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Right about now a remote tropical island looks pretty good to me. I enjoyed this post.
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Wonder how much it would cost to buy and renovate this kind of old rig. It would be great to live in such a place :p
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Looks like a cool place to visit!
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Hey, get me to all that nice place.-smile-
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You can see it on Google satellite maps, very high resolution actually.
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is the island of LOST!!!
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Absolutely fascinating! I want to go there, as I'm sure many others do too. It's best we don't though as it'd get ruined pretty quickly. I'm glad there are sites like this to learn from.
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Back before Mac OS X, the Macintosh operating system had a Map control panel. If you typed "Middle of nowhere" in the text box and hit Enter, the map cursor would land on Tristan da Cunha.
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It's a paradise.. I would love to visit the island. Hope I can do it one day..
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anyone know the coordinates?
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37° 6'18.90"S
12°16'39.66"O
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How about the Easter Island?
How remote is that?
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I am from St Helena! Everyone should see this place!
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This is, in fact, a fantastic world!...The island was first sighted in 1506 by a Portuguese sailor, Tristão da Cunha, but he didn´t land due to high clifs all arround the island. I just can imagine what these explorers, such as Livingstone and Magellan (Magalhães), may wonder when they discover places like this. Imagine you start hearing some distant but intense noise in middle of inexplored jungle in Central Africa and finally get a first sight of the Victoria Falls... Feel so envy!
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I looked on Google Earth, but couldn't find the oil rig.
Those islands look like my kind of place, wonder if they have a radio station!
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They DO have a radio station! Wonder if they need a broadcast engineer!?!?
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Great post, very interesting. Thanks
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Abandoned oil rig; nice! The responsible company who abandoned it should dismantle it.
Yeah, let's to that to the Artic refuge in Alaska!
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I would live there... no problems! Would mean going back a few decades in technology, but id find a way to bring some wind turbines to get me enough electricity to run a few luxuries
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Why are there no trees? It isn't that far south.
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This is not the remotest place on earth. Go to Google Earth and find this island. Now pan back. You'll notice a little green baloon a bit down and to the right.
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dammit, someone beat me to the punch. i was going to say "craphole island!".
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When the zombie outbreak happens, this is where i will move. hehehe
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If I'm ever featured on America's Most Wanted, this is the place I would run to!
Looks like a cool place to visit, but how long and where would you stay? I didn't read anything about an airport, and even the South Pole gets mail more often than once a year.
I wonder how the diving is?
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Any attractive women there?
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Tristan da Cunha is not the most remote island in the world! Bouvet is!
Tristan da Cunha is the most remote archipelago in the world.
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I'd love to go urban exploring on that oil rig.
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That oil rig demands its own post.... let us know if you'd get more pictures!
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Right about now a remote tropical island looks pretty good to me. I enjoyed this post.
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Wonderful posting, really !
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Great post, I wish there were more pictures and meet some people from the island. How much would a boat trip be and how long would it take? Thanks again.
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Any attractive women there??
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would love to visit one of these places
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I thought that that oil rig would be the coolest place in the world to live. Then I found this.
Oh Noes! Oh well... Nothing lasts forever.
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Looks like an amazing place to visit, but I couldn’t handle it for more than a couple of weeks, unless there were lots of beautiful virgins.
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I have been here! I was sailing across the Atlantic and stopped here for about six hours. It is a fascinating place, I have never seen anything like it. the people are incredibly friendly, and their homes can become a restaurant or a doctor's office whenever the need arises! I visited the school and the kids love to play soccer. We were careful to not buy out the tiny supermarket when we were there-only one chocolate bar per person! the surrounding landscape is also quite beautiful. Very remote, and a long lasting memory!
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Right about now I would love to send my wife there, on a one way ticket.lol. Seriously, what an amazing place.
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Amazing! it kinda makes me want to visit. Simply to see how it must feel to be sooo remote.
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wow, nice review
and a hell of a site, congrats!
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I'm from a place not as remote but once shrouded in as much mystery. We have been transformed over the years from a small piece of "escape to paradise" to a busy, bustling, almost completely urban and modern comopolitan destination. The current generation thinks they are living the life. (But)It's a shame for the next generation and a heartbreak for the last one.
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Great photos... How do you get there?
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What a beautiful place. And for the rock-hopper penguin - Nice hair!
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Oil rig was disposed of in February 2007.
http://www.gard.no/ikbViewer/page/iknowbook/ajax/view?p_document_id=52750
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This island is a drain on the British economy. It should be decolonised like other former British possessions. Sovereignty could be transferred to Brazil and it could become a Special Adminstrative Island of Brazil i.e. it could have Home Rule with Brazil only in charge of defence and foreign relations. The islanders could keep their British passports or take up Brazilian passports. The islanders could be given free college and university education in Brazil (and free transport annually) as part of the tranfer of sovereignty deal.
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The building in 'post-apocalyptic Moscow' is actually in Warszawa, Poland (see
here)
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Re: Aerocar - Gorgeous! And it's especially darling with the wings and tail removed.
When I finally get around to writing the mixed-up 1930s-60s vacuum-tube-punk pulp masterpiece, my heroine will certainly drive something just like that.
And then when I become filthy rich by selling the option to Hollywood, I'll buy that one.
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Wow, the wife in that video is suicidal or something...
Especially love that crazy monster plate. I want dishes like that in my cupboard
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The angel statue is the "Angel of grief".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_of_Grief
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I want one of those fancy blood orange KitKats.
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The angels hiding their faces are pretty cool -- but don't look away. Don't even blink.
Blink and you're dead.Beware of the weeping angels....
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I want the silverware in that dish picture.
The plate is pretty awesome too. XD
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Most of the "If Women Controlled the World" images are from Worth1000:
http://www.worth1000.com/galleries.asp?rel=If+Women+Ruled&display=photoshop&id=10467
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Warsaw (World) without us, more info
http://www.mondolithic.com/?p=64
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Thanks!
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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
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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!
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Pettter - I am curious if anybody would believe it's true. I'd like to speak with this person :)
glad you like DRB
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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.
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The image in the The Smallest Refrigerator (Cooler) is actually a Scanning Electron Microscope image.
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Hobbiton's in the Midlands, or just possibly the Cotswolds, not where London is!
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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.
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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.
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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 ;)
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Anonymous picture is a CBU-26 cluster bomblet, american, vietnam era.
http://www.vietnamgear.com/kit.aspx?kit=511
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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.
;)
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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?
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ha... I think you nailed it
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Ebeneezer you beat me to it!
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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).
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Thank you guys - you got the answer - post updated.
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the "Bender" picture is superimposed over a scene in a movie titled "Casablanca".
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You mean Bender wasn't really in it? :(
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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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WAT A NICE PICS...VERY IMPRESSING..AS A BIOLOGY STUDENT I CAN RELATE..NYC ONE DUDE..EHEHE
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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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