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I wonder if some of these are formed when vugs fill with secondary minerals then get weathered out of volcanic deposits. The fact that some have the same general structure as geodes would indicate this.
For other formations - the Plan of Jars is interesting. And, of course the Race Track in Death Valley.
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This is a fun post. I read about concretions when I was writing about the Red Rock Coulee boulders in Alberta and later the Moeraki concretions featured here. There were many reports of concretions found around the world and a humorous cartoon of a geologist with a concretion formed around his foot because he had been studying rocks in a river for too long. Thanks for asking me about my photo and I will be checking out more posts later.
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In the documentary "Forbidden Archeology" you can see some mysterious stones found in African mines. They appear to be man-made, extremely hard to process/manipulate and last but not least: Carbon dated to 2 Billion years of age!
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_s-ghg93DCrQ/TVBhEvHL5HI/AAAAAAAACpc/3u5zsBI2AeM/s1600/sphere.jpg http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_s-ghg93DCrQ/TVBhEvHL5HI/AAAAAAAACpc/3u5zsBI2AeM/s1600/sphere.jpg
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My links didn't come through, http://miscellaneous-pics.blogspot.com/2009/05/metal-spheres-found-in-2-million-year.html
appearantly they are METAL, sorry about my previous post :-)
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Montana hoodoo sphere - was God a huge alien golfer?
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The second and fourth images after the olmec reference are concretions found in rock city park near minneapolis kansas.
they seem to be geologically related to the so-called mushroom rocks a few miles southwest of these.
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There is a tea house/restaurant on the bluff above the Moeraki boulders. Once when I was there they had a cutout from a newspaper article about the rocks with the headline 'The world has lost its marbles, and we know where they are'.
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Nice post! Especially about the Mouraki boulders and the moqui balls. I think 'The devils marbles' in Australia are a nice addition to this list of phenomena:
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/CGouNHTwTor_ka4q38xAaA?feat=directlink
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/WlW3Wa0N0t0h7eojucrSWg?feat=directlink
ps: I also couldnt resist the rocks in New-Zealand:
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/RN6aLX_FvQQ7jpxAJLK_gQ?feat=directlink
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Though probably not as "mysterious" (or neatly spherical), but I'd say just as spectacular are the "giant's causeway" hex-tile columns in Ireland...
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That first image is shopped like crazy.
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Try Google "trovanti" :)
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Petrified Dinosaur Eggs :)
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Carbon dating is generally used for the range 200 to 40,000 years Before Present. Beyond that, there's not usually enough C-14 left for a reliable date.
Rocks on erosion pillars are an interesting phenomenon. Compressed rock generally is tougher and weathers more slowly. If a hard boulder is left on softer rock by erosion, the wind will wear away the softer - less compressed - rock faster, until only that directly under the boulder is left. Eventually, even that wears away, but in the meantime you have these sometimes quite large rocks on tall, spindly spires.
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Part 1 I hope?
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Correct; let us know tips and links for Part 2. We should be doing this indefinitely, until our perpetual motion engine gives up.
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The "syphon" attributed to Robert Boyle couldn't be a syphon. Syphons work because the output is lower than the input, allowing the conversion of potential energy to kinetic.
I believe it was an attempt to use the fact that the weight of fluid in the wide part of the funnel is larger than in the thinner part, so (as the theory went) the fluid would be pushed round the loop.
Of course, this is nonsense, since the height of the fluid will equalise between the two arms.
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Perpetual Motion Squad.It reminds me When Escher’s Waterfall Became A Reality On Video.
http://goo.gl/j8ZZh
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to the author and everyone else please research the rodin coil and vortex mathmatics
a good starting place would be here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzfgq1zv8jg
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The perpetual syphon would totally work as long as the output is small enough to prevent air back into the tube.
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They missed the best one: the only one that actually works. It has been built and patented, but is not stable enough for commercial use.
http://www.cheniere.org/misc/astroboots.htm
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I think this discussion will just go on and on...
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A few years back, reading a 'Wired' mag in the bookstore, there was an article about some older guy who said he could make such a machine, and was experimenting on something that looked like a big ferris wheel, anyone know about that or what happened to it? Guessing it failed or he died since it has not become news, cheers
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All of the motor-magnetism perpetual motion machines cooked up recently have one feature in common ... permanent magnets.
They usually generate "free" electricity by slowly degrading the magnetism in the permanent magnets by one means or another.
Power produced is always less than the power required to make the magnets that are expended.
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I found Wall-E in 5 seconds ;)
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You forgot an the "l" in "html" in the link.
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Thank you. Fixed.
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Great imagination, but these concepts are just absurdly impossible and rather jarring to look at.
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Loved this post. Isn't the human imagination wonderful.
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I'm the first to applaud a non-conformist building design, but lots of concepts these days seem to be all about being outlandish with zero regard to practical usability; much of the organic craze looks suspiciously like "just because we finally can build like that (and want to be as different as possible for the sake of being as different as possible)".
Anyway, my grand prize always goes to those "we'll need to build it using adamantium, but we'll surely have it by then" loonies. If it really works like that, I can has my teleport gates and warp drive now please (oh, and don't forget my flying car and robot servant)...?
Also, on a related note, it might not be quite such a good idea to quote Tesla in this day and age when he kinda seems to be remembered more for the lunacy of some of his ideas than the genius of those that he actually got right, especially those concerning "wireless power"...
...nevertheless, nice roundup. :)
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Looks like these several of these architects are compensating for something...
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Thank you Max, good comment; I want my teleport gates now too. But I am really excited by the idea of combining the skyscraper and the airship. Not practical? Maybe. But this was the dream of SF writers since the 1920s.
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Goodness...all the naysayers need to relax and learn how to DREAM! Who knows...maybe we're heading into an age that will allow such marvelous things to actually happen!
Loosen the cage around your imaginations!
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While these are all great feats of engineering, personally I prefer architecture that is softer on the eye. Traveling to places that have old-world architecture is more my scene.
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Nikola Tesla, much like Albert Eisntein, gave up when he realised that the world [or close associates] did with his ideas. We have no way of knowing whether his 'crazier' concepts would actually work - bearing in mind that no-one else managing to make them work is *not* evidence that they wouldn't.
As for the advanced materials required, there's this lovely stuff called graphine that could be ideal, if ways can be found to produce it cost effectively.
Meanwhile, here's to the dreamers!
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I admire creativity but in design terms prefer simple classical architecture, up to five floors, just nice and roomy with some quality local artisanship, accordant to the environment
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Arcology rocks, thanks for the link
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I'd think the Floating structures would be possible if you could build them large enough (volume increases faster than surface area as you scale up, so you can use more of the surface areas of big baloons than small ones), I guess the difficulty with them is preventing a catastrophic failure.
The rest look more reasonable, although there might not be a lot of usable space in the lower levels.
And yeah, it's the inside of the building that really matters. A pretty outside is nice but there's not much point in building these if nobody's going to enjoy being inside them.
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Yeah, this organic style literally makes me nauseous. It makes me think of the vital organs dripping out of some giant body in the sky. Horrid.
The straight edges and regular angles of midcentury modern designs give me a feeling of confidence and comfort, and make me think of a steady hand, working diligently with discipline to construct a rational environment.
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Hi, the building in the image top right below this caption "The flowing shapes of this skyscraper remind us of the work of late Jan Kaplicky..." is actually the Selfridge's building, part of the Bullring complex in Birmingham, England. I walk past id daily! if you Google the images for Birmingham Selfridge's you'll see a few more interesting views of this modern architectural marvel.
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Another wonderful post, thanks a lot.
Everyone's obsessed with skyscrapers, aren't they? Almost all of them consist of redesigning skyscrapers.
The "tree" shaped ones are pretty cool. But the "flat" ones are the best, because they're a shift from the usual norm.
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Here's one you missed. A man with a plan!
http://www.victorycities.com/simpson.html
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The map projections distorts the sizes and distances.
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The map projection is imposing, but distance is relative. I live in the Netherlands (on the map somewhere in Canada), which you can travel from north to south in about 3 hours. But when I travel in a plane for about 2 to 3 hours, I can be in a different country and even in another continent with a totally different culture if I want to. Holidays are real fun this way.
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The part of the sculpture with the cat is from Tom Otterness "The Real World", Battery Park, New York. I don´t know it myself, but I know the "Überfrau" from him in my hometown very well and recognized the style. Three googles further and I found it on his website tomostudio.com.
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Just watched on youtube american girls converted to islaam. And foto of muslim women with sewing machine on the head... Its like metaphor for me. Headless tool. So sad.
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HI ~
Has nothing to do with Japan. :)
That is the Chinese.
Products sold in South Korea and China.
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This is sold from Taobao - they sell in Japan as well as China. The clock itself is designed in Korea, like we said.
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thx comments.
taobao site's language is Chinese.
And the clock is written in Korean letters.
So he used the title because the Japanese do not have one.
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So how does it work? Does it detect the point where the line crosses over onto the clock face and sound an alarm at the appropriate time?
With such a small clock with only four numbers on it seems like it could be quite hard to get it accurate, I could easily imagine it being half an hour out.
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That isn't "Lee Marvin as Chino in the Wild One", it's Jack Nicholson in Rebel Rousers.
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54 and 70.
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36 is Maori from NZ
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7! He's a natural awesome.
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Number 66 is not from the London riots, It is Simon Pegg from his movie Hot Fuzz
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Patricia Piccinini is an Australian Artist
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15, by far... trying to make this face...
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I like the photo of the woman who runs the subway and looking surprised towards the dummy.
Regards
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is the pure essence of "WTF i´m reading"
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45: that good looking guy on the left is Oderus Urungus (Dave Brockie), the lead singer of the Band GWAR.
The right person is a groupie or so?!
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3!!! How freaking cool is this guy!
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71 was at Burning Man 2002
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73. He looks like a friend of mine.
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I'm pretty sure that's Mad Professor, aka Neil Joseph Stephen Fraser, not Herbie Hancock. The album cover that is from is: http://www.ebreggae.com/Reggae/CD/563/Mad-Professor-Dub-Me-Crazy-5-Who-Knows-Secret-Of-The-Master-Tape.html
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Number 4 is actually a picture of Buddy Holly. Really.
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71 is h20 boy, who played with OK Go at maker faire 2010
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73.
by the way,He's brazilian...
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I think you'll find Jack Nicholson is wearing prison stripes, not pin stripes....
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Cab-over in Europe is largely because of length-economics: there's regulations concerning total truck length so by moving the engine under the cab you can have more load-space.
And there's less clutter because of safety regulations: less pointy bits mean less gruesome damage to pedestrians and cyclist when having an accident. Notice the smooth sticking-out bits on the corners, these are both for aero dynamics as well as extra impact absorption.
All this reflects that in Europe roads are a bit smaller, cities are tighter and there's more mixed road-use.
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"but what is it, exactly? "
That's an easy one. It's the blade from a wind turbine. The big ones are massive.
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mm47 is right, it looks like a windmill blade (or possibly a set of three).
Also, that "ultimate mobile home" rig looks like it's pulling a horse trailer or some other kind of racing team trailer. It might very well have some living quarters on board, but every time I've ever seen that layout, it was for horses, motorcycles or dirt track racers. Does anyone know anything about that particular truck? I can see text on the trailer, but the glare from the chrome makes it impossible to read.
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We did write about this super RV before - see more info and pictures inside
Ultra Rigs, Part 1.
As for the wind turbine blade, you can see the transporting and erecting of wind turbine
here (scroll down), their blades can be very long indeed...
Jeff, also, great comment on European trucking, thank you.
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The placement of the "what is it, exactly" caption is why some articles on this site are confusing to read. I thought it was referring to the next photo. Either put the captions only above the photo or below it and keep it consistent.
The multiple windows on the side of the "mobile home" shows that it is indeed a horse trailer. The windows can be opened for horses standing next to each other.
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Speaking of "improper" use of trucks,
here you can find some photos and technical specifications of the trucks (also light trucks and cars) used for several (12) expeditions around the world by the the italian tv show "Overland: World Truck Expedition"
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Sweden owns Europe.
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There's a second truck partially visible in a half-way in the wind turbine blade picture, so Australian truck trains are still longer.
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Okay what in the world is that really looooong thing? Geez
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Fixed "what is it, exactly" placement. Thanks for noticing it.
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as the old saying goes,
OLD TRUCK DRIVERS NEVER DIE,THEY JUST GET A NEW "PETERBUILT"
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