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Must be a mess in the wet.
And where's general grievous' from the revenge of the sith? Now that was a monowheel!
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awesome. you dig up the craziest stuff. i love you daily!
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FYI, the Chinese monowheels at the top were probably the ones used in the Olympic closing ceremony.
This also implies the artists during those ceremonies could've been soldiers? Strange.
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There was also a steam-powered monowheel in the Japanese Anime, Steamboy.
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actually they are the vehicles used in the closing.
and yes, those are soldiers.
they are the artistic section of the military.
almost every military has one.
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Great post..!
lots more interesting monowheels here!
http://thenewcaferacersociety.blogspot.com/search/label/monowheels
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*wonders why they didn't show mr. garrison's IT*
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Now if only someone could figure out a way to attach four of these things together with some kind of carriage in the middle ... now THAT would be something.
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Have you checked out the Bombardier company's concept unicycle? Hydrogen cell for power, anime styling. Good pictures at http://www.gearbits.com/archives/000336.html
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amoeba - thanks, love your nick
great info everybody, thanks, will use in next part
feng - this is very visual... i can see it oh so clearly :0
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Well you did leave of the segway and the single wheel battery motorcycle.
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You know those Chinese mono wheels might have been for the Olympic ceremonies, they look the right size.
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There's a life size model of a monowheel high-tech (likely conceptual) racer at Johnson Space Centre in Texas.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bjacques/2233110072/sizes/l/
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Thank you Gaz, will go into the next part
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These are seriously sexy! I love it!
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Sweet monowheel goodness! I must find one and drive it now.
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These pics are friggin' amazing. God bless the webernet.
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So which smiley face was the one in the Watchmen?
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The nice thing about that Moog was, that is was in fact monophonic. One note at a time :)
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Flintstones' dream car? More like Asphyxious! Looks like something on a Cryxian road!
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Arcologies were one of my favorite parts about the SimCity series. Loved to plant about 4-5 of those in an area.
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I can't imagine who would want to live in a place like that. You would never own your bit, only rent it, and you couldn't do anything serious to personalize it. Talk about the Neighborhood Association from Hell. Of course, I wouldn't mind if large numbers of other people went to live in one and left the real land open for people who appreciate it.
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I highly recommend anyone interested in it to do check out arcosanti if they find themselves north of phoenix.
Sure, the project has mostly stalled in a larger sense, but is still self supporting. One thing the pics don't capture is the experience of being in those buildings, very unique, and very refreshing in a sense. It was early summer when I visited, very hot out, and yet quite cool and comfortable inside, without any AC on. The internal distribution of thermal energy and movement of air felt much more fresh and alive than the artificial cold tomb-like experience of most of Phoenix's large buildings that time of year.
Aesthetics aside, Soleri has a gift for creating true living spaces.
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Talk about putting all your eggs in one basket... Having an entire city in one structure leaves the entire population very vulnerable to a variety of disasters: fire, epidemic, power failures, enemy or terrorist attack, etc., not to mention the attendant problems of utilities, waste disposal, emergency evacuation, and maintenance. Some ideas look a lot better on paper than in reality.
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They aren't such a clever idea, 1 million people crammed in, what if a bomb goes off in a very important place, you could have up to 1 million casualties!
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I've always thought that Solari's megacities were to some extant a reactin to Frank Loyd Wright's Broadacre City; a vison of continent ecompassing sprawl. PT: actually his vision was a bit more heterogenous. The exteriors aren't very uniform because building really only provides a concrete slab and basic infrastructure. Everything else would be built by the individual "condo-owner."
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All are legitimate concerns, thanks for this neat discussion.
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Good work and great images.
In my blog i put another arcologies like X-Seed 4000 and Shimizu TRY 2004 Mega-City Pyramid
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These are all grand ideas that lead to something bigger. While the concerns raised by the commenters here are all valid, these represent the first step in being able to colonize other worlds once they are determined to be able to sustain life, or we have developed the capacity to make other worlds sustain life.
Arcologies like this provide us with an opportunity, built on Earth, to discover the flaws, problems, logistical hurdles and potentials for disaster that exist in the designs prior to building them in space and sending them, fully loaded, to another world, or building them on that world. If they can be made stable in an environment that is already relatively stable, they have passed the first step towards being able to support human life elsewhere in the universe. It is only a few more baby steps to design them in such a way as to be able to survive elsewhere and/or travel there under their own power and land safely.
Big plans require big ideas.
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To those who dismissed the idea's based on fear filled sentiments, I am profoundly sorry. A bomb can cause 1 million casualties due to the close proximity of the living quarters? Damn, all it takes is a bigger bomb, which you know each country is always developing and the benefits of being spread out are lost, and the cons are all thats left. Destruction of natural ecosystems around the entire world have been destroyed based on people wanting to own "their" piece. At least with arcologys nature has a better chance of surviving. And humans still just have human problems, like thinking you need more than you have. Americans wake up to the world your part of please.
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Another cult complete with a saintly founder who enjoys his own opulent private quarters (with desert swimming pool) while his acolytes do all the drudgery trying to get his unwieldy designs to work.
He nowadays passes his time making styrofoam models for the trademark wind chimes. Incidentally, his eco-friendly minions directly invest molten metal into the styrofoam sending gouts of poisonous black hydrocarbons into the otherwise pristine high-desert skies.
"Thinking globally but acting locally." What a crock!
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Mainly someone said this seems like putting all your eggs in one basket - well think about it this way: Earth = One Basket. We need to spread out and this is a logical primer.
Next to the guy who said leave land to the people who appreciate it. The point of this is to give everyone the opportunity to appreciate land not divide it up and fence it off and 'customize' it.
There will never be enough land to go around and some of the best land is taken by people who assume they have a right to keep it from everyone else.
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lets build one of these over the darian gap!?
glass bottom city-structure overlooking the last and wildest uncivilized part of the world.
it would be quite poetic! the most advanced in conservation and sustainability with a view of that which is untouched.
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Bogie... Your comment made my day. Quite an idea!
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vinyl player??? It's called a turntable
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I think this post is wonderfully hilarious and that some one is just a crabby pants...
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There's a candidate for the Darwin Award in the first picture of the wheelbarrow BBQ!
First, the heat of the fire will most likely cause the wood frame to start smoldering or burst into flames. Second, the wheelbarrow is not stable and is likely to tip over. But the worst offense is the uncapped gas can in the background...
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"vinyl player??? It's called a turntable"
What do you think Turn Tables are? They are vinyl players. Are you like 12?
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Great post.
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that was hilarious .. had a good laugh lolz .. thnx for the post
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dude, only 2 pics were from romania, stop being mean :P
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good read, love the site
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The drunken animals clip sounds suspiciously like the film "The Gods must be Crazy 2". The first film had the "myth" that rhinos stamp out fires!
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The clip belongs to the film Animals are beautiful people, from the same director of TGMBC. It's a great film, but it's been known for a while that this scene and several others were actually staged and/or manipulated for dramatic effect.
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hahhah i have a lego calendar! except mine is red.
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The American Eagle is the remains of an F-104 Starfighter fuselage, an aircraft which was also powered by a J-79. What? No-one is impressed by a fact a brief google search would have revealed? Fine, be glad we're living in the future, rather than in the book-laden, internet-free past.
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Thank you for publishing my pic and linking to my photo blog.
But you got a couple of things wrong.
The village is called "Planina v Lazu" and the mountain on the right looking down on it is "Slatna". The picture was taken from "Prvi Vogel" which is 2181m high.
Thanks again and be sure to check out more pics on my blog.
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The Buchwald lamps might be the coolest things I have ever seen.
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Cool!!! wireframe furniture!!!
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If it was "Mad IKEA in the Wonderland", it'd be fecking impossible to assemble
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love the coffe table that imitates a dog!...not sure if i would have one though?
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'A Piece of Awesome - Would like to know who the artist is.'
The artist is Tony Ariawan.
http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Stop-Haunt-Me-Everyday-Collection/53669
FYI - I found out using a site called TinEye http://tineye.com/
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Thank you David, this "tineye" is quite a find!
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Eiffel Tower Modification is few months old awesome canadian joke.
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Aircraft carrier looks like its coming into port everglades, in Ft. Lauderdale. FL. They used to have the air and sea show every may and before/after the event the boats/subs/aircraft carries parked in Ft. Lauderdale Harbor...seriously cool
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Huge army ships there. Is it stuck at the shore?..hehe
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The squirrel drinking a Guinness gif is taken from a longer Guinness commercial called "Dream On", which may be found here:
http://www.spike.com/video/guinness-dream-club/2444983
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That's a chimpanzee bathing the cat, not a monkey.
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Yay!
You changed "monkey" to chimp.
I salute you and this fantastic site!
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LOL! )
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The weird arm-flapping guy on the third animated gif is Andre van Duin, a dutch commedian. This clip is from very early in his carreer. I think he is like 60 jears old now, while in the clip he must be in his early 20's.
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A (kind of) plate on the Tour Eiffel ?!!!
It is the most stupid idea ever !
(and looks ugly)
That tower must remains as Eiffel did it, beautiful.
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the magnets on the car reducing weight by 50%. hehe.
lets see.... traction on the road reduced by 50%. hence stopping, turning, and traction have been reduced by 50%.
thanks for making the world an unsafer place.
also as for having less weight doesn't mean it has less mass. so it will still take the same energy to accelerate.
no if you changed the polarity of the magnets so that it pulls you into the road you would gain traction and could stop much sooner. say by 50%.
Don't let him. OMG don't let him.
The link to the North Korea pictures had to be the creepiest lot I've seen in a while... especially the four-lane highway with one car and one bike... and that's it. The movie theatre with the leaders' pictures nailed up where the movie screen should be was creepy too... and the pics of the people... I haven't seen so many scared eyes in a long while. :( Lips smiling, eyes terrified. Eep.
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Guy in the glasses is Anatoly Vasserman, champion of the "What-Where-When" TV show, one of the smartest guys in ex-USSR. He is A.K.A. Onotoley, icon of the hackers attacked VKONTAKTE.RU (russian clone of facebook).This photo was uploaded to the all hacked groups with caption "Onotoley is raging".
Thank you Sergio, that's hilarious info!
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