We linked previously to the world's highest natural bungee jump video here. However, the highest jump from a bridge would be at Bloukrans, a couple hundred kms south of Victoria falls in South Africa: (apparently, the first rebound leaves you falling from a higher point than the 2nd highest bungee in the world)
Watch video of this jump here More images are at Face Adrenalin site. (thanks, Jono)
"Jaimie Mantzel is on a quest to build a giant robot. He's built a plastic fully functional model and now is in the middle of building a 12 foot tall aluminum monster that can be driven by a person. Jaimie is the very definition of the rogue mad scientist - with his crude but often hilarious video updates that highlight his progress and current bodily injury count. Not one to accept conventional means of design and construction, if he doesn't have the right tool... he builds the tool. My favorite part of the whole thing is his reason for building it, "To bring more awesomeness into the world".
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In the picture with plenty of awesomeness, the armoured creatures appear to be the “Mondoshawan” aliens from the movie The Fifth Element. I don’t remember that scene, though.
Victoria Falls isn't in South Africa, it's on the northern boundary of Zimbabwe (where it borders Zambia)... and the Bloukrans (which is near the coast of South Africa) is a LONG way south of it.
If you asked enough questions, I expect you'd find that these "scientific" facilities were dug to provide nuke proof shelters for various and sundry political and military entities.
I guess, you don't know much about neutrino detector projects. The facilities are "hidden" under water and rock because this is one of prerequisites in detecting neutrinos.
Such facilities can be found all around the world (Sudbury Neutrino Observatory in Canada, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy, Kamioka Observatory in Japan and so on) They were intended for research and not cold war shelters from the very begining.
They are underground so that they are isolated from other comsmic radiation that would otherwise interfer with the detection. Please read at least something about it in Wikipedia (althoug that is not the best source) and then post clever post :)
The really cool thing about neutrinos is that they are virtually unstoppable. It would take something like 3 light years of lead to stop only half of them. Any other kind of radiation would be stopped extremely quickly compared to them.
I notice you post quite a few articles from English Russia like this one. The original is hare; http://englishrussia.com/?p=1857 It would be nice if you could credit the original source.
anonymous - english russia is not the original source. We have an exclusive agreement with the original photographer. We also credit english russia where credit is due.
These facilities were NOT built as a nuke proof shelters. SU was a very scientifically involved nation. Damn, USSR was a great country - as powerful as US and with a great avant-garde feel to it. Contemporary world had simply become more boring without it. I wish Russia some day will gain enough potential to revive its soviet heritage.
as a dexter from a formes socialist country with post communist govermnent - I wish the ussr would stay as low as possible - they killed more people and hurt the morale more than anything in human history .
Hey Dexter, I come from a socialist society and I can tell you that I wish for nothing else then socialism to make a comeback
You can blame communism for all of humanity's woes if you want, but I know that it is in the nature of individual humans to be corrupted by power
Any society that elects a dictator is going to suffer, no matter how good his original intentions were. Look at Stalin and Lenin, they tried to make a better world for the working class, but they got corrupted by power and did some really sick things
Now I ask you, is capitalism better? Without democracy, capitalism would be an Orwellian terror. Without democracy in America, how many people could the American army kill in the name of a dictator before someone stopped them? Horror. Keep in mind that Germany killed 60 million with an army that is no bigger then today, all because of a dictator.
Now consider this... How far would the Soviet Union get, if only they were led by a democratically elected leader that changed every 4-8 years? How far would they get with a triumvirate of opposing opinions, a council, senate, anything that did not focus power on one individual for any length of time...
The countries that were once part of the Soviet Union can now barely keep their people fed, considered third world, developing nations, where they once dreamed of space stations and colonies on the Moon, Venus and Mars; A people of great imagination, initiative and intelligence no longer focused on the glory of humanity but on who has the most money. So are they better off with capitalism?
Hey Dexter, I come from a socialist society and I can tell you that I wish for nothing else then socialism to make a comeback
You can blame communism for all of humanity's woes if you want, but I know that it is in the nature of individual humans to be corrupted by power
Any society that elects a dictator is going to suffer, no matter how good his original intentions were. Look at Stalin and Lenin, they tried to make a better world for the working class, but they got corrupted by power and did some really sick things
Now I ask you, is capitalism better? Without democracy, capitalism would be an Orwellian terror. Without democracy in America, how many people could the American army kill in the name of a dictator before someone stopped them? Horror. Keep in mind that Germany killed 60 million with an army that is no bigger then today, all because of a dictator.
Now consider this... How far would the Soviet Union get, if only they were led by a democratically elected leader that changed every 4-8 years? How far would they get with a triumvirate of opposing opinions, a council, senate, anything that did not focus power on one individual for any length of time...
The countries that were once part of the Soviet Union can now barely keep their people fed, considered third world, developing nations, where they once dreamed of space stations and colonies on the Moon, Venus and Mars; A people of great imagination, initiative and intelligence no longer focused on the glory of humanity but on who has the most money. So are they better off with capitalism?
the last two pictures are from different movies judging from the people in the photos as well as the NYC sets. I would say the top photo is some 9/11 movie and the bottom looks like maybe "Escape from NY"
I really don't think you can call that 2.34mm miniature gun "deadly". Unless, of course, you consider objects like paper clips deadly too. "This deadly paper clip can, when straightened, be used to make a puncture wound several centimeters deep!"
Unknown pistol #8 was made by High Standard and is model number DM101..these were made in .22 LR and in .22 Mag. The .22 mag, from what I understand, was issued to certain state police agencies as a backup gun.
The unidentified pistol with three barrels is known as a "Duckfoot" pistol. They were reportedly favored by sea captains and prison warders because of their ability to keep multiple people at bay.
I once owned a Derringer like the one in Unknown #8. It was .22 Mag and very exciting to shoot. I destroyed it because I was never sure if the next time I shot it it would blow up in my hand.
The miniature fire fighter's pistol is a "Protector" palm pistol manufactured by the Chicago Fire Arms Company. These were usually 32 caliber. One was used to assassinate President McKinley in 1901.
The first pistol below the Graz is a James Reid "My Friend" knuckle duster circa 1880s, 22 rimfire.
Pistols three and nine, I believe are sometimes called squeeze pistols. Most were French, I think held four rounds and were six or seven millimeter in caliber.
Pistol number four is a German Brevete pocket pistol in 25 ACP circa 1906.
Pistol number seven is some sort of pepperbox pistol. These were popular in the US prior to the introduction of the Colt revolver.
Actually, the Glove Pistol was "issued" to the Construction Battalions --the SeaBees. They were not permitted to carry firearms, so this gadget was invented and attached to the back of a work glove. It held a single .38 special round, and was supposed to give the wearer some means of fighting back against on-rushing Japanese soldiers.
The text under the picture of the vintage car with the brooms says: "Nail protection". This is probably how that car owner used to protect his tires from punctures by nails deliberately scattered on the road.
PS - Your name suggests you might already know it by yourself, but I thought it would be nice to share it with other non-Hebrew speaking readers. Cool post!
Ivan Mladek isn't from Poland. He is from Czech Republic.I have no idea why everyone thinks he is Polish. And he sings in czech, polish sounds differently.
Ivan Mladek may lately be mistaken for being from Poland, because of the recent enormous popularity of "Jozin z bazin" among Polish internauts ;] but his definetely a Czech.
Pietryq, probably you're right. I"m from Poland and I know that everyone knows "Jozin..". There is also polish version of this song, made by Kabaret Pod Wyrwigroszem with alternative lyrics about polish politicians. If you are interested in: http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=v0eHLz1H-aE It sounds funnier if you know polish, understand lyrics and notice their strong accent.
I think the last picture must be a later satire. Much of the clothing actually reflects styles that were popular at various times in the latter part of the 19th century.
Do any of you remember "Twin Peaks"? And the dancing midget who talked backwards? The guy on the right, in the Czech video is as horridly fascinating to watch. Just to terrible to talk my eyes off him
Wow! Thanks for the tip on some really great stuff (that real Home scared the beejeezus out of me)!
Great blog you've got running so I've bookmarked you. As you seem to have a coffee-connected team I can of course not pass on the chance to some good old fashion self advertisement: I recently made a small small film about coffee on my blog, ;)
I don't know about those photos for the tylenol ad campaign. Reminds me too much of the 1982 tylenol murders... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tylenol_Crisis_of_1982
Sixties flashback for me. Our family had a 67 puke green Ford Country Squire with fake vinyl wood panels similar to the one int he picture...
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In the picture with plenty of awesomeness, the armoured creatures appear to be the “Mondoshawan” aliens from the movie The Fifth Element. I don’t remember that scene, though.
the priests are photoshopped
we tought that they are reall. damn...
those are midget mondoshawan, they were bigger in the movie
Somebody has made a life size "Spider" walking vehicle. I seen it on Discovery Channel Canada once.
Victoria Falls isn't in South Africa, it's on the northern boundary of Zimbabwe (where it borders Zambia)... and the Bloukrans (which is near the coast of South Africa) is a LONG way south of it.
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