Link Scroll down for today's pictures & links. Futuristic "Singing Tree" Sculpture Created by Art Jim, the collection of tubes makes the strangest sounds, which could make a good soundtrack for the horror movie. url Today's pictures & links: Click to enlarge images. Rainbow Clouds over Murmansk A type of polar stratospheric cloud, born from extreme weather conditions. Sometimes called "Nacreous clouds", these colored marvels occur in the polar stratosphere at altitudes of 15,000–25,000 metres (50,000–80,000 ft). (image credit: Larisa Yasin) ------------ Vintage Transistor Radios Collection Some great examples of space-age industrial design. See flickr collection here, and an extensive showcase here Actual lace is part of the design... They don't make electronics like that any more. Globus-type: Watch radio: (images credit: transistor radios) ------------ Cool Shot of the Day (in cooperation with the "National Geographic" magazine) Northern Lights: Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada. (image credit: National Geographic) Photo by Kyle Anderson. Blades of Ice Photo by Lindsey Lawless (sort of addition to our Ice Storms! article) "It was a chilly winter day in Poway, California. This sight is very uncommon and caused great devastation to local agriculture, but was magnificent to look at in the morning sunlight." ------------ Mixed fresh links for today: Weirdest Art Cars - [cool site] Beautiful Science Fiction Art - [gallery] - via Scientists make tiny radios from nano-tubes - [science] Futuristic Flintstones Car for Sale - [concept car] Friendliest Laptop Screen Cleaner - [fun flash] Addictive Web Amusements - [funny sites] Off-Roading Outlaws - [wow video] Did this ever happen to you? - [fun video] It must take a fortune to heat that place - [cool video] ------------ Train Graveyard & Bolivian Salt Lake Update A few fascinating pics sent to us for the recent article update: To solidify the Salvador Dali connection, this area even has a (huge!) Dali rock - and a "wave of lava" - (images credit: Travis) ------------ Name Confusion Joke Roger Murdock: Flight 2-0-9'er, you are cleared for take-off. Captain Oveur: Roger! Roger Murdock: Huh? Tower voice: L.A. departure frequency, 123 point 9'er. Captain Oveur: Roger! Roger Murdock: Huh? Victor Basta: Request vector, over. Captain Oveur: What? Tower voice: Flight 2-0-9'er cleared for vector 324. Roger Murdock: We have clearance, Clarence. Captain Oveur: Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor? Tower voice: Tower's radio clearance, over! Captain Oveur: That's Clarence Oveur. Over. Tower voice: Over. Captain Oveur: Roger. Roger Murdock: Huh? Tower voice: Roger, over! Roger Murdock: What? Captain Oveur: Huh? Victor Basta: Who? ------------ Fantastic Balloon "Creations" See more on this page ------------ Minus 50 Celsius in Yakutsk (Siberia) This article "The Coldest City on Earth" describes in detail how "business as usual" life is possible at minus 50 temperature in a large Siberian city. What we are wondering how they are able to drive LADAs in these conditions? (images credit: yakutsk-photo.ru) See more pictures here. By the way, it was minus 50 Celsius windchill conditions in Calgary, Canada yesterday. ------------ Stella Awards - Most Outlandish Lawsuits Seriously head-scratching nut cases: For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonald's in New Mexico where she purchased the coffee. You remember, she took the lid off the coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving.... 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Those clouds occur a couple of times a year (source: SMHI, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute) over scandinavia and in Sweden they're called "pärlemormoln". Here's an article with picture in swedish: http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=147&a=736636&rss=1399
Here is another Snopes article regarding the cruise control story:
http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/cruise.asp
thanks guys, i updated it
You really should be wondering how they can drive anything else but Ladas in Yakutsk.
Have you seen the movie Airplane? The pilot joke is much when they do it in the movie.
I've seen the same phenomenon in the north of sweden, over the arctic circle. they told me they're called "mother of pearl" clouds.
nacreous means like nacre, which IS mother of pearl! so you're right swedish dude!
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