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I visited the Miniatur Wunderland a couple of weeks ago. If you ever go to Hamburg, Germany, visit this at all costs. It really is incredible!
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Can you explain me why Dresden is in Germany (why not Saxony?), Istria is Croatia, Meteora is Greece... but Tossa de Mar is Catalonia (not Spain?). Thanks in advance.
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Neat! I live right near Waren! But the Müritz is a lake, not a river. (I know you were quoting another source so it's not your fault.)
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Anyone know why the majority of the propellers look like they're slightly ridged? Is it just due to manufacturing techniques, or does it improve efficiency or something? I would have thought it would lead to increased cavitation.
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They are pretty much smooth...but the metal shows the machining marks because they aren't POLISHED away.
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Really Awesome post Avi! I loved reading about some of the older propellers. Thanks so much!
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Awful props - man really makes awesome things for comfort
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Avi & Simon, you refer to some props as 'steel' or 'brass'. I think you'll find that in general they all are made of bronze, as this material posesses some very desireable qualities.
I admit that the props on the Jap sub and 'Great Britain' may have been from other materials.
Neil C: The ridging is a result of the machining process. The ridges look worse than they are: when you run a hand over one of these props, the ridges can hardly be felt. They are mainly due to differences in reflection, as a function of the rotating tool head.
Anti-cavitation properties and efficiency are generally achieved by the shape and profile of the blades and hub.
However, Anti-cavitation is an area, where science and black magic to some degree overlap. I woulden't be the slightest suprised to find out that ridges or surface patterns can reduce cavitation. Think shark skin.
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How about the propeller of the submarine revealed by google earth,
http://www.1913intel.com/files/propeller_for_submarine.jpg
Probably leaked on purpose, since there probably aren't any propeller driven sub in the US Navy anymore anyway.
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Really BIG!!!!
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That's really huge... I have no words for it. Unfortunately, I have never ever in my whole life travelled by a ship. So I have no idea what it would be, but as I'm seeing it should be wonderful, especially, if you have the luck to be on a such ship. Thanks for the article.
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My grandfather rode on a ship during WW2, during bad storms, he said the propeler would come out of the water and shake the whole ship realy hard. Needless to say, it made a lot of sailors sick.
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The first ABBA picture is from the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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I love the feel-good issues!
Thanks, DRB.
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This website completes me <3
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the rockin r bus looks like that b/c years ago there was a big flood in new braunsfels texas and i bet that bus was swept away and smashed into a tree.
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Why is it that every time I look up from a caption I see the wrong photo?
Don't put the captions above the photos. They don't belong there.
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Slight typo: The city where the church was transported to is called "Borna".
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About that "driving by faith" container. The secret is, that it's empty. It's secured from the front with a normal container twistlock, so it isn't going to drop or anything. Also note that extension bar underneath.
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"Two cars totalled"? Didn't notice the red one?? And judging from the white blankets on the red car, the cars being totalled is not the saddest part of this picture..
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The backhoe pulling itself onto top of a rail car is called a Cartopper. The company I used to work for (Herzog Contracting) modified these backhoes to load and unlode rail cars. Here is a video on them: http://youtu.be/Q4toJA5EXcM
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The tracker and trailer being lifted up is probably unloading potatoes.
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Not sure if it counts as a disaster - based on what I was told. Note - no dumpers were hurt in this exercise.
Two new dumpers got bogged down in loose mud in an North Indian open cast coal mine and their recovery would take some time. The GM was due to visit the site the next day.
Rather than showcase themselves as incompetent and unable to recover their prize dumpers from the mud, the local maintenance people decided to completely bury the dumpers under a small mountain of overburden.
During the visit, the GM was told that the dumpers were out on the field (where they should be). Past the visit, the dirty dumpers were recovered and were put back in service after a good wash.
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Chinese bridge= flashfloods & quakes destroyed foundations- seemed perfectly ok for everyday traffic until an overdimensional attempted the crossing.
Quite a common in Asia (luckily the bridges are not too hgigh).
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Beautiful post, amazing gallery...!
Thanks DRB
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Thank for highlighting Glass Garage and their artists. Definitely a distinct voice, beautiful realism, excellent craftsmanship imaginative concepts!
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Great stuff! The dino bridge reminds me of Key Bridge over the Potomac to Georgetown in DC:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/starbuck77/2585256193/
And even more strongly resembled Taft Bridge/Connecticut Ave. Bridge over Rock Creek in DC:
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/17889739
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Anything with dreaming in it is cool people should tap into their dreams more often.
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I used to avoid traffic jams on the tram railway with my XR600R too, back in... don't remember, I guess 1993? 94? I was always late to go to uni!
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That show on the last one is called "New Girl." Raising Hope is a different show.
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Mansion + McDonald's = McMansion!
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I feel compelled to mention that the McDonald's mentioned in this article is actually located on Long Island, in New York.
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Colani's designs are pure eye candy. Ever since I first saw his work in the old OMNI magazine years ago, I've drooled at his design genius. This has been no exception. In my humble opinion, only Syd Mead ranks with him. (Hint!)
That...car? Van? The one in B/W next to the dune buggy? I want that one...badly! What's it called, and are any other pictures available?
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Eye candy, sure. Practical sense, not so much - IMHO, textbook "l'art pour l'art".
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The truck has a look-alike from the '80s TV series, "The Highwayman"
As seen here:http://images.hemmings.com/wp-content/uploads//2009/09/highwaymanstealth_02_resized.jpg
-Grognard
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One of the things that has always struck me about Colani is that he seems not to recognize that the sun shines in a lot of places. The amount of sloped glass present in nearly every model would turn the interiors into furnaces. Also, while I'm all in favor of aerodynamic efficiency, it also results in lots of wasted interior space that cannot be used, long slopes with no headroom and no storage options. Sacrificing ergonomics for style is art, not design.
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