This crow in Russia has taken to roof tubing: it clearly got addicted to sliding down the roof in a plastic ring... Perhaps other crows and birds will follow suit?
This harrowing image of the shark "monster" contemplating puny humans (and the strength of the diving cage) comes from National Geographic 2011 Photo Contest.
We featured the exciting futuristic visions by Daniel Simon - "the vehicle designer for this and other galaxies" - before on DRB: see our interview Cosmic Motors Art.
Since then, this undisputed master of futuristic vehicle design went on to Hollywood to work on "Captain America" and "Tron Legacy" movies, and the upcoming Tom Cruise movie "Oblivion".
One of our favorite sites, Core77, has recently interviewed Simon about his movie projects and his thoughts on concept design in general - see their videos Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.
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Meanwhile in Greenland...
Cute Arctic hares are huddling in the snow (read more about Arctic hares here). Bottom right image: Kulusuk, Kulusuk Island, East Greenland -
This 1964 land-speed record vehicle was powered by an F-104 Starfighter jet engine with four-stage afterburner. Perhaps this warrants an article of its own...
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The following is a short round-up of the best from our Facebook stream (which update every day with unique material, not available on DRB otherwise):
This is not going to work:
(original unknown, via Reddit)
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Say Hello to a Kitchen Robot! - Japan, 1969:
And a Hubot! Made in 1983, this was a sophisticated personal household robot - more info.
"Hubot is 44-inch tall battery-operated personal robot, which can remember how to get around the house without bumping into walls. Hubot includes a complete mobile workstation, an Entertainment package and robotic functions. The entertainment package included a voice synthesizer with a 1200-word vocabulary, a 12" black and white television, and AM/FM stereo cassette player, an Atari 2600 video game set and a digital clock that displayed time and temperature. Inside is a complete proprietary SysCon computer with B&W monitor, Detachable keyboard and optional printer which is used to do computing task and control the robotic functions. There was an optional voice command module that included a microphone to command Hubot verbally."
"Established over 40 years ago as a fast, efficient and futuristic means of crossing to France, the service was seen as the future of sea travel. The Princess Margaret went on its first trip in 1968 (this photo was taken in 1997), but in 2005 the service was cancelled and the giant SR.N4s now sit at the Hovercraft museum at Lee-On-Solent."
The king of the 'BBC bird's eye' vids has got to be the Gos Hawk from a few years back... (possibly featured here, I can't remember - long time fan ;))...
Wonderful! By the time I was a kid in the 70s in the UK the scene was very homogenous, it was all about the Bedford CF (as chosen by Banksy - and The KLF) - even a Ford Transit ice cream van was a relatively uncommon sight.
(N)ice!! I lived for a few years in Utrecht, and often saw that cute icecream truck, it's right on the middle of a bridge below the Dom-tower. Supercool to see it here on DRB!
Mr Whippy vans were common in Melbourne during the 1960s, but there must have been a dispute over naming rights. The local Mr Whippy became John Creamy (I think) but kept that pink and white colour scheme. There's still one rolling around Perth in pink and white today. I think he's stalking me - first I'd hear that damn Greensleeves around the neighbourhood at home, then he started cruising the industrial area where I worked. Would he go away if I bought an icecream?
you cannot see this with your own eyes...something yes, but not everything.. http://www.universetoday.com/11863/true-or-false-color-the-art-of-extraterrestrial-photography/
Beautiful pictures you've posted, It's all just so overwhelming .I get that feeling even when Im in the garden with my small telescope a tiny ant looking up at the sky and wondering whats out there.
There's nobody living inside that stadium in Osaka - it's just an annual exhibit by the construction and real estate industries, like the Ideal Home show in London.
Sorry, but among the "Miniature Stirling Engines" ther is alos a vacuum engine (the big and the last picture, i.e. the one that looks a bit like a raygun)...
A little-known fact: If you go by launch rate (i.e. how many craft are launched per unit time), the busiest spaceport in the world is Cape Canaveral in Florida.
The second-busiest, however, is not on the list in this article at all. It's at Woomera, in South Australia.
Cool article, it's amazing to see some of the rockets being built nowadays but a little sad that we've progressed so little...we got to the moon then stopped dreaming! Hope to see us heading out to mars within the next decade or so, humanity needs to leave home.
My favorite is Hunter S. Thompson's "Debt Letter" that he sent to companies he owed money to. He insisted after reading it-many never contacted him again. Find it in "The Proud Highway" or at this link. http://darylburnett.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/hunter-s-thompson-the-debt-letter/
There is a special irony because this page is appearing on my computer with Best Buy ads. Best Buy emphatically did not like being pranked when dozens of members of a guerrilla theater group showed up at one of their stores all wearing blue shirts and khaki pants. They didn't do anything just strolled around the store politely till security rounded them up and threw them out
I'd like to add Paul C. Rosa to the list. And while he tended to use his own name, the personalities he adopted and populated his fictional life with were no less than brilliant. While i've read most of the others, i believe Mr Rosa should top this list.
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My parents have a hedgehog in their garden in Sheffield, they're funny little things! That Green Monster jet-powered car is pretty cool too.
The king of the 'BBC bird's eye' vids has got to be the Gos Hawk from a few years back... (possibly featured here, I can't remember - long time fan ;))...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-_RHRAzUHM&t=103
I liked it so much I mixed it with Star Wars :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH6VXQWLT-g
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