Mind-Boggling Scale of ATLAS Detector
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Mind-boggling Scale of ATLAS Detector
This simply mesmerizing video shows in detail the inner structure and construction of CERN Large Hadron Collider's ATLAS Detector. (See images here) - via
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Contemporary Curvy Villas
We already highlighted one exciting "Elegant Skyscraper" project by A-Cero (Joaquin Torres Architects) firm in Madrid, Spain. Today, feast your eyes on the new project for the Dominican Republic - a luxury residential estate on the Cumayasa river mouth. Check out the beautiful, enticing shapes:
"The main idea is to create a settlement of high environmental quality and low density, which incorporates native vegetation. The landscape design follows a contemporary style that embraces the houses, scattered on a stair pattern, softening the impact of their presence and creating a dynamic appearance to the whole."
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E.T. is Found!
Together with a fire-breathing cloud rabbit:
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Brrr!
The road is cold and narrow:
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Cool Shot of the Day
(in cooperation with National Geographic magazine)
Photo by Bustamante Rosas - The colonial city of Guanajuato, Mexico.
Photo by Richard Weiss - sun illuminates the ice that accumulated on everything hit by the sprinkler's stream.
Also check out very addictive jigsaw puzzles!
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Mixed fresh links for today:
Did Earth once had multiple Moons?, more news - [space]
Hi-def Panoramas of San Francisco 1 - [beautiful]
Why Japan did not create the iPod? - [interesting]
Abandoned Tunnels on Pennsylvania Turnpike - [abandoned]
Newly Established: the Shirley Jackson Award - [dark fantasy]
Photos from Communist North Korea - [travel]
Probability: 0.0000000001% - [wow video ads]
Bears Destroy Car - [wow video]
Another Borat-like hilarity - [video episodes, could be nsfw]
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Skies torn asunder
(original unknown)
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What do you think it says?
No, it's not some Slavic language; look closer -
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Vibrant Photography
By Sloan Timson:
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Yet another strange picture of Pope Benedict XVI:
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Doomed
This fly is going to be digested by the Venus Flytrap:
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Up there
This is Johan Lorbeers's urban art. His site.
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Somewhat startling:
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Your mystery photo is Johan Lorbeers.
More info http://damncoolpics.blogspot.com/2008/04/johan-lorbeers-still-life-performance.html
you can post photos like the strange frog or glamorous insect?? i like it!
www.ilrolla.blogspot.com
Heh, that Bruce Willis pic cracked me up. What is the source on that?
not quite sure... came from email")
LHC = large hadron collider. LHC collider = PIN number = stupid mistake.
The Pope's background looks vaguely like cannabis leaves. < <
real men don´t drink and drive
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