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Gorgeous pictures! Who knew life so small could be so pretty =).
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Wow dude that is way cool. Pretty neat stuff.
jess
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wow, just looking at that pollen makes me want to sneeze - very pretty though.
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OK - that does it for me. I'll never look at a frozen pizza the same way again.
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Hi all at drb. You have all put together one of the BEST Websites EVER. Just a note to say how much i enjoy your site. Thank You
regards,
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when these types of machines were reported on 'alternative news' websites (read: conspiracy theory) decades ago, the posters were called nuts, tin hat wearing conspiracy theorists.
i guess you're one as well, even though you have pictures :)
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19m diameter... that is insane
I was totally unprepared for that. This type of stuff is truly hard-core engineering (no pun intended, but I'll enjoy the serendipity of it)
I can barely even fathom what the project management is like for the design and development of those (both TBMs and tunnel systems alike.) One minor error could be hugely compounded. Remarkable, great post!
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Hi there. I've been a huge fan of DRB for years now, and it's this kind of post that I love. Fantastic, imagination-catching stuff. Wow, can you imagine the consequences of forgetting to carry the 1 on an alignment equation??
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"when these types of machines were reported on 'alternative news' websites (read: conspiracy theory) decades ago..."
Huh? Which sites were you on in the 70s and 80s?
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"when these types of machines were reported on 'alternative news' websites (read: conspiracy theory) decades ago..."
Huh? Which sites were you on in the 70s and 80s?
LOL, nice catch!
OT: Love the post. Incredible machines!
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Look
here for a view of what looks to be an endpoint for the Little Skull Mountain tunnel.
The internet (combining various maps and commentaries) suggests that the area in question is Nevada Test Site Area 25, and given the fact that that's a tunnel, the best guess is it is or was used for
underground depleted uranium testing (of projectiles or armor or both).
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To all the fans - thank you! your good words keep us going.
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thank you for all. great site!!:)
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Thank you for the great post.
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Strabag AG is not the type of the machine but the construction company which owns it (www.strabag.com)
But anyhow nice article.
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Really nice blog!
I have seen the original photo 'an inquisitive cat' on Flickr... This is the link :)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinsteele/231795031/
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Thank you Marie, credit added.
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What's under the photos of Africa stops being funny after seeing that poor child shot in the legs.
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Hey - those cartoons are great! I love that black Humor. It reminds me a bit of the old "Parking Lot is full" cartoons - http://plif.courageunfettered.com/ - worth a look if you haven't seen them already!
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The truck tire hole looks suspicious to me. Why is the rubber inside the hole the same color and wear as the outside of the tire? Shouldn't it be somewhat cleaner rubber?
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I agree that the punctured tire photo is almost certainly fake.
Not only is the image dubious, but the physics behind it doesn't make sense.
Those traffic cones are relatively flexible, and hollow all the way through; a tire like that would smash it flat, not be cut through by it.
(And especially not in such a regular way, and while STILL smashing the cone flat and off to one side.)
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Sigivald...
It's possible the orange cones were placed there to mark the spot of the STEEL PIPE STICKING VERTICALLY FROM THE GROUND which may, or may not, be able to cut a piece of rubber out of a tire that has several tons of pressure on it.
As for the cut being dirty, the tire probably made quite a few rotations over dirt after the puncture was made. Since it's part of a dual they took the truck off the site to fix it.
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the truck tire hole is a fake. period.
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The last pic is from The Creature From The Haunted Sea. Really bad old horror movie.
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Thank you Floze, credit added, plus link to your other images. The Big Brother never slumbers, nor sleeps.
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I love those speed-stacking-cup kids! Imagine practicing a routine like that when they should be sitting in front of a TV playing video games!
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A desktop that pours beer? Yess!!
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The USB copying device looks useful to me - for organisations that give away USB drives with presentations on as an advertising gimmick.
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31 USB ports? not 32?
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See USB horn-doggies at
http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/japanfan/9c89/
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Usb.brando.com mixer would be great alarm for morning:
Get up and turn it off quickly, because otherwise you'll have to pick up the balls all around your room!
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Y'all know the USB Grill is an April Fool's Joke, right?
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Oh lord, that video, when the geek squeaks his cheeks to get moving & the music pauses was too funny. Thanks for the laugh! :D
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Probably a parking garage, not a vending machine.
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It's not a parking garage. Vending machine isn't too far off. The picture is of Palette Town in Odaiba, Tokyo and the cars are part of the Mega Web Toyota showroom. You pick a car you want to see by pushing a button and a giant conveyor belt system rotates the vehicles around until your selection is in view. It's pretty awesome.
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I like the video on the Pimped Office Cubicles link where the office workers show how they converted their colleague's cube into a tiny house while he was on vacation.
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Japan is small, but creative !
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The Absolutely Monstrous Machine Found Somewhere in Russia, would most likely have been used for deicing and drying runways.(Because of the aircraft in the background) It's basically a jet engine mounted on a truck and the hot exhaust is directed at the runway surface.
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Creepy. Nice post!
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all coasters has been manufactured by italian industry Zamperla
http://www.zamperla.it/
ciao
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It´s remember me the movie "Chihiro´s travel" from Miyazaki.
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Wow..! Great post, that place must be creepy at night
;)
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Okpo Land was very peaceful at night. We went up there at 2am while very drunk. The third picture from the bottom with the swirling lights was taken from the ride as it was rotating, and we could see the city way below.
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FYI,
I would like to correct
some mistakes here.
First of all, the author of this post was not actually supposed
to go inside. It's forbidden
to go inside as it will be
under construction very soon.
Second, it's not likely abandoned.
Around the resort, there are gonna
be new housing area(apartments), and the resort will be transformed
to bigger park!
hope this helped u guys understand!
if you wanna see pictures,
pls refer to the pictures below.
http://pds54.cafe.daum.net/image/10/cafe/2008/06/28/17/57/4865fccfe88fe
http://pds83.cafe.daum.net/image/14/cafe/2008/07/28/15/47/488d6b848cb1f
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Hey Anonymous,
You obviously have no idea what urban exploring is if you think I made a mistake.
There were no signs, in Korean or otherwise, forbidding entrance. Nobody stopped us, despite the fact we were crawling around there for several hours and seen by many people.
Thanks for posting your pictures. If there is anything South Korea needs more of, it's soulless highrises.
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It's great that you guys were able to take pictures of this place, since this place will be gone soon due to the apartment complex construction plan throughout the area. The price of the land in Seoul and its suburban areas including Suwon is considerably expensive because of "supply and demand". (e.g. 1300 ft2 of apartment, not a house, costs minimum $300,000 average and up.-plz google the population density in these areas if interested.) And that's why people would like to utilize this piece of land to build more housing to live.
By the way, FYI, it's kind of sad and true that Koreans really don't talk to Foreigners because of the language barrier. Don't be surprised!
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Just so everyone's clear:
-A city of 1 million may be large by western standards, but in Asia it's relatively small, especially when it's a little south of a city of 10 million.
-A site is abandoned if it has been vacated and is awaiting demolition. The two significantly large neighbourhoods of vacated houses awaiting demolition that are within five minutes of my home are abandoned.
-Not everyone sees beauty the same way. The Japanese have a word, haikyo, which relates to the hidden beauty found in sites like this. There are hundreds of people all over the world who seek out places like this. Korea is not unique in this way.
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I want that big, green gargoyle! ^_^
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Remember the movie "Big", with T Hanks...the wish machine is somewhere in those parks.
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Anonymous,
we see the beauty in these places. When we say weird or creepy we really mean cool. :)
Where are these abandoned neighborhoods you speak of?
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"It´s remember me the movie "Chihiro´s travel" from Miyazaki."
I believe this film was released in the U.S. as "Spirited Away."
(Chihiro's Dad mistakes a portal to the spirit world for the entrance to an abandoned amusement park; surreal eerieness ensues).
Yes, I had the same thought, looking at those pictures.
This and "Castle in the Sky" by Miyazagi are amazing, and well worth renting; but do not select the English language version: it changes the stories too much. Read subtitles on the original Japanese-soundtracks.
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awesome
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I'm sad to report that the front gate arch has been removed.
South Korea is filled with large abandoned neighbourhoods. In the near future I'm thinking of putting together a report on them for this site, but for now you can see a ton of photos on my site.
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Too bad you weren't able to get inside the floating restaurant with the windmill. Maybe come back at night and borrow one of the boats to get across. Would suck if the door leading up turned out to be locked.
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Oh, I later got into two of the floating restaurants. The one titled "...and another one" has some pretty cool stuff inside.
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This is the first time I can ever say, on any comments on any web page, "FIRST!"
I know, I know. It's been done before.
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Mysterious objest is one of US bomblets, not sure about this type, but it seems to be scaterable anti-personel mine. When hitting ground, holder (five star-like objects held together) falls off releasing spring-fired tripwires. After shord delay needed to settle down, mine is ready, so hitting tripwire mahes it BOOM
The Flying Penguin video was an April's fools production by BBC this spring, as can be seen on this Telegraph link:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1583517/Flying-penguins-found-by-BBC-programme.html
Thanks for a great site, by the way!
Pettter - I am curious if anybody would believe it's true. I'd like to speak with this person :)
glad you like DRB
Engineer Xavier Borg doesn't convince me that his ideas comprise anything that is not already known to science. In fact I don't even see a theory in his 2 pages of writings.
The image in the The Smallest Refrigerator (Cooler) is actually a Scanning Electron Microscope image.
Hobbiton's in the Midlands, or just possibly the Cotswolds, not where London is!
I've been to the Marrakech market, and those stall owners are the best salesmen I've seen. If you simply pass by them and glance their way, they make you feel guilty for not buying.
Anonymous post 1 is correct on the unknown object it is most definitly a bomblet, to be precise it is a cluster bomblet. They are used both as anti-personel and anti-vehicle devices.
Avi:
Oh, I have no doubt whatsoever about that, considering the beliefs of some people,
On the other hand, my faith in humanity may not be on the most healthy of levels ;)
Anonymous picture is a CBU-26 cluster bomblet, american, vietnam era.
http://www.vietnamgear.com/kit.aspx?kit=511
I am quite disappointed with all of you. The "Mystereous object" is OBVIOUSLY the Holy Handgrenade of Antioch!"
Bah! People these days. No sense of history.
;)
Hmm, about the image with the foot- and wingprints in the snow... couldn't it just have been a bird landing and walking through the snow?
ha... I think you nailed it
Ebeneezer you beat me to it!
Its a cluster bomb unit "bomblet". But I'm not sure whose it is -- It doesn't look like the US ones, and might be a Russian or Eastern Bloc unit CBUs were manufactuered by 34 different countries, and have been used by a number of countries and non-state organizations (such as Hezbollah in Lebanon in 2006).
Thank you guys - you got the answer - post updated.
the "Bender" picture is superimposed over a scene in a movie titled "Casablanca".
You mean Bender wasn't really in it? :(
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