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That's not an insane balloon stunt! O_o
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That rocket-car thing is called the Vampire, and it nearly killed Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond in 2006.
The crash: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tDTUSsGaaY
Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hammond#Vampire_dragster_crash
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http://www.harzer-bike-schmiede.de/panzerbike.html
based on V12 T34 WK2 Tank Engine
;-)
http://www.myvideo.de/watch/3806061/BMT_2008_Panzermotorrad_er_faehrt_entlich
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i always like the nissan snail, or S-cargo
http://www.algysautos.com/scargo_page.html
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The one sided car could be to reduce wind resistance?
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Wow, that PanzerBike is a beauty - will go into next post!
Thank you
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The Mystery Bike under the chap in the tophat is "Oomega" by Chemical Choppers.
http://www.chemicalchopper.com/
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...the dragon on the ???tiburon??? isnt an 'artsy' thing like you said the 'smoke' is a nitrous purge...
and the 1 sides car is nothing like the wooden car it reduces the drag coefficient probably for gas mileage but possibly(i doubt it) for 1/4 mile drag times also the hearse was pretty cool allot of these seem to not be 'strange' or 'wierd' or 'artsy'
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A couple more for your collection:
http://www.sidewaysbike.com/
and
http://aptera.com/
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Lol, I am so getting that Jap walker, I hope it comes with the chain guns and a few hell fire missles, too ^^
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The little blue half car looks like something designed to carry surfboards.
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Hi,
the Fiat Multipla, is a Fiat Multipla. I know this as I took the photo :) It was taken at the Goodwood Festival of Speed a few years ago link : http://www.goodwood.co.uk/fos/ and if you're in the UK and like cars, it's a show worth going to. The other pics I took at the festival can be found here: http://gallery.spiny.co.uk
Also, the 2CV 'picasso' is a kustom by the venerable Andy Saunders, link: http://andysaunderskustoms.freeservers.com/index.html
cheers,
Phil W.
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Thank you Phil for the info - credit included in both places.
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These are so cool, the coolest collection of weird cars I have seen. Nice one :)
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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.
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the priests are photoshopped
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we tought that they are reall. damn...
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those are midget mondoshawan, they were bigger in the movie
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Somebody has made a life size "Spider" walking vehicle. I seen it on Discovery Channel Canada once.
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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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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.
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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 :)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 .
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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?
I think not
Political inclinations aside, great blog post Avi
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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?
I think not
Political inclinations aside, great blog post Avi
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My mom had a "clicker" when I was a kid, in the early 70s.
It seemed a bit smaller, probably a knock-off like all other products ever made.
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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"
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I remember those clickers; Mum used one to keep a running count of calories when dieting. Early 70s, I guess.
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the madrussia.com site doesn't work... i think
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The last one looks like the mineaature panorama version of the NYC located at the Queens Museum.
http://www.queensmuseum.org/panorama/pictures.htm
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The Glove Pistol is classic OSS. Meant to be punched into someone's belly, to help soften the sound of the gun, and to shoot them.
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The ten barreled pistol reminds me of the gonne from Tarry Pratchet's "Men at Arms" novel.
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Unknown pistols #5 and #8 look very much like the 'Derringer DA 38' above them. Different styles, different calibers?
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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!"
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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.
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that portable cannon looks like a brass knuckle on steroids. when I look at it I think "persian" or some arab country. maybe even oriental.
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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.
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#5 is definitely DA 38, you can see the engravig, where the bottom bullet goes in the barrel...
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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.
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The multi-barreled revolver looks just like the piece from clue. I didn't think they made those...
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I like the idea behind miniature guns!
Miniature wounds, miniature deaths, miniature tragedies...
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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.
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I concur with Tony; I don't know where you got "It fires 2.34mm bullets, with the killing range of 112 meters", but there is no way that's accurate.
(For instance, their webpage says it's a "non-firearm" in Canada or France because it's so low-powered.)
With a muzzle energy of about 3/4 of a foot-pound, the energy is substantially less than a spring-cocking BB pistol.
It would have trouble breaking the skin at a few yards, and it would be difficult to kill someone with it at all, at any range.
I don't think the projectile could travel 112 meters unless you fired it straight down a cliff.
Perhaps if you put the barrel up their nose when firing, or got a good shot through the eye into the optic nerve, and a lot of luck.
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ARES? Woah. Shadowrun esque :p
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Wow, thank you all (especially Cal H. ) for great info - post updated.
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You have to have really small fingers to use these guns.
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i don't really think that it is possible to make deadly wounds with such small weapons...
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That shotgun-flashlight is scary... Every time you use that thing as a flashlight, you have a shotgun facing you...
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Steampunk Rayguns? Umm, no, I think you smoke hash from those...
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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.
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Definitely not the "world highest bugee jump".
The "Artuby" bridge in "gorges du Verdon" in France is 182m. high, quite a scary jump (I did it).
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A two-year old article about Frances Collins? Why now?
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Marc - never seen that before.
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i remember seeing the suitcase pic in a british newspaper
the guy who bought the house was claiming negligence against the surveyor
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The anchor won't be terrifically effective, since it's attached to the wheel via a rope. A chain would have been better.
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The airport photo is the Sacramento airport in California. Funny art piece I reckon.
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Almost certainly neither a bomb nor a missile, but a drop tank (external disposable fuel tank).
Very popular for salt-flats racing conversions in the past.
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Best Peugeot bunmper i've seen!
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I love the vintage GPS.
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Thank you Sigivald - post updated
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yep, the Sacramento airport suitcases are art - supposedly a whole lot of lost luggage. It's really neat to look at.
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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!
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Itay - thanks for this interesting bit (I only know Hebrew alphabet, can't red though)
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WoW...So Great!
Thanks for your sharing !
More funny photo in here:
http://www.hk32168.com/forum-59-1.html
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Talking about politicians - have you seen photos of Mrs. Angela Merkel neckline? Here are links: http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/9230/45643090bi6.jpg and http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/223/35041845nz8.jpg
Kinda hurting for a post today? (Lots of recycled content this time around...)
OMG Mrs. Angela Merkel shes totaly hot!!!!!!! booooyaaahh!!!
she's quite far away from being hot, i daresay..
That picture of George Bush as a Storm trooper "Starts Wars" is a classic Banksy piece of street graffiti.
that is not a banksy will...
The Fidel's very rare custom wagon GAZ-14 limo looks like a funeral car a lot, IMHO :)
I like Castro´s men in black look
Who is the nice girl that plays the bunny at the parliament?
This one ---> http://lh6.ggpht.com/abramsv/SAVYaw2ponI/AAAAAAAAOe0/JwLoc9UKmys/s1600-h/00cw03e6.jpg
hey i see u got a lot of russian things here
im glad that u only one who try to take the positive side
keep it up
cheers!!!!
:)
Some very funny stuff! (though I'm sure at least a few of them are photoshoped).
My favorites would have to be the UN one and Castro with the shades ;)
Prohibition was a misguided move? I like alcohol as most of us do, but you need to know your history.
Prohibition was lead by women- because men had control of EVERYTHING in their lives. The men could go to the bars, drain all of the familial resources, then come home and beat their wives. THAT was the main reason behind prohibition. Paired with the "morality movement", there were a lot of "good" reasons behind the movement.
Because women finally have most of their rights, prohibition is not so much an issue.
Do your research.
Oh my god!! MERKEL HAS BREASTS!!! Nevermind she is a wicked awesome powerful woman politician, let's just focus on her neckline!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is so much more important!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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