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bender!!! :D
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Knitted awesomeness from Steriogram:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asdN1jJw4EE
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Great video, anonymous - putting it in link latte.
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Great article, but I just wanted to point out that knitting and crochet, while both done with yarn, are different crafts. Knitters do not create crocheted objects and vice versa (well, some of them do, but you know what I mean). Of your pictures, the Cthulhu penguin, the eyeballs, the gollum hat, and Bender are definitely crochet. The rest are either knitted or a combination of the two.
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nice list! here's one of my favourites from the world of weird knitting:
http://www.maxsworld.co.uk/sculpture/ajobforabear.html
check the animations there too - more knitz.
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Actually, the Cthulhu penguin is knitted. The pink Cthulhu above it is crocheted.
Oh, while we're at it the goal of creating these idols is not to live, it's to be
eaten first.
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Of all the photos, 13 of them depict crochet, not knit. And the funny thing is, the ski masks are dissed as crochet but are knit!
I'm a big fan of strange crochet.
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HEHEHEHEHE
that is really great - I aint letting my knitting near my coffee!
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SWEETNESS!!!!
I have got to get back to that Dalek I was trying to knit. I think the bottom part looked better than the one shown here; I just have to figure out a better top dome for it. I came up with a great way of doing the neck grill, too....
To non-needleworkers, a good rule of thumb is to look for material that looks like its made up of a bunch of tightly-packed Vs. That's stockinette stitch, your basic knit stitch. (Knit when working on the right side, purl when working on the wrong side.) There are other stitches, like garter stitch, which looks like rows of little interlocking arches -- or like cheap fake chainmail, which is often garter stitch, spray-painted silver. (Convincing only at a great distance. Most of the knights in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" wore garter stitch fake-mail, because it's cheap.) But most knitting revolves around stockinette stitch, like the stuff shown above, so for these examples, that test will give you a good idea of which ones are knit and which ones are crocheted.
Man, I *love* that squid at the top of the page. Absolutely gorgeous. The nudibranch is stunning as well.
It's too bad the gal with the Dr Who patterns was forced by the BBC to take them offline. She had this awesome Ood that would've looked great next to the Chthulu knits.
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You missed these: http://killerbanshee.com/robotsandmonsters/index.html
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Why would anyone do this?
I would suggest because of an incoming hailstorm: that car is a big target and definitely not cheap to repair.
By the way, First.
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The frog! So touching! Was he shot? Just sick?
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Another way to use Tweet: to offer and accept a marriage proposal:
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/10/tweethearts-blogger.html
Not sure if this falls into the good or the bad category.
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The frog probably ate a piece of that icefish.
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interesting...
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think there was a bbc documentary on this. called to mars by abomb. they had footage from a small scale model test. it does work.
interesting because it takes the worry of weight out of the equation. instead of saving weight you build massive ocean liner level stuff because it no longer matters much.
it was canceled because the fall out is unacceptable amoung the other risks...
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You'd think this project would immediately be called off instead of going as long as it did just by the fact that you'd severely pollute the atmosphere.
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With a clean fusion bomb fallout wouldn't be a problem but yeah with dirty nukes, Quote: "Freeman Dyson, group leader on the project, estimated back in the '60s that with conventional nuclear weapons, that each launch would cause on average between 0.1 and 1 fatal cancers from the fallout."
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Anonymous, as far as I know a H bomb is only "clean" because its fallout is small in relation to its destructive power. You still produce more than enough fallout simply because a fission bomb is needed as a detonator for the fusion. There is no clean nuclear weapon. The term "dirty nuke" can either refer to a fission bomb with relatively high fallout due to low efficiency or to a conventional chemical explosive with radioactive material around it. The latter thing does not cause a nuclear explosion, but scatters radioactive debris around. It is in no way suitable to power a spaceship.
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You have to remember the TIME this was invented in.... people seriously thought this planet was going to be obliterated by nuclear war in the 1950s-60s.
And if there is a killer asteroid or extraterrestrial threat of any kind, it would be a last-ditch, everyone left behind is dead anyway, "When Worlds Collide" type of project.
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The interwebs have been absolutely abuzz with talk about this project. I've seen it in a few documentaries and more than a few posts. I did love that TED talk tho.
We still need to solve the 'ol problem of traveling distances that would take tens of thousands of years however...
Thanks for the comprehensive post!
Austin
www.sosauce.com
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There is no reason why we simply couldn't assemble such a device in Orbit and let fly from that vantage point.
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Project Orion and NERVA should be group projects for graduate Nuclear Engineering students. There should be ways to vastly improve performance and lover costs on both of theose systems.
Launch from Earth? Of course not. However, as anyone who has ever read SF knows, space ships are most easily built in space.
The cuts in time to Mars and beyond will prevent a lot of radiation problems.
Oh yes, exploding atomic bombs in space will pollute it. How could I overlook something like that. Darn!
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Remember, the Sun is a natural nuclear fusion explosion that's been going on for about 4.5 billion years. Aside from that, all matter emits some miniscule amounts of radiation. Getting a sun tan is in fact a radiation dosage. And burning coal puts a lot of uranium in the air, since it's a trace element in coal. So an Orion ship's radiation should be kept in perspective.
Building it in space removes most of the risk to earth. And Orion or a Nerva type nuclear rocket (much different) open the whole solar system to human exploration. Instead of trips lasting years one can get around between planets in weeks.
Eventually we're going to have to accept that politically.
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Project 'Daedalus' from Great Britain was similar to this one.
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Read Footfall! Great read too!
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I've been a fan of Orion for decades. It's one of those Big Engineering concepts many engineers (and I am an engineer) are fascinated with. Adding to the attraction, the only thing keeping it from working is an international treaty.
Project Pluto isn't nearly as big, but has the advantage of being dead simple overall. One person working on it described the vehicle as being "...about as complicated as a bucket of rocks."
A ramjet is a very simple heat engine: cold air in, hot air out. For Pluto, the heat source was a nuclear reactor made from advanced ceramics, glowing bright yellow.
The sonic boom from this thing making a low pass would collapse most buildings. The radiation it emitted would sterilize the ground under its path. (Maybe a slight exaggeration there.)
They ground tested a developmental version of the engine, and seriously discussed building a test vehicle. That would have been dumped in the ocean after the flight. The realization that if they lost control of the thing it could fly over an inhabited area killed the idea.
Still, you have to wonder if maybe we could use it to explore the atmosphere of Venus, or one of the gas giants...
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Stickmaker, really enjoyed your comment - told in plain terms, great overview
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It's not a bad idea once you get off-planet. Someday, one of the export products spent up the space elevator will be nuclear bombs to propel enormous interplanetary vehicles.
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this kinda thing is also a significant plot point in neal stephenson's anathem! that's where i first heard about it.
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It's not a bad idea once you get off-planet. Someday, one of the export products spent up the space elevator will be nuclear bombs to propel enormous interplanetary vehicles..
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The idea that Orion is inherently unclean is untrue. The reason a bomb can be dirty is the stuff that gets sucked into an explosion (including bomb casings) and then spread around. That is why normal ground-level detonations (where dust and soil gets sucked in) produce vastly more fallout than airborne ones.
In the late 50s, the calculation was 1 to 10 premature deaths per ground launch of Orion. That isn't 10 specific people die - but that 10 people would statistically die earlier than they otherwise would have.
I personally do not think that risk is unacceptable. Many thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of people die prematurely every single year because of industrial pollution from cars, factories, industry etc. Likewise hundreds of thousands of peoples are killed or injured in road accidents, every single year. While these are tragic, nobody says the risk is unacceptable and we better give up cars/industry/technology and return to living in caves.
Anyway, another point is the risk can be further reduced today. A modern Orion would use a ground-based pusher plate to reduce fallout, and would use better/lighter bombs so less casings to be sucked in too.
The two remaining problems are EMP (electro magentic pulse), legal and political. The EMP problem can be solved by a sea launch say near the South pole. The legal issue is that it is illegal to take nuclear weapons in space or explode them - but this could be resolved by renegotiating international treaties if there was political will. The political problem is the biggest problem - many people, often regardless of how little they know about nuclear technology and nuclear science, are against anything nuclear, because it sounds bad to them or believing too much bad late night scifi.
The reason we need Orion is its the only way we can get a substantial presence in space. One Orion is equivalent to hundreds, even thousands, of conventional rocks. If we don't start using energy and resources from space (the first step of which is a large presence beyond the Earth), we are going to wreck this planet before too long.
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huh?
1. materials don't BECOME radioactive do they? the dust and stuff from a ground explosion doesn't contribute to the "dirtyness" of the bomb does it?
2. why on earth would you LAUNCH with nukes? just use conventional rockets to get the thing into orbit (or just build it there) and then you can nuke away in space.
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That 01-1-10 deaths figure would presumably have been calculated on the LNT (linear no threshold) theory of radiation damage. While that is still politically accepted the hormesis theory that at a low level radiation is actually beneficial has the evidence going for it.
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/archives2/archives2mail/mail311.html#hormesis
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Did a speech in 80's including this method as alternative to STS. Also included matter/antimatter propulsion. Only problem I foresee is NASA's history of accidents! That would be huge..
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those monkey waiters are cute but you better tip them good or they might throw their sh*t at you.
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The pic of the nuclear explosion reminds me of the metamorph from the movie Lightyears
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Rain which does each the ground is called verga.
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Sorry. Rain which evaporates before it reaches the ground is verga. We have a lot of it in the Colorado mountains.
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BE CAREFUL BECAUSE THE WORD VERGA IN SPANISH IS A REALLY BAD WORD.
D.I.C.K.
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It's actually called
virga.
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too bad there's no chtulhu comic :(
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Hi fist of all love your blog I've checking it for years. Second thing, my wife makes notepads and stationary with lots of these prints you can see them at http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5858020 keep up the great posts
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Thanks for the very interesting selection. Speaking of italian sci-fi covers... be sure to check out the work of Karel Thole! His eerie covers got me interested in sci-fi literature when I was a little boy!
http://www.mondourania.com/urania/u301-320/urania301-320.htm
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Wow, gorgeous, amazing stuff. Artist buddy of mine, Jason Chalker, does a lot of pulp inspired paintings - well worth checking out http://www.manlyart.com/
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Man, I need to go to space, that's where all the lusty, well-endowed woman have been hiding themselves all these years!
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FREDRIC BROWN
not
FREDRICK
the typo is on the cover too
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WOW, incredible stuff!!
THX & best wishes
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What, no Ed Emshwiller? No Edd Cartier? No Jack Gaughan?
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Son geniales las ilustraciones de las revistas de ciencia ficción futurista, sobretodo las que continenen tentáculos y robots.
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Great art & artist...
But... no Richard M. Powers!
http://home.earthlink.net/~cjk5/
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Have you guys heard about Alex Ross? Check this link:
http://www.wildsvillegallery.com/catalog/index.php/artist/alex-ross
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Richard Powers... Ed Emshwiller... Edd Cartier... Jack Gaughan - wow, we definitely need part two!
Mind you most of these artists were famous for their paperback covers.
Wildman, thank you, Alex Ross is one the best artists for comic heroes.
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Absolutely impressive precis of a long neglected field of art.
Would be rendered more perfecter if only the awful neologism 'scifi' was replaced by the true shorthand phrase, SF or if you prefer sf.
Scifi is a ghastly term.
SF is soooooooooooooooooooooo much more sophisticated
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Badger42 - I would agree with you, but there is a very respectable site
Sci-Fi.com, so the tide of using this word is turning...
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Really very nice space..on day i have to show you my vision's of future... huts, and confratulations for the work!!
Do you know Mas Yendo? Search for it, you will be happy
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I believe that there is only one golden age of every art form. Perhaps visit me sometime at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/silverghost1951/ThePerilsOfKarenMorrow#
SG51
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Thank you Silverghost, this link has made my day... what a treasure trove of cool pulp art, fantastic.
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The pic of the baby deer is from www.cuteoverload.com.
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I think that the mystery pic is something from WarHammer 40000 or Warhammer online...
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The mystery pic is indeed something to do with that gaming stuff...
It's the exterior of the Games Workshop building in Lenton, Nottingham. More pics and info here:
http://www.lentontimes.co.uk/streets/willow_road.htm
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The clouds looks like the logo of Hi3G "3".
http://www.three.co.uk/personal/index.omp
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That tank is an American Stuart. Not a Soviet tank
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The clouds could likely be conical residue from a missile launch. Seen fairly commonly in Los Angeles from Vandenberg AFB launches.
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The mystery plant is Hydnora africana, a parasitic plant from Africa.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydnora_africana
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The jumping tank is an American Stuart model, showing a white star typical of the USA army camo scheme of the time.
The mistery place is Games Workshop's central office, makers of the Warhammer 40.000 strategic game (that's a Space Marine statue).
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I'm pretty sure the Warhammer stuff is out in front of their main offices in Memphis TN
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Thank you guys - post updated.
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The "Nortilucent clouds" appear to be instead the after affect of an early morning launch at the White Sands Missile Range, as seen from the Phoenix Metro area. The residue rocket fuel in the atmosphere is "lit up" by the rising sun. I at least THINK that is Superstition Mountain on the horizon.
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Why is the fan on the Lego V8 going backwards?
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Love this site.
"Rocket trails"
"Atmospheric Optics" is another good site that has some great stuff on atmospheric phenomena. Looks like they have another shot of the very same cloud:
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/highsky/rktr1j.htm
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...by the way those rocket trails look a lot more like nacreous clouds.
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/highsky/nacr1.htm
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Here are some pix from Switzerland. This is a private park dubbed the "car graveyard" :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32819147@N00/tags/carcemetery/
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Julie, what an interesting article. they're all look beautiful.
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I think we really feel the soul of the abandonned place in her photography.
She had a good sense of composition and light too : )
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Check out
www.opacity.usits the best collection of urban decay photos I've found
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I really love these. Julie, you do AMAZING work, I am really drawn to the staircases and the dryad image particularly! :) All of your artwork is so textural and really brings out the interestingly beautiful features of these abandoned places. Great interview, I enjoyed reading it!!
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great profile of a great photographer! Wonderful work, Julie!
-- flashframe
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Julie's work is amazing, so glad you featured it here - it deserves to be noticed by the world. Way to go, Julie.
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Check out Tarkovskiy's "Stalker". It's full of this.
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That church reminds me of the chapel at which I used to dump all my gold in the original Diablo. Weird!
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Wonderful pictures...I fell in love with the orange house =)
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These are just incredible. What's even more unbelievable is that you found them and take such exquisite photos and capture their energy and tragic beauty.
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Check out these pics from abandoned Detroit including the Heidelberg Project
http://www.flickr.com/photos/funkytreetown/sets/72157604938972817/
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Puggle? That's what you'd call a beagle/pug cross. Puggle dogs are, I'd say a damn sight more popular.
These babies look like some new character in Homestar Runner.
So adorable!
There is now video of me feeding my latest echidna at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOKjcfEnXeQ
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Wow. I love your photo sharing. Great pics, really. Stumbled your post. Keep on going.
At least now I know where comes the inspiration for the BM in the manga Bio-meat Nectar.
just look at the bottom of this page
http://www.onemanga.com/BioMeat_-_Nectar/35/21/ :)
Actually, the baby platypi are called puggles - it's the term for monotreme babies, not just echidnas. :) These guys are great, you've got to be careful with their delicate skin, but they really love to be held!
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