... something" - it's orthodox church :)
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the train car is converted into a church :)
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the green car sticking out of the parking is in bordeaux, parking victor hugo, it's an old jaguar , next time i go there i can take a picture from inside if you want :p

here's a closeup from outside :

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/90/258534534_e71553ad0b.jpg?v=0

and a wider view:
http://kaustik.org.free.fr/images/bordeaux/parking_victor-hugo.jpg

enjoy :D
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Probablöy the majority of the crowd has noticed, that most of the pictures were of cars with Russin plates. Wonder why..

It's the same shite here in Estonia, where the daily news tell us about fatal crashes involving BMW's and Vladimirs. And I do mean -every day-.
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Pickaxe Audi: You have 5 new messages.
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Put me out of my misery: what do you mean by 'squidpunk'? Is it just an inside joke, or am I witnessing the coinage of a new literary genre term? It doesn't produce many search engine hits...
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hm.... Robert, this is a joke for now. But you got me thinking...
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In the comments on http://faceofthemoon.blogspot.com/2007/10/squidly-dots.html I've been given the suggestion: 'I'm pretty sure it has to do with underwater cities, magic, and squids with top hats and perhaps monocles of some sort.'
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this image:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2087/1557540210_1e73b3f1c4.jpg

is a detail from the work of Tim Hawkinson. 'Untitled' from 2003.

Another similar piece is here:

http://www.acegallery.net/artwork.php?pageNum_ACE=22&Artist=1
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Water bears- the pinnacle of evolution... best adapted to multiple environments. Too bad they're not intelligent- or maybe they are? :o
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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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There is a great song about them available on iTunes (and other places) by Mal Webb
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Who wants to live so long, being so ugly?..
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Lovely article, but it's "minuscule," not "miniscule."
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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!
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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!
:-D
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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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Why are you boiling me?! Why are you boiling me?! Owwww! This is so painful!
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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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How interesting!
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Movies! http://tardigrades.bio.unc.edu/movies/
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Movies!
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Amazing! Great post!
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makes you think.. and believe the earth will go on even after we are extinct. i think they maybe ETs aka extra terrestrials. maybe we all decend from other worldly beings. would love to get a animal psychic in on this one.
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You're right when you say they aren't publicized. This is the first time I've heard of them. No mention even in high school biology.
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