Great opportunity to see the assembly of these huge passenger jets - check out the info about visiting the Boeing Twin-Aisle Assembly Plant in Everett, Wash.
The plant's massive building is today recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest building in the world by volume.
Insightful and hilarious peeks into the "future past" - originally appeared in Locus, the magazine of the SF&F field.
2029: "Deep discounts on the farm-raised, naturally sweetened dessert parasites, already popular with Weight Watchers, are expected to boost sagging fast-food sales"
2119: "Hadron goes belly-up. The Franco-Swiss waste-disposal giant, whose curbside "micro-de-cyclers" have dominated the municipal refuse market for almost a century, files for bankruptcy. Hadron's stock has been sliding since Sao Paolo disappeared."
2029: "Rushmore erased. South Dakota's first terrorist attack hints at an ominous new coalition between al Qaeda, Earth First, and the American Indian Movement"
The "Mystery experiment" appears to be an archer attempting to shoot a balloon held in the mouth of the volunteer. In the photo, he appears to have aimed a little high, and just missed
Is this a book? If so I would love to purchase it. It is exactly what I was looking for for my 8 year old son. He has a big pile of metal and found objects in the garage. I wanted to give him a visual book for his b-day to inspire his creavtivity.If anyoe has any good ideas I would love to hear. Yvette
Octopus is a Greek word meaning 8 feet. As it is Greek, it shouldn't be written as Octopi. Only Latin words take 'i' for their plural. We should say octopuses, in the same way we should say platypuses, not platypi. :P
You missed out the Blanket Octopus. It's another really funky-looking one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpME-jNSC2U
David Taylor (a zoo vet who used to be on TV long before Animal Planet channel existed) had this story in one of his books about how he was supposed to pick up a giant Pacific octopus at the airport. When he opened the box to check, it slithered out, ran across the cargo room, and climbed onto a bicycle. He had a heck of a time untangling it, fortunately it didn't know how to ride.
1) the first one seems to me a lot like the motion detector from Aliens- it's good to know such a device could actually work. Like the Aliens device tho', it'll will be interesting to see how useful it actually is.
2)they mentioned jetpacks, but failed to mention the best one yet; the Matin Jetpack.
The blue Mercedes 230G that hagns on the building was an attempt by the bulgarian Radomir Pepelov to lift the jeep on top of his block. He bet with another guy for 10 000$ that he can do it and possibly get in Guiness book of records. Here are somer more photos: http://www.chambersz.com/index.php/content/view/10852/136/ http://www.chambersz.com/index.php/content/view/10853/112/
Re: The cop car shots... both the shot of the cop car half in the house & the one with the two OPP cars crashed together are actually Canadian cops... first is Toronto police & the OPP cars are Ontario Provincial Police :)
The cop car shots ... both the shot of the cop car half in the house & the one with the two opp cars crashed together are actually Canadian cops...first is Toronto police & the OPP cars are Ontario Provincial Police.
'Imagining the Tenth Dimension', both the book and animation, are considered to be something he made up as he went along by serious physicists. Before buying the book check out the comments from people with a science background at Amazon.com. It looks pretty but it's not real science!
I second Eric's recommendation, and likewise Anon's word of caution. It is important to note that there are different *theories* of how higher dimensions are composed and related. Considering time as the 4th dimension is one theory, while spatial-symmetry relationships (right/left, normal/mirrored) form another approach. Rudy Rucker's book on the 4th dimension is a good intro to this.
When it rained, the female operators of Colossus would strip to their underwear and hang their clothes do dry beside the hot machine. The building became a popular destination for the military's teenage messenger boys. Possibly the first association of computers with p*rn.
Oh, not this again. Grace Hopper didn't invent the term "bug", as you can pretty clearly tell if you look up the scans of the relevant log page (with preserved bug!) that are available online, and imagine why a person might write "First known case of an actual bug!" next to it.
What happened was, of course, that "bug" was a well-established term at the time (as any sufficiently detailed dictionary should confirm), but this was the first time it had been an actual bug rather than just a metaphor -- and Ms. Hopper, being a computer geek, found this funny enough to actually tape the bug into the official logbook.
It wouldn't have been nearly that funny if it were just a bug in the relay, without being the physically-realized pun. It would have just been, eww, smushed bug. And she couldn't have known that "the first bug" would be worth recording.
Nicely written article. However, in your introduction, when you "paraphrase" Asimov's "The Last Question", you should have cited Fredric Brown's one-page story, "Answer" (Is there a God?/Yes, now there is a god), which had been written five years before Asimov's story.
How can one mention Asimov’s Multivac in reference to the ultimate in fictional Supercomputer and not in the train of thought bring up Douglas’ Deep Thought…. I mean seriously Deep Thought was the size of a planet, had its own gravity, and only took 10 million years to determine that the answer to Life the Universe and everything was 42. Multivac on the other had does get props for consuming all the energy in the universe on the whim of two drunken sysops.
The MareNostrum is the best. I believe the spanish must be proud of their exotic yet powerful supercomputer. Talking about powerful, I'm not even have used my small laptop to its maximum capacity.
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The "Mystery experiment" appears to be an archer attempting to shoot a balloon held in the mouth of the volunteer. In the photo, he appears to have aimed a little high, and just missed
The picture of the orange soap opera seems to originate from http://weem.deviantart.com/art/Malaise-de-L-Orange-15973382
The fruit infidelity pics are from
'Malaise de L'Orange', here.
Mystery Photo:
President Barrack Obama being hazed his first week in office.
Is it just me, or does the experimental subject resemble the President? Perhaps it was a special transition toughening exercise?
A caption for that archery photo could be "Dude, you almost shot Brad Pitt".
Cause for some reason it looks like him.
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